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This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

I welcome my colleague and mentor Gregory Copley, editor and publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs, author of the most recent Noble State, the story of

constitutional monarchy in the 21st century. We turn to good news momentarily. The DRC Rwanda

peace deal writes Democratic Republic of Congo as DRC. Rwanda is a small state that's been in the news now for 30 or 40

years. The peace deal comes as the United States

tries to reassert its role

as a global mediator under President Trump

writes the Deutsche Weltung News.

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