Yearly Archives: 2020

Trump Exits Somalia

These are things that might have been done earlier. During the last, flickering days of the Trump administration, activity is being witnessed across countries which have a US troop presence. Numbers are being reduced. Security wonks are getting the jitters. Is the imperium shrinking? Will President elect Joe Biden wake …

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2021 going to be catastrophic, U.N. faces worst crises in its history

The year coming within days, 2021, is shaping up to be a humanitarian catastrophe and rich countries must not trample poor countries in a “stampede for vaccines” to combat the coronavirus pandemic, top U.N. officials told the 193-member U.N. General Assembly on Friday.

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Biden Taps Former Chinese Tech Mogul For Trade Transition

President-elect Joe Biden tapped a businessman and lobbyist with ties to Chinese Communist Party-run technology firms to help lead a trade agency review team. Ted Dean joined Biden’s agency review team for the Office of the United States Trade Representative in November. A former Obama administration bureaucrat, Dean also worked …

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Autriche: un leader est né

L’attentat de Vienne a propulsé Sebastian Kurz, le jeune chancelier de l’Autriche, au centre de l’attention médiatique. En quelques jours, l’enfant prodige de la politique autrichienne a acquis, grâce à sa fermeté face à l’islamisme, la stature d’un leader européen. Portrait.

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Azerbaijan revealed its military losses in Nagorno-Karabakh war

2,783 Azerbaijani soldiers died in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan’s defense ministry said on Thursday. So far, Baku did not report the losses suffered by the Azerbaijani army in the struggle for a separatist region controlled for over a quarter-century by the Armenians.

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