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(USA/Taiwan/China) ‘A cudgel against Beijing’: US ambassador to UN to visit Taiwan (Erin Hale, Al Jazeera)

It began with a surprise phone call and will end with a surprise trip, but the Trump Administration’s close relationship with Taiwan will reach...

(USA) What happens after the Trump-inspired storming of Congress? (Al Jazeera)

On January 6, 2021 – a day that will be marked in the history books – supporters of Donald Trump stormed the United States...

(USA) The delusion of American exceptionalism (Andrea Mammone, Al Jazeera)

On January 6, Vice President Mike Pence convened the two chambers of Congress to count electoral votes and officially certify Joe Biden as the...

(USA) A very American riot (Patrick Gathara, Al Jazeera)

If the past four years of the Donald Trump presidency had dented America’s carefully cultivated – if inaccurate – reputation as a bastion of...

(India) Delhi riots victims, lawyers allege police pressure to drop cases (Hanan Zaffar and Hasan Akram, Al Jazeera)

Lawyers, activists and victims of last year’s anti-Muslim violence in the Indian capital have accused the authorities and police of sabotaging the investigation and...

(Pakistan/GCC Countries) Pakistan welcomes revival of ties between Qatar, Saudi-led bloc (Al Jazeera)

Pakistan has welcomed a reduction in tensions between Qatar and its neighbours in the Arabian Gulf, with Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi holding talks...

(Qatar) Bank deal creates second-largest lender in Qatar (Al Jazeera)

Qatar’s Masraf Al Rayan and Al Khalij Commercial Bank have agreed to join forces in a deal that will create Qatar’s second-biggest lender after...

(Belarus) Belarus Secures Russian Oil and Gas Supplies for 2021 (Mateusz Kubiak, The Jamestown Foundation)

(Source: neftegaz.ru) On December 29, 2020, Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko stated that Russian energy supplies to Belarus in 2021 will be purchased under “favorable...

(Siberia/Russia) Year 2020 in Review: Siberians Take Center Stage in Russia (Paul Goble, The Jamestown Foundation)

Khabarovsk protests (Source: Getty Images) The long-running demonstrations in Khabarovsk last year captured the imagination of Russians not only east of the Urals but west...

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