Archive for May 1st, 2024

India: Emerging Challenges In Odisha – Analysis

On April 25, 2024, two Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres were killed in an encounter during a search operation in the Parhel Reserve Forest area of Boudh District. Following a tip-off about the presence of 40 to 50 ultras, personnel of the Special Operations Group (SOG), an elite commando unit of the Odisha Police, launched a search operation in […]

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Pakistan: Outcasting Outsiders In Balochistan – Analysis

On April 23, 2024, at least two people from Punjab were killed by unidentified motorcycle-gunmen, in the Dannuk area on the outskirts of Turbat town in Kech District of Balochistan. On April 12, 2024, gunmen shot dead nine passengers from Punjab riding a bus after checking their identification, on N-40 Regional Corporations Development Highway in the Nushki District of Balochistan. […]

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La grande fringale des armées

L’institut international de recherche sur la paix de Stockholm (SIPRI), qui publie chaque année le tableau le plus vaste et cohérent des dépenses militaires mondiales, le confirme : elles ont pulvérisé tous les records en 2023 en atteignant 2440 milliards de dollars – soit près de 7% d’augmentation sur un an. Depuis 2009, ces dépenses ne cessent de croître et, […]

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China Humiliated Blinken But Blinken Kept Begging

“This was more than a slight. Aside from a calculated insult to the dignity of the United States, the move indicates Xi Jinping is making clear that the accepted norms of diplomacy will not be respected by China anymore.” — Charles Burton, former Canadian diplomat who served in Beijing, to Gatestone Institute, April 27, 2024. Blinken was in China to […]

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