The view from Russia: What to expect from the Putin-Biden...
June 15 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
A “killer” with “no soul” whose government is “paranoid”.
That is how US President Joe Biden has p...
NATO to call out China’s behaviour as ‘systemic challenge’
June 15 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
NATO is expected to formally call out China’s behaviour as a “systemic challenge” in its final summit statement, a fi...
Can Lapid-Bennett coalition keep it together?
June 15 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
If all goes according to plan, Yamina leader Naftali Bennett will be sworn in as Israel’s 13th prime minister on June 13. The fol...
G-7 agrees on infrastructure plan to counter China's Belt...
June 14 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Leaders of the Group of Seven convene for a session during the summit in Cornwall, Britain, on June 11. © Kyodo
The Gr...
Erdogan: US can count on Turkey after Afghanistan troop pu...
June 14 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey will be the "only reliable" country left for stabilising Afghanistan a...
Iran elections: Towards an ‘Islamic government’
June 14 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Out of the 529 people who registered to take part in Iran’s June 18 presidential election, only seven have secured permission fro...
US reclaims Turkey for the western alliance
June 12 ,2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
The first components of Turkey’s S-400 air defence missiles arrived from Russia in Ankara in July, 2019. (File Photo)
Less t...
Malaysian king confers with Mahathir and peers on COVID em...
June 12 ,2021
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By: P Prem Kumar
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad waves as he leaves an audience with the king on June 10. © Reuters
Ma...
China rushes through law to counter US and EU sanctions
June 12 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
China has passed a law to counter foreign sanctions in response to US and EU pressure over trade, technology, Hong Kong and Xinjiang....
For Israel’s new government, chances at survival are slim
June 11 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Naftali Bennett.
The ideological differences within Israel’s new unity government will likely lead to its early demise &mdas...
China hits back at US and allies with anti-sanctions law
June 11 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
China's new anti-sanctions law is believed to give its companies tools to fight back against Western penalties. (Photo by Akira Kodak...
As Muslim family of four is killed in terror attack, Canad...
June 11 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
A Pakistani-Canadian family out on a stroll on Sunday evening was murdered in a horrific act of Islamophobic violence in London, Ontari...
In Malaysia's Covid-19 crisis, even revered royals not spa...
June 10 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The King, like all key institutions in Malaysia, has come under unprecedented pressure.PHOTO: AFP
Monday (June 7) marked the secon...
What to expect when Biden, Erdogan meet
June 10 ,2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
US Vice President Joe Biden (L) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at their last meeting at Yildiz Mabeyn Palace, Istanbul, J...
‘Traitors’: Fears of violence grows as Netanyahu clings to...
June 10 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
After the fourth election in two years and the ever-more-likely departure of Benjamin Netanyahu as the country’s prime minister,...
Binyamin Netanyahu’s opponents reach a deal to replace him
June 4 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Israel is used to governments made up of disparate parties. But the coalition deal agreed on June 2nd, which would end Binyamin Netanya...
Global employment will not recover until 2023, ILO warns
June 4 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Unemployed men queue in Dubai for food handouts after losing their jobs last year during the COVID-19 pandemic. © R...
Israel is trying to oust Bibi Netanyahu. But will he reall...
June 4 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political obituary has been written and rewritten.
Each time he fails to win an elec...
Xi Jinping wants isolated China to ‘make friends and win o...
June 3 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
It’s not the first time President Xi Jinping has called on party cadres and state media to present the country in a positive li...
Israeli politics breaks through glass ceiling
June 3 ,2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Conservative Israeli politician Naftali Bennett places a note in the stones of Western Wall, holiest site where Jews can pray, in Jer...
US secretary of state warns Pacific leaders about ‘coercio...
June 3 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The US secretary of state has warned leaders of Pacific countries about “threats to the rules-based international order” an...
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