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The Price of War?
Brussels (3/12) Governments may be doing great while the people suffer. Bombing of the Nordstream 2 pipeline, carrying…
Sri Lanka Court Found Ex-President Contributed to Economic Crisis
London (15/11 – 67) Colombo Supreme Court rules that former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his brother, former Prime…
Tajikistan Did Not Respond To UN Experts, Human Rights Issues
Berlin (25/11 – 90) Eight United Nations experts are awaiting a response from Tajik authorities to a letter…
The Relevance of NATO in the 21st Century
Frankfurt (3/12 – 12) The relatively rapid cohesion of disparate nations, historically competitive or even at war with…
Who Voted for WHO?
Toronto, Alaska (16/11 – 50) Our lives are being maneuvered and we are being manipulated by unelected, insidious…
When Corrupt Politicians Waltz into the Debt Trap
Toronto, Atlanta (28/11 – 20) A wise old expression intones “Behind every bad borrower is a bad lender”.…
EU-Tajikistan: 10th Cooperation Committee held in Brussels
The European Union and the Republic of Tajikistan held their tenth annual Cooperation Committee meeting on 27 November…
Sri Lanka’s Worst Economic Crisis In Decades
Rome (16/11 – 57) Sri Lanka is mired in a deep political and economic crisis and the country’s then President Rajapaksa has flown out of the country,…
Hamas and their Human Meat Shields
London, Dublin (1/11 – 66) Hamas is sheltered in a sea of civilians. Ostensibly a Palestinian political and…
The Fading Influence of France in Francophone Africa
Brussels, Frankfurt (10/11 -12) Words like ‘neocolonialism’ and ‘neo-imperialists’ are being tossed around by spokesmen of freshly-installed military…