The European Union has so far failed to secure agreement on extending its sanctions against Russia, with a dispute over two Russian billionaires preventing the 27 member states from completing the required
“O my Sustainer! Open up my heart to Thy light and make my task easy for me, and loosen the knot from my tongue so that they may fully understand my speech.”
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India’s National Security Advisor, Ajit Doval, has said that “poor governance” was the driving factor behind the uprisings that led to changes of government in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka over the
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More than ten years after jihadi forces stormed the fabled city of Timbuktu, banning music, dancing and imposing sharia law, Mali is once again teetering on the edge of collapse. Fighters affiliated
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The Republic of Maldives has taken a bold and unprecedented step in global tobacco control, becoming the first nation in the world to implement a generational ban on tobacco. Effective from November
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As a professor who has spent more than forty years studying questions of war and peace, international law and relations —and above all, the human consequences of armed conflict— I once believed
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China’s President Xi Jinping and Japan’s newly appointed Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi met on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Gyeongju on Friday, holding their first formal discussions as leaders amid
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China’s manufacturing sector experienced its longest decline in more than nine years in October, as factory activity continued to falter under domestic and global pressures, Bloomberg reported Friday. The official manufacturing purchasing
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The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether leaders of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation misused donations totaling tens of millions of dollars during the racial justice protests of 2020, according
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It seems to me indisputably true that gold is a money and it is the money that is least at risk of being devalued and/or confiscated. Here’s why I believe that’s true.
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“The military operates behind our backs,” says Pedro Uc Be. “We know they will start mining, but they work in darkness, and for that precise reason we haven’t been able to say
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The U.S. government has asked a judge to deport a father of two to Afghanistan, where he fears the Taliban would likely kill him, despite the fact that he has not been
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A group of United Nations human rights experts has welcomed the adoption of the ASEAN Declaration on the Right to a Safe, Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment, calling it a “historic step”
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The incident is laden with irony. The United States — a nation built on the fundamental tenets of free trade, well-entrenched with a fairly level playing field — now appears to be
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A New York City woman wearing a navy blue polka-dot dress has gone viral for her defiant resistance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a raid in lower Manhattan on October 21,
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The United States used to be an ardent supporter of the rechristening of the Asia-Pacific region as the Indo-Pacific, and in all fairness, President Donald Trump should have included India in his
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