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YEMEN – Yemeni military intercepts explosive-laden drone near Aden’s presidential palace (Al Arabiya)

Yemeni military intercepted and destroyed an explosive-laden drone near Aden’s presidential Maasheeq palace. https://englishbeta.alarabiya.net/en/News/gulf/2020/12/30/Yemeni-military-intercepts-explosive-laden-drone-near-Aden-s-presidential-palace

RUSSIA/UK – Moscow expands list of UK officials banned from Russia in spat over Navalny poisoning (Al Arabiya)

Moscow on Wednesday expanded a list of UK officials banned from entering Russia in a tit-for-tat response to British sanctions imposed over the poisoning...

USA/IRAQ/UN – Trump’s Blackwater pardons ‘an affront to justice’: UN experts (Al Arabiya)

US President Donald Trump’s pardons of four Blackwater contractors convicted of killing civilians in a 2007 Baghdad massacre is a violation of US obligations...

AFGHANISTAN – Afghan troops and police abandon nearly 200 checkpoints to the Taliban (Al Arabiya)

Afghan security personnel have abandoned nearly 200 checkpoints in restive Kandahar province in recent weeks, officials said Wednesday, in some cases leaving behind their...

LEBANON/SYRIAN REFUGEES – Lebanon’s racism is fanning the flames of violence towards Syrian refugees (Makram Rabah, Al Arabiya)

As Lebanon celebrated Christmas, a Syrian refugee camp in Miniyeh in the north of Lebanon was attacked by a group of local youths who...

ARAB SPRING – Arab Hope Springs Eternal (Carl Bildt, Project-Syndicate)

A decade after the start of the Arab Spring, the hope of securing democracy and human rights in the Arab world seems as far...

PANDEMIC/FOOD SECURITY – Long Live the Bio-Revolution (Michael Chui, Matthias Evers, Project-Syndicate)

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased threats to food security around the world, underscoring the need for innovation to make agriculture and aquaculture more resilient...

USA/CHINA – A Messy Financial Divorce for the US and China (George Magnus, Project-Syndicate)

Even as official financial decoupling progresses, US and other financial firms are – with China’s blessing – building asset management, securities, life insurance, fintech,...

SECURITY – US Treasury warns of ransomware attacks on COVID-19 vaccine research (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/112783/security/ransomware-covid-19-vaccine-research.html

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