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(Saudi Arabia/USA/Qatar) Saudi carves path out of US partisan politics with Qatar detente (Patricia Sabga, Al Jazeera)

The sight of President Donald Trump’s supporters storming the United States Capitol on Wednesday laid bare an American political landscape that has become destructively...

(Iran/UK/USA) Iran bans COVID vaccines from UK, US (Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera)

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has prohibited imports of COVID-19 vaccines from the United States and the United Kingdom. In a televised speech on Friday,...

(Iran) Iran’s Revolutionary Guard unveils missile base amid US tensions (Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera)

Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has unveiled a huge underground missile base along the Persian Gulf coast amid heightened tensions with the...

(UAE/Qatar) UAE to reopen land, sea, air borders with Qatar on Saturday (Al Jazeera)

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will reopen all of its land, sea and air entry points with Qatar starting on Saturday, state news agency...

(India) CoWIN app for vaccine, telemedicine: 2021 is the turning point for India’s healthcare through AI (Shoba Suri, ORF)

Even though we have lost 2020 to the pandemic, there is hope in 2021. The pandemic has impacted both lives and livelihood causing healthcare...

(Qatar) Qatar thaw a sign of shifting sands in Gulf (Navdeep Suri, ORF)

The smile and the hug with which Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) received the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Al Thani on...

(China) What China has in store for 2021 (Manoj Joshi, ORF)

There was an understandably celebratory tone in Xi Jinping’s New Year address. “Only by polishing can a piece of jade be finer,” he declared, alluding...

(India) Boosting India with maritime domain awareness (Abhijit Singh, ORF)

The legendary military theorist, Sun Tzu, is once said to have observed that the critical element in battle was foreknowledge, but that it “could...

(Brexit) Did you have a merry Brexmas ? (Tim Oliver, Clingendael)

The build-up to Brexit has at times felt like opening the daily door on an underwhelming four and a half year advent calendar. When...

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