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Saudi-led coalition to attack ‘secret drone laboratory’ in Sanaa (Al Jazeera)

The Saudi Arabia-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Houthis says it is launching air raids on “legitimate” military targets in the Yemen capital, Sanaa. In a statement...

Australia designates Hezbollah a ‘terrorist organisation’ (Al Jazeera)

Australia has designated Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed, Lebanon-based Shia group, as a “terrorist” organisation. The designation covers the entirety of the group, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)...

India, China and finger pointing climate politics (Arti Betigeri, The Interpreter)

Two weeks of negotiations in Glasgow meant that COP26 resulted in a resolution – of sorts. Nations agreed to resume next year with stronger...

Maldives: India first or India out? (David Brewster, The Interpreter)

Recent protests in Maldives against India’s influence in the country calling for “Indian military out” has led the Maldives government to respond by reiterating...

The revenge of the Scholzomat (Marcus Colla, The Interpreter)

“Today is essentially Christmas and a birthday in one for you, and yet you seem about as euphoric as an English butler at teatime,”...

Regulating unmanned underwater vehicles in Indonesian waters (Taufik Rachmat Nugraha, The Interpreter)

According to the Indonesia Ocean Justice Initiative, between 2018 and January 2021, a large number of Chinese vessels “deactivated” their AIS transponders – the...

Why improving Vietnam–UK relations matters for the Indo-Pacific (Bill Hayton, The Strategist)

Vietnam’s prime minister, Pham Minh Chinh, made a very successful trip to the United Kingdom in early November, putting the rapidly improving relations between...

Australia’s ASEAN worker scheme and Southeast Asia’s migrant labour dilemma (M Niaz Asadullah, The Strategist)

Covid-19 has disrupted labour markets around the world, causing a global manpower shortage. Lockdowns in the early months of the pandemic triggered an exodus of millions...

Too soon to be waving the White flag on China (Peter Jennings, The Strategist)

In The Australian newspaper on Monday, Hugh White gave us a picture of democratic defeat in the face of overwhelming Chinese dominance should war break out over Taiwan. ‘Going...

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