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FRANCE/RACIAL JUSTICE – Documenting police violence is a form of resistance (Mitali Nagrecha, Al Jazeera)

Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Paris in recent days demanding the state scrap part of a proposed security bill that would criminalise...

IRAN/PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS – Iran to ban dual-nationals, Green Card holders from running for presidency

People register as candidates for parliamentary elections set for February 2020, at the interior ministry in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2019. (AP) Iran’s parliament...

KUWAIT – Emir of Kuwait tells parliament: reform needed, stop disputes (Al Arabiya)

Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah al Ahmad al Sabah reads his opening speech at the start of the 4th ordinary session of the 15th Legislative...

RUSSIA/USA – Russian President Putin congratulates Joe Biden on US election victory (Al Arabiya)

Russian President Vladimir Putin. (File photo: AFP) Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday congratulated Joe Biden on his victory in the US presidential election, after...

REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS – IOM, UNHCR Saddened at Deaths of Refugees and Migrants in Shipwreck off Venezuela Coast (IOM)

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, are deeply distressed by the death or disappearance at sea of ​​up...

MOROCCO/ISRAEL/WESTERN SAHARA/USA – Morocco’s partial normalization with Israel comes with risks and gains (Yasmina Abouzzohour, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/12/14/moroccos-partial-normalization-with-israel-comes-with-risks-and-gains/

USA/MUSLIM COMMUNITIES – Why the Biden administration should stay out of the global “Muslim engagement” business (Peter Mandaville, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/12/14/why-the-biden-administration-should-stay-out-of-the-global-muslim-engagement-business/

SYRIA – Pity the nation: Assessing a half-century of Assadist rule (Steven Heydemann, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/12/14/pity-the-nation-assessing-a-half-century-of-assadist-rule/  

USA/WOMEN LEADERS – How women leaders can enhance rulemaking in the Biden administration (Rachel Augustine Potter and Craig Volden, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/how-women-leaders-can-enhance-rulemaking-in-the-biden-administration/

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