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Russian Defense Minister Calls ‘Constant’ U.S. Presence In Black Sea A Provocation (RFE RL)

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu called the constant presence of the U.S. Navy in the Black Sea a provocation after another ship entered the...

Digital payments startup Paytm launches India’s biggest IPO (Al Jazeera)

India will see its biggest-ever initial public offering with digital payments platform Paytm looking to raise nearly $2.5bn, in what has already been a...

‘National tragedy’: Sierra Leone mourns victims of tanker blast (Sally Hayden, Al Jazeera)

Relatives of the dead and injured from Friday’s fuel tanker explosion in eastern Freetown, Sierra Leone, have been gathering at hospitals across the city, searching for...

Indonesia-Australia: Deeper divide lies beneath AUKUS submarine rift (Gatra Priyandita, Riyandita Benjamin Herscovitch, The Interpreter)

Amid Jakarta’s diplomatic shots across Canberra’s bow over AUKUS, Foreign Minister Marise Payne is travelling in Southeast Asia to reassure the region. This move comes...

Sinking trust (Sian Troath, The Interpreter)

Last week in Australia news headlines brimmed with emotive accusations about a betrayal of trust levied against Prime Minister Scott Morrison. French President Emmanuel...

Evolving Australia–Japan cooperation in dealing with the ‘three Cs’ (Yuma Osaki, The Strategist)

Amid global uncertainties, strengthening like-minded nations’ bonds to deal with those challenges is vital. In the Indo-Pacific region, cooperation between Australia and Japan has...

Media freedom is the lifeblood of Philippine democracy — and it’s under threat (East Asia Forum)

If there’s a silver lining for the Philippines’ beleaguered democracy, it’s that its increasingly autocratic president, Rodrigo Duterte, is limited to a single six-year term...

Press freedom is no joke in the Philippines (Danilo Araña Arao, East Asia Forum)

By awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov on 8 October 2021, the Norwegian Nobel Committee put the spotlight on...

Defense companies cannot go into lockdown due to state defense order – Russian deputy PM (TASS)

Russian defense-sector companies cannot go into lockdown because of their liabilities under state defense order, that is why they must strictly observe all anti-coronavirus...

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