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East Asia
Post-Soviet military bloc to hold drills in three member states in 2017
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) plans to hold large-scale collective forces’ drills dubbed Combat Brotherhood on the territory of Armenia, Kazakhstan and Russia in October 2017, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov said on October 7, TASS reports. “This year, four CSTO exercises have been held…
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East Asia
N. Korea could have up to 100 deliverable nuclear weapons in four years
North Korea could have up to 100 nuclear weapons in as early as four years that can be delivered on long-range, road-mobile and submarine-launched ballistic missiles, a U.S. think tank has said. The RAND Corp. made the estimate in a report released over the weekend on five major threats the…
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East Asia
China shows reliability in global financial governance
Zhong Sheng (People’s Daily) Starting from October 1, the Chinese yuan will be included in the Special Drawing Rights (SDR) basket of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) along with the US dollar, the Euro, the Japanese yen and the British pound. This will be the first time for a currency…
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Central Asia
Turkmenistan to open railway to Afghanistan in November
Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held a meeting dedicated to the upcoming commissioning of the first phase of the transnational railway trunk – Asia international railway transportation corridor, the Turkmen government said in a message Oct. 8, Trend reports. This is the construction of the Atamyrat-Imamnazar (Turkmenistan) – Akina (Afghanistan) section.…
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West Asia
Ilham Aliyev among most influential Muslims of the world
Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center of Amman published The Muslim 500 rating of this year. Just like last year, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev was among 500 most influential Muslims of the world in the category of “Politics”, Vestnik Kavkaza reports. The leaders of this year’s rating are Professor Ahmad…
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West Asia
Ruling Party Prevails in Georgian Parliamentary Elections
Georgia’s governing party has won parliamentary elections according to near-complete results released amid accusations of vote rigging from the opposition, RFERL/RL reports. With votes in 99 percent of the constituencies now counted, the Georgian Dream party had clinched about 48.6 percent while the opposition United National Movement (ENM) came in…
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East Asia
China walks the talk to share key growth lesson with Africa
Xinhua – Wang Xiangjiang ADDIS ABABA, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) — The inauguration of a Chinese-built Ethiopia-Djibouti railway in Africa is a vivid proof that China is walking the talk, sharing one of the key lessons it has gained following decades of reform and opening up to the outside world. That…
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Central Asia
Uzbekistan to establish another free economic zone
A new free economic zone will be established in Urgut district of Samarkand region in Uzbekistan, said the acting president of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev during his trip to the region, Trend reports. Mirziyoyev visited Samarkand to review the progress in social and economic reforms in the region, the works carried…
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South East Asia
Iran and Vietnam cancel visa regime
Iran and Vietnam have signed two documents for bilateral cooperation in the presence of the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang, Vestnik Kavkaza reports. The first document was signed by the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Vietnamese counterpart Phạm Binh Minh. The agreement…
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Central Asia
Path to self-reliance for Afghanistan
Nematullah Bizhan – The Korea Times The Brussels Conference on Afghanistan this week marks an important opportunity to create a roadmap for the country’s future. While Afghanistan’s current path has led to some progress, it is far from the most direct route to prosperity – not least because of deep…
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