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Factors encouraging Lithuanians to emigrate will fall

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LITHUANIA

Before COVID-19 intervened, economic growth, rising wages, the development of high-tech sectors and Brexit were encouraging immigration. In 2019, 51% of immigrants were…

Scandals weaken South Korea’s left-wing government

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SOUTH KOREA

Large rallies by conservative groups, citing his far-left past and alleged corruption involving his family, were countered by even larger liberal demonstrations supporting his…

Uzbekistan security-service arrests augur infighting

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UZBEKISTAN

Gulnara Karimova and the SNB

Transparency may be key to Congo mining reforms

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CONGO-KINSHASA

The handover was part of an amicable agreement between the two parties that ends a long period of uncertainty caused by Gertler becoming subject to US sanctions in 2017, under the…

Party split points to challenges for Honduras’s Castro

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HONDURAS

Castro appears to have overcome the rupture and now commands a loose working majority in Congress via alliances. The situation nevertheless heralds challenges to her ambitious…

Tunisia reconciliation law will overcome opposition

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TUNISIA

Reconciliation law prospects

Early Peru elections will face congressional pushback

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PERU

Early elections next year.

Slovak government is weighing up early elections

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SLOVAKIA

SaS’s departure from government could trigger early elections and bring to power a new government with a less firmly pro-Western orientation that might substantially change…

Change in Montenegro needs inside and outside pressure

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MONTENEGRO

The Slovenian member of the European Parliament’s Socialists and Democrats group was speaking after about 10,000 people braved bad weather to take part in the largest of a series…

South Africa’s ruling party will fracture further

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SOUTH AFRICA

Such changes would attempt to avoid a fractious leadership battle that could further expose party rifts. After South Africa narrowly avoided a ratings agency downgrade last year…