Challenges before India’s G20 foreign ministers’ meet

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This Thursday and Friday, New Delhi will host the Group of Twenty Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, which is widely expected to provide a peek into the likely scenarios for the G20 Summit in September, also hosted by India. And going by the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting held in Bangalore late last week, […]Continue Reading

Will he stay or go? Putin’s G-20 guessing game

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) talks to Indonesian President Joko Widodo at the Bocharov Ruchei state residence in Sochi on May 18, 2016. Photo: AFP/Host Photo Agency

JAKARTA – The nearer the day, the less likely Russian President Vladimir Putin will show up for the November 14-15 G-20 summit in Bali as the Indonesian government fields an 18,000-strong security force to safeguard world leaders on a holiday island normally overrun with foreign tourists. Although President Joko Widodo still expects Putin to attend, […]Continue Reading

Japan PM reshuffles cabinet as approval ratings slide

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Since Abe’s death a month ago, Japanese media has revealed that many ruling lawmakers – especially those in Abe’s faction – received similar assistance from Unification Church members, some thing the group says fans only do because private citizens. The organisation founded in Korea in 1954, in whose followers areContinue Reading