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View from Delhi: Challenges and opportunities for Indian diplomacy in 2024

12:54 22.01.2024

View from Delhi: Challenges and opportunities for Indian diplomacy in 2024

The transition from 2023 to 2024 has no meaning really in geopolitics. Countries do not make New Year resolutions to usher in a more peaceful world. Which is why the issues and problems that faced the world in 2023 will seamlessly spill over into 2024. What can be attempted at …

150 years of exports by economic Superpowers

12:51 22.01.2024

150 years of exports by economic Superpowers

Historically, the biggest economies in the world have also been those that dominate international trade overseas. This visualization uses data from the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) and the World Trade Organization to show how global export shares by value have changed over the last 150 years for some …

‘Maharaja Bonds’ for BRICS bank to release

11:37 21.01.2024

‘Maharaja Bonds’ for BRICS bank to release

BRICS, a bloc of leading emerging markets, is preparing to launch new bonds in global markets, which will be available in local currencies rather than in the US dollar. The BRICS bank, known as the New Development Bank (NDB), will soon release the bonds called ‘Maharaja Bonds’ worth $28 billion, …

Chief of EU diplomacy: Israel was funding Hamas

11:36 21.01.2024

Chief of EU diplomacy: Israel was funding Hamas

The EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell openly accused Israel of having financed the Palestinian militant group Hamas, informs POLITICO. “Hamas was financed by the Israeli government in an attempt to weaken the Palestinian Authority,” Borrell was quoted as saying by Spanish newspaper El País. Borrell was speaking at Spain’s University …

View from Cambridge: Iran and Pakistan’s shared crisis in Baluchistan

11:35 21.01.2024

View from Cambridge: Iran and Pakistan’s shared crisis in Baluchistan

Pakistan and Iran are both engaged in a struggle against separatist militants in the shared region of Baluchistan. Recent airstrikes in each other's territory have brought the nations closer to a conflict few predicted, writes Suzanne Raine, an affiliate lecturer at the Centre for Geopolitics at Cambridge University. 16 January, …

British animal fear: “Barbarians are coming from the East!”

11:33 21.01.2024

British animal fear: “Barbarians are coming from the East!”

Europe should arm against barbarians at its gates. To ensure peace, the Continent should prepare for war. Europe needs to beef up its military forces, insists Martin Ivens, the editor of the Times Literary Supplement and previously, an editor of the Sunday Times of London and its chief political commentator. …

View from New York: The elites’ absurd Davos crusade – ‘destroy freedom… to save humanity’

9:01 20.01.2024

View from New York: The elites’ absurd Davos crusade – ‘destroy freedom… to save humanity’

A very sharp and mocking commentary is published by ‘The New York Post’ following the results of the World Economic Forum in Davos-2024: Who would have guessed freedom of speech would become the biggest barrier to saving humanity? Luckily, a fix is pending from the billionaires, political poohbahs and other …

Red Sea unrest is bad news for World’s food supply

8:58 20.01.2024

Red Sea unrest is bad news for World’s food supply

Shipping disruption risks higher prices and food spoiling. That’s threatening to halt a slowdown in global food inflation, notes Bloomberg. Chaos in the Red Sea is starting to disrupt shipments of produce from coffee to fruit — and threatening to halt a slowdown in food inflation that brought some relief …

Shock and Awe: Putin orders hunt for property of Russian Empire, Soviet Union

8:57 20.01.2024

Shock and Awe: Putin orders hunt for property of Russian Empire, Soviet Union

President directs officials to search for Russian assets. Russian empire extended over Eastern Europe, Finland at peak, writes Bloomberg nervously. Vladimir Putin is going on a property hunt, ordering officials to find Russian assets that once belonged to its former empire or were owned by the Soviet Union. An order …

British life-style: Space minister (!) Andrew Griffith mixed up Mars and the Sun

8:56 20.01.2024

British life-style: Space minister (!) Andrew Griffith mixed up Mars and the Sun

The Conservative space minister has apparently confused Mars with the Sun. Andrew Griffith, who has been in charge of the space sector since November, also mistook Jupiter for Saturn. On a walk around the Science Museum in London, Mr Griffith pointed to an exhibit showing the surfaces of different planets, …

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