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When the physical safety, socioeconomic well-being or physical and mental health of a large section of a population is threatened, it is generally termed a humanitarian crisis. Its causes can be various factors such as natural disasters, chronic diseases, famine, genocide and civ...
Starting on January 2, Kazakhstan was rocked by weeks of unprecedented violent protests triggered by rising fuel prices. The protesters clashed with police and security forces across major cities, killing dozens of people, including 16 security personnel. On January 13, President...
The joint statement issued after the US-Japan Security Consultative Committee meeting on Jan 7 indicates the two sides' resolve to respond jointly to the rapidly changing security environment in the region, so as to maintain peace and stability in East Asia and across the Asia-Pa...
The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) between the US, Japan, India and Australia, which is described as a mechanism aimed at countering China, seems to have been quiet for months. Since the 2021 second phase of the Malabar exercise in October, no joint moves by the four coun...
January 6 will be the first anniversary of the Insurrection. Several thousand Americans from all over the country marched on Capitol Hill, the seat of American democracy, intent on occupying the building and preventing the confirmation of Joe Biden as the country's president. It ...