27 abril, 2020
por Felipe Sahagún
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Global military spending in 2019 (SIPRI)

Shashank Joshi✔@shashj

My piece for @TheEconomist looking at newly published @SIPRIorg figures on global military spending, which at $1.9trn stands at the highest level in real-terms since the end of the cold war—and is now likely to fall as covid-19 tanks the world economy https://www.economist.com/international/2020/04/26/global-arms-spending-is-rising-but-covid-19-will-trim-budgets …

Global military spending saw largest increase in decade in 2019; China, India in top 3: Study

While the US drove the global growth, China and India — the top Asian military spenders — were respectively the second- and third-largest military spenders in the world, the report said. economictimes.indiatimes.com 10:54 AM – Apr 27, 2020

Global military expenditure increased 3.6% in 2019. 1 -US, 2-China 3-India…. @SIPRIorg https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/global-military-spending-saw-largest-increase-in-decade-in-2019-china-india-in-top-3-study/articleshow/75404166.cms … v @EconomicTimes

GLOBAL ARMS SPENDING 2019 (The Economist)

WHY RUSSIAN MILITARY EXPENDITURE IS MUCH HIGHER THAN COMMONLY UNDERSTOOD (AS IS CHINA’S) (Wzr on the Rocks)

25 abril, 2020
por Felipe Sahagún
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Pourquoi l’Espagne est un des pays les plus frappés par le coronavirus? (LaLibre.es)

La Libre.be

AFP

En Espagne, troisième pays comptant le plus de morts du Covid-19, le virus s’est répandu rapidement sans être détecté, en particulier parmi les personnes âgées, selon les experts interrogés par l’AFP qui expliquent l’ampleur du bilan notamment par le mode de vie et les contacts étroits entre générations.

Si l’Espagne compte plus de morts par habitant que tout autre pays à l’exception de la Belgique, le taux de décès parmi les cas confirmés y est de 10,4%, inférieur à celui de l’Italie, de la France ou du Royaume-Uni. Continue leyendo →

25 abril, 2020
por Felipe Sahagún
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Is Covid-19 a game-changer for the Middle East and the Maghreb?

A cross analysis by Michel Duclos and Hakim El Karoui, experts of the Middle East and MENA, for Institut Montaigne institutmontaigne.org 12:28 PM – Apr 25, 2020

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25 abril, 2020
por Felipe Sahagún
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Balfour Declaration at 100: seeds of discord

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhgRS6zLBiE

The Balfour Declaration was a public promise by the British government during World War One, announcing support for the establishment of «a national home for the Jewish people» in Palestine. Palestine was still a part of the Ottoman Empire at the time, with a minority Jewish population.

The 67-word document, in the form of a letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to the prominent British Jewish figure, Lord Rothschild, dated November 2, 1917, read:

His Majesty’s government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.

Whatever its real intentions, the declaration has had a profound impact on the Middle East and its people; and its effects still resonate across the region today.

…MORE

Balfour 100 years on: Salvation or betrayal?

A century since the Balfour Declaration

Balfour 100 years on: salvation or betrayal? – UpFront

Balfour: UK government ‘should hang its head in shame’

Palestinians welcome Corbyn’s Balfour celebration snub

Perfidious Albion and Israel-Palestine

24 abril, 2020
por Felipe Sahagún
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