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Turkish court rules to keep Osman Kavala in jail (Umar Farooq, Al Jazeera)

A court in Istanbul has ordered the continued detention of philanthropist Osman Kavala, in a move that could further strain Turkey’s ties with Europe. The...

‘Point of no return’: Refugees in Libya long for safety (Federica Marsi, Al Jazeera)

David Oliver Yambio has run out of options. The 24-year-old from South Sudan is among the hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers who have spent...

Mud mosque dating back to the Umayyad era discovered in Iraq (Al Jazeera)

A British Museum excavation mission, along with a local Iraqi team, has discovered a mud mosque that dates back to the year 60 AH...

Aspiring to a peaceful resolution of the China–Taiwan dispute (Peter Lloyd, East Asia Forum)

The already tense relations between China and Taiwan are worsening. In October 2021, China flew a record number of military aircraft into Taiwan’s air...

S-400s, CAATSA Complicate India-US Ties (Rajeswari (Raji) Pillai Rajagopalan, ORF)

India appears to be going ahead with the controversial Russian S-400 air defense system. Dmitry Shugaev, director of Russia’s Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation...

The Inflation Conundrum (Kaushik Basu, Project-Syndicate)

Until a few months ago, talk of inflation was little more than a murmur: dry data from the statistical office, reports tucked away in...

The Drums of War in Taiwan and Ukraine (Carl Bildt, Project-Syndicate)

The vastness of Eurasia is becoming bracketed by belligerence. On the western front, Russia has deployed a growing number of military units to the regions near...

Lessons from Digital India (Michael Spence, Project-Syndicate)

Over the past five years, India has experienced an unusually rapid expansion of digital connectivity and access to services. This has had a positive...

China Is Holding the Planet Hostage (Chris Patten, Project-Syndicate)

The verbal emissions at the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow were understandably extensive but fortunately less environmentally damaging than the...

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