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Disaster - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 1, 2019
Ebola center in flames in DRC
An armed attack on February 27, 2019 led to setting fires in an Ebola treatment center in the eastern city of Butembo in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The armed assailants became embroiled…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 1, 2019
India & Pakistan need to de-escalate
Tensions between India and Pakistan have continued to escalate since the Pulwama suicide bombing by a Kashmiri youth in Jammu and Kashmir that killed 42 CRPF soldiers on February 14. India and…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 1, 2019
Trade war hurdle passed
A key hurdle in the trade negotiations between the US and China has been passed. Top Trump negotiators have said that they have agreed on a trade enforcement process between the two countries. The…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 1, 2019
Jared Kushner meets Erdogan
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with U.S. President Donald Trump’s adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, during the American official’s regional tour to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Feb 28, 2019
US-North Korea relations moving ahead
President Trump arrived in Vietnam on February 26 to discuss denuclearization with Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, capping off months of threats and weapons tests, recriminations and…
Technology - Analyses & Assessments - Feb 28, 2019
Flying car - a reality?
The Minister of Entrepreneur Development Mohd Redzuan Md Yusof of Malaysia is set to unveil the prototype of its first flying car prototype to the public this year. The minister added that local…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Feb 28, 2019
Sudan’s Bashir tries to end prolonged protests
Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s President, on February 25th unveiled new measures to end a 10 week-long protest. He also made changes to the country’s foreign currency policies. Protests began in Sudan on 19…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Feb 28, 2019
El Sharara remains closed
Libyans remain divided on when to restart the El Sharara oilfield, the country’s biggest, after closure due to the presence of militants. The El Sharara oil field is located in Murzuq Desert. It was…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Feb 28, 2019
Future of Banking in India
Synergia Foundation hosted its 50th roundtable conference on Monday, February 25, 2019, on the topic of the Future of Banking. The conference was led by the keynote speaker Dr. Charan Singh who is…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Feb 28, 2019
Venezuela’s unsold offshore oil
Tankers loaded with 8.36 million barrels of crude are reportedly floating off the Venezuelan coast as the sanctions-hit country struggles to find buyers for its oil. The Bolivarian Republic of…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Feb 28, 2019
Medicare for all
The Democrats in the US House of representatives have recently revealed their most ambitious government-run health care program, i.e., the Medicare health insurance program. The U.S. does not have a…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Feb 27, 2019
Labour will back a second referendum
Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party, announced that his bloc in Parliament would support a second referendum to stop what he called “a damaging Tory Brexit.” The Labour…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Feb 27, 2019
Turkey condemns Uighur treatment
Turkish officials has urged Chinese authorities to respect the human rights of Muslims including freedom of religion in Xinjiang. The Uyghurs are predominantly Muslims and have regarded themselves as…
Environment - Analyses & Assessments - Feb 27, 2019
Iceberg to break off from Antarctica
A dangerous looking fracture in the Brunt Ice Shelf is threatening to break out an iceberg almost twice the size of New York City. The crack is moving north towards the McDonald Ice Rumples and…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Feb 27, 2019
Russian TV shows ‘nuclear targets’ in US
Russian state television has listed US military facilities that Moscow would target in the event of a nuclear strike, and said that a hypersonic missile Russia is developing would be able to hit them…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Feb 27, 2019
Britain told to decolonise Chagos Islands
The United Nations’ highest court told Britain that it should end its control “as rapidly as possible” over a remote colonial outpost in the Indian Ocean, best known for housing a strategic American…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Feb 27, 2019
Expectations low for Trump-Kim summit
President Donald Trump will head into his second meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un having reframed what would make a successful summit, lowering expectations for Pyongyang’s denuclearization…
Business - Analyses & Assessments - Feb 27, 2019
Musk to face another U.S contempt claim
Elon Musk is facing a fresh round of regulatory trouble for tweets about Tesla Inc. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has asked a judge on Monday, February 25, to hold Musk in…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Feb 26, 2019
The end of the Korean War?
United States and North Korea could agree to declare the end of 1950 -1953 Korean war and take steps to establish permanent peace in the Korean peninsula during the forthcoming Vietnam summit between…
Indian Economics - Analyses & Assessments - Feb 26, 2019
New Afghan-India trade route
Afghanistan began exports to India through Chabahar port in Iran as the landlocked, war-torn nation turns to overseas markets to improve its economy. Chabahar Port is a seaport in Chabahar located in…