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World - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 24, 2019
Venezuelans preparing for anti-govt protests
In a bid to topple the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's government, hundreds and thousands of citizens are expected to take to the streets and march in protest. The date of the march will…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 24, 2019
Tensions between Israel and Iran rise over Syria
Israel has launched its most incisive attack on Iranian positions in neighbouring Syria since the civil war began in 2011 , bring the two nations closer to the verge of a direct collision. Israel has…
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…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 23, 2019
Qatar to support Lebanese economy with $500m
Qatar plans to buy $500 million worth of Lebanese sovereign bonds to support Lebanon’s economy. Lebanon has one of the world’s highest levels of public debt compared to GDP and stagnant growth.…
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…
Business - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 23, 2019
Jet's failure casts shadow over government
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi rode to power five years ago on his business-friendly credentials and the promise of generating millions of jobs. Now an airline is on the verge of collapse,…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 22, 2019
Israel targets Iranian ground assets
Israel says it has hit Iranian targets around the Syrian capital, Damascus. The Israel Defense Forces say the overnight operation targeted the elite Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, as…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 22, 2019
Greece protests against Macedonia deal
Protesters have clashed with police in the Greek capital Athens at a big rally to oppose the government's deal with Macedonia on changing its name. The deal, which is yet to be approved, designates…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 22, 2019
Good Friday deal to be amended?
British Prime Minister Theresa May is considering solving the Brexit deadlock by amending the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) after abandoning attempts to negotiate a cross-party deal. The Good Friday…
Technology - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 22, 2019
GDPR strikes Google
France fines the tech giant 50 billion Euros under the EU’s new privacy regulations, the General Data Protection Regulation, which was implemented in May 2018. Google is the first major tech company…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 21, 2019
Brexit in a stalemate
Talks to end the U.K.’s Brexit stalemate appeared deadlocked, with neither Prime Minister Theresa May nor the main opposition leader shifting from their entrenched positions. On June 23rd, 2016,…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 21, 2019
France will stay ‘military engaged’ in Middle East
French President Emmanuel Macron stated that France would continue to remain ‘militarily engaged’ in the Middle East region through 2019. This comes at a time when the US is preparing to withdraw its…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 19, 2019
North Korea envoy in US
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…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 19, 2019
UK in Chaos
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…
Elections - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 19, 2019
African Union urges DRC
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…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 19, 2019
US Senate’s new sanctions on China
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…
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 (…
Indian Economics - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 18, 2019
BJP’s new election push
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…
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…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Jan 18, 2019
UN establishes new Yemen Mission
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…