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Davos 2022. Special Address by Naftali Bennett, Prime Minister of Israel (World Economic Forum)

Speakers: Naftali Bennett, Børge Brende The Davos Agenda | World Economic Forum (weforum.org)

The Rajapaksas to blame for Sri Lanka’s disastrous 2021 (Neil DeVotta, East Asia Forum)

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s 2019 election manifesto promised ‘Vistas of Prosperity and Splendour’. Professionals for a Better Future (Viyathmaga) were to implement his programs, which...

Prospects for Cambodia’s chairing of ASEAN in 2022 (Riko Watanabe, East Asia Forum)

In October 2021, Sultan Bolkiah of Brunei handed over the chairmanship of ASEAN to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen. In 2022, ASEAN will continue to...

Energy trilemma causes a headache for Germany’s new leaders (Constanze Stelzenmüller, Brookings)

Annalena Baerbock, Germany’s foreign minister, met her counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Tuesday, after a visit to Kyiv the day before. Arguably, a...

Is the U.S. military’s futurism obsession hurting national security? (Amy J. Nelson and Alexander H. Montgomery, Brookings)

Amid a pandemic that was all but predicted by biosecurity experts, there has been an obsession with the kind of thinking that attempts to forecast...

Blinken to travel to Ukraine amid fears of Russian invasion (Al Jazeera)

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to travel to Kyiv following a week of diplomacy between Washington, Moscow, and NATO countries...

Kazakhstan’s ex-leader denies conflict with successor (Al Jazeera)

Kazakhstan’s influential former leader released a short video on Tuesday in which he talked about the violent unrest that engulfed the ex-Soviet nation earlier...

Sudanese barricade streets as strike over protest deaths begins (Al Jazeera)

Protesters have erected barricades across roads in Sudan’s capital Khartoum and some shops and offices were shut as a two-day general strike and civil...

How the Yemen conflict flare-up affects its humanitarian crisis (Al Jazeera)

The flare-up in the Yemen conflict, with the Houthis targeting an oil facility in Abu Dhabi and a retaliatory attack by the Saudi-led coalition on Sanaa, has raised...

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