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Asia emerges as a new epicenter of the global COVID-19 pandemic
By Alex Lantier
9 April 2021
As humanity faces a new upsurge of the pandemic driven by more contagious coronavirus variants, Asia is emerging as the...
Next stop, the apocalypse? The bumbling Biden administration’s claim to fame...
By Robert Bridge
12 Apr, 2021
Since Biden’s inauspicious rise to power, the world has become littered with hotspots from Ukraine to China where a major...
Politics, race, and religion: Pandemic misinformation courses through the Southeast Asian...
By Jan Oledan, Nicola Bariletto,
Saiful Salihudin, Mehulika Sitepu, Jacob N. Shapiro,
January 25, 2021
From tales of allegedly dwindling food stockpiles in Singapore to...
Some world leaders have big stake in US election
By JOSEF FEDERMAN
October 22, 2020
JERUSALEM (AP) — While the world will be closely watching the U.S. election, some countries will be watching more closely...
US-led wars have displaced 37m people. America should accept responsibility
Since the war on terror, the US has contributed to displacing an estimated 37 million people, according to new research
By David Vine
Sep. 18, 2020
Since...
In the Philippines, president Duterte threatens activists with police firing
The government of Rodrigo Duterte has been widely criticized for its high-handed and brutal crackdown against social movements under the pretext of dealing with...
11 Nations on Board as UN Secretary-General Pushes Global Ceasefire
As pandemic escalates, Guterres suggests parties put down their arms
Posted oApril 3, 2020ories Tags
With the world in the throes of the calamitous COVID-19...
Philippines officially notifies US to end Visiting Forces Agreement
February 11, 2020
The Philippines has officially notified the United States about the termination of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) between Manila and Washington, Philippines's...
Israel rolls out the welcome mat for Europe’s neo-fascists
14 December 2018
The two-day visit of Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini to Israel this week is only the latest episode in the increasingly open...
Philippines must strike a balance when China’s Xi Jinping comes to...
Sides will sign ‘at least five economic deals’ when Xi meets President Rodrigo Duterte in November, Manila says - But leaders are expected to...