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Al-Shabab says it launched a suicide attack on the Bariire base while simultaneously attacking the nearby Awdhigle base. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/3/al-shabab-fighters-attack-two-somali-national-army-bases

Turkish deputy interior minister Ismail Catakli rejects claims, accusing Greece of pushing back 231 migrants in seven incidents. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/3/greece-accuses-turkey-of-trying-to-provoke-it-with-migrant-boats

Mateusz Kubiak As Russia appears to be escalating the war in eastern Ukraine (see EDM, March 11), the debate in the West on possible sanctions against...

Paul Goble Geopolitical competition over Central Asia is intensifying, with the two most prominent longstanding rivals, Russia and China, now confronted by the rising power...

Vladimir Socor Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron conferred, on March 30, by video-conference on multiple international issues,...

Steven Pifer Two weeks ago, President Joe Biden affirmatively responded to George Stephanopoulos’s question, “Vladimir Putin. You think he’s a killer?” Russian commentators voiced outrage, while some...

Darrell M. West In our Brookings Press book, Turning Point: Policymaking in the Era of Artificial Intelligence published last year, John Allen and I note the backlash...

Tyler Powell and David Wessel New Zealand is a small economy, but it is a trend setter of sorts in central banking. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2021/04/02/why-is-the-new-zealand-government-telling-its-central-bank-to-focus-on-rising-house-prices/

Victoria M. O’Keefe. Melissa L. Walls CDC report revealed COVID-19 incidence rates were 3.5 times higher for American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) compared to White Americans...