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General Assembly to deliver a belligerent and lengthy speech when the escalator he and the first lady were riding stopped abruptly, forcing them to walk the rest of the way up.

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This fictional scene led to real consequences over the weekend, with many Chinese social media users taking it to be a malicious mischaracterisation of China as belligerent.

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But the feeling among many in the Gulf is that Israel is just as belligerent and destabilizing an actor as Iran.

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The president’s militarism and increasingly belligerent foreign policy, as symbolized by his War Department, is a betrayal of these voters.

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The strike on Doha adds to a growing list of Arab countries Israel has struck in the last month, emphasizing the Israeli government’s more belligerent post-Oct.

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