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Bruce Loudon is a veteran former foreign correspondent who joined The Australian in New York in 1986 and currently writes mainly foreign affairs editorials for the newspaper. He has spent years covering news developments across the world, including the US, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and a total of eight years living and working in the Indian sub-continent following the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

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TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump (L) and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) leave the stage after the family photo to head to the plenary session at the NATO summit at the Grove hotel in Watford, northeast of London on December 4, 2019. (Photo by PETER NICHOLLS / POOL / AFP)

NATO’s disunited nations

Dysfunction and dissent threaten alliance cohesion at a time of global change and tensions.

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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe sits for formal photographs with university officials, after presiding over a student graduation ceremony at Zimbabwe Open University on the outskirts of Harare, Zimbabwe Friday, Nov. 17, 2017. Mugabe made his first public appearance since the military put him under house arrest earlier this week. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Mugabe leaves a wreck

Even by the abysmal standards of post-colonial Africa, ‘Comrade Bob’ was particularly bad.

In this picture taken on June 30, 2018, Pakistani cricketer turned politician Imran Khan of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice) attends an election campaign rally in Islamabad. Imran Khan was catapulted to global fame as a World Cup cricket champion, but the man known in the West as a celebrity playboy is now seeking to lead Pakistan as a populist, religiously devout, anti-corruption reformist. / AFP PHOTO / AAMIR QURESHI

Imran, the army’s puppet

If Imran Khan succeeds in today’s election in nuclear-armed Pakistan, he will do so under a cloud of suspicion.

23/02/17 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Sydney. Picture shows the Prime Minister Benjmin Netanyahu and wife Sara visiting Moriah College in Queens Park, Sydney with the Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his wife Lucy Turnbull Picture Renee Nowytarger. The Australian

A miracle shaped from the desert

When Malcolm Turnbull welcomed Benjamin Netanyahu last year, he spoke movingly of the Jewish state as ‘a miraculous nation’.

Graves in south Africa. Picture: Supplied.

White farmers in the firing line

South Africa risks repeating the Zimbabwe farming disaster as Cyril Ramaphosa plans to expropriate white-owned land.

(FILES) This file photo taken on November 08, 2017 shows Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe addressing party members and supporters gathered at his party headquarters to show support to Grace Mugabe becoming the party's next Vice President after the dismissal of Emerson Mnangagwa. Zimbabwe's military appeared to be in control of the country on November 15, 2017 as generals denied staging a coup but used state television to vow to target

Mugabe, the despot I knew

My first meeting with Zimbabwe’s tyrant hinted at a grim future.

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**To be published with Charles Miranda's Cordoba story** City of Cordoba in the Southern Spanish province of Andalusia. It was an important Roman city and an Islamic cultural centre in the middle ages. Columned prayer hall inside La Mezquita, an immense mosque dating to 600 CE. A 1600s Catholic cathedral now occupies the centre of the mosque. Pic Ella Pellegrini

Moorish past haunts Spain

Islamic State bangs the war drum for a distant caliphate.

PACIFIC OCEAN - MAY 3: In this handout provided by the U.S. Navy, the Republic of Korea destroyers Sejong the Great (DDG 991) and Yang Manchun (DDH 973), the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108), USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112) and USS Stethem (DDG 63), the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain (CG 57) and the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) patrol May 3, 2017 in the western Pacific Ocean. The U.S. Navy has patrolled the Indo-Asia-Pacific routinely for more than 70 years promoting regional peace and security. (Photo by Z.A. Landers/U.S. Navy via Getty Images)

Sleepwalking to world war?

Experts fear we are walking the same perilous path that led to World War I.

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, pauses to light a candle by the grave of his late brother Yoni Netanyahu, during a memorial ceremony at the military cemetery on Mt. Hertzl, in Jerusalem, Israel, on Sunday, June 28, 2009. Yoni Netanyahu, an elite commando, was killed in action during Operation Entebbe by Ugandan soldiers when Israeli special forces carried out a famed rescue operation after an aircraft hijacking in July, 1976. Photographer: Ahikam Seri/Bloomberg News

Israel’s brothers in arms

The death of Benjamin Netanyahu’s brother while leading an operation to rescue Israeli hostages shaped his life.

In this image released bu the UN, Samantha Power, US Permanent Representative to the UN, addresses the Council after the December 23, 2016, vote on Israeli settlements. The Council on Friday demanded that Israel halt its settlement activities in Palestinian territory, in a resolution adopted after the US refrained from vetoing the measure condemning its closest Middle East ally. In a rare step, the US instead abstained, allowing the measure to pass by a vote of 14 in favor in the 15-member council. / AFP PHOTO / SC Chamber / Manuel ELIAS / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Petulant pique from a lame-duck

Barack Obama has up-ended four decades of US bipartisanship on Israel at the UN Security Council.

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