Geopolitics & Worlds

Taiwan vice president heads to Honduras to work on shaky alliance (Al Jazeera)

Taiwan’s Vice President William Lai is travelling to Honduras to attend the swearing-in of the nation’s next president, Xiomara Castro, and shore up a shaky...

IMF urges El Salvador to strip Bitcoin’s legal tender status (Eric Martin, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

The International Monetary Fund’s board urged El Salvador to strip Bitcoin of its status as legal currency due to its large risks, highlighting a...

Cuba acknowledges prosecuting hundreds for last year’s protests (Al Jazeera)

Cuban authorities have acknowledged that more than 700 people, including dozens of teenagers, are facing criminal charges for last year’s anti-government protests. In a statement released...

Game over for India’s booming online gaming Industry? (Charu Sudan Kasturi, Al Jazeera)

Nikita Luther is India’s top poker player, the first woman and second player from the country to win a bracelet at the World Series...

Bahraini political dissident extradited from Serbia (Al Jazeera)

A Bahraini political dissident has been extradited from Serbia following an Interpol Red Notice issued at Manama’s request, the interior ministry said, despite a...

Daily news – January 26, 2022

Sulla crisi russo-ucraina. Atlantic Council: The US bets big on NATO to deter Russia - Atlantic Council: Russian Hybrid Threats Report: A push to...

Solomon Islands: cops bearing gifts (Gordon Peake, Graeme Smith, The Interpreter)

The pre-Christmas announcement that Solomon Islands’ government was going to accept China’s offer of six police advisers and a swag of emergency riot equipment generated consternation...

Judging China: Illiberal Legal Systems in U.S. Courts (Council on Foreign Relations)

The years following the Cold War have not seen a disappearance of illiberal regimes, but they have seen a vast growth in globalization and...

A little cash goes a long way to support early childhood and development (Molly Scott, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Brookings)

The Build Back Better bill has stalled. On one point, we agree with Senator Joe Manchin that it is time for Congress to start...

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