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INDONESIA – A year of crisis and setback for Indonesia’s economy (Siwage Dharma Negara, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/30/a-year-of-crisis-and-setback-for-indonesias-economy/

GCC – What’s behind the latest GCC reconciliation efforts? (Farah Najjar, Al Jazeera)

At the start of 2020, talks to end the years-long Gulf diplomatic crisis abruptly came to an end. For nearly a whole year, the regional...

USA/GULF/IRAN – US bombers fly over the Gulf amid tensions with Iran (Al Jazeera)

The United States flew strategic bombers over the Gulf on Wednesday for the second time this month, in what Washington says is a show...

EGYPT – Egypt clears officers in murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni (Al Jazeera)

Egypt’s public prosecutor has cleared five policemen of responsibility in the 2016 murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni and said he will not pursue...

IRAN – Iran sets $150,000 compensation for Ukrainian Airlines victims (Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera)

Iran’s government has pledged to pay $150,000 to each of the families of the victims of a Ukrainian Airlines flight that was downed by...

USA/FRANCE/GERMANY – US imposes new tariffs on French, German products amid ongoing Airbus-Boeing feud (Al Arabiya)

The United States announced Wednesday that it will impose additional tariffs on French and German products as part of a long-running dispute over subsidies...

USA/TAIWAN/CHINA – US warships sail through Taiwan Strait, prompting Chinese anger at ‘show of force’ (Al Arabiya)

Two US warships sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Thursday drawing protest from Beijing, the second such mission this month and coming almost...

DATA BREACH – T-Mobile data breach: CPNI (Customer Proprietary Network Information) exposed (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/112811/data-breach/t-mobile-data-breach-3.html

HACKING – CISA demands US govt agencies to update SolarWinds Orion software (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/112797/hacking/cisa-solarwinds-guidance-update.html

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