Foreign challenges pile up as Russia, Iran test Trump's mettle
Washington
DONALD Trump's brief honeymoon in global affairs is over. After a week of relative calm and domestic preoccupations, actors from Russia to Iran are testing the new US president's mettle.
On the face of it, a recent Iranian ballistic missile test and a Russian- backed incursion deeper into Ukraine appear to have little in common and less to do with the man in the Oval Office. But make no mistake, both were moves designed to test the Republican leader.
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