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NATO sends ‘alive and strong’ message from Estonia

By Jonathan Marcus The Estonian town of Tapa is about an hour and half's drive eastwards from the capital Tallinn. Tapa owes its existence to the fact that it sits…

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Is Nigeria on the brink of another civil war?

On the 50th anniversary of its bloody civil war, Nigeria is struggling to prevent another. By : Fisayo Soyombo On August 1, 1966, after the collapse of last-ditch attempts by…

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Will there finally be peace with justice in Colombia?

By : Jack Laun We have now reached the final days for the disarming of the FARC guerrillas, as established by the Peace Accord provisions agreed upon by the Santos…

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The battle for world leadership

As the 20 leading economies meet in Hamburg, a truly multipolar world is finally emerging By Marwan Bishara Starting with the United States of America. The US is the world's…

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The CICA Beijing moot

By :  Dr. Ahmed Rashid Mali The CICA is a Kazak initiative taken by President Nursultan Nazarbayaev in 1992 when many Asian countries confronted with the implication of demise of…

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Myanmar needs to get serious about peace

Impunity for military abuses in Myanmar must come to an end By : David Baulk Last month, Myanmar's de-facto leader and former human-rights icon Aung San Suu Kyi convened a…

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Vacationing in North Korea Only for the brave or crazy?

By : Doug Bandow In the popular mind, there may be no more forbidding destination on Earth. I've never had as many people ask if I was serious when I…

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US eyes India as junior partner in Afghan war

By : Melkulangara Bhadrakumar The regional tour of Pakistan and Afghanistan earlier this week by a «bipartisan» delegation of United States Senators gives some clues about the Trump administration's strategy…

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India will suffer worse losses than 1962 if it incites border clash

The face-off between Chinese and Indian troops in the Sikkim section of the Sino-Indian border seems to be escalating. The Indian military was quoted by Indian media as saying that…

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Separate Gorkhaland GJM leader Bimal Gurung raising Gorkha army? Seizure of combat gear raise suspicion

As the agitation for a separate Gorkhaland entered day 21 on Wednesday, a media report unveiled that the driving force behind the shutdown, the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), is planning…

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