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MICHIGAN, U.S.-The celebration of the beginning of the New Year will be brief. The old year has passed into history, but its crises persist and will intensify. As 2023 begins, the COVID-19 pandemic is entering its fourth year with no end in sight. The US-NATO war against Russia continues to escalate. 

WASHINGTON, U.S.--This week Iraq came one giant step closer to forming a government as the parliament elected Abdul Latif Rashid as president who then designated Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani as prime minister.

BEIJING, China--Political polarization will continue to deepen and political violence is likely to happen during the following election, Chinese experts predicted as far-right incumbent Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his leftist rival former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva are set for a runoff election at the end of this month after a tighter than expected first round.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--The recent remarks by Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Religious Affairs) Datuk Idris Ahmad calling on Muslims in the country not to attend the Bon Odori festival gives us Malaysians an opportunity to reflect on the principle of the separation of religion from the state and politics.

NEW YORK, U.S.--Pro-abortion protestors have assembled in front of Justice Samuel Alito's family home in an obvious effort to intimidate or punish him. It will not change his draft opinion regarding the overruling of Roe v. Wade, but the question arises: are such protests legal and/or desirable?

SOKOTO, Nigeria--Britain’s Westminster Magistrate’s Court issued a formal order on Wednesday to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face espionage charges.

NEW YORK, U.S.--Dark money. The words evoke sinister plots, secret organizations and conspiracies fit for a James Bond villain. We hear about dark money in politics, dark money in the elections and dark money supporting a web of organizations dedicated to undermining the American experiment.

HONG KONG, China--For 17 long years, Mukhtar Mai fought for justice after being gang-raped and paraded naked in a remote village in Pakistan’s Punjab province in 2002.

WASHINGTON, U.S.--Election protests have shaped Philippine politics for the past three decades and there are signs that the upcoming 2022 presidential elections will be similarly divisive.