by Ngoc H. Le | Nov 17, 2015 | Monitor
Key Reads Paris attacks: France mobilizes 115,000 security personnel BBC France has mobilized 115,000 security personnel in the wake of Friday’s Paris attacks by Islamist militants, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has said. PM: I will make case for...
by Andrew Holland | Nov 17, 2015 | Monitor
Over the past few days, there have been a number of discussion in the press around the country and around the world on the links between climate change and terrorism. Let us be clear – no act of terror is due to climate change, but climate change has helped to...
by Ngoc H. Le | Nov 10, 2015 | Monitor
Key Reads What’s next after Myanmar’s elections Reuters Aung San Suu Kyi’s pro-democracy NLD party wins the Myanmar elections in a landslide. Tara Joseph says now businesses are looking ahead to a possible lifting of U.S. sanctions on the Southeast Asian...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Nov 9, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Didn’t Vladimir Putin turn 63 on October 7? And didn’t the Russian military provide him with a spectacular birthday present – the launch of 26 cruise missiles from the country’s flotilla in the landlocked Caspian Sea that very same day? It was...
by Anil Powers | Oct 28, 2015 | Monitor
Key Reads South China Sea: Beijing ‘Not Frightened to Fight a War’ After US Move Tom Phillips / The Guardian Twenty-four hours after Washington challenged Beijing’s territorial claims in the region by deploying a warship to waters around the disputed Spratly...