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(Japan/Space Defence Policy) Japan’s space defence policy charts its own course (Saadia M Pekkanen, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/01/18/japans-space-defence-policy-charts-its-own-course/

(USA/Education) When it comes to student success, HBCUs do more with less (Dick Startz, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2021/01/18/when-it-comes-to-student-success-hbcus-do-more-with-less/

(UK/Pandemic) British firms call for $10.3bn in urgent COVID-19 aid (Al Jazeera)

British firms have asked for another 7.6 billion pounds ($10.3bn) of emergency government help, saying they cannot wait until finance minister Rishi Sunak’s March...

(Russia/Alexey Navalny) Russia: Is President Vladimir Putin afraid of Alexey Navalny? (Al Jazeera)

International condemnation is growing over the arrest of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny after his return to Moscow. Navalny spent the last five months in...

(Hondurans/USA) ‘I was so scared’: Guatemalan forces disperse migrant caravan (Sandra Cuffe, Al Jazeera)

Military and police forces in Guatemala cleared thousands of United States-bound migrants and asylum seekers off a highway on Monday after blocking their advance...

(USA/Pandemic) Biden team says US won’t lift COVID travel ban after Trump order (Al Jazeera)

US President-elect Joe Biden’s spokeswoman quickly dismissed Donald Trump’s announcement on Monday that a COVID-19 ban on travellers arriving from much of Europe and...

(USA/China/WHO/Pandemic) US urges China to allow WHO team to interview Wuhan front liners (Al Jazeera)

The United States urged China on Monday to allow an expert team from the World Health Organization (WHO) to interview “caregivers, former patients and...

(Canada/Alberta/USA/Keystone) Alberta leader asks Biden to ‘show respect’, hold Keystone talks (Al Jazeera)

The premier of Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta is calling on United States President-elect Joe Biden to “show respect for Canada” and negotiate the...

(IMF/Sudan) IMF working ‘very intensively’ with Sudan for debt relief (Al Jazeera)

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is working “very intensively” with Sudan to build the conditions for broad debt relief and will assess progress on...

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