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By Saniya Sakenova
ASTANA, 14 March 2023 (IDN | The Astana Times) — Over the past 30 years, Kazakhstan has built up a productive cooperation with the United Nations, being a coherent advocate and active promoter of its ideals and goals, First Deputy Foreign Minister Kairat Umarov said at a March 10 event marking the three decades of UN presence in the country.
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK, 13 March 2023 (IDN) — Following the contentious election exercise in Nigeria, now facing court challenges by at least two of the parties unsuccessful at the polls, President Joe Biden has named new US ambassadors to four African nations where troubles also abound.
The four countries are on the radar of the new US Africa strategy.
By Alon Ben-Meir*
Trump and Netanyahu are behind bars reminiscing about their political misadventures and personal lives and how justice has finally caught up with them.
NEW YORK, 13 March 2023 (IDN) — We are living in a time of extraordinary political chaos and instability here in the US and in Israel precipitated by two notorious culprits, Trump and Netanyahu.
By Jan Servaes*
BRUSSELS, 13 March 2023 (IDN) — Political hunger strikers Tantawan "Tawan" Tuatulanon, 21, and Orawan "Bam" Phupong, 23, ended their hunger strike on Saturday, March 11, after 53 days. "Tawan and Bam want to let the public know that we have ended the hunger strike to save our lives and continue fighting," Tawan said in a Facebook post. "The medical staff is concerned about our kidneys and other organs due to the long period without food and water." The Bangkok Post confirmed they were conscious and able to communicate.
By Devendra Kamarajan
NEW DELHI, 13 March 2023 (IDN) — As the fighting between Russia and Ukraine continues and a diplomatic solution does not seem to be on the cards, Vikas Swarup, a former foreign secretary at India's External Affairs Minister and author of the bestselling book behind the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire shared the response of ChatGPT.
![Image: Xi Jinping is unanimously elected president of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) of the PRC at the third plenary meeting of the first session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 10, 2023. [Photo/Xinhua/Facebook]](/images/xi-jinping_screenshot.jpeg)
By Jan Servaes*
BRUSSELS, 12 March 2023 (IDN) — As expected, China's National People's Congress (NPC) clapped hands to confirm Xi Jinping's third term as president.
In March 2018, Xi Jinping had already shaken up the Chinese political system through a constitutional amendment allowing him to remain in office indefinitely.
By Saisha Shrestha and Simone Galimberti
KATHMANDU, 12 March 2023 (IDN) — Guthi, an ancient social institution of the Newari community in Nepal, if made more inclusive, could herald new ways of people-centred decision-making.
Can traditional forms of community decision-making herald a new way of decision-making and therefore pave the way for a different form of governance?
By Jamshed Baruah
GENEVA, 12 March 2023 (IDN) — European parliamentarians have emphasized the need for taking "concrete steps" towards nuclear disarmament so that it becomes "a priority for the year 2023". This, they said, should be "complementary to stigmatising nuclear weapons and strengthening disarmament treaties such as the TPNW", the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons., which entered into force on 22 January 2021.
By Ngala Killian Chimtom
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon, 11 March 2023 (IDN) — While African forest elephants have traditionally been thought of as playing a destructive, negative role in forests, the big munchers are now seen as critical to saving a climate in peril.
Scientists now suggest that the perceived destructive nature of the African forest elephant through its feeding habits is good for the forests' health and the global climate.
By Carol Farbotko and John Campbell*
This article was issued by the Toda Peace Institute and is being republished with their permission.
QUEENSLAND, Australia | HAMILTON, New Zealand, 10 March 2023 (IDN) — The risk of atoll uninhabitability in the context of sea level rise is a well-known issue, often simplified to assume an inevitable mass exodus of atoll populations and thus described as an existential threat.
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