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The real cost of lockdown

  • The IMF has estimated the cost to the global economy of the pandemic to have been $28 trillion this year, while successive lockdowns are thought to have reduced economic activity in concerned economies by up to 33 percent. The effects of the pandemic on business and trade, though unprecedente...
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Who is ready for no-deal

  • The new British government of Boris Johnson is charging unapologetically toward a no-deal Brexit. Yes, Johnson proclaims, we want a deal but we do not fear a no-deal, and his government is busily preparing for such an outcome on Oct. 31. For ages, the Westminster consensus was that a no-deal ...
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Iran’s influence in Pakistan more limited than ever

  • Iran and Pakistan are neighbors and both have been designated Islamic republics. But notwithstanding its nomenclature, Pakistan was never meant to be a theocratic state by its founding fathers. On the contrary, their view of Islam was broad and inclusive, and even though the constitution of Pak...
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The Iranian alternative supports recent protests

  • The main Iranian opposition held a rally near Paris on Saturday to support the recent protests in Iran and to offer a democratic alternative to the current regime. Tens of thousands of supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) rallied in support of the overthrow of the cle...
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Are the wheels coming off  the Brexit train?

  • With the UK Parliament heading into another big week of Brexit votes, fears are growing in Brussels about the slow pace of exit negotiations with London;  so much so that there is growing speculation within the EU 27 about whether the UK’s formal leaving date may be postponed from Mar...
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Ignore the propaganda, Qatar is desperate to end the boycott

  • As part of a public relations campaign, a number of articles have been published since the boycott of Qatar began a year ago that glorify Doha’s steadfastness and success. Doha has clearly not stopped trying to end the dispute and restore relations, but it has not succeeded. According to one o...
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The Qatari invasion of Dibal: An act of aggression in recent memory

  • Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt severed political and diplomatic relations with Qatar in June 2017 because of its direct and sometimes tacit support of terrorists and radical groups throughout the Middle East. The Anti-Terror Quartet was supported by numerous peace-loving states, which...
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As Tehran prepares to fight dirty, the Arab world must reach out to Baghdad

  • Qassim Soleimani cannot be a happy man right now. The commander of Iran’s Quds Force spent the last 15 years nurturing an assortment of Iraqi paramilitary forces. The outcome of the recent Iraqi elections risks seeing his efforts go up in smoke, hence his unseemly rush to Baghdad before results...
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Saudi Arabia’s interfaith dialogue a welcome move

  • Even a blind man would be able to see the revolution that is being accomplished in so little time in Saudi Arabia today. And this was boosted by the announcement late last month of an agreement between the secretary-general of the Muslim World League, Mohammed bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa, and the p...
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Israeli-Palestinian peace remote, but still possible

  • Seven decades is a long time for a wound to remain open. This is the least that can be said about the Palestinian “Nakba” (Arabic for “catastrophe”) — the 70th anniversary of which falls today.  As with a biological wound, lack of treatment leads to complications and infections. The colle...
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