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Libya Moves Off the U.S. Dollar

On July 19, the governor of the Central Bank of Libya, Naji Mohammed Issa, met his Chinese counterpart Pan Gongsheng in Beijing and signed an agreement connecting Libyan commercial banks to China’s Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS).…

Ankara, Air Force One, and Alliance on Edge

U.S. President Donald Trump arrived at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, earlier this month on the Qatari-gifted Air Force One — the newly retrofitted Boeing 747-8 that has become one of the more symbolically loaded objects in American foreign…