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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/

CHINA/TECHNOLOGY – Whither China’s technology dream? (Andrew Kennedy, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/15/whither-chinas-technology-dream/

USA/IRAQ – Biden should not repeat Trump and Obama’s mistakes in Iraq (Zeidon Alkinani, Al Jazeera)

For more than 17 years since its invasion of Iraq, the United States has failed to present itself as a partner interested in supporting...

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