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Pope denies audience with Pompeo; Vatican warns against playing politics over...
By Philip Pullella
September 30, 2020
ROME (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Wednesday it had denied a request from Mike Pompeo for an audience with...
Greenland Succumbs
by Robert Hunziker
August 19, 2020
Since the turn of the new century, every aspect of climate change has gone ballistic, up, up, and away, not...
Can Sri Lanka be ‘neutral’ with an ‘India first’ policy?
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
In several interviews after his recent appointment as Secretary to the Foreign Ministry, Adm. (Retd.) Jayanath Colombage has sought to explain the...
A pandemic of bad science
By Walter Scheirer
Jul 20, 2020
ABSTRACT
What can epidemiological models tell us about our potential exposure to COVID-19? What progress is being made with regard to...
Trump Administration to Ban WeChat, TikTok From US App Stores Starting...
Stricter measures taken against WeChat, TikTok has a deadline to work out a deal with a US company
By Dave DeCamp
Posted on September 18,...
The end of the Balkans
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
Sep. 14, 2020
The day before yesterday, Serbian President Vucic was ridiculed by signing an agreement in the White House without even knowing...
Maidan, Navalny, Kastellorizo: The Chaos Strategy
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
Twenty years ago, I was covering the Munich Security Forum as a journalist and I took an interview from Brent Scawcroft, National...
A comment from BESA on Iranian – Chinese relationship
Why Iran Is Turning East
By Emil Avdaliani
August 26, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: US pressure might have been an immediate impetus behind the recently leaked Iran-China deal,...
US seeks formal alliance similar to Nato with India, Japan and...
Washington’s goal is to get countries in the Indo-Pacific region to work together as a bulwark against ‘a potential challenge from China’, says the...
How much does Africa owe, and to whom?
Aug. 29, 2020
African debt is a painful subject for the continent, and in many ways a dark one: no one dares give exact figures,...