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MSCI’s Indonesia purge exposes a deeper market crisis

The May 2026 rebalancing by Morgan Stanley Capital International may go down as one of the most consequential shocks in the modern history of Indonesia’s stock market. The sweeping removal of Indonesian companies from the prestigious MSCI global index family was not merely a

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New Turkish ICBM signals nuclear deterrence ambitions beyond NATO

Turkey’s flashy unveiling of the Yildirimhan intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) revealed less about the missile itself than about the country’s accelerating drive toward strategic autonomy in an increasingly unstable Middle East. Reports this month on Yildirimhan’s debut

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What's at stake in Armenia's June election?

May 19 - Armenia holds a parliamentary election on June 7 that pits the governing Civil Contract party, which is pursuing closer ties with the West, against an array of opposition parties, many of which are pro-Russian.

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