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US, Colombia Reach Migrant Deportation Deal After Tariff Threats
By Ken Bredemeier The White House announced late Sunday the United States was backing off a series of retaliatory measures levied against Colombia, saying the two countries had reached an agreement on...
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China’s DeepSeek AI Tops App Charts In US, Europe
By Luisetta Mudie China’s homegrown open-source artificial intelligence model DeepSeek topped app charts in the United States and Europe on Monday, beating out U.S.-based rival ChatGPT for the most...
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Saudi Arabia: Foreigners Can Now Invest In Makkah, Madinah Property
By Nirmal Narayanan Foreigners can now invest in Saudi-listed companies owning real estate in Makkah and Madinah, following a landmark decision by the Saudi Capital Market Authority. Effective...
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US Puts Mexican Drug Cartels In Its Sights – OpEd
By Dalia Al-Aqidi For the first time, the US could soon officially designate Mexican drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. This historic move would mark a pivotal shift in how America...
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Philippines’ Marcos Grants Clemency To Ex-Mayor Linked To Drug Trade By Duterte
By Jason Gutierrez and Jeoffrey Maitem Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. granted executive clemency to a former city mayor whose name was on ex-leader Rodrigo Duterte’s list of so-called...
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Belarus: Western Nations Condemn Election That Hands Lukashenko Seventh Term
(RFE/RL) -- A group of Western countries decried the outcome of a presidential vote over the weekend that handed Belarusian authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenko a seventh term in office, saying...
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India: Insurgency Interrupted In Jharkhand – Analysis
By Deepak Kumar Nayak On January 22, 2025, two Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), cadres, including one female, were killed in an encounter with Security Forces (SFs) during a joint search...
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India: Meghalaya’s Contentious Path – Analysis
By Afsara Shaheen On January 22, 2025, the Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC) accused the Meghalaya Police of using the surrendered cadres as weapons against it. In a statement, HNLC...
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Howdy ‘Nuuk York’! Yankees Set To Flood Greenland – OpEd
By Magnus Lund Nielsen (EurActiv) -- Greenland’s capital is bracing for an imminent invasion of American tourists in the wake of Donald Trump's pledge to seize control of the Arctic island....
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Tajikistan: Personnel Reshuffle Creates Glide Path For Dynastic Transition Of...
(Eurasianet) -- Leo Tolstoy’s maxim ‘all happy families are alike, unhappy families are each unhappy in their own way’ is certainly applying to Tajik leader Emomali Rahmon’s extended clan these days....
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The Rise And Fall Of Afghanistan’s Local Defense Forces – Analysis
By Arturo Munoz (FPRI) Key Points A counterinsurgency campaign is more likely to succeed when local people are willing to confront the insurgents and have the means to do so. Insurgencies usually seek...
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Bureaucrats Ordered To Go Back To Work – OpEd
The offices where Washington D.C.’s bureaucrats work were largely empty on Monday, January 20, 2025, as Donald Trump was inaugurated as U.S. President for the second time. But they weren’t empty for...
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Should Inflation Be Defined Only As Price Increases? – OpEd
By Frank Shostak If inflation is a general increase in prices, as most experts hold, then why is it regarded as bad news? What kind of damage does it do? Most experts are of the view that inflation...
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Urban Farms Take Root In Singapore’s Race For More Food Self-Sufficiency –...
By Paul Teng Singapore’s ambitious bid to revolutionise food security has turned it into a living experiment in high-tech urban farming and novel food production. From lab-grown chicken to indoor...
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Trump’s Balance-Of-Payments War On Mexico, And The World – OpEd
The Road to Chaos The 1940s saw a series of movies with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, starting with the Road to Singapore in 1940. The plot was always similar. Bing and Bob, two fast-talking con men or...
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Prabowo’s Indonesia And The Future Of India-Indonesia Strategic Ties – Analysis
By Premesha Saha Indonesian President Prabowo Subinato is on a state visit to India from 25-26 January 2025. This marks his first visit to the country since he took office in October last year and it...
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Defense Secretary Hegseth Affirms Commitment To Border Security, Plan To...
Matthew Olay During a media interview Wednesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth affirmed the Defense Department's commitment to working with other federal agencies to bolster security at the southern...
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Qatari Emir First Arab Leader To Visit Syria Since Fall Of Assad
The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani arrived in Damascus on Thursday, becoming the first Arab leader to visit Syria since the collapse of Bashar Assad’s regime. Ahmed Al-Sharaa, declared...
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Philippines Arrests 5 Chinese Nationals For Suspected Espionage
By Camille Elemia and Gerard Carreon Filipino authorities announced the arrests of five more Chinese nationals suspected of spying on coast guard and navy installations, after Philippine President...
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Hamas Frees Eight More Hostages Under Gaza Ceasefire
The Israeli military said eight hostages, including three Israelis and five Thai nationals, were released Thursday as Israel and Hamas carried out their third exchange of hostages and prisoners under...
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