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Solar Orbiter returns to Earth before starting its main science mission (ESA)

Solar Orbiter is returning to Earth for a flyby before starting its main science mission to explore the Sun and its connection to ‘space...

To prevent nuclear war, President Biden should listen to Vice President Biden (William J. Perry, Tom Z. Collina, Defense News)

President Joe Biden probably knows more about nuclear policy than any commander-in-chief in recent history. He served in the Senate for 36 years and was...

Four Obstacles to Iranian Oil and Gas Production in the Caspian Sea (Vali Kaleji, The Jamestown Foundation)

In recent months, a series of analytical publications sparked fresh debate in Iran about the status of Iran’s oil and natural gas reserves in...

In Istanbul, Turkic Council Members Eye Closer Cooperation and Deeper Integration (Vasif Huseynov, The Jamestown Foundation)

On November 12, Istanbul hosted the eighth summit of the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States (Turkic Council), attended by the leaders of member...

Planetary defenders: after NASA’s DART comes ESA’s Hera (ESA)

The world will be watching the milestone launch of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, DART, spacecraft on Wednesday, 24 November, intended to alter one small part...

The Belarus Crisis and the Union State Military Doctrine (Roger McDermott, The Jamestown Foundation)

Belarus and Moscow have signed a new Union State Military Doctrine, though the document remains unpublished. This comes within the context of the Belarus...

Balancing accessibility and quality in Blue Dot Network infrastructure finance (John Taishu Pitt, East Asia Forum)

While the US-led Bretton Woods Institutions have been supporting infrastructure projects since the 1940s, there has been criticism in recent years that the United States has...

The irony and efficacy of China’s judicial reforms (Sitao Li, Sida Liu, East Asia Forum)

In the 2010s, the Chinese judicial system underwent several reforms that attracted scholarly and public attention. These reforms were executed in the name of...

Deploying ‘sentinel satellites’ to monitor greenhouse gas emissions (Susmita Dasgupta, Somik V. Lall, and David Wheeler, Brookings)

The recently published Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-AR6) cautioned that climate change is already affecting every inhabited region of...

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