Memphis Depay will be a free agent at the end of the season and he has been heavily linked with a move to Barcelona. However, the 26-year-old has dismissed speculation over a move to the Catalans in January.
Counter terrorism police backed by armed officers will board London buses and check other vehicles in a new effort to prevent an attack in the capital.
Żebbuġ Rangers moved up the table with a 4-1 win over St Andrews on Sunday at the Victor Tedesco Stadium. However, it was not as emphatic as the scoreline suggests and new coach Fausto Craighero admitted it only gives his side credit for the better performances in previous games which did not add up to the full three points. In fact, the side had only two points to show for the past five games before their win over St Andrews. But Craighero, who replaced Clive Mizzi late October with the club in a particularly tight spot... Читать дальше...
THE EUROPEAN UNION has been warned another country could follow in the UK's footsteps as Poland and Brussels clash over budget funding.
Gosatomnadzor said: “According to routine information from the ENSREG peer review team, European partners have decided to cancel their visit to Belarus on 16-18 December. However, the Belarusian side has yet to receive an official notification that the visit has been cancelled.”
"To get to the end of the pandemic, we will need up to 70 percent of the population vaccinated. This is a huge task, a big task. So let's start as soon as possible with the vaccination together, as 27, with a start at the same day," von der Leyen told MEPs.
The new format will help reduce the chances of JEE Main clashing with other competitive examinations or board examinations, the minister said.
Bihar CLP leader demands scrapping of liquor ban, writes to CM Nitish Kumar
Nearly all admissions to undergraduate programmes in Delhi University for 2020-21 and a recruitment of over 4000 sub-inspector and constable-level police personnel in Karnataka had one thing in common as the country grappled with the Covid-19 pandemic — Digilocker.
NED
As globalization deepens integration between democracies and autocracies, the compromising effects of sharp power—which impairs free expression, neutralizes independent institutions, and distorts the political environment—have grown apparent across crucial sectors of open societies. The Sharp Power and Democratic Resilience series is an effort to systematically analyze the ways in which leading authoritarian regimes seek to manipulate the political landscape and censor independent...
Esha Gupta flaunts her toned midriff in her latest bathroom selfie. See pic
Stewart Patrick, World Politics Review
President-elect Joe Biden is a down-to-earth guy, but the fate of the heavens may end up being one of his main foreign policy challenges. The United States has long sought to maintain outer space as an open, stable and rules-bound domain. Unfortunately, this cooperative vision is under stress. The emergence of new space-faring nations, an explosion of private commercial activity and a brewing arms race, among other issues, are all leaving outdated international institutions in the space dust. Читать дальше...
Henning Hoff, Internationale Politik Quarterly
On the face of it, the process is simple. Three contenders vie for the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party, and thus eventually for the chancellery after the next election, and one of them will win it.
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Joel Wuthnow, East Asia Forum
China's military modernisation began long before Xi Jinping became chairman of the Central Military Commission in November 2012. But the pace and scope of that effort has greatly accelerated under him. Key changes include the introduction of advanced weapons and equipment, structural reforms to make the People's Liberation Army (PLA) a more effective force and a campaign to
Robert Bociaga, The Diplomat
Longstanding tensions between East Malaysia and Peninsular Malaysia have some seeking autonomy - or even secession.
Rachel Ellehuus et al, CSIS
Even the world's most powerful military cannot be everywhere, all the time. With a limited pool of capabilities and forces, the United States must continually make decisions on how and where to deploy its resources. In an effort to maximize the strategic impact of the existing U.S. force structure, the 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS)...
Nick Tyrone, Spectator
The UK-EU trade negotiations have heated up again, albeit from a very cold state. Boris seems to have conceded ground on the 'evolution clause' to the European Union, making a path to an agreement on the level playing field issues at least plausible. The UK has accepted that divergence should come at some cost — although the details of how that cost should be managed appear to still be a live issue. With that comes the last hurdle:...
Economist
To have any chance in next year's presidential election, the opposition must unite now
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has declared singer Meesha Shafi and eight others "guilty" of running a vilification campaign on social media against singer-actor Ali Zafar and asked the trial court to start its proceedings against them.
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Baku / 16.12.20 / Turan: Several dozen residents of the Shirak region of Armenia are surrounded or have already been captured near the village of Khin Shen (Boyuk Galaderesi) of the Shusha region of Karabakh, Armenian sources report.In particular, residents of the Shirak region claim that volunteers from this region were surrounded for three days. On December 15, an Azerbaijani video appeared showing how this detachment surrendered.Most of those who were surrounded and captured ...
The annual meeting of the 41 nations of Americas’ Olympic Movement including Bermuda began this morning in a safe and responsible manner as Olympic leaders greeted each other virtually through Zoom.
Michael Kofman, Russia Matters
On Nov. 9, an armistice was signed to end the fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The conflict was relatively short lived, lasting from Sept. 27 to Nov. 9, but it proved to be an intense inter-state conflict fought by two heavily armed opponents. Both sides employed advanced military technology, with Azerbaijan proving the decisive victor in the war. The implications of the conflict continue to reverberate well outside the region given... Читать дальше...
Robert Wright, Washington Post
That's a lovely flight of rhetoric. Meanwhile, back on planet Earth, the claim that America doesn't muscle small countries into compliance with its will would be greeted by laughter in small countries near and far. And even when U.S. muscle is about economic leverage and not American or proxy military forces, the amount of suffering can be considerable — as with our sanctions against such countries as Cuba, Syria, Iran and Venezuela.
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
Last week, Morocco established diplomatic relations with Israel, joining three other Arab countries - the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan - that normalized ties this year. In Morocco's case, part of the deal was U.S. recognition of Morocco's claim to Western Sahara, just as it had agreed to remove Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism.