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(USA) Washington, DC mayor wants tighter security at Biden inauguration (Al Jazeera)

The mayor of Washington, DC has asked for security to be bolstered during United States President-elect Joe Biden’s January 20 inauguration in the US...

(USA) ‘Toothless tiger’: Impeachment could bar Trump from future office (Joseph Stepansky

An extraordinary breach of the United States Capitol by rioters egged on by President Donald Trump has led legislators into uncharted territory as they set course...

(USA) Amazon to suspend Parler after deadly Capitol Hill riot (Al Jazeera)

Amazon has announced it will suspend Parler, a social media platform popular with right-wing users that has already been banned by Apple and Google...

(Afghanistan) Civilians killed in Afghan gov’t air raid, say local officials (Al Jazeera)

An air raid by Afghan forces in the country’s southwestern Nimroz province killed several civilians, according to local officials and witnesses. The exact number of casualties...

(Turkey) Erdogan’s media office quits WhatsApp over privacy change (Al Jazeera)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s media office says it is quitting WhatsApp after the messaging app’s move to oblige many of its users to...

(Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt) Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt talks on mega-dam break down, again (Al Jazeera)

A new round of negotiations between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt aimed at resolving a long-running dispute about a giant dam Addis Ababa is building on...

(USA) The police in the US must enforce pandemic measures (Julia Maskivker, Al Jazeera)

At the apex of this pandemic, it is shocking that the US federal government has no legal right to enforce a nationwide lockdown and...

(USA/South Asia) South Asian litmus test for Biden foreign policy strategy (East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/01/11/south-asian-litmus-test-for-biden-foreign-policy-strategy/

(USA/South Asia) How will Biden’s strategy on South Asia differ from Trump’s? (Michael Kugelman, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/01/10/how-will-bidens-strategy-on-south-asia-differ-from-trumps/

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