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(Russia/Alexey Navalny) Russia jails Navalny for 30 days; Kremlin foe calls for protests (Al Jazeera)

A Russian court has ordered Alexey Navalny be remanded in pre-trial detention for 30 days, a move that will heighten tensions between Moscow and...

(France) Tackle French ‘abuse’ of Muslims, civil society groups tell UN (Al Jazeera)

A group of lawyers, NGOs and religious bodies from 13 countries have submitted formal complaints to the United Nations Human Rights Council (OHCHR), calling...

(Colombia/FARC) Killings of Colombia ex-FARC fighters persist amid peace process (Steven Grattan, Al Jazeera)

Since demobilising in 2017, former rebel fighter Manuel Antonio Gonzalez has faced numerous death threats and lost his son in a bloody murder. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/18/killings-of-colombia-ex-farc-fighters-persist-amid-peace-process

(USA) US-bound caravan faces hunger, Biden plans immigration reform (Al Jazeera)

Hundreds of mostly Honduran migrants huddled overnight on a highway in eastern Guatemala in the early hours of Monday after domestic security forces used sticks and...

(Brexit) Will Brexit Be a Barrier for Retooling the Economy? (Joergen Oerstroem Moeller, The National Interest)

Britain’s problem is low productivity. EU membership could have helped. https://nationalinterest.org/feature/will-brexit-be-barrier-retooling-economy-176531

(Transatlantic Digital Policy) Navigating the Future Tribulations and Triumphs of Transatlantic Digital Policy (Ken Propp, The National Interest)

A crisis is brewing over possible interruption in transatlantic commercial data transfers. https://nationalinterest.org/feature/navigating-future-tribulations-and-triumphs-transatlantic-digital-policy-176535

(China/Arctic Digitization Race) China Enters the Arctic Digitization Race (Maria Shagina, Elizabeth Buchanan, The National Interest)

Moscow is not alone in eying the potential of the Arctic’s digital silk roads. In 2018, China flagged its global interest in the Arctic...

(USA) Trump May Be Gone Soon, but America’s Problems Won’t (Scott McConnell, The National Interest)

If the GOP’s Trump problem will evaporate more quickly than many think, there is no clear sense of what that means for Trump’s issues...

(India) Indian Muslim trust to start Ayodhya mosque project on January 26 (Al Jazeera)

A Muslim group in India says it will start the construction of a mosque in the northern Indian city of Ayodhya on January 26,...

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