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General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Feb 6, 2019
Russian economy outgrows projections
Russia’s economy expanded 2.3 per cent last year, growing more quickly than the government and the IMF had predicted, according to state statistics. It has outpaced the growth rates of the EU, the US…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Feb 5, 2019
Pope Francis visits UAE
His Holiness Pope Francis, the head of Catholic Church visited United Arab Emirates on his 27th Apostolic Journey. He is the first pontiff to visit the Arabian Peninsula – the birth place of Islam.…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Feb 1, 2019
Trump criticises US intelligence chiefs
US president Donald Trump criticised top US intelligence chiefs on Twitter over their assessment of threats posed by North Korea, Iran & ISIS. The US Intelligence Chief, Dan Coats ’s…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Feb 1, 2019
Dr. Richard Danzig visits Synergia
Former US Secretary of the Navy, Richard Danzig visited Synergia Foundation on February 22, 2019 for a discussion on Artificial Intelligence and International Security. Dr. Danzig also touched upon a…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 31, 2019
US spy chiefs contradict Trump
U.S. intelligence agencies told Congress that the North is unlikely to entirely dismantle its nuclear arsenal and casting a shadow of doubt on President Donald Trump’s goal of a nuclear-disarmed…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 30, 2019
Facebook tightens regulations
The Social media giant is tightening requirements for political ads in the European Union ahead of bloc-wide elections scheduled for the spring, it's latest effort to fight misinformation and…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 27, 2019
Make in India - Aerospace & Defence - II
The Synergia Foundation organized its 48th roundtable on the topic Make in India - Aerospace & Defence -II with Dr. V.K. Saraswat, Member, Technical, NITI Aayog and former Secretary of Defence…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 26, 2019
China clones Gene-edited monkeys
Chinese scientists cloned five monkeys from a gene-edited macaque with circadian-related disorders, another first for the country in the controversial field. China’s dangerous trend of crossing…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 26, 2019
Trump backtracks, ends shutdown
President Donald Trump has yielded to political pressure to end the longest US government shutdown in history. In United States politics, a government shutdown occurs when Congress fails to pass…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 23, 2019
The widening inequality in the world
The new Oxfam International report reveals that 26 richest people own the same wealth as the poorest half of humanity, indicating a widening in the concentration of the world’s wealth. Oxfam is a…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 23, 2019
France summons Italian envoy over comment
France has summoned Italy’s ambassador to protest about comments by Italian Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio, who accused Paris of continuing to colonize Africa and causing people to migrate from…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 18, 2019
Dwindling Japanese workforce
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…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 18, 2019
1/3 of UN workers sexually harassed: Survey
Based on a recent report published by the United Nations, one-third of U.N. staff and contractors have experienced sexual harassment in the past two years. The United Nations is an international…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 18, 2019
Nancy Pelosi: “Reschedule the SOTU”
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…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 18, 2019
Former Fed chairs advocate carbon tax
Four former chairs of the Federal Reserve have joined with leading economists from both major political parties to issue an unprecedented call for a carbon tax in the US. The Federal Reserve System (…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 16, 2019
Theresa May’s plan is failing
Theresa May’s last-ditch attempt to shore up her Brexit deal appeared doomed, as Conservative Eurosceptic MPs threatened to humiliate the UK prime minister and plunge Britain’s future relationship…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 15, 2019
Huawei employee fired
Huawei Technologies Co. recently fired its sales director on charges of espionage conducted on behalf of China. He was reported to have been arrested in Poland. Poland is Huawei’s headquarters for…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 12, 2019
Border Wall halts US government
The Chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell has issued a warning about the economic costs of the ongoing government shutdown. President Trump is not backing down from his demand for the border…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 11, 2019
Japan to buy an island
The Japanese government is planning to buy a southwestern island, regarded as a candidate U.S. military training site, by the March end of the current fiscal year, government sources said. The…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 10, 2019
Syrian sanctions blocked over shutdown
The US Senate Democrats have blocked the action on the new Syrian sanctions bill. They said they would not vote to consider the penalties until the chamber takes up legislation to open the closed…