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Indonesia faces a ballooning foreign debt that runs into hundreds of billions of dollars, but the Indonesian government has ...

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After Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they had struck US military targets in Bahrain in July 2026, social media posts ...

In recent weeks, Nigeria’s fight against terrorism has seen the army targeting supplies intended for jihadists who have been ...

Weeks of protests by the social media-driven Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) in India led to the resignation of the country's ...