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India and Pakistan’s FATF Status
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recently announced that Pakistan will continue to remain on the watchdog’s “increased monitoring list”. The FATF president Dr...
Africa-France Summit 2021: A Real Revival or a Trick?
On October 8–9, the New Africa-France 2021 Summit was held in Montpellier. Partially covered by French mainstream media, the event was nevertheless quite important...
China Challenge: How to get Europe to Cooperate
It is common knowledge now that China is a major rival and threat for the United States. Joe Biden pledged to restore U.S. leadership...
France and Africa: Towards a New Model of Relations?
In recent decades, French foreign policy in Africa has been preoccupied with a jump-start of relations with the African nations, marked by a gradual...
Proceed With Caution: South Caucasus Inch Forward
There is good news from the South Caucasus, at least for some. Armenia and Azerbaijan fought a bloody conflict in the mountains of Nagorno-Karabakh...
India – Australia relations: A relationship of mutual interest and prosperity
The vast Indo-Pacific region is greatly contested today. The powerful Chinese state is agitating in it in unprecedented ways. The other major powers in...
Will the global energy crisis put climate change initiatives on a back burner?
The recent spike in the prices of fossil fuels - crude oil, natural gas and coal are impacting the price of various commodities such...
The 38th ASEAN Summit Meeting: Agenda and Outcomes
The 38th ASEAN summit meeting is held from October 26-28th and the list of areas to concentrate for the ASEAN would be far too many which includes focusing on the infrastructure...
Bangladesh violence exposes veneer of Indo-Bangladesh bonhomie
Protests in Chittagong, Comilla and elsewhere left 10 dead, besides loss of property. The protests were sparked over an allegation of desecration of the...
Rush for new profits posing threat to human rights
The finance industry’s demand for new sources of capital worldwide to satisfy investors, is having a serious negative impact on the enjoyment of human rights, a group of UN-appointed independent rights experts have warned.
Among the rights...