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Iran deporting thousands of Afghan refugees (Al Jazeera)

Iran is sending tens of thousands of Afghan refugees back over the border, aid agencies and witnesses say, amid allegations of mistreatment by Iranian...

Algeria welcomes ‘reasonable’ French comments amid row (Al Jazeera)

Algeria has welcomed comments from the office of French President Emmanuel Macron expressing regret over a dispute sparked by his criticism of the former...

UN sanctions three Houthis over Marib offensive, Saudi attacks (Al Jazeera)

The United Nations Security Council has blacklisted three Houthi rebels linked to cross-border attacks from Yemen into Saudi Arabia and to fighting in the...

Kishida’s opportunity to shake up Japanese defence policy (Corey Wallace, East Asia Forum)

Throughout 2021, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida downplayed his reputation as a defence dove ahead of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) presidential race. Eventually victorious, the...

Lessons from the Indonesia–Norway REDD+ break-up (Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo, East Asia Forum)

Indonesia announced the termination of the long-standing Indonesia–Norway Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) partnership. While promising, it was anticipated from the...

ASEAN supply chain links with China and the perils of decoupling (Ken Heydon, East Asia Forum)

China’s global value chain (GVC) links with ASEAN are both less dominant and more beneficial than they appear at first sight. But there are...

China closes the door to coal (Hao Tan, Elizabeth Thurbon, John Mathews, Sung-Young Kim, East Asia Forum)

On 21 September 2021, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced at the UN General Assembly that ‘China will not build new coal-fired power projects abroad’....

Healthcare security: IT pros warn of vulnerable HVAC systems, imaging machines, check-in kiosks and more (Jonathan Greig, ZDNet)

IT professionals have seen increased cyber risk over the last 12 months, according to a survey from cybersecurity company Armis. Armis and Censuswide spoke with...

Google and AWS harness the power of machine learning to predict floods and fires (Liam Tung, ZDNet)

Google and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have highlighted their respective work on machine-learning (ML) models that may help nations deal with environmental crises happening...

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