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The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party begins on October 16 in Beijing. It will chart out the course of action for the next five years in terms of Chinese domestic politics, economy and also foreign policy, with the objective of catapulting the world’s largest populated country with the second biggest economy to the absolute forefront in the global stage by 2049 — the centennial year of the Communist republic’s formation.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has blown new life into Turkey’s vision of a Turkic world that stretches from Anatolia to Xinjiang in north-western China.

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman and the erstwhile Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan’s threat to move the court over the recent audio leaks questioning how and who did leak them suggests that that the PTI chief seems to be on the lookout for an escape from the accusation through a juridical route. The statement he made on Monday is a sequel to a steady stream of audio recording that were allegedly candid conversations never meant to be heard by the public, of government figures in the Prime Minister’s Office.

The Ukraine war is taking a turn after seven and a half months which is worrying strategic experts and militaries in Europe in new ways.

Proponents of a moderate Islam that embraces tolerance, diversity, and pluralism may be betting on the wrong horse by supporting Muslim scholars on autocrats' payroll. Polling in the Middle East seems to confirm that state-sponsored clerics lack credibility.

NEW YORK: News reports this week continued to say Ukrainian forces were advancing in the Kherson area in the south of Ukraine, but there were no specifics beyond those general statements or assessments about whether they would soon retake the city.

Brazil, the largest populated country in Latin America, failed to elect its next President in the national elections held on October 2 as the front runner in opinion polls Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the left-wing former president got 48.4 per cent of the votes polled-slightly less than the required 50 per cent. The right-wing opponent, the current president Jair Bolsonaro got 43.2 per cent much more than anticipated by the political analysts.

In a mirror image of recent polling in the Middle East, a just-published survey of Muslims in Southeast Asia suggests Islam’s central role in people’s daily lives and choices.

Since 1980 there was a concentrated effort of multinationals to impose structural adjustment on all nations through IMF and World Bank.

When Russia, on February 24, 2022 waged a full scale military invasion of Ukraine, many a people and President Putin himself thought that it would be a cakewalk like Russia’s previous invasion of Crimea. But since then the Ukrainians are fighting back vigorously under Volodymyr Zelensky with military and financial support from US and its allies. And after 216 days of bloody war, Russia has to retreat from its occupied area in Kharkiv region.