For the moment, peace may be breaking out in Gaza. One must give great credit to President Donald Trump and other key world leaders for this extraordinary first step.

But for real peace to take hold, massive challenges and dangers must be overcome. While attention is focused on that region, the rest of the world is far from peaceful.

Ukraine is the most obvious tinderbox that could explode. An economic spat between Trump and China may be resolved. But what if it is not?

Meanwhile, the United States is building up its forces in the Caribbean as if this were the 1990s with Contras and a short intervention to overthrow and arrest Manuel Noriega. Is Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro next on the hit list?

While Africa was once called the dark continent, today it should be called the dead

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