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(Zimbabwe) Zimbabwe: Thousands of Villagers Facing Eviction (HRW)

The Zimbabwe government is evicting thousands of people from an indigenous minority group from their communal land, Human Rights Watch said today. The order affects more...

(South Korea/USA) South Korea, US to hold scaled back military exercises (Al Jazeera)

Though scaled back because of COVID, the drill is likely to infuriate North Korea, which calls it a ‘rehearsal for war’. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/7/south-korea-us-to-stage-scaled-back-military-exercises-on-monday

(Lebanon) Protests continue as Lebanon’s Hassan Diab threatens to stop work (Al Jazeera)

Caretaker PM appeals to politicians to put aside differences and form a new government as anger simmers over Lebanon’s financial crisis. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/7/protests-continue-as-lebanons-hassan-diab-threatens-to-stop-work

(Middle East/Shiite Crescent) The Shiite Crescent: The Middle East’s Arc of Crisis (BESA Center)

Dr. Reza Parchizadeh Iran’s hegemonic ambitions depend on an unbroken Shiite arc from Bahrain to Lebanon. It is for this reason that the Islamist regime...

(USA/Iran) The FBI and Iranian Espionage (BESA Center)

Erfan Fard On February 13, 2021, the FBI issued a public appeal to locate Monica Witt, a former US counterintelligence agent who defected to Iran...

(USA/Palestinian State) Toward a Palestinian State? The US Confers Legitimacy on the Palestinian Authority and Hamas (BESA Center)

Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar Since taking office, the Biden administration has been in direct contact with Palestinian Authority leaders, encouraged and assisted by...

(Japan) Waning support for nuclear power 10 years after Fukushima (East Asia Forum)

Florentine Koppenborg Ten years after the world watched the explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Japan’s pro-nuclear advocates have lost policy implementation power. As...

(Indonesia/ASEAN/Indo-Pacific) Reconciling Indonesia’s view of ASEAN and the Indo-Pacific (East Asia Forum)

David Camroux Since independence, Indonesia’s regional role has been characterised in many ways but most notably as that of a middle power. Indonesia has also played...

(Laos) How Laos is overcoming landlockedness and bolstering growth (East Asia Forum)

Sandra Seno-Alday Laos is one of the fastest growing economies in Southeast Asia. From 2010 to 2018, it realised the second highest compound annual growth...

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