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SRI LANKA – Sri Lanka’s Trading Policy Options in the Era of COVID-19 (Srimal Fernando, BESA Center)

The unprecedented impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has made it more critical for small island nations like Sri Lanka to balance their commerce policies...

PAKISTAN – Pakistan Struggles to Regain Its Footing in a Changing Muslim World (James M. Dorsey, BESA Center)

Increasing strains between Pakistan and its traditional Arab allies, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, are about more than the Gulf States’ opportunistic targeting of...

USA – To expand the economy, invest in Black businesses (Andre M. Perry and Carl Romer, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/essay/to-expand-the-economy-invest-in-black-businesses/

VIETNAM – Vietnamese pick up the pieces after 2020’s relentless storms (Sen Nguyen, Al Jazeera)

Before floodwater inundated half their living room one night during the storm season this year, the Trans put their most valuable possessions – their...

VENEZUELA – Venezuela Supreme Court rules parliament’s term extension invalid (Al Jazeera)

Venezuela’s Supreme Court has ruled that a move by the opposition-controlled National Assembly to extend its term an additional year was invalid, paving the...

USA – US jobless claims unexpectedly edge downward for second week (Al Jazeera)

The number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment benefits has unexpectedly fallen for a second straight week. But the United States’s jobless numbers...

PAKISTAN – Pakistan arrests more than a dozen over Hindu temple attack (Al Jazeera)

Police in Pakistan have arrested more than a dozen people in overnight raids a day after Shri Paramhans Ji Maharaj Samadhi, a Hindu temple,...

CHINA – How 2020 left China ‘diplomatically diminished’ (Zaheena Rasheed, Al Jazeera)

China alerted the World Health Organization (WHO) to the first cases of COVID-19 a year ago. As the respiratory illness spread rapidly across the globe,...

IRAN/UK/USA/GERMANY – Iran implicates UK firm, US base in Germany in Soleimani killing (Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera)

An Iranian prosecutor has said a British security firm and an airbase in Germany had a hand in the assassination of Qassem Soleimani almost...

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