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Kurdish PKK disbands and ends insurgency against Turkish state
12 May 2025
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New Pope, new Chancellor, same old Trump
12 May 2025
The Catholic Church has a new leader. Robert Prevost was not discussed by the media before being announced as the new Pope on Friday. He will follow the Church’s mantra, that has served it well over two thousand years, to be as flexible as necessary and as rigid as possible Europe has fresh energy in the person of the new German chancellor, Friedrich Merz. Despite the wobbly start in the German Parliament, Merz in the four days after his swearing-in met key European leaders, and laid the basis for his Chancellorship. Meanwhile, Donald Trump statements continue to hanker for the past. His call for the re-opening of the prison on Alcatraz is a case in point. Trump marks the end of the “American era”. The US will remain a rich and powerful country, but its global role will be much diminished.
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Sudan's military under increasing international pressure to reverse coup
4 November 2021
Several countries, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United States and Britain, called in a joint statement for the restoration of Sudan’s civilian-led transitional government and reverse the military coup that happened two weeks ago.
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Georgian government party claims victory in municipal elections but opposition cries foul
31 October 2021
With the opposition preparing to take to the streets, Saturday's vote does not appear to have provided the closure that some had wanted and hoped for, and Georgia remains a politically polorised and divided society
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Georgia Elections: Beginning of the end or the end of the beginning?
30 October 2021
Georgians are voting today in the second round of local elections to choose Mayors and local Councillors in a number of key cities where the first round of voting, held on 2 October was inconclusive. The total number of voters eligible to vote in the second round is 2,088,722 - around half of which in the capital, Tbilisi. Georgians appear to be tired of the non stop polorised politics that has dominated public life in recent years, but it is unlikely that the elections will bring a closure to the huge divide within Georgian society.
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Thousands rally in Tbilisi in support of governing party ahead of key elections
28 October 2021
The political situation in Georgia had been building up to a crisis for some time, and the situation became more tense following the return to the country of former president Mikheil Saakashvili, who had earlier been sentenced to several terms of imprisonment for crimes committed during his term of office. Saakashvili was duly arrested and has since gone on hunger strike.
