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UAE authorities retaliated against human rights activist: HRW (Al Jazeera)

UAE authorities retaliated against detained human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor last year after regional media published a prison letter he wrote describing his abuse...

Turkish court orders release of two students jailed over protests (Al Jazeera)

A Turkish court has ordered the release of two university students who have spent three months in the first hearing of a broader case...

Myanmar: WFP plans to aid 4 million through 2022 (UN News)

Ten months since the military takeover in February 2021, food insecurity in Myanmar has risen sharply, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. Myanmar:...

Release of detainees a ‘significant confidence-building step’ in Ethiopia: UN chief (UN News)

The Ethiopian Government on Friday freed several high-profile political detainees, a move UN Secretary-General António Guterres hailed as a “significant confidence-building step”. Release of detainees...

For 25th year in a row, Greenland ice sheet shrinks (UN News)

2021 marked the 25th year in a row in which the key Greenland ice sheet lost more mass during the melting season, than it gained during the winter, according to a new UN-endorsed report issued on...

The American torch of democracy is flickering (Daniel Fried, Atlantic Council)

One year after the attempted putsch of January 6, American democracy remains in peril. As it turns out, Americans are neither anointed for easy greatness...

How Kazakhstan could shift Putin’s calculus on Ukraine (John E. Herbst, Atlantic Council)

Thirty years ago, the Soviet Union collapsed in a largely bloodless way. But events in recent years have proved that bloodlessness to be only temporary. Russia’s...

South Korea’s middle power aid diplomacy (Jeffrey Choi, East Asia Forum)

Official Development Assistance (ODA) is likely to become an increasingly important part of South Korea’s middle power diplomacy in Asia. Although South Korea expresses...

Global and domestic challenges clash in Taiwan (Sheryn Lee, East Asia Forum)

Taiwan’s international profile rose significantly in 2021, as shown by a sensationalist cover page from The Economist labelling it ‘the most dangerous place on earth’ due to...

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