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Cybersecurity – Recent attacks on Iran were orchestrated by the Indra group (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini The recent attacks that targeted Iran’s transport ministry and national train system were conducted by a threat actor dubbed Indra Recent attacks on Iran were orchestrated...

Decarbonizing Industry – How to decarbonize heavy-duty transport and make it affordable (WEF)

Renewable electricity grid increases EV sustainability. Source: ABB Amina Hamidi, Enrique Meroño Heavy-duty trucks are responsible for 25% of global road emissions, despite only representing...

USA – One year after Schrems II, the world is still waiting for U.S. privacy legislation (Brookings)

Cameron F. Kerry As the invalidation of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield still casts uncertainty over international data flows more than a year later, the need...

Afghanistan/USA – Around the halls: The Taliban retakes Afghanistan (Brookings)

Madiha Afzal, Ranj Alaaldin, Daniel L. Byman, Giovanna De Maio, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Marvin Kalb, Suzanne Maloney, Patrick W. Quirk, Itamar Rabinovich, Douglas A. Rediker, Bruce Riedel, Federica Saini Fasanotti, Constanze Stelzenmüller, and Shibley Telhami Nearly 20 years after...

Azerbaijan/Pakistan/Turkey – Azerbaijan Boosts Trilateral Cooperation With Pakistan and Turkey (The Jamestown Foundation)

Vasif Huseynov On July 27, the parliamentary speakers of Turkey, Azerbaijan and Pakistan signed a strategic partnership document—the “Baku Declaration”—in Baku, Azerbaijan, which creates a...

Belarus – Summing Up: One Year Since the Disputed Presidential Elections in Belarus (Jamestown Foundation)

Grigory Ioffe On August 9, 2021, exactly one year since the ill-fated last presidential election, President Alyaksandr Lukashenka conducted a press conference that lasted more...

Russia – August Anniversaries in Russia: A Litany of Bad Memories (Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel K. Baev Each August witnesses some critical and usually unhappy events for Russia, and this year is particularly rich with round anniversaries. Sixty years...

Afghanistan/USA – America’s Withdrawal of Choice (Project-Syndicate)

RICHARD HAASS The swift fall of Kabul recalls the ignominious fall of Saigon in 1975. Beyond the local consequences – widespread reprisals, harsh repression of...

Afghanistan – Experts react: The Taliban has taken Kabul. Now what? (Atlantic Council)

Andrew L. Peek, Kirsten Fontenrose, Irfan Nooruddin, James B. Cunningham, Barry Pavel, Christopher Preble, William F. Wechsler, Evanna Hu, Daniel Fried, Nathan Sales, Arun Iyer, C. Anthony Pfaff, Jennifer A. Counter The Taliban has completed its lightning...

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