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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...

Building resilience to economic coercion in Indo-Pacific island states (Richard Herr, The Strategist)

The dramatic creation of AUKUS has focused attention on the military response to China’s increasing capacity to project force across the Indo-Pacific. The furore it sparked,...

Australia’s nuclear submarine decision leaves more questions than answers (Marcus Hellyer, The Strategist)

It is correct, as former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has asserted, that few of the questions raised by the government’s announcement that Australia will acquire...

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