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Trump on 'remigration:' Heed the rhetoric | Thomas Elias
Lompoc Record - California
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Even now, six months into President Trump’s second term, there’s a tendency to disregard President Trump’s sometimes fiery rhetoric as mere big talk. Americans ought to know better by now. Iranians certainly do, after Trump sent bunker bombs into...
Erdoğan: No silence on Palestinian cause amid bloodshed
Hurriyet Daily News
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KHANKENDI, Azerbaijan President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pledged on July 4 that countries in the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) cannot abandon the Palestinian cause or remain silent as Israel’s current government turns the region into a...
Xi Jinping sets out programme for heightened cooperation with Central Asia
Friends of Socialist China
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June 20, 2025
Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, from June 16-18, at the invitation of his Kazakh counterpart Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, to attend the Second China-Central Asia Summit. They were also joined by the Presidents of...
Somalia’s biometric border overhaul signals deeper US engagement
Biometric Update
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July 2, 2025
In a move hailed as both technologically significant and strategically vital, Somalia formally launched the Personal Identification Secure Comparison and Evaluation System (PISCES) at key border control points across the country. Backed by the...
Armenia expresses desire to join Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
Open Caucasus Media
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July 4, 2025
Join the voices Aliyev wants to silence. For over eight years, OC Media has worked with fearless journalists from Azerbaijan — some of whom now face decades behind bars — to bring you the stories the regime is afraid will get out. Help us fuel...
Turkish, Iranian Presidents Attend Summit in Former Artsakh Capital Stepanakert
Hetq
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July 4, 2025
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian are in Khankendi (Stepanakert - the former Artsakh Republic capital) to attend the 17th Summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO). The ECO was founded in...
Kazakhstan bans niqab
5Pillars
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July 2, 2025
Kazakhstan’s president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, has approved a law forbidding clothing that hides the face or obstructs facial recognition in public spaces, permitting such attire only for medical reasons, severe weather, official duties, or...
The city of 700 languages
National Geographic
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Irwin Sanchez, a chef and poet in Queens who speaks Nahuatl, once the language of the Aztec, makes tacos, moles, and tamales with the words’ original meanings in mind. Husniya Khujamyorova, a speaker of Wakhi from Tajikistan, creates some of the...
Debt’s climate link: Why climate finance to developing countries must not be loans
Down to Earth
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To understand the overlap of debt and climate vulnerability, we examined the countries most at risk from climate impacts and most burdened by debt. Over half of the low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) with high climate vulnerability are either...
Foreign students flock to Kerala University, 138% rise in applications over last 4 yrs
The Indian Express
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June 21, 2025
While Kerala youths are scouting for higher education abroad, their international peers appear to be increasingly turning towards the University of Kerala. According to the university, the current academic year of 2025-26 has seen a 138 percent...
No Way Home: The Exiled Russian Speakers Fighting Their Own War in Syria
The Moscow Times
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July 3, 2025
Idlib Governorate, SYRIA — A dry wind rushes through the meanders of destroyed streets, bringing up the acrid smell of smoke laden with gasoline. In the distance, a minaret overlooks the dome of a half-destroyed mosque. “This building was...
The Ukrainisation of Afghanistan
Al Mayadeen
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June 26, 2025
Tariq Marzbaan warns that Afghanistan is becoming a new front in the global civilisational war, weaponised by the West to sabotage multipolarity, while the Taleban’s Pashtun supremacy project echoes the ideological purges seen in Ukraine and...
Azerbaijan Hosts Landmark ECO Events to Drive Regional Cooperation and Sustainability
News Central Asia
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July 2, 2025
On 1-2 July 2025, Azerbaijan hosted three pivotal events under the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Week on the eve of the 17th ECO Summit. The First ECO Youth Forum in Aghdam, the 6th ECO Business Forum in Shusha, and the First ECO Women’s...
Why Zbig Still Matters
Foreign Policy
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July 1, 2025
As American foreign policy hinges more and more on the gut instinct of one person—President Donald Trump, of course—it’s tempting to wonder how policymakers from a previous generation might think about the White House today. Would Henry Kissinger...
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, May 2025
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
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July 3, 2025
Explanatory Notes Goods (Census basis) Data for goods on a Census basis are compiled from the documents collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and reflect the movement of goods between foreign countries and the 50 states, the...
Erdoğan to attend ECO summit in Azerbaijan
Hurriyet Daily News
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ANKARA President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will attend the leaders’ summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) in Azerbaijan's Karabakh, which will focus on a new vision for the 10-member organization. According to a statement by Türkiye's...
New law in Kazakhstan restricts public wearing of face veils
The Express Tribune
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July 2, 2025
Listen to article Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a law prohibiting individuals from wearing clothing in public places that covers their faces, joining a trend in several Central Asian countries to restrict forms of Islamic dress....
Inside Uzbekistan’s Deepening Ties with China
The National Interest - Washington D.C.
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July 3, 2025
During his three-day visit to China in January, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Chinese leaders agreed to elevate bilateral ties to an “all-weather comprehensive strategic partnership,” pledging deeper cooperation across economic, security,...
Azerbaijan accuses Russia of ‘unacceptable violence’ over custody deaths
St. Kitts Gazette
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July 1, 2025
In 2001, a man was stabbed to death near a lakeside restaurant in Yekaterinburg, an urban centre in Russia’s Ural Mountains region. With his dying breath, he whispered the names of his alleged killers to the police, local media claimed. The man...
Why are ties between Azerbaijan and Russia fraying?
Yahoo News
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In 2001, a man was stabbed to death near a lakeside restaurant in Yekaterinburg, an urban centre in Russia’s Ural Mountains region. With his dying breath, he whispered the names of his alleged killers to the police, local media claimed. The man...