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The Pandemic and International Migration: Exploiting the Healthcare Crisis to Reform Mobility Governance (Franck Düvell, Valdai Discussion Club)

It is remarkable that liberal and authoritarian states around the globe alike turned to ultra-radical policy measures and largely outlawed fundamental liberties including the right to leave one’s...

USA-Iran: Why Is the Deal Stalled? (Ivan Timofeev, Valdai Discussion Club)

It is not easy to isolate the nuclear programme from the general package of contradictions between the United States and Iran. At one time,...

Expo 2020 Dubai to be renovated into futuristic ‘District 2020’ after March 2022 (Al Arabiya)

Transitioning into District 2020, the Expo 2020 Dubai site will live long after the event closes its doors in March 2022. Final checks are being...

China’s high-end military technology touted at biggest air show (Al Arabiya)

China put on an extravagant display of once-secret high-end military technology at its largest air show this week, while broadcasting its growing ambitions in...

N Korea’s Kim offers to restore inter-Korean hotline, slams US (Al Jazeera)

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said that he is willing to restore severed inter-Korean hotlines by early October but accused the United...

Summary killings, human-rights abuses surge in eastern DRC (Al Jazeera)

The United Nations has said summary killings in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) soared in August, driven by armed groups but also...

US will not normalise or upgrade diplomatic ties with Syria (Al Jazeera)

The United States has no plans to “normalise or upgrade” diplomatic relations with the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and also does not...

EU court annuls Morocco trade deals over Western Sahara (Radmilla Suleymanova, Al Jazeera)

A European Union court on Wednesday annulled EU-Morocco agriculture and fishing trade deals, saying that they were agreed to without the consent of the...

Designing an Australian DARPA (Graeme Dunk and James Kruger, The Strategist)

In The Strategist in July, we outlined our concept for an Australian equivalent of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), mooted by ASPI. We...

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