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CHILE – A fight for survival among Chile’s Indigenous people (Al Jazeera)

It is a story you may not have heard: the eternal conflict of Chile’s Indigenous people fighting against government and industry for recognition and...

USA – Explosion in Nashville may have been ‘intentional act’: Police (Al Jazeera)

An explosion in the United States city of Nashville on Christmas morning may have been an “intentional act”, local police said, as images showed...

USA – Kill the bill? Here is what might happen to US COVID aid measure (Al Jazeera)

United States President Donald Trump’s surprise opposition to emergency coronavirus aid and annual government funding passed by Congress has left Americans and global financial...

COUNTERTERRORISM – 2020 appears to be a good year for counterterrorism (Daniel L. Byman, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/12/24/2020-appears-to-be-a-good-year-for-counterterrorism/

ASIA PACIFIC – Time to rethink how to build a more resilient and inclusive Asia Pacific (Denis Hew and Andre Wirjo, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/25/time-to-rethink-how-to-build-a-more-resilient-and-inclusive-asia-pacific/

USA – Biden on trade: same policy, different tone? (Bryan Mercurio, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/25/biden-on-trade-same-policy-different-tone/

CYBER CRIME/HACKING – The Russian cryptocurrency exchange Livecoin hacked on Christmas Eve (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/112608/hacking/cryptocurrency-exchange-livecoin-hacked.html

ETHIOPIA – Toll from attack in western Ethiopia region rises to 222, Red Cross says (Al Arabiya)

The death toll from a Wednesday attack in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia has risen to 222 people, a volunteer from the country’s...

TURKEY – Turkey debates draft law that would increase oversight of NGOs (Al Arabiya)

Turkey’s parliament began debating a draft law on Friday that would increase oversight of non-governmental organizations and which, according to rights campaigners, risks limiting...

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