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BREXIT/EUROPE – Mutant virus adds to Brexit concerns as UK suppliers sound alarm (Al Jazeera)

Britain’s biggest port stopped all traffic heading to Europe and food supplies into the nation face major disruption after the discovery of a new...

BREXIT/EUROPE – UK-EU fisheries dispute threatens to sink post-Brexit trade deal (Al Jazeera)

The scramble for a post-Brexit trade deal has headed into a new week after talks were overshadowed by the coronavirus crisis and ended with...

US CONGRESS/COVID RELIEF LEGISLATION – US Congress agrees deal on COVID relief legislation (Al Jazeera)

After months of negotiations, United States legislators have agreed on a long-awaited COVID-19 relief bill that will boost unemployment payments and aid to small...

IRAQ – Eight rockets target US embassy in Baghdad: Iraq army (Al Jazeera)

A volley of rockets has targeted the United States’ embassy in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, Iraq’s military said, sparking fears of renewed unrest...

IRAQ – Will anti-gov’t protests, Soleimani killing decide 2021 in Iraq? (Sofia Barbarani, Al Jazeera)

It was one o’clock in the morning on January 3, 2020, when news arrived that an American drone had targeted a convoy of vehicles...

SUDAN/ETHIOPIA – Sudan, Ethiopia to hold border demarcation talks week after clash (Al Jazeera)

Sudan and Ethiopia will hold negotiations next week to delineate their shared border, a statement from Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok’s office said on...

ROMANI AMERICANS – Romani Americans still struggle with discrimination (Margareta Matache, Mary T Bassett, Al Jazeera)

In 1939, amid the Great Depression, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt met with Roma leader Steve Kaslov in New York City to discuss how the...

USA/GLOBAL TRADING SYSTEM – Biden and fixing the global trading system (East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/21/biden-and-fixing-the-global-trading-system/

WTO – The opportunity to resuscitate the WTO (Bernard Hoekman, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/20/the-opportunity-to-resuscitate-the-wto/

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