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L’Europa e Putin: il grande gioco del gas

Nord Stream 2: il nuovo governo tedesco, prima Baerbock, poi Scholz e infine Habeck, hanno ripetuto che il gasdotto non può diventare operativo perché non rispetta le regole della concorrenza vigenti nell’Ue E se fossero i funzionari di Bruxelles e Berlino, con la benevola negligenza del governo tedesco, a dare …

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Afinal o que quer Putin?

O Kremlin quer respostas rápidas às suas exigências sabendo que Putin colocou muito alto a fasquia, o que tornará as conversações morosas e difíceis. E ele jamais está disposto a fazer figura de fraco As propostas feitas por Vladimir Putin para normalizar as relações com a NATO e os Estados …

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Turkey and Egypt Open the Door to a Diplomatic Thaw

In mid-March, Turkey and Egypt confirmed they’d had their first diplomatic contact since breaking off relations in 2013. Though the talks were described by Egyptian sources as preliminary, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was quoted as saying, “Contacts at the diplomatic level have started.” The thaw comes after a decade …

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Mozambique Could Become Africa’s Next Piracy Hot Spot

On March 24, Ansar al-Sunna, a militant group linked to the Islamic State, launched a bloody attack on the coastal town of Palma, in northern Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province, leaving at least 61 dead and scores more unaccounted for. The assault, which lasted more than a week and took place …

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The Persistence of Borders in a Globalized World

Back in 1990, when the Soviet bloc was crumbling into new nations, Kenichi Ohmae, a Japanese organizational theorist and management consultant, had the audacity to suggest that humankind was on the cusp of a new “borderless world,” in a book of the same name. Ohmae’s goal was mainly to sketch …

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Edward Lucas: Helsingi, mitte Jalta

Ağustos ayında hükümetin 2022 baharında erken seçim hazırlığında olduğunu ifade etmiştim. Okuyuculardan da birçok uzmandan da 2022 Kasım ayından önce seçim olmayacağı tepkisi gelmişti. Bu tepkinin en temel nedeni ise o dönem üzerinde konuşulan Seçim Kanunu’nda değişiklik yapılması meselesiydi. Değişiklik yapıldıktan bir yıl sonrasına kadar yapılan değişiklikler uygulanamayacağı için Kasım …

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Iraqi air force strikes Islamic State targets

Iraq has bombed Islamic State targets in the eastern Diyala province for the second month in a row. The Iraqi air force conducted airstrikes against the Islamic State today following a flurry of attacks. Iraqi pilots using US-made F-16 fighter jets struck IS outside of Sadiyah in the Diyala province …

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Country Reports on Terrorism 2020

Country Reports on Terrorism 2020 is submitted in compliance with Title 22 of the United States Code, Section 2656f (the “Act”), which requires the Department of State to provide to Congress a full and complete annual report on terrorism for those countries and groups meeting the criteria of the Act. …

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