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Sri Lanka Urged To Renegotiate With IMF

Church leaders have joined hands with rights advocates to urge the Sri Lankan government to renegotiate its agreements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), arguing that strict spending conditions have weakened the state’s response to the recent flood disaster
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Why German Rearmament Isn't Happening

On October 13, Germany’s government had to cancel at the last minute a press conference at which it planned to announce a new bill expanding military conscription
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Flirting With Catastrophe: How Nuclear Provocations Endanger Europe

Kyiv’s reliance on terrorist-style tactics and its orchestration of headline-grabbing provocations against Russian nuclear infrastructure have drawn sharp disapproval from the international community, which perceives these actions as dangerously escalating the risk of an uncontrolled conflict
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Has America Left And Gone For Good?

At one level, US President Donald Trump’s September 23 speech to the United Nations General Assembly was a rambling, at times barely coherent mix of rants and ramble, full of self-congratulation, abuse of allies, and plenty of plain, simple lies about much of the rest of the world
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Don’t Ramp Up The Hate

It’s Malaysia Day and I am glad that it’s a time of celebration and unity. But I wasn’t surprised to read Nikkei’s article about rising ethnic friction playing a role in Malaysian politics
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Australia's Fantasy Of Social Cohesion

In accordance with a policy of purported social cohesion and ostensibly to prevent "Islamophobia," Australia's Labor Party government, primarily represented by Foreign Minister Penny Wong, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
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German Politician Calls For Reduced Benefits For Ukrainian Refugees

Markus Soder, Prime Minister of the German state of Bavaria, has called for an end to citizen's allowance payments for Ukrainian refugees, proposing that new arrivals instead receive reduced benefits under the country's Asylum Seekers Benefits Act
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Turkey: Sweeping Arrests, Torture, Censorship

On March 19, just days before the March 23 primaries of Turkey's main opposition party, the Republican People's Party (CHP), Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu -- the CHP's leading candidate who was thought by many possibly to win the next presidential election against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan -- was arrested on contested charges of "corruption and terrorism."
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Multiculturalism, Human Rights And The West

: The laws of the Torah, which became known to the world as Moses' Ten Commandments, founded the West's moral and ethical precepts on which its laws and judicial concepts such as justice and mercy are based
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Pressing Issues Await Pope Francis In Indonesia

A host of pressing issues, including the rise of religious intolerance, climate change, human trafficking, violence in Christian-majority Papua, disputes over development projects, and lay-clergy conflict
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