[WASHINGTON] His top national security advisor didn't hold back: President Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Prize after the surprise announcement of a normalisation between Israel and the UAE. Read more at The Business Times.
He's up for a tough reelection on November 3 and his Democratic opponent Joe Biden is framing the Republican businessman as a loose cannon.
Extraordinary efforts to get North Korea's dictatorship to give up nuclear weapons have not worked, Iran continues to resist crippling US sanctions, and a bid to host Afghan Taleban leaders at the White House's Camp David retreat embarrassingly had to be scrapped at the last minute. True, the former vice-president didn't mention Mr Trump and he took some of the credit for the progress, which he said had been helped by the work he did with Barack Obama during his presidency.Crucial to the UAE decision to embrace Israel is a commitment by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to halt his plans to annex swaths of occupied Palestinian lands. The news was barely out, though, before confusion mounted over whether Mr Netanyahu was promising really to freeze or just postpone.
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