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The Syrian effect: Putin ‘supports’ Trump’s call for Ukraine ceasefire

December 10, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Call it the impact of the sudden collapse of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria, a worried Russia may agree to an early ceasefire in its almost three-year-old ongoing war in Ukraine, as Moscow also sought to blame Kyiv for “rejecting” peace proposals, the media reported on Tuesday. After US […]

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Trade & tariff war: Trump greets Trudeau, again, as the “Governor” of Canada!

December 10, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Is President-elect Donald Trump setting in motion a move to ‘annex’ Canada as the United States’ 51st state, and appointing its vulnerable Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the “Governor?” Or is he pressuring an embattled Trudeau to sign on the dotted lines to the fresh US conditions on trade […]

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Roving Periscope: After the Syrian episode, Xi asks Chinese officials to pull up socks

December 10, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Perhaps worried over the lightening collapse of the five-decade-old Ba’athist regime of the family of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping has directed officials to enhance the governance and high-quality development in the country’s border areas prioritizing national security and social stability. The latest development, and the […]

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South Korea: Overseas travels of President Yoon Suk Yeol ‘banned’, say reports

December 9, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Embattled South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, who is still facing impeachment demands, now faces an overseas travel ban as police investigate rebellion charges related to his last week’s martial law declaration which he was forced to withdraw within six hours. South Korea’s corruption investigation chief has ordered a travel […]

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Syria: How a teenager ignited the fire in 2011, forcing President Assad to flee in 2024

December 9, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: “It’s your time, Doctor,” read a graffiti in Daraa, South Syria, when a 14-year-old teenager scribbled it on a wall in 2011, warning Dr. Bashar al-Assad, a practicing ophthalmologist in London before he inherited the Ba’athist throne from his notorious father Hafez al-Assad in July 2002 and established a brutal, […]

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Roving Periscope: Outgoing Biden’s team terms the BJP’s charges “disappointing”

December 7, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Reacting to the BJP’s accusation that the US State Department, and the Deep State in the outgoing Joe Biden administration, ran an “anti-Modi” agenda, an American spokesman has said it was “disappointing.” India’s chief ruling party, the BJP, locking horns with the Biden team of Democrats and the Left-Liberals, is […]

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The US: Trump names David Perdue as the next Ambassador to China

December 6, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: US President-elect Donald Trump, who is set to return to the White House next month, has named his controversial political ally and former Georgia Senator David Perdue as the next Ambassador to China, a key trade partner so far, against which the Republican leader has promised to impose punishing tariffs. […]

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Roving Periscope: Reignited Syrian civil war may cripple Iran further

December 6, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As the 13-year-old civil war in Syria flared up again last week with Sunni insurrection, supported by Turkey and others, the pro-Iran Shia regime in Damascus, led by President Bashar Assad, is facing an existential crisis. This fresh development is being viewed as yet another attempt by the Sunni nations […]

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South Korea: Post-martial law debacle, President Yoon may face impeachment

December 5, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In an unprecedented move, the police in South Korea, which is threatened with ‘extinction’ by the turn of the century because of an alarming rate of depopulation, has launched an investigation into President Yoon Suk Yeol’s extreme step to impose emergency and martial law, which he had to withdraw within […]

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Roving Periscope: His PM ousted, French President Macron faces an uncertain future

December 5, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the united Opposition, furious at budget proposals, toppling Prime Minister Michel Barnier within two months of taking power in Paris in September, French President Emmanuel Macron’s own political future may become uncertain ahead of his potential re-election bid in 2027. As Donald Trump re-enters the White House for a […]