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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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MIAMI, FL - NOVEMBER 26: People hold posters printed by El Nuevo Herald and Miami Herald with a headline that reads that the former Cuban President Fidel Castro is dead as they react to the news of his death outside the restaurant Versailles on November 26, 2016 in Miami, Florida. Many, mostly Cubans, gathered to wave flags and celebrate the news of the death of the Cuban revolutionary who died at 90. Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Castro death watershed moment

The death of Fidel Castro at 90 is a watershed set to pose an immediate foreign-policy challenge for Donald Trump.

The White House On Election Day

What’s first on Trump’s agenda?

Erasing Obama and dealing with Washington are top of Trump’s agenda.

(L-R) Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton shake hands prior to the start of the Presidential Debate at Hofstra University on September 26, 2016 in Hempstead, New York. The first of four debates for the 2016 Election, three Presidential and one Vice Presidential, is moderated by NBC's Lester Holt. == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Round one, no knockout

Hillary Clinton looked sharper, but Donald Trump is far from beaten.

Hillary Clinton

Feeling the heat

Both candidates’ health should be open to scrutiny.

Obama plan to shut Gitmo unwise

Obama plan to shut Gitmo unwise

Housing terrorists in homeland jails runs counter to the sentiments of most Americans.

Hollande sheds ‘creme caramel’ image

Hollande sheds ‘creme caramel’ image

The Paris attacks have presented the French President with a chance to prove the previous perceptions of him wrong.

Huge price for inaction post-Hebdo

Huge price for inaction post-Hebdo

French authorities failed to heed the warnings after the Charlie Hebdo attacks and Parisians have paid a horrifying price.

Bruce Loudon and ANALYSIS

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015 file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hand with Syria President Bashar Assad in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. Russia’s involvement in Syria has led to resumed talks about Syria’s future in Vienna. So far there’s no progress but at least there are talks, notable for including Iran, at Russia’s insistence, for the first time. They are notable as well for easing the Kremlin’s isolation after its takeover of Crimea and backing for pro-Moscow forces fighting the central government in Ukraine. (Alexei Druzhinin, RIA-Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Growth of a pariah state

Under Putin, Russia has turned its back on civilised standards.

Paris can take your breath away

Paris can take your breath away

Paris is trying to clean up its act, but the attitudes of the residents make it a difficult task.

Myanmarese Muslim Rohingya residents sit inside a police truck in Birem Bayuen in Indonesia's East Aceh province on May 20, 2015. Hundreds of starving boatpeople were rescued off Indonesia on May 20 as Myanmar for the first time offered to help ease a regional migrant crisis blamed in part on its treatment of the ethnic Rohingya minority. AFP PHOTO / SUTANTA ADITYA

Adrift in a sea of apathy

The Rohingya crisis will deepen unless Myanmar can be persuaded to relent.

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