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Increase in secessionist support when eliminating within-region identity differences. For each subnational region, Figure depicts the increase in support for secession if people were to ignore within-region identity differences in the case of independence. Credit: IS SECESSIONISM MOSTLY ABOUT INCOME OR IDENTITY? A GLOBAL ANALYSIS OF 3,003 SUBNATIONAL REGIONSNational Bureau of Economic Research (2023). What […]

News Ecuador’s mining exports reached US$2.52bn in January to November 2022, up 34% year-on-year. According to the energy and mines ministry, mining exports could have hit close to US$2.7bn in 2022, in line with government projections. Copper was the most exported mining product in the first 11 months, with a value of US$1.16bn, mainly from […]

Two critical issues have been increasingly affecting the situation between Washington and Seoul, whose frequent invocations of rock-solid alliance cooperation belie unease about crucial areas of partnership First, South Korea desires ever more alliance-partner defense and security reassurance from the US in the face of a growing North Korean nuclear threat and Chinese revisionism. Yet […]

Event A magnitude-5.2 offshore earthquake occurred off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture at around 10:00 Jan. 25. The epicenter was about 63.5 km (39.4 miles) east of Namie. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 39 km (24 miles), and weak to-light shaking was probably felt throughout Chubu, Tohoku, and Kanto regions. There have […]

Attachments Highlights On 18 and 19 January, UNHCR provided two 30 KVA generators to Al-Qulla Health Centre in Bergen (780 km south of Tripoli) and Al-Owainat Health Centre in Ghat (1,220 km south of Tripoli), in south of Libya. Both centres, which were chosen based on consultations with the local authorities, provide primary healthcare services […]

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Batik Air spokesperson Danang Mandala Prihantoro on Tuesday announced that the airline will be serving direct international round-trip flights connecting the Yogyakarta International Airport (YIA) and Singapore’s Changi International Airport starting on January 30th.  “It will be without transit round-trip,” said the Batik Air corporate strategic communications on January 24.  Batik will operate […]

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Collaboration between the government and private start-up companies helped meet the need for oxygen during the COVID-19 crisis in 2021, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin has said. “When a crisis occurred, Indonesia experienced an extraordinary surge in oxygen demand. In less than four weeks, it could be handled by using the social […]

Local expert Chistopher Realine holds up a bat specimen during the Karaawaimin Taawa Biodiversity Assessment. ©FAO/Marlondag When ecological research makes its way onto a peer-reviewed page – in the form, perhaps, of a species list or population estimate – it can be easy to forget or ignore the complex chain of things that had to […]

Brunswick partners and senior advisors who attended Davos discuss takeaways for companies. View from the United States By Nikhil Deogun, CEO of the Americas and US Senior Partner If Davos is a place where people gather to tackle long-term issues with short-term urgency, it was striking that outside the Congress Center, the official hub of […]

Mamanuca Group, Western Division, Fiji, Pacific getty Looking to hit the road in 2023? From Charleston, Fiji, to wine country in France, here are six ideas based on the best time of year. Seven Mile Beach on Grand Cayman island, Cayman Islands getty January: Cayman Islands for SCUBA Diving, Upscale Lodging, Cayman Cookout Over a […]