South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has received the first part of a report on corruption from a judicial investigation into allegations of graft during former President Jacob Zuma’s tenure from 2009 to 2018
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Stratfor Worldview
In this podcast, Stratfor Senior Vice President of Strategic Analysis at RANE Rodger Baker speaks with Colin Chapman, geopolitical journalist and Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, to look at some of the geopolitical issues in play in the Pacific.
Stratfor Worldview
As Yemen's civil conflict grinds on, the world's worst humanitarian crisis will deepen and a political settlement will become harder to reach over the next year, driving a cycle of instability that will keep the war-torn country a geopolitical proxy theater. The civil war in Yemen recently entered its seventh year, creating what the United Nations and other international organizations now see as the deadliest humanitarian crisis in the world. And it's a crisis that still has no clear end in sight... Читать дальше...
New York Post
On Wednesday, hundreds of Hong Kong police descended onto Stand News' offices and arrested seven people for "conspiracy to publish seditious publication." Within hours, the news organization's site announced it would be shutting down.
Manoj Sinha, Indian Express
The Union Territory is not just steadily adopting the principles of good governance but also bringing a seismic shift in addressing the concerns of the most vulnerable sections of society
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Winston Fung, SCMP
Persistent debate in other countries over China's intentions shows its foreign policy is unclear and incoherent, leaving it open to attack.
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Brian Wong et al, The Diplomat
2021 marked the 30th anniversary of independence of the five Central Asian republics: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. These former Soviet Union republics straddle the vast terrain between Russia, China, India, and the Middle East, and today are a critical group of burgeoning states and economies in the geographical center of the Eurasian continent.
Keir Giles, Chatham House
Russia's proposed new security treaties with the US and NATO are so unrealistic that it is widely suspected they are designed to be rejected out of hand to give Moscow an excuse to escalate its war on Ukraine.
Raffaello Pantucci, Nikkei
Expect China and Russia to step in and take advantage
Yeom Jae-ho, JoongAng Daily
The year 2021 is ending in the shadow of the pandemic. Instead of having hope for the new year, many people worry about hardships ahead.
Harold James, Project Syndicate
Politics nowadays is driven almost entirely by culture wars - zero-sum clashes that feed on tribal identities, fear, and a chaotic confusion of basic terms and ideas. To solve any of today's most pressing problems, we will first need to improve our collective intellectual hygiene.
24 experts, Atlantic Council
Editor's note: Moscow's buildup of troops on and near Ukraine's borders and bellicose rhetoric have raised the prospect of a major conventional war in Europe. The phone call today between US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin underscores the dangers of this Kremlin-manufactured crisis. Below is a statement by twenty-four distinguished experts and former senior officials offering their ideas on how to deter Moscow from escalating its current... Читать дальше...
Campaigners welcome move but say it should be expanded to cover other hunts
Tara Kartha, The Print
Truth is, you can't change your neighbours. But if Delhi reaches out its hand to help, Pakistan has to decide to take it.
Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic
Putin is right about one thing: A free, prosperous, democratic neighbor is a threat to his autocratic regime.
A registered nurse in Ontario says health-care workers in the province are utterly exhausted and under intense pressure amid a rise in hospitalizations.
He isn't sure what future holds in store for him but former South Africa captain AB de Villiers is confident that he will have a role to play in the national team and his IPL franchise RCB's future set-up.
Thousands of chemicals are banned by EU for safety reasons, but tattooists say it will hit business.
The 24-year-old beauty mogul is surrounded by controversy and bodyguards.
India reports over 50,000 Covid cases in a day
A father-son duo has been arrested by the Central Goods and Services Tax department in connection with what is being called as a Rs 22-crore fake input tax credit (ITC) racket.
All international passengers landing in Mumbai will have to takean RT-PCR Covid test, the Maharashtra government said on Tuesday night as the state recorded over 18,000 fresh coronavirus cases in the...
By Carly Tennes Published: January 04th, 2022
