The president of Honduras has announced that her country will seek to establish diplomatic relations with mainland China instead of Taiwan Read Full Article at RT.com
New Delhi accepts relations with Beijing are ‘complex’ while Islamabad is accused of being a bad neighbor Read Full Article at RT.com
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Pfizer has proposed reducing its vaccine deliveries due to a glut in Europe’s supplies, but still hopes to be paid for the unused doses Read Full Article at RT.com
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso, Mar 14 (IPS) - The writer is Regional Executive Secretary of the Global Water Partnership in West Africa (GWP-WA)Burkina Faso’s interim President Captain Ibrahim Traoré spoke late last year of the conflicts that are now blighting his country and much of his region. He described the situation in Burkina Faso as predictable given the endemic weaknesses in governance that he believes have led to the economic abandonment of many young people, particularly outside of urban areas.
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UNITED NATIONS, Mar 14 (IPS) - When the US was planning to sell fighter planes to a politically-repressive regime in South-east Asia in a bygone era, a spokesman for a human rights organization, responding to a question from a reporter, was quoted as saying there were no plans to oppose the proposed sale because “it is very difficult to link F-16 fighter planes to human rights abuses”
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Some countries and private companies are using “counter-terrorism and security rhetoric” to justify a major increase in the deployment and use of cutting-edge surveillance technology, with no regulation, and at an “enormous cost” to human rights, said an independent UN expert on Tuesday.