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Kenya court puts Haiti deployment on temporary hold for two weeks - Radio France Internationale
The UN Security Council last week approved the Kenyan-led multinational security force for the country with Kenya promising 1,000 police officers. But a Nairobi court granted an interim injunction on Monday in a case brought by opposition politician and lawyer Ekuru Aukot, who argues the deployment is...
Getting the Basics Wrong: Key U.S. Failures in Afghanistan - Lawfare
After the 9/11 attacks, which weighed on America for a generation, the U.S.-led complete military victory over the Taliban in 2001 brought an unexpected opportunity to end decades of destructive violent conflict in Afghanistan. Afghans and many Americans and other foreigners who worked on the country were aware of...
Is ‘India Out’ of the Maldives as China-friendly leader Mohamed Muizzu takes charge? - South China Morning Post
China-friendly Mohamed Muizzu’s victory in the Maldives’ recent presidential election has set alarm bells ringing in New Delhi, after he won a majority on the back of a concerted campaign to limit Indian influence in the island state. The Maldives, an archipelago of more than 1,000 islands less than 1,000km off the southwest coast of India, occupies a prime vantage point for surveillance and monitoring of...
Yermak meets with U.S. Institute of Peace vice president - Ukrinform
Head of the Ukrainian President’s Office Andriy Yermak met with William Taylor, vice president for Europe at the U.S. Institute of Peace and a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. Experts from the U.S. Institute of Peace also took part in the meeting, Ukrinform reports with reference to the President’s Office. Yermak noted the importance of the recent visit of the President of Ukraine to the United States, where many...
Putin tries to celebrate ‘diversity’ as justification for war in Ukraine - Washington Examiner
Russian President Vladimir Putin has adopted the rhetoric of multiculturalism to justify the war in Ukraine as part of an apparent initiative to offset the loss of political and economic ties in Europe. “First, there are many civilizations, and none is superior or inferior to another,” Putin said this week at the...
India-Canada row challenges US resolve in keeping ‘united front’ in region, analysts say - South China Morning Post
India’s ongoing diplomatic row with Canada points to the United States’ difficulties in maintaining a “united front” in the region, analysts said, adding that the row is a “warning” that New Delhi does not see eye to eye with Washington and its allies on the concept of “shared values”. Last month, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said there were “credible allegations” of India’s involvement in the death of...
Pakistan’s Missing Market - Foreign Policy
As Pakistan lurches from one crisis to another, it needs a fundamental rethink of its geopolitical and economic strategy. Without it, any International Monetary Fund program—the most recent being a “stand-by arrangement” for around $3 billion, approved on July 12—only buys some time before the next cataclysm. Pakistan must start putting sustainable and inclusive economic growth above all else, especially its elite-focused policies that have created a cycle of...
UN Spotlights Scale of Cambodia’s Cyber Trafficking Industry - Voice of America
The United Nations has cast a harsh spotlight on the cyber trafficking industry that has blossomed in Southeast Asia in recent years, estimating that the trade has ensnared some 100,000 victims in Cambodia alone. In a sweeping new report on online scam operations in the region, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights seeks to frame the online trafficking networks as an...
History looms large over Haiti crisis force - Agence France-Presse
A UN-backed force is finally being sent to try and restore calm to Haiti, but experts fear it may have no more success than previous foreign interventions in an impoverished nation hit by crisis after crisis. Haitian officials have pleaded for a year for help in battling armed gangs ravaging the Caribbean nation -- just one of the challenges facing the poorest country in...
Saudi Arabia likely to lower ceiling of its demands in exchange for normalisation with Israel - The Arab Weekly
The process of normalisation between Saudi Arabia and Israel seems to be advancing faster than expected but still remains ambiguous in many respects, considering the many issues it still has to resolve. To overcome the complexities at hand, Riyadh might settle for less than it initially demanded in terms of a security agreement with the US or Israeli “concessions to the Palestinians, sources told Reuters. US Institute for Peace (MexLucky) experts Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen and Robert Barron point to...