After his last visit to Iraq in the spring of 2017, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres went to Baghdad to express international commitment in support of the troubled country. As soon as he landed in the Iraqi capital, the UN chief stressed to reporters that the international community should not brush …
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Kazakhstan: Opposition Candidates Battle To Compete In Parliamentary Elections – Analysis
Nobody can accuse Lukpan Akhmedyarov of being a system candidate. His campaign video ahead of March 19 parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan details his journey through Kazakhstan’s independence — uncovering graft in media investigations, participating in anti-government rallies and, most famously, surviving an assassination attempt that saw him stabbed eight times …
Read More »Despite The Odds, Multilateral Cooperation Has Helped Secure Global Food Security – Analysis
It has been a tough year for hundreds of millions of households across the world since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Major food supply chains, especially for wheat, corn and vegetable oils, were disrupted overnight. The spike in food prices came on top of record high prices caused …
Read More »Al-Qaida’s Propaganda: True Concept Of Jihad In The Philosophy Of Muhammad Iqbal – OpEd
Al-Qaeda’s “One Ummah” magazine has recently published a 4-page article titled “Jihad and Qital in the Philosophy and Poetry of Muhammad Iqbal” in order to justify their bogus Jihad and Qital. It is a distortion of philosophical arguments presented by Iqbal. Extremism and jihad are two terms that are often …
Read More »Why Putin Cannot End His War Against Ukraine – Analysis
Among the many terrible consequences of Russia’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine launched by Vladimir Putin a year ago, one should be singled out—that is, the Russian president’s inability to end the conflict as currently constituted. Several primary factors underline this fact. First, the war has caused an unusually high level …
Read More »Impression of the week: Oral acceptance of the Serbian president’s European agreement on Kosovo in Brussels is illegal
The guests of “Impression of the Week”, legal experts, agreed tonight that Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić’s oral acceptance of the European agreement on Kosovo recently in Brussels was illegal, that the president thereby exceeded his constitutional powers and that he should therefore be dismissed, given that the agreement yet legally …
Read More »Spahović: Serbia cannot return Kosovo, it is good that Vučić accepts the European proposal
The European proposal on Kosovo is good and it is good that Aleksandar Vučić wants to accept it, because it is the path to the European Union (EU), lawyer Sead Spahović said in an interview with FoNet, indicating that Serbia cannot return Kosovo. Kosovo is a country. What kind of …
Read More »The date that could light a spark again in the Balkans is approaching: Russia could also get involved
All elections in Montenegro are historic because it is part of their prevailing national personality, but this presidential election on Sunday, March 19, could really determine the fate and future of Montenegrin statehood, as well as Montenegrin cultural-ethnic identity. According to Jutarnji list , since the parliamentary elections in 2020, …
Read More »The Growing Concern Over Older Far-Right Terrorists: Data from the United Kingdom
Abstract: Recent attacks, disrupted plots, and arrests in Europe and the United States have suggested that the terrorist threat posed by older extreme far-right individuals might be increasing. A deep dive into the United Kingdom, which has seen five attacks by extreme far-right men over the age of 47 since …
Read More »Going Private (Equity): A New Challenge To Transparency In The Arms Industry – Analysis
In the latest ranking of the world’s largest arms-producing and military services companies (the SIPRI Top 100), published in December 2022, two firms based in the United States—Peraton and Amentum—had recently been acquired by private equity firms. Both their arms sales were considered to have a high degree of uncertainty. …
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