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Egypt’s military rebuffed calls to ease debt crisis despite vast hidden reserves
CAIRO (Realist English). Egypt’s armed forces rejected government requests in December to help ease the country’s deepening debt crisis, despite...
China vows closer ties with Tanzania, reaffirms support for African sovereignty
DAR ES SALAAM (Realist English). China has pledged to deepen cooperation and exchanges with Tanzania, with Foreign Minister Wang Yi...
UK investment in Somaliland port draws scrutiny amid Sudan war and regional power rivalries
BERBERA (Realist English). The United Kingdom holds a stake in Somaliland’s strategically located Berbera port through British International Investment (BII),...
China and African Union call for respect for sovereignty after U.S. raid on Venezuela
ADDIS ABABA (Realist English). China and the African Union issued a joint call on Thursday for strict adherence to international...
Turkey elevates Africa as strategic priority amid intensifying global competition
ANKARA (Realist English). Turkey is placing Africa at the center of its strategic outlook as geopolitical competition on the continent...
Algerian parliament declares French colonisation a crime, calls for apology and reparations
ALGIERS (Realist English). Algeria’s parliament has unanimously adopted legislation declaring France’s colonisation of the country a crime, formally assigning legal...
Libya’s army chief killed in plane crash shortly after takeoff from Ankara
ANKARA (Realist English). A business jet carrying Libya’s chief of the general staff, Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, crashed in Turkey...
Drone strikes kill more than 100 civilians as Sudan war escalates in Kordofan
KHARTOUM (Realist English). At least 104 civilians have been killed in a wave of drone attacks across Sudan’s Kordofan region,...
Nigeria confirms troop deployment to Benin to help foil coup attempt
ABUJA (Realist English). Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has confirmed that his country deployed fighter jets and ground forces to neighbouring...
Taiwan fears US weapons use in Iran could aid China
TAIPEI (Realist English). Taiwan has raised concerns that extensive US use of long-range cruise missiles in the war involving Iran...
Strait of Hormuz disruption sends shockwaves through global trade
LONDON (Realist English). Escalating military tensions around the Strait of Hormuz are rapidly disrupting global shipping and energy markets, as...
Iran war puts Vice President JD Vance in difficult political position
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The ongoing war with Iran has placed US Vice President JD Vance in a politically sensitive position,...
Hormuz crisis reshapes global tanker market as shipping routes collapse
LONDON (Realist English). The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz following the escalation of the Iran war has triggered...
Star Wars without fiction: how space became the next battlefield
MOSCOW (Realist English). “Star Wars” stopped being science fiction long ago. Unfortunately, over ten thousand years of civilisation, humanity has...
Dadivank: The Legacy of Christ’s Apostles in Artsakh
YEREVAN (Realist English). In Artsakh, before the ethnic cleansing and forced deportation – simply put, genocide – carried out by...
An unusual phenomenon at the Church of the Holy Savior in Shushi
YEREVAN (Realist English). In the distant year 1979, as a third-year university student, I used to visit the Church of...
War with Iran seen as inevitable, Armenia warned of looming regional storm
YEREVAN (Realist English). The war with Iran is drawing ever closer. And once again, this pulls Armenia into a zone...
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