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China launches a monster oil exploration ri...
In early March, China’s state broadcaster announced the launch of what it claims to be the world’s largest and deepest operating offshore oil exploration platform.
Britain outlines its negotiating objectives...
On 17 January 2017, the British government outlined its objectives for the Brexit negotiations which are expected to start in March. In doing so, Prime
In Moscow, there’s cautious hope abou...
The following is an extract from an analysis by Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. The Kremlin did not anticipate Trump’s electoral victory.
The British High Court has ruled that the G...
The British High Court has ruled that the Government cannot use the royal prerogative to trigger the EU’s Article 50 without the consent of MPs.
Is this the beginning of the end for the In...
With great expectations and over many objections, the International Criminal Court was set up in 2002 to be the court of last resort in prosecuting
China loses badly in court, but doesn’...
China has suffered one of the most ignominious legal defeats ever handed out to a major power by an international court. On 12 July 2016,
Signalling a new direction: Theresa MayR...
Following is the text of British Prime Minister Theresa May’s first speech: I have just been to Buckingham Palace, where Her Majesty the Queen has
After 70 years, Japan is ready to be a mili...
Earlier this month, the Japanese government won parliamentary elections which presage the most revolutionary change in Japan’s place in the world since its defeat in
Why has Putin just created his own private ...
Earlier this month, President Putin announced he was creating a new “national guard”. It would draw forces from existing organizations, particularly from the Interior Ministry,
Impressive: government achieves its Syrian ...
Last fall, the new Canadian government announced a goal to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada before the end of 2015. As the magnitude of
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