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End war now before it’s too late for Ethiopians, UN rights chief urges fighters (UN News)

All parties involved in the escalating conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray must stop fighting immediately, or else risk pushing the region’s catastrophic humanitarian situation “over...

COP26: ‘Not blah blah blah’, UN Special Envoy Carney presents watershed private sector commitment for climate finance (UN News)

It’s ‘Finance Day’ at COP26, and the spotlight is on a big announcement: nearly 500 global financial services firms agreed on Wednesday to align...

Rebooting the forests and tree cover agenda for climate action (Ramesh Pandey, ORF)

Forests can be both net emitters or net sinks of carbon. Parallely, the release of carbon from forests can be due to natural processes...

Building ‘stable, predicable’ US-Russia ties: dream or reality? (ORF)

On November 2, the Secretary of Russia’s National Security Council Nikolai Patrushev and CIA Director William Burns met to discuss various issues related to US-Russia ties....

India in the Indo-Pacific: China, COVID-19, and the reconfigured regional order (Harsh V. Pant, Pratnashree Basu, ORF)

With a huge market and the busiest maritime shipping lanes, the Indo-Pacific houses aspiring economies alongside other countries outside the region who have a...

India-GCC: Prospects for post-pandemic trade cooperation and economic recovery (ORF)

Boasting a gilded heritage of trade ties going back to the Dilmun and Indus Valley civilisations, the Gulf states, united under the umbrella of...

Summitry in the East and India’s Asean ambitions (Harsh V. Pant, Shashank Mattoo, ORF)

It was a busy last month in the Indo-Pacific. In the span of a few short days, global leaders convened for the annual Asean and East...

Epiphenomena in the Belarusian Political Crisis (Grigory Ioffe, The Jamestown Foundation)

An epiphenomenon is a secondary effect or byproduct that arises from but does not causally influence a process—so in a way, it is an...

Lithuania and Poland Want to ‘Recover’ Kaliningrad, Russian Analysts Say (Paul Globe. The Jamestown Foundation)

Since Soviet times, Russian analysts have mused about the possibility that Germany might try to recover Kaliningrad, or East Prussia as it was known...

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