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American presidents face many era-defining challenges: wars, pandemics, recessions. But one that gets less attention seems to keep haunting them: paperwork. Last November, at Joe Biden’s thinktank in Washington DC, aides to the US president were packing up and they found something that shouldn’t have been there: a stash of classified documents. As David Smith […]

Today, you can get on a plane and fly from one continent to the next. You can pick up your cell phone in Davos and call somebody in Buenos Aires or Toronto or Singapore as if they were across the street. You can use a UK-issued payment card to buy coffee or lunch in Sydney […]

London [UK], January 19 (ANI): In assuming the G20 Presidency on December 1, India, the fifth largest economy, has an unprecedented chance to check its clout and credibility in tackling the fragmented global order and India’s G20 Presidency is a big deal, according to Global Britain Centre. Global Britain Centre was established to drive the […]

News Desk (The Jakarta Post) Jakarta   ●   Fri, January 20, 2023 2023-01-20 12:00 0 499db3314bec618375f5d217fc2d101f 1 Asia and Pacific Indonesia,ASEAN,Airlangga-Hartarto,economic-growth,pandemic,speech,Myanmar Free Indonesia’s leadership of ASEAN in 2023 will primarily focus on generating growth in the region that would be sustainable enough to help speed up recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a senior economic […]

Reuters Manila, Philippines   ●   Fri, January 20, 2023 2023-01-20 10:45 0 499db3314bec618375f5d217fc2d0db5 2 Asia and Pacific Philippine,Kamala-Harris,Marcos-Jr,China,geopolitics,RodrigoDuterte Free The Philippines and the United States are in talks about holding a “2-plus-2 meeting” of top diplomatic and defence officials as early as March, the Philippine ambassador to Washington said on Friday. In a text message, Jose […]

LI MIN/CHINA DAILY The challenge in 2023 is for the region to avoid being provoked into a conflict that undermines the improvement of trade relationships In 2022, Asia consolidated the trade architecture in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations region. In 2023, this achievement is threatened by US and European military coercion, supported by an […]

United States Mission to the United NationsOffice of Press and Public DiplomacyFor Immediate ReleaseJanuary 19, 2023 Readout of Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s Meeting with Foreign Minister Retno L.P. Marsudi of Indonesia The below is attributable to U.S. Mission to the United Nations Spokesperson Nate Evans:   Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. Representative to the United Nations, met […]

An alliance of voices from the frontlines and for the environment Super Typhoons. Flash Floods. Forest Fires. Drought. While the challenges of climate change are global, the impacts and the solutions are often highly local. Communities therefore, need trusted information to mitigate environmental impacts and find new ways to adapt. This is where the role […]

The Biden administration’s big push to engage more with Africa is underway as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen begins a 10-day visit aimed at promoting all the economic possibilities that lie between the US and the world’s second-largest continent. Yellen is the first administration official to visit the continent since President Joe Biden announced during […]

Phar Kim Beng (The Jakarta Post) PREMIUM Kuala Lumpur   ●   Fri, January 20 2023 The recent visit of Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to Indonesia to meet with his counterpart President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo of Indonesia was both important and strategic in three ways. They affirmed the obvious, that Indonesia and Malaysia do have […]