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3-D printing will upend conventional manufacturing

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INTERNATIONAL

Medicine has been one of the pioneering areas of 3-D printing, which itself is one of the most significant current developments in manufacturing. The technology could…

AI's promise and pitfalls will affect key domains

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INT

AI promises to drive economic efficiencies across sectors, improve the delivery of critical services such as healthcare, democratise access to knowledge and skills, and tighten…

Water joins series of Balkan pollution concerns

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BALKANS

In the latest in a string of pro-environment demonstrations, protesters marched through Belgrade on January 10 against high levels of atmospheric pollution. Environmental issues…

Paris climate summit aims to avoid Copenhagen mistakes

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INTERNATIONAL

Climate policy will be of high international attention in the lead up to the UN's climate change summit in Paris in December (COP 21). The political and economic climate makes it…

Ukraine and Belarus seek loans to ride out COVID-19

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BELARUS/UKRAINE

Both governments hope to benefit from IMF and EU emergency funding through the COVID-19 crisis. In addition, Ukraine is still working on persuading the IMF that it deserves a…

Risks are high despite Turkey’s policy 'normalisation'

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TURKEY

With the lira at a record low, the Central Bank continued to tighten monetary policy this week, funding the market through competitive one-month repo tenders at rates of around…

US companies find political positions under scrutiny

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UNITED STATES

Election years always entail political risk for large US companies, but the polarising social and cultural issues likely to feature in the November midterms leave them more…

Castro's Cuba reforms to face pressure on all fronts

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CUBA

The release of the 32-page document follows the historic visit of US President Barack Obama in March, and the PCC congress in April, which the government used to reaffirm the…

North Macedonia’s new government will follow old ways

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NORTH MACEDONIA

This revamped version of the 2017-19 government has the support of just 62 members of the 120-seat parliament. It keeps the same prime minister, Zoran Zaev of the SDSM, and the…

China will dominate in multi-vector Uzbek outreach

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UZBEKISTAN

This is visible now as pledges of better ties with Washington coexist with talk of joining the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) -- yet it is China that is the main source…