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Backsliding is likely on Paris climate deal

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INTERNATIONAL

The Paris climate agreement.

New Zealand TPP approval is likely despite opposition

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NEW ZEALAND

New Zealand's main political parties are divided on TPP ratification, which marks the first such division on a trade agreement in 40 years. The main opposition Labour party has…

Singaporean-US ties will strengthen

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SINGAPORE/US

The two leaders reaffirmed the strength of bilateral relations. Singapore, identified as a key US partner in the Indo-Pacific Strategy document released by the White House in…

Pullout from West Africa's ECOWAS bloc may prove messy

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WEST AFRICA

The move builds on a long period of tension between the juntas and ECOWAS over planned political transitions to civilian constitutional rule and intensifying rejection by the…

Prospects for US foreign policy to end-2016

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PROSPECTS H2 2016

Prospects for US foreign policy to end-2016.

Armenia will avoid severing ties with Russia

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ARMENIA

Relations with Moscow have become even more strained since the September 2023 fall of Nagorno-Karabakh, compounding the shock caused by Russia failing to protect Armenia from…

An EU-UK transition period will be hard to negotiate

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EU/UK

The implicit assumption, that it will be relatively straightforward to negotiate a transition period to bridge the gap between the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the EU and the…

Russia tensions may hinder Arctic governance

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ARCTIC

It claims an additional 1.2 million square kilometres of seabed below the North Pole ice cap under Article 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). If…

Diplomatic balancing act gets harder for Philippines

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PHILIPPINES

This reflects the basic principles of foreign policy under President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos, who visited Beijing on January 3-5, Tokyo on February 8-12 and Washington on…

Ghana’s Akufo-Addo faces economic diplomacy challenges

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GHANA

However, the success of Akufo-Addo's second term could depend in large part upon effective economic diplomacy with regional and international trade partners now the African…