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AFGHANISTAN – Afghan civilian deaths from US air raids rose by more than 300 percent (Al Jazeera)

Deaths of Afghan civilians in air raids carried out by the United States and its allies “increased dramatically” since 2017 when Washington loosened its...

TURKEY – Turkey orders detention of 304 military personnel over suspected Gulen links (Al Arabiya)

US.-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen at his home in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, July 10, 2017. (Reuters) Turkey has ordered the detention of 304 military personnel in...

INDIA – Indian farmers launch nationwide strike over new reform laws (Al Arabiya)

Farmers shout slogans next to a police barricade amid foggy condition during a nationwide general strike to protest against the recent agricultural reforms at...

LEBANON – Aoun’s call to empower the Lebanese caretaker cabinet is unconstitutional and wrong (Al Arabiya)

Lebanese President Michel Aoun (left) and Prime Minister Saad Hariri during the October press conference in Beirut on October 20 2016. Photograph: Mohamed Azakir...

CLIMATE CHANGE – Investigating climate change’s ‘humidity paradox’ (Kate Willett, WEF)

Climate change is altering the quantity of water vapour in the air, and it's throwing nature off-balance. Image: Unsplash/Inge Maria There are two types of...

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE – 3 ways businesses can harness their might for the good of all (Nilanjan Roy, WEF)

It's not just up to governments to shape a brighter future Image: Benjamin Davies / Unsplash Society has given corporations a licence to operate -...

ABKHAZIA/RUSSIA – Abkhazia Bolsters Linkages With Russia (Zaal Anjaparidze, The Jamestown Foundation)

Abkhazian "President" Akhra Bzhania and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Sochi, November 12 (Source: kremlin.ru) On November 24, the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs strictly condemned...

THE MINSK GROUP – Karabakh War’s Diplomatic Casualty (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation, Part Four)

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts, Moscow, April 2019 (Source: Azerbaijan MFA) Over the past two decades, the main international...

RUSSIA – Russia Strives for an Oil and Gas Resurgence (Pavel K. Baev, The Jamestown Foundation)

(Source: Bloomberg) As the global economy—animated by the arrival of multiple COVID-19 vaccines—hopes for the first signs of recovery, expectations also rise in Russia for...

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