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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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South Ossetian leader summoned to Moscow amid simmering political crisis in the territory (Updated)
16 February 2021
The leader of the self-declared Republic of South Ossetia has gone to Moscow amid a simmering political crisis in the territory, which seceded from Georgia. South Ossetia is currently gripped in a political crisis following the death in police detention of a young Ossetian, which sparked public protests and a boycott of parliament by some MPs.
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Libya's new prime minister starts work on the formation of a government of national unity
15 February 2021
Libya's newly appointed prime minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, confirmed on Saturday that he has started work on forming a new government of national unity. The new prime minister said in his selection he will prioritise efficiency, whilst taking into account the need to include members from across Libya's diverse the political spectrum
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Trouble in Lilliput: South Ossetian politics in crisis
13 February 2021
Politics in South Ossetia often takes a Lilliputian character. The tiny territory that seceded from Georgia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and has existed as a Russian protectorate since, is small in size, with a population of around 50,000. Yet its internal politics are often dramatic, with long standing clan feuds playing out in modern political terms. One such crisis appears to be looming in a stand-off between president and opposition MPs
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Tunisia's unrest continues amid political uncertainty
12 February 2021
A number of young people are continuing to demonstrate against unjust living conditions in Tunisia. Earlier protests were met with strong police resistance leading to several arrests and injuries. Ten years after the revolution, Tunisia faces mistrust and political stagnation.
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Hariri in Egypt to seek support for a solution to the Lebanese crisis
4 February 2021
Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad al Hariri arrived in Egypt in a bid to help form a new government and end Lebanon's multifaceted crisis. In Cairo, Al Hariri met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, and General Intelligence Chief Abbas Kamel.
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Army stages military coup in Myanmar
1 February 2021
Myanmar’s military seized power on Monday in a coup against the democratically elected government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who was detained along with other leaders of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party in early morning raids.
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Violence in Lebanon amid anti-lockdown protests
31 January 2021
While the protest started primarily to air opposition to the strict lockdown in place, the growing anger among the demonstrators reflects frustration with the country's political and economic situation.
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"A Chechen cannot support Alexei Navalny"
31 January 2021
As Russia braces itself for another day of pro Navalny street protests on Sunday, the story of a young Chechen arrested for participating in last week's protests has caused uproar on social media, and has become a source of controversy back in his home republic, Chechnya.