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The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), launched in 2013 by Beijing and Islamabad, is an umbrella term for the Belt and Road Initiative’s Sino-Pakistani projects. The projects’ $62 billion budget mostly …

At the 2003 summit of Thessaloniki, the six Western Balkan countries – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia (then called the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia), Montenegro, Serbia, and Kosovo …

Although President Donald Trump has yet to concede the election, President-elect Joe Biden has launched a transition team and website, prompting analysis and speculation about his upcoming administration’s policy priorities. …

After almost a year of political ambiguity and public demonstrations, Bolivia has a new president. Luis Arce swept to victory with a nearly 20 percentage point lead over his nearest …

“We will be back.”  Those were the words now President-elect Joe Biden used at the 2019 Munich Security Conference to reassure an audience of European leaders frustrated with President Donald …

The return of Lebanon’s former Prime Minister Saad Hariri to power is the latest major development in Lebanese politics. Forced from office a year ago by anti-government protesters demanding institutional …

Official results by the Union Election Commission (UEC) confirmed Aung San Suu Kyi’s ruling party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), as the winner of the Myanmar general election held …

On October 23, the UN body supervising the peaceful resolution of Libya’s Civil War, UNSMIL, announced that the warring factions, the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) and the rebel-led …

A Biden-Harris win has reassured American citizens and the wider world that democratic institutions in the world’s most powerful nation will survive. While it may have been reassuring for many, …

This year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published its biennial World Economic Outlook. There could hardly have been a better time to re-examine the global economic conjuncture and adjust earlier …