The COVID-19 pandemic is not just a health emergency but a multi-dimensional crisis for Afghanistan, casting “a huge shadow” over daily lives, Deborah Lyons, newly appointed head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan told the Security Council on Thursday, June 25.
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After 6-years of rapid development, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has entered a new era in terms of quality development. In this grand picture, cities acting as sub-state actors along the BRI, have gained new momentum for displaying geographic significance and economic attractiveness. This paper intends to define cities’ role in the joint promotion of BRI, exemplify how cities will prosper in the process and explore new opportunities of investment after the COVID-19 pandemic.
07 July 2020
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Most countries along the BRI are developing countries and emerging economies. They account for 31 percent of the global GDP, but constitute about 62 percent of world’s population(1). At the same time, the ecological environment is very fragile, due to the distribution of most of the global biodiversity hotspots(2). 58 percent of the world’s deserts are also concentrated in this area(3). In a certain sense, the historical Silk Road is also an international transmission channel for dust and pollutants(4).
07 July 2020
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L’Eliseo di buon mattino annuncia le dimissioni del primo ministro Eduard Philippe. Dimissioni accettate dal presidente Emmanuel Macron che fa subito sapere di voler rapidamente indicare il nuovo capo del governo. E infatti, nemmeno tre ore dopo, viene nominato Jean Castex, anche lui repubblicano, ex consigliere di Sarkozy. Ma con caratteristiche diverse rispetto a primo ministro uscente.
03 July 2020
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That some of the Gulf monarchies, in the past few years, have been quietly but surely interested in normalising relations with Israel, is no longer much of a secret. A convergence of geopolitical visions and interests have encouraged some warming up to the Israeli leadership, first and foremost Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in some Gulf capitals.
30 June 2020
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L’esplosione della crisi da coronavirus ha comprensibilmente distolto l’attenzione da questioni internazionali che fino a pochi mesi fa occupavano le prime pagine dei giornali. Tra queste c’è senza dubbio Brexit. Che se ne parli poco è piuttosto ovvio, non solo a causa del Coronavirus. Brexit infatti c’è stata ma non si vede. O meglio non se ne vedono gli effetti per il semplice fatto che al momento sono pochissimi.
05 June 2020
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Before the Covid-19 pandemic absorbed all public attention, the negotiations between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) hit the headlines of global and local media - especially since the US government got involved as facilitator in the process – as one of the most pressing diplomatic and political dispute in the African continent. In 2011, the Ethiopian government began construction on the $4 billion Nile River dam, near the border with Sudan.
22 May 2020
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The first hundred days of Prime Minister Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah’s first, and Kuwait’s thirty-sixth, government have passed without much fanfare. The new PM has the novel coronavirus both to blame and thank.
18 May 2020
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In un'intervista a Fox, Donald Trump parla dei tantissimi lavoratori che hanno perso il loro impiego promettendo “Quei lavori torneranno”, e sulla Cina stempera: "Non penso abbiano diffuso il virus volontariamente".
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08 May 2020
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Le foto di Reuters delle lunghe file di auto in coda per ore ai banchi alimentari hanno fatto il giro del mondo.
08 May 2020