First off, a friendly reminder: For all of you planning vacations, remember to leave your grenades, machetes, and chainsaws at home when you pack your carry-on bag for the airport. Welcome to Foreign Policy ’s SitRep. Robbie here, with FP’s Christina Lu. Jack is out on some well-deserved vacation this […]
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Delta Spread Highlights Urgency of Vaccination ‘Last Mile’
If you would like to receive Morning Brief in your inbox every weekday, please sign up here . Here is today’s Foreign Policy brief: The delta variant delays a return to normalcy in the West, fresh protests planned in Colombia , and China aims to provide 2 billion vaccine doses […]
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India’s Watergate Moment
The leaked data for the investigation, provided by the Paris-based nonprofit Forbidden Stories , indicated that my cellphone was first placed on the snooping list in July 2018, when I was a deputy editor at The Indian Express newspaper. That year, I won the prestigious Ramnath Goenka award for excellence […]
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CBIC Launches New Portal To Provide Info On Customs Procedures, Regulatory Compliance
In order to provide free access to information on all customs procedures and regulatory compliance, the Central Board for Indirect Taxes & Customs (CBIC) launched a dedicated portal on Wednesday. With the newly inaugurated portal, all information pertaining to Customs procedures and regulatory compliance for nearly 12,000 Customs Tariff Items […]
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Pakistan PM Imran Khan to prob an investigation on Mandir attackers
Islamabad, Pakistan: Ganesh Mandir in Punjab province of Pakistan was attacked by goons on which Prime Minister Imran Khan said he has orderd an investigation and he’ll make sure that the culprits are caught. He also added that the Mandir will be restored by the government. “Strongly condemn attack on […]
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U.S. Blunts China’s Vaccine Diplomacy in Latin America
U.S. President Joe Biden declared the United States would export up to 80 million vaccines to other countries, and in recent weeks, his administration announced a slew of deliveries to countries in Central and South America—including initial shipments of 2.5 million vaccine doses to Colombia, 2 million doses to Peru, […]
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Present at the Creation of a Climate Alliance—or Climate Conflict
As news pours in almost daily about extreme weather events, the climate crisis is taking on a more and more manifested reality. Meanwhile, the clock of climate diplomacy is ticking too. The long-awaited United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, is now less than 100 days away. If […]