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(USA/China) Responding to the PRC’s Destabilizing and Irresponsible Behavior in Cyberspace

US Department of State writes: The United States and countries around the world are holding the People’s Republic of China (PRC) accountable for its...

(Encrypted messaging) Encrypted messaging has become a very difficult business. Despite their reach, it’s hard to make money from messaging apps. And their key...

Anastasia Kapetas writes for The Strategist: Encrypted messaging has become a very difficult business. Despite their reach, it’s hard to make money from messaging apps....

(Asia Pacific) A new database tracks incursions and crackdowns on journalists’ capacity to report

OLIVIA PIRIE-GRIFFITHS writes for The Interpreter: The current Covid-19 pandemic has had an alarming impact on press freedom. Over the past 18 months, governments...

(Russia) The subtext of the country’s new security strategy reveals a regime beset by suspicion and insecurity

IAN HILL writes for The Interpreter: “The weak get beaten,” declared Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2004 after the Beslan tragedy. Russia’s recently-unveiled new National Security Strategy bears the...

(Pakistan/Afghanistan) Pakistan’s foreign ministry describes Kabul’s decision to recall diplomats ‘unfortunate and regrettable’ after ambassador’s daughter abducted

Al Jazeera writes: Pakistan’s foreign ministry has termed the Afghan government’s decision to recall its ambassador and senior diplomats from its embassy in Islamabad “unfortunate...

(Afghanistan) Fifteen diplomatic missions call for ‘urgent end’ to offensives, hours after Doha meeting failed to agree on a ceasefire

Al Jazeera writes: Fifteen diplomatic missions and the NATO representative in Kabul have joined hands to urge the Taliban to halt military offensives across Afghanistan,...

(Ethiopia) Latest phase a milestone in controversial Blue Nile hydropower project long opposed by downriver countries Egypt and Sudan

Al Jazeera writes: Ethiopia has completed the filling of a massive, controversial dam on the Blue Nile river for a second year, state media...

(South Africa) Former president, jailed over contempt of court, faces separate corruption charges stemming from a 1999 weapons sale

Al Jazeera writes: The long-running corruption trial of South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma, whose imprisonment on a separate charge sparked days of deadly unrests and...

(South Africa) The ANC has failed to dismantle the oppressive economic structures of apartheid and as a result, people are losing faith in democracy

Tafi Mhaka writes for Al Jazeera: At the 47th G7 summit held in the United Kingdom in June, South Africa was the only African...

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