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A question of trust in Prabowo’s Indonesia

A few weeks ago, I heard two seemingly contradictory views about Indonesia. One came from a business executive who has spent decades operating in the Southeast Asian nation. His broad assessment was that Indonesia is still too important to ignore. The market is large, the

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Birdwatch: Going to the Galápagos for the gulls

While most visitors prefer the finches, tropicbirds and blue-footed boobies, some are drawn to less glamorous species Most visitors don’t come to the Galápagos for the gulls. With more than a dozen kinds of Darwin’s finches on offer – along with fearsome frigatebirds, ethereal

How Saudis really view the US-Iran war

Since the beginning of the Iran war, Saudi Arabia has been grappling with how best to respond to the expansion of Middle East conflict. Having issued condemnations of Tehran’s strikes on the kingdom – and other Gulf states – in response to the initial US and Israeli action in

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Will the Ukraine war bring regime change to Russia?

Volodymyr Zelensky recently suggested that the war in Ukraine was beginning to turn in his country’s favor. The Ukrainian president insisted that Russia was “losing the initiative each day.” These comments came days after Zelensky wrote an open letter to his Russian

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