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USA/REAL ESTATE – The Great Real Estate Reset. The office, reimagined: The nature of office work is shifting, and so must downtowns (Tracy Hadden...

https://www.brookings.edu/essay/the-nature-of-office-work-is-shifting-and-so-must-downtowns/

IRAN – Khamenei renews revenge vow as Soleimani death anniversary nears (Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera)

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei has renewed his promise of revenge in response to the United States’ assassination of Qassem Soleimani during a...

IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL – Iran nuclear deal participants hold virtual talks amid tensions (Al Jazeera)

Senior diplomats from Iran and major powers have met online to discuss the state of a nuclear deal that is eroding despite conciliatory signals...

USA/IRAN – Iran ‘very happy’ to see Trump leave office, says Rouhani (Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera)

While Iran is not “excited” by Joe Biden taking over at the White House, it was “very happy” to see the end of Donald...

SAUDI ARABIA – Hundreds of migrants abused in Saudi deportation centre: HRW (Al Jazeera)

Saudi Arabia is detaining hundreds of migrants in squalid conditions in Riyadh, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says, quoting some who claimed they had been...

EUROPE/GREEN DEAL/ROMA – The EU should not exclude the Roma from the Green Deal (Zeljko Jovanovic, Al Jazeera)

Last week the leaders of the European Union struck a deal on a stimulus package and tough emission cuts by 2030. In the next...

AMAZON/CLIMATE CHANGE – Amazon must stop flooding our oceans with plastic waste (Matt Littlejohn

Just last month, Jeff Bezos, the CEO and founder of Amazon, announced that he would be donating $791m to 16 environmental organisations to help...

USA/IRAN – US blacklists four companies for helping export of Iranian petrochemical products (Al Arabiya)

The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on companies, accusing them of supporting the sale of Iranian petrochemicals as Washington increases pressure on Tehran...

UAE/EGYPT – UAE’s Mohamed bin Zayed meets Egyptian President al-Sisi in Cairo (Al Arabiya)

Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo on Wednesday and discussed peace and...

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