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US Senator to Tajikistan President: End Your Government’s Use of Transnational Repression

Posted byby Marie Corrie
December 6, 2023
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2 min

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, recently sent a letter to the President of Tajikistan, Emomali...

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Kyiv’s Political Feuds Cause Cracks in Ukrainian Unity

Posted byby Marc Dubois
December 6, 2023
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4 min

Ukrainians on the streets of Kyiv were musing that it had been a week since Russia launched the largest drone assault on the country’s...

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Domestic violence exacerbated by wartime, raising concerns over looser gun policies

Posted byby Marie Corrie
November 26, 2023
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4 min

Domestic abuse remains a persistent problem during Israel’s ongoing war with Hamas, and women’s groups caution that wartime stress and relaxed gun regulations aimed...

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Europe: Declining local media jeopardizing local democracy and community cohesion

Posted byby Michael Becker
November 25, 2023
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3 min

A new report has highlighted how a decline in local and community media is producing a growing trend of “media deserts” across Europe that...

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Zero tolerance for terrorism and its supporters

Posted byby Michael Becker
November 20, 2023
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3 min

Following Israel’s initial response to the brutal Hamas attack of October 7, aggressive anti-Israeli riots erupted around the world and persisted for several days....

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Internal Security

Pakistan PM: Terrorist attacks surge by 60% since Taliban’s return

Posted byby Devlin McAllister
November 11, 2023
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2 min

Pakistan’s interim Prime Minister, Anwaarul Haq Kakar, claimed on Wednesday that since the resurgence of the Taliban administration in August, terrorist attacks in his...

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Moscow succession: What would happen if Putin dies?

Posted byby Marc Dubois
November 6, 2023
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4 min

Thyroid cancer, Parkinson’s disease, leprosy or declining in the aftermath of a stroke – just a few of the many unproven ailments rumoured to...

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Defense

Not only the dragon: Understanding Southeast Asia’s complex security landscape

Posted byby Marie Corrie
November 3, 2023
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4 min

It is a cliché to identify China as Southeast Asia’s primary security concern. But it is understandable given the media’s focus on the overlapping...

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Dismantling the Disinformation Business of Chinese Influence Operations

Posted byby Marie Corrie
October 27, 2023
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5 min

In recent years, much attention has been drawn to the potential for social media manipulation to disrupt democratic societies. The U.S. Intelligence Community’s 2023...

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Internal Security

Kazakhstan: Fake news on “NATO facility” fans rage of Russian chauvinists

Posted byby Geoffrey Wallace
October 27, 2023
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2 min

Prominent Russian media outlets chose Kazakhstan’s holiday of national sovereignty to widely disseminate a false news item about the opening of a supposed NATO...