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EQUATORIAL GUINEA/FRANCE – When No Diplomatic Immunity is Good News: Equatorial Guinea v France in the International Court of Justice (Anton Moiseienko, RUSI)

A ruling by the International Court of Justice is good for the global fight against corruption, and bad news for those seeking refuge under...

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC – Three Burundi peacekeepers killed in CAR as rebels call off truce (Al Jazeera)

Unidentified “armed combatants” have killed three Burundian peacekeepers in the Central African Republic (CAR), the United Nations said on Friday, hours after a rebel...

RUSSIA – Russia-2020: Summing Up the Track-Record (Yaroslav Lissovolik, Valdai Discussion Club)

The key drivers affecting Russia’s economic performance in the near term will be the pace of global economic recovery and the concomitant growth in...

EASTERN EUROPE/BELARUS – The ‘Difficult Age’ of Eastern Europe and the Case of Belarus (Andrey Sushentsov, Valdai Discussion Club)

Poland and Lithuania are young and strategically inexperienced countries that do not fully understand the consequences of their actions. Their goal is to undermine Belarus internally, to deprive it of its...

ISRAEL/USA/EUROPE – Israel: Note that the Sleeping Transatlantic Giant is Waking Up (Oded Eran, Shimon Stein, INSS)

After years of a weakening transatlantic alliance, exacerbated by President Trump's four years in office, strategic cooperation between the European Union and the United...

IRAN – Iranian Intelligence Uses International Crime Organizations to Eliminate Opposition Activists and for Narco-Terrorist Activity (Michael Segall, JCPA)

https://jcpa.org/iranian-intelligence-uses-international-crime-organizations-to-eliminate-opposition-activists-and-for-narco-terrorist-activity/

IRAN – Iran’s Killing Machine: Political Assassinations by the Islamic Regime (Ardavan Khoshnood, BESA Center)

It was recently revealed that the Iranian regime was planning to assassinate the US ambassador to South Africa. Tehran denied any such plans, but...

TURKEY – Turkey’s Boycott Threats Are Preposterous (Burak Bekdil, BESA Center)

Ankara first attempted to use a commercial boycott as a foreign policy weapon in 1998, when Rome refused to extradite Kurdish nationalist Abdullah Öcalan....

SECURITY – CrowdStrike releases free Azure tool to review assigned privileges (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/112628/security/crowdstrike-azure-tool.html

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