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Kurdish PKK disbands and ends insurgency against Turkish state
12 May 2025
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- Ukraine and its allies push for 30-day ceasefire
- Turkey's accession to the European Union frozen due to lack of progress
- Opinion: Landmine free South Caucasus – the job is far from finished
- Irakli Kobakhidze reappointed Chairman of Georgian Dream
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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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Tunisia under the mercy of Covid-19
22 July 2021
Tunisia is witnessing a quickly deteriorating health situation as Covid-19 cases reach an all-time high with public hospitals struggling to cope. The Delta variant is to blame along with poor vaccination performance. With only 7 per cent of the country’s population fully vaccinated, the virus exasperates the already tense political and economic situation.
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Hariri says he will no longer try to form Lebanon's next government
15 July 2021
Lebanon's prime minister-designate, Saad Hariri, has excused himself from forming a government after a nine-month deadlock. The international community, including the United Nations, expressed its disappointment as the country plunges deeper into crisis.
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Georgian prime minister under pressure to resign following the death of a journalist
11 July 2021
Georgian civil society organisations have called for the resignation of the prime minister and the interior minister holding them responsible for the death of a journalist who was among dozens attacked by right wing vigilantes on Monday as they covered an attempt by gay rights supporters to hold a march in Tbilisi.
