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QATAR – Qatar expects $9.5 bln deficit next year on lower revenues, low energy prices (Al Arabiya)

In this Thursday Jan. 6, 2011 file photo, a traditional dhow floats in the Corniche Bay of Doha, Qatar, with tall buildings of the...

USA/TURKEY – US poised to sanction Turkey over Russian defense system: Sources (Al Arabiya)

Ankara's Russian S-400 missile defense system. (File photo: AFP) The US is poised to impose sanctions on Turkey over its acquisition last year of Russian...

RUSSIA/NORD STREAM 2 – Back to December: Exposing Nord Stream 2 Spin (Benjamin Schmitt, CEPA)

The Kremlin seeks to present its energy infrastructure project as a done deal, a fait accompli that sanctions are powerless to halt. None of...

TRANSATLANTIC/CHINA/TECHNOLOGY – A Transatlantic Effort to Take on China Starts with Technology (Alina Polyakova, Eileen Donahoe, CEPA)

https://cepa.org/a-transatlantic-effort-to-take-on-china-starts-with-technology/

TRANSATLANTIC – Stronger Together: A Strategy to Revitalize Transatlantic Power (Belfer Center)

A group of experts and former government officials from Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) convened strategists from...

AFRICA/BIOMETRIC ID SYSTEMS – Activists sound alarm over African biometric ID projects (Madeleine Speed, Al Jazeera)

In January this year, Kenya’s High Court halted the roll-out of the country’s controversial biometric ID, the Huduma Namba, citing the lack of a...

NIGERIA – Global activists slam Nigeria for crackdown on protesters (Al Jazeera)

Global activists and celebrities have hit out at the Nigerian government over a violent crackdown on peaceful protesters demonstrating against police brutality two months...

NIGERIA – The wealthy Nigerians buying citizenship overseas (Ollie Williams, Al Jazeera)

Dapo has spent too long at home in Lagos, Nigeria. Back in October, protests against the SARS police unit kept him from going to his office....

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