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The democracies of the West are moving closer together, they are courting Indo-Pacific partners. But an authoritarian bloc around Russia and China is also striving for dominance. The reports about war and political crises, Corona and rising inflation are driving people. It is easy to lose sight of the fact that a new world order is currently emerging. The dividing lines of the next generation are drawn: between the West and the rest of the nations, between liberal democracies and illiberal autocracies, between those who join the alliances that are currently emerging and those who pursue their own interests independently of them. First of all, Vladimir Putin has achieved what would have been unthinkable without his warlike expansionism. The transatlantic partnership, the European Union and NATO are more united, more determined, more security-conscious and more defensive than they have been for a long time. The alliance is now also joined by the two Scandinavian neutrals, Sweden and Finl...

The authorities deploy military personnel to assist the population in order to prevent the chaos from causing looting and criminality. At least 253 people have died in eastern South Africa due to severe flooding as a result of torrential rains in the region, where the country's president, Cyril Ramaphosa, traveled today to visit those affected. The hardest hit region is the eastern province of KwaZulu-Natal, the third largest in the country, where the water has flooded homes and left many citizens incommunicado, without electricity and without running water. "The greatest concern is the number of bodies we are finding. Until last night we had received 253 bodies in our morgues ," said Nomagugu Simelane, Health Minister of this South African province. The port of that coastal city, which is the largest cargo shipping hub in the entire African continent , had to suspend its operations and many of the region's roads remain impassable. The West Will Not Be Able To Isolate...

The hostility of the Malian military junta towards the presence of French troops and their failure in the fight against terrorism has pushed Paris to rethink its deployment in the Sahel while Russia increases its presence and influence. The Sahel, and specifically Mali, is on its way to becoming France's Afghanistan. The rupture between Paris and Bamako that has been staged with the expulsion of the French ambassador on Monday, has made the Elysee rethink its mission to combat jihadism. Since a military junta seized power in Bamako in May 2021, Paris has been falling out of favor and losing influence. Instead, Russia is taking positions through its Wagner group mercenaries and the emergence of this 'new' actor on the Sahelian chessboard complicates the political balance. The situation cannot continue like this", recognized the French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian , in statements to the state channel France 2. "The rupture" that the Malian Junta has for...

A large crowd of voters in the Gambia mobilized on Saturday to elect their next president in an election considered a test of democratic transition as it was the first in 27 years that dictator Yahya Jammeh did not run as a candidate. Hundreds of people stood in long queues in which patients waited for their turn to vote at the more than 1,500 polling stations set up in the small West African country from 08:00 LT to 17:00 LT. More than 960,000 Gambians are called to the polls to vote through a particular system with marbles (each crystal ball is equivalent to one vote) and in a round to the president for the next five years. Taliban Supreme Leader Hebatullah Akhunzada Is Alive Or Dead? They will have to choose between six candidates of which three stand out: the current president Adama Barrow (56 years old), of the National People's Party (NPP); the historic opponent Ousainou Darboe (73 years old), from the United Democratic Party (UDP); and the candidate being backed by Jammeh, M...

The first real-world data on a new type of corona virus, Omicron , has emerged. Research by South African scientists has shown that the data suggest that this new type of corona may be somewhat invasive against the body's immune system against the disease. In fact, researchers have seen an increase in the number of people in South Africa who have been infected with Covid-19 for the second time or more. This is a preliminary analysis and is not conclusive, but corresponds to concerns about mutations in the spike protein of omicron . It is unknown at this time what he will do after leaving the post.  South Africa was the first to report this new strain of Corona, and experts around the world are trying to understand the real danger. More Cases Of Omicron Reported, Several Countries Closed Their Borders Now, the results of the first study on omecron have shown that the immunity developed in people who have had codes in the past may not be sufficient to protect them from  Omicron ...