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Ramaphosa will ward off leadership challengers

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SOUTH AFRICA

In it, she took aim at high-level judges and politicians using terms such as "mentally colonised Africans" and attacked what she called a "neo-liberal constitution" of "foreign…

Leadership questions will distract Canada's opposition

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CANADA

Canada's main opposition parties -- the Conservatives and the NDP -- are entering a period of reconstruction and reinvention in the wake of October's election victory by Prime…

Germany’s CDU looks set for modest shift to the right

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GERMANY

CDU leadership race.

Divided vote raises pressure on Austria's government

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AUSTRIA

In the final run-off round that took place on May 22, Van der Bellen won 50.3% of the votes. His opponent Norbert Hofer, candidate of the populist far-right Freedom Party (FPOe)…

Belgium should survive surge of Flemish far right

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BELGIUM

The party’s core goals are to achieve independence for Flanders and implement significant restrictions regarding asylum and migration policy. Belgium’s mainstream parties have…

Taliban mull transition from jihad to politics

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AFGHANISTAN

Khalilzad's efforts to kick-start a peace process have had a significant impact on Taliban thinking about future strategy. Some see transforming the insurgency into a political…

Saudi Arabia will check internal Islamic State threat

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SAUDI ARABIA

His speech came a day after a series of suicide bombings, almost certainly carried out by Islamic State group (ISG)'s local affiliates. The attacks, intended to mark the end of…

India has Punjab security threat in check

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INDIA

The Golden Temple is the holiest shrine in Sikhism, the dominant religion in Punjab. Sikh separatist insurgency was a substantial problem for India in the 1980s and early 1990s…

China’s personal data protection regime takes shape

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CHINA

Once finalised and promulgated, probably sometime in late 2021 or 2022, it will be China’s first comprehensive piece of legislation to govern the collection, processing and use of…

US plan shifts discourse on Israel-Palestinian dispute

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ISRAEL/PALESTINIANS/US

His son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner has spent over two years formulating the plan, which contains a series of proposals that heavily favour Israel, including the annexation…