Author: synergia

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U.S. lawmakers revived a bill Thursday that could pave the way for sanctions against China over its mass internment of Muslim ethnic minorities in the western region of Xinjiang. China has been gathering the ethnic Uyghur Muslims of the Xinjiang province and has been “sinicizing” them.

UK in Chaos

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Britain’s last-minute scramble to shape an EU exit, its biggest policy upheaval in half a century, was stalled again as Prime Minister Theresa May and opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn actively advocated for competing visions. On June 23rd, 2016, Britain narrowly voted to leave the European Union…

North Korea envoy in US

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A North Korean envoy arrived in Washington on January 17 for expected talks with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and a possible encounter with President Donald Trump aimed a laying the groundwork for a second US-North Korea summit. The relationship between the US and North Korea has always been fractious. During the war..

African Union urges DRC

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in Elections

The African Union (AU) says there are “serious doubts” about the outcome of elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) and has called for final results to be suspended. The DRC has seen long periods of political and economic instability since its independence in 1960. The incumbent President, Joseph Kabila, is the son..

UN establishes new Yemen Mission

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The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved Wednesday the deployment in Yemen of up to 75 monitors in a new mission to shore up a fragile cease-fire and oversee a pullback of forces from the flash-point port of Hodeida. The modern Republic of Yemen is a relatively new state..

BJP’s new election push

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in Indian Economics

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party is in favour of an expansionary economic policy and does not consider the government’s plan to keep the fiscal deficit to 3.3 percent of GDP. The previous Modi campaign in 2014 had famously highlighted reining in the fiscal deficit to under 3.5%. Monetary policy is the process by which…

Nancy Pelosi: “Reschedule the SOTU”

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in General Interest

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked President Donald Trump to forgo his Jan. 29 State of the Union (SOTU) speech, expressing doubts that the hobbled government can provide adequate security. Republicans saw her move as a ploy to deny Trump the stage. The State of the Union Address..

Dwindling Japanese workforce

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in General Interest

According to a government study report, it is projected that the country’s workforce would decline by 20 per cent by 2040. On an average, the country’s workforce would shrink by almost 13m people in the next twenty years without urgent action to increase the number of working women and older workers. As of October 1,…

Former Fed chairs advocate carbon tax

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