Category: World
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Brexit gets messy
For more than two years, British Prime Minister Theresa May has been looking for a pair of exit ramps — one to successfully navigate her country out of the European Union, as called for by voters in a 2016 referendum, and another to avoid further damage to her deeply divided Conservative Party. The coming days…
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IRGC explores oil potential
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards are looking to fill a vacuum in the energy sector created by western companies that pulled out of the Islamic republic following the reimposition of US sanctions. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is a branch of Iran’s Armed Forces founded after the 1979 Revolution on 22 April 1979…
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Kazakh President Resigns
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has announced his retirement after 30 years in power. Kazakhstan was the last of the Soviet republics to declare independence during the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It borders Russia to the north and China to the east. Kazakhstan has extensive oil reserves that make…
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Germany cuts on defence spending again
Berlin had already announced that it will fall significantly short of NATO’s defence spending goals, annoying the United States. It now risks provoking Washington further by failing to reach even its own reduced defence spending target. Germany is a country in Central and Western Europe…
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India’s economic woes
India’s economy expanded by 6.6 percent during October-December, the lowest in five quarters, on weak consumer demand and investments, dealing a blow to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he seeks a second term in office at a general election that kicks off next month. India is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh…
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Japan revamps its immigration system
Buoyed by hopes of higher wages yet burdened by loans, Vietnamese youth will be among those most affected by a new scheme to let in more blue-collar workers that kicks off in April 2019. Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of …..
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South Africa’s Blackout Problem
A tropical cyclone in Mozambique that caused the death of over 140 people and also the destruction of electricity and phone infrastructure has affected the power supply in South Africa. The Mozambique government is currently working on fixing their infrastructure as soon as possible. South Africa is the southernmost country..
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Saudi’s brutal campaign to stifle dissent
Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) is said to have ordered the surveillance, detention and torture of Saudi Arabian dissidents according to a classified report read by US officials. Human rights in Saudi Arabia are subject to Wahhabi law enforced under the absolute …..
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Return of Neo – Ottamanism
Turkey is emerging as the leader of a new Middle East bloc with support from Russia and Iran. The Ottoman Empire historically known in Western Europe as Turkey was a state that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries. At the beginning of the 17th…
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China appeases US trade concerns
China is to implement a new Foreign Investment Law in 2020, seeking to assuage US concerns over technology and intellectual property rights. The law embodies a watered-down version of a 2015 draft by China’s Ministry of Commerce. The United States and China are two of the…