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from Asia Times
LEAST BIASED, HIGH; News & Media Website based in Hong Kong
Should you be adding Anglo Asian Mining to your watch-list today? That was the question posed on Monday by Simply Wall Street, a Sydney-based financial analysis site, as Azerbaijan appeared poised for victory over the Armenian enclave of Nagorno Karabakh and surrounding Azerbaijani districts, held since the Soviet Union’s collapse. By Monday night, a comprehensive truce was announced, which will see Russian peacekeepers police new boundaries, including swathes of mineral-rich territory. On October 27, as Azerbaijan advanced in its offensive, a little-known Azerbaijani company was heralding a victory of its own, the restoration of control over a gold mine. In a press release, the Anglo Asian Mining plc, announced an important update: “The liberation of the Zangilan district of Azerbaijan, which contains the Company’s Vejnaly contract area.” Zangilan is one of seven districts of Azerbaijan which were seized and held by Armenian forces since the Karabakh war of the early 1990s as a buffer against Azerbaijani attacks.
People on bottom economic rung can help China spend its way out of Covid-19 malaise, says agency. Liu Yuanju, a senior research fellow with the Shanghai Institute of Finance and Law, a semiofficial think tank, noted in the policy recommendation report that policymakers should ditch their fascination with the middle class and the rich and instead tap the “tremendous” consumption potential of the nation’s poorest.
US President-elect says he will prioritize rights promotion but he needs the Philippines on-side to press China in South China Sea.
Biden, who already has a fraught relationship with Turkey, is likely to be supportive of sanctions, certainly as a diplomatic tool
Trump re-oriented US-China policy at great cost; Biden will retain the recalibration but improve its implementation.
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from Maclean's
Canada's national current affairs and news magazine
Canada's national current affairs and news magazine
Terry Glavin: Human remains unearthed on Vancouver Island have resurfaced the tragic story of the Pentlatch people.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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