Dozens of refugees and migrants trying to cross Albania have been reduced to begging for food on the streets of Tirana, victims of gang violence and under-funding at a state-run reception centre.
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China’s Balkan Investments Are Paradoxically Speeding Region’s EU Integration
If the EU suddenly seems more interested than it was in integrating the Western Balkans, it is partly because the expansion into the region by large regional powers such as China has got Brussels worried.
Read More »Poland Postpones Presidential Election
After weeks of infighting and controversial efforts to organise a postal ballot during the pandemic, Poland’s ruling coalition has agreed not to hold the vote this Sunday.
Read More »Analysis: The Islamic State’s ideological campaign against al-Qaeda
The Islamic State used this banner in a recent issue of its Al-Naba newsletter, as well as online, to advertise its latest attack on Al-Qaeda. On April 29, the Islamic State’s “province” (wilayah) in Yemen released a lengthy video that is intended to undermine al-Qaeda’s ideological legitimacy within the jihadists’ …
Read More »Collecting and analyzing Shiite militia attacks against the U.S. presence in Iraq
There is a growing consensus that attacks against U.S. facilities and personnel in Iraq by Iran-backed Shiite Militia Groups (SMGs) are increasingly becoming a “new normal.” These attacks ebb and flow pursuant to several political conditions, some of which remain outside the control of the U.S. Having both quantitative and …
Read More »Trump Nominee to Lead US Intelligence Promises 'Unvarnished Truth'
More than eight months after he was first tapped to lead U.S. intelligence efforts, Congressman John Ratcliffe repeatedly pledged to skeptical lawmakers that he would abandon partisan politics and provide the president and top policymakers the “unvarnished truth,” no matter what they wanted to hear.
Read More »The Long March-5B completes a successful maiden flight, officially kicking off China's space station construction
China’s latest state-of-the-art carrier rocket, the Long March-5B, made a successful maiden flight on Tuesday, during which the new rocket managed to send the assembly of a trial version of the country’s new-generation manned spaceship with no crew and a testing cargo-returning spacecraft into planned orbit. The successful launch signaled …
Read More »Trump Must Be Defeated!
Trump Threatens the future of human civilization There is so much wrong with Donald Trump that one hardly knows where to start. He is a bully, braggart, narcicist, racist, mysogenist, habitual liar, and tax evader, in addition to being demonstrably ignorant. He has contempt for both domestic and international law, …
Read More »Import Of Chinese Test Kits Canceled By ICMR : The Story Behind
This is yet another news story underplayed by Big Media, and being reported by us. A Delhi HC judgment showed that ICMR agreed to pay 2.5 times the price for Corona rapid test kits, imported from China, to help private traders to loot the public exchequer.
Read More »Russia | Putin: What the world oil market is witnessing has never happened before
Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged the difficulty of the situation in the global energy market, in light of falling demand for oil and full stocks, and stressed the importance of joint international cooperation to overcome the current difficulties.
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