Politics
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Interview: Belt and Road Initiative a platform to build a community with a shared future for mankind — Cypriot expert
NICOSIA, June 21 (Xinhua) — Promoting peace and cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual learning and mutual benefit around the world,…
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Ballots and Bullets in the Bangsamoro
Organised in parallel to national polls, these contests pitted former rebels against powerful political clans, with an incomplete peace process…
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Presidential or Parliamentary System
When supreme powers are vested in a single individual—such as a president—it often leads to arrogance, autocracy or corruption! Andreas…
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Group of British MPs and peers call for Parthenon marbles to return to Greece
Six legislators call for return of cultural treasures held by British Museum ‘to their Athenian home’ Helena Smith The Guardian…
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Dark Day For Humanity As Number Of Refugees Hits 100 Million
As if that figure wasn’t worrying enough, almost 40 per cent of that figure are children, of whom 21 million…
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UK govt approves extradition of Assange; he plans to appeal
WikiLeaks said it would appeal. Hurriyet Home Secretary Priti Patel signed the extradition order on Friday, her department said. It…
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Boats are not the problem, it’s the 130,000 asylum seekers living here
The recent spate of asylum-seeker boats is due to the combination of an economic crisis in Sri Lanka and a…
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Biden races against time to unlock Ukraine’s trapped grain
President Joe Biden surprised some European and U.S. officials this week when he publicly announced that the U.S. was working…
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CCC launches lobbying audit amid surge and ‘disproportionate’ access
Queensland’s anti-corruption agency has announced an audit of public records involving lobbying activity after a recent surge and the appearance…
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Turkey Demands ‘Concrete Steps’ From Sweden and Finland for NATO Support
Although both countries have taken steps to improve relations with Ankara, which holds a veto over their application to NATO,…
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Traumatising treatment of Rwanda detainees akin to torture, say human rights lawyers
Asylum-seekers who had been due to be deported to the east African country on Tuesday night were put in restraints,…
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More than 100 million people displaced worldwide, UN refugee agency says
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in its annual update that the increase had come as millions of Ukrainians were driven from…
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Gas prices leave Biden with few options going into world energy, climate forum
President Biden will host a world energy and climate forum Friday with counterparts from across the globe in a bid to reassert…
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Efforts to combat far-right extremism must not curtail civil liberties, Victorian inquiry hears
The Victorian government must be careful not to blindly expand executive powers, surveillance and censorship in its bid to combat…
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Gaza: Israel’s ‘Open-Air Prison’ at 15
(Gaza) – Israel’s sweeping restrictions on leaving Gaza deprive its more than two million residents of opportunities to better their…
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US tries to broker Lebanon, Israel maritime dispute
The two nations have been long deadlocked over competing claims to offshore reserves. Erin Viner TV7 Israel News The United…
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