Category: World
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Myanmar to sign MoU for Rohingya Repatriation
Nearly 700,000 Rohingya refugees now residing in Bangladesh may be repatriated back into the Rakhine State when the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between..
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Strategic Autonomy or Silence?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has delivered the keynote speech at the 2018 IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on the 1st of June. He is the first Indian Prime Minister..
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Spain PM loses no-confidence vote
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has lost a no-confidence vote called by Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez. This is the first time a head of government has been ousted..
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Italy’s new government
Italy’s populist parties have been given the green light to form a coalition government. After days of negotiations and market pressure, after president Sergio Mattarella agreed..
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The fake murder of Arkady Babchenko
It was recently found that prominent Kremlin critic and journalist Arkady Babchenko was in fact, alive. Babchenko had staged his death with help from Ukrainian authorities to thwart an alleged Russian assassination plot. The event has received widespread criticism for propagating a false narrative and potentially trivialising violence against journalists. Since the 1990s, a number…
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Bayer-Monsanto deal approved
The US Department of Justice has approved the controversial takeover of agriculture and biotech company Monsanto by rival Bayer Corporation. The deal, which was..
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Russian critic murdered
Arkady Babchenko, a Russian journalist critical of the Kremlin and President Vladimir Putin, has been killed in Kiev. He was reportedly shot in the back three times by the assassin..
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Malaysian PM to scrap Singapore deal
Newly elected Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who came into power on a reformist agenda, has announced that Malaysia will scrap a 350-km high-speed rail..
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Corruption crackdown in Kenya
Forty Kenyan public servants and 14 business executives have been named suspects in Kenya’s latest corruption scandal involving the misappropriation of approximately..
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Political instability in Italy
Italy has been plunged into a constitutional crisis as a result of a stand-off between President Sergio Mattarella and its populist leaders. The Prime Minister in waiting..