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How the self-styled “Asian Geneva” successfully navigated among Russia, China, and the West—at least for now. Source link

Click to expand Image People wait to get tested for Covid-19 in Hyderabad, India, April 25, 2021.  © 2021 AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A. Indian groups trying to locate assistance for Covid-19 patients are finding that the requests keep coming. Although the…

Canberra’s had enough of trade embargoes and Chinese grievances—and is ready to draw a line. Source link

It’s time for America and Europe to start putting serious economic pressure on Putin’s regime. Source link

Slovakia’s prime minister lost his job to the pandemic, but his example serves as a warning to other corruption-fighters lacking governing experience. Source link

Click to expand Image A Sri Lankan Muslim woman walks in a street in Colombo, Sri Lanka, March 13, 2021.  © 2021 AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File Muslims in Sri Lanka already faced a growing list of discriminatory government policies before the…

(Beirut) – Saudi officials should immediately make public the whereabouts and condition of a Saudi-Australian man forcibly returned to Saudi Arabia in March 2021, Human Rights Watch said today. No information has emerged about the situation of Osama al-Hasani, 42,…

Click to expand Image A text message from a school in the Bekaa Valley instructing students that they must present proof of residency, a Syrian civil extract certified by the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Syrian embassy, two…

Click to expand Image Trịnh Ba Tu and Can Thi Theu  © 2018 Private (New York) – The Vietnamese authorities should immediately release the democracy campaigner Can Thi Theu and her two sons and drop all charges against them, Human Rights Watch…

The recent defense review lays out how to be a midsize power in a superpower world. Source link