World Digest
What happens if ‘President’ Trump gives illegal orders?
Washington Post Rosa Brooks If America doesn’t want Trump or any potential president, now or in the future to bring...
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China’s five year plan fantasy
Al Jazeera Salvatore Babones China's "moderately prosperous society" must be grounded in fiscal reality China's rubber-stamp legislative assembly, the National...
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Pakistan’s Big Threat Isn’t Terrorism It’s Climate Change
Foreign Policy Magazine SUALIHA NAZAR To Pakistan, terrorists seema more formidable enemy than rising temperatures and sea levels. But what...
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Economic growth after Arab Spring
Arab News ISHAC DIWAN Five years after the so-called Arab Spring uprisings began, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia have achieved...
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North Korea wrecks Obama’s nuclear dream
Bloomberg Eli Lake and Josh Rogin Pyongyang is particularly troublesome for US president’s non-proliferation agenda because it has a track...
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Refugees in Greece: Rising tide
The Economist GREECE’S migrant crisis is getting worse. Macedonia has closed its border to all but a trickle of migrants,...
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Iran Is Scared of America’s Hardliners
Foreign Policy Magazine REESE ERLICH Iranians have voted out opponents of the nuclear deal. But they're still worried the United...
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Pakistan shifts its Afghan strategy. To what end?
Asia Times M.K. BHADRAKUMAR The advisor to the Pakistani prime minister on foreign affairs, Sartaj Aziz, while on a visit...
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What’s the model for change in Iranian politics?
Christian Science Monitor Scott Peterson President Hassan Rouhani's bloc won a decisive election victory last month but any change will...
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The EU-Turkey refugee deal and the Kurdish issue
Al jazeera Ebubekir Isik Many believe that the EU is turning a blind eye to human rights violations in Turkey....
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Kazakh President satisfied with results of talks with Putin
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signified satisfaction following the lengthy face-to-face talks with President of Russia Vladimir Putin in Sochi, the Facebook account of the President’s press secretary Ruslan Zheldibay reads. During the talks the parties debated a wide range of issues concerning trade and economic, investment, humanitarian cooperation, cooperation of the two nations in the […]Read More »