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May, 2023

  • 20 May

    Turkey Elections: Erdogan, Kilicdaroglu court far-right endorsement ahead of runoff

    Far-right candidate Sinan Ogan’s endorsement remains particularly critical for President Erdogan’s rival, with merely nine days to go until the presidential election runoff. Political traffic in Turkey heated up on Friday, as both President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his top rival, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, courted the country’s far-right electoral alliance ahead …

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  • 20 May

    Qatar emir skips Assad’s Arab League speech in Saudi Arabia

    The leaders of Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt publicly praised Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s participation in the summit after Syria was readmitted to the Arab League. Arab leaders gathered in the Saudi city of Jeddah on Friday for the annual Arab League summit. Many of them welcomed Syria’s participation, which …

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  • 20 May

    Targeting Russia’s ‘War Machine’

    The 49th G-7 summit kicked off on Friday in Hiroshima, Japan, and Russia’s war in Ukraine was at the top of the agenda. The bloc unveiled new measures to further restrict Russian access to their countries’ economies, including stricter export controls on Russian oil and gas, transportation efforts, and aircraft …

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  • 20 May

    Goodbye to the American Century – China, India, and the Emerging New World Order

    Not so long ago, political analysts were speaking of the “G-2” — that is, of a potential working alliance between the United States and China aimed at managing global problems for their mutual benefit. Such a collaborative twosome was seen as potentially even more powerful than the G-7 group of …

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  • 19 May

    The Global Economy’s Future Depends on Africa

    In recent decades, the engine of the world economy has been the spectacular growth of China. From 1980 to 2020, fully one-quarter of the increase in global GDP was due to China’s growth, outstripping the contributions of the United States (22 percent), the European Union (12 percent), and Japan (4 …

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  • 19 May

    US And Ukraine Promoting Separatism In Chechen, Circassian, Nogay, Kumyk And Ingush Areas – OpEd

    Yana Amelina, the coordinator of the Caucasus Geopolitical Club, a group of pro-Moscow experts in that region, says that today just like 40 years ago, the West is seeking to dismember the Russian state by promoting both ethnic separatism and regionalism, which she defines as separatism without an ethnic component. …

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  • 19 May

    Parliamentary Elections In Greece: Uncertainty As Never Before – Analysis

    Greece was the first country from the region that joined the EUGreece was the first country from the region that joined the European Union. Namely, Greece became and EU member in 1981, a member of the Schengen Zone in 1992, and it joined the Eurozone in 2001. Greece has been …

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  • 19 May

    Is The US Preparing To Punish OPEC? – OpEd

    In early May, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary was reportedly considering a bill to pressure the OPEC oil producers’ group to stop making output cuts by revoking the sovereign immunity that has protected OPEC+ members and their national oil companies from lawsuits over price collusion. (The …

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  • 19 May

    Croats In Serbia: The Most Discriminated Nation In Europe – Analysis

    At the end of April, the 2022 population census of the Republic of Serbia was published, which revealed that the number of Croats in that country has drastically decreased in the past decade. According to the data of the Republic Institute of Statistics, 39,107 Croats lived in Serbia last year, …

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  • 19 May

    How Transition In Warfare Tactics Is Reshaping International Security – OpEd

    Warfare has always been a fluid idea that has undergone considerable changes as time and technological development have progressed. The introduction of new technology like drones, cyberwarfare, and artificial intelligence (AI) has led to some significant changes in how wars are fought and handled in recent years. These developments have …

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