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The Deadly Stalemate in Post-coup Myanmar
Major powers should back the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in reinvigorated efforts to relieve the suffering of people facing…
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Credit Suisse fined over Mozambique tuna scandal
The bank will also write off $200m of debt “tainted by corruption” that was owed by the African country, the…
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Can the UN Security Council Agree on a Climate Security Resolution?
In this Q&A, Crisis Group experts Ashish Pradhan, Ulrich Eberle and Richard Gowan explain what is at stake in the…
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Warsaw and Brussels wage no-win battle over rule of law
There’s a dirty not-so-secret truth about the EU’s fight with Poland over the rule of law that almost no one…
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Eroding privacy: The murder of an MP could happen in Australia too
We must not fool ourselves. Rob Harris The Sydney Morning Herald It could easily happen here too. Over the past…
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Is the Pacific Shaping the Future of Maritime Limits and Boundaries?
Introduction On August 6, 2021, the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) members published a “Declaration on preserving maritime zones in the…
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Renowned Australian Indigenous artist and NT Yolngu woman N. Yunupingu passes away
Born in 1945, Ms Yunupingu — whose full name cannot be used for cultural reasons — lived in the remote…
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The abduction
On October 3, 1977, five-year-old Graziella Ortiz-Patino was kidnapped by Italian criminals. Marc Fennell & Simon Leo Brown for Stuff…
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Guide to the classics: Euripides’ The Trojan Women – an unflinching look at the brutality of war
Extensive narratives of the war are told in the oral traditions of myth and literature, and they also appear very…
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UN: Climate change threatens over 100 million people in Africa
A UN report said the continent’s glaciers could all melt by the 2040s. Deutsche Welle A new report from the…
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Violence Threatens Fraying Rule of Law in Lebanon
Hizbollah must allow the investigation to proceed or risk further weakening of the state. ICG A new round of violence…
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EU warns of fuel poverty due to energy price crunch
Rising global energy prices are causing a huge spike in heating bills. Nik Martin Deutsche Welle European Union Labor Commissioner…
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Politicians ‘careless’ about democracy, accountability, Professor Helen Sullivan says
Professor Helen Sullivan, who became dean of the Australian National University College of Asia and the Pacific in July, said…
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In major rebuke, ASEAN downgrades Myanmar presence at summit
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations will invite a non-political representative instead of Myanmar’s military leader, Senior Gen. Min Aung…
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Macron condemns “inexcusable” 1961 massacre of Algerians in Paris
PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday denounced the killing of dozens of Algerians during a police crackdown on…
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Viewpoint: Why Ethiopia’s Tigray region is starving, but no famine declared
A report from Ayder Referral hospital in Tigray’s capital city, Mekelle, this week described children dying of starvation. Alex de…
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