Alex is a senior analyst in the Current Developments team with a primary focus on the Americas. He also serves as an editor on The Daily Brief.
Today, high-level ministers of the five littoral states of the Caspian Sea—Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan—will meet in Baku.
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Nigerians head to the polls today to vote in a new National Assembly and to elect the country’s next president.
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Economic ministers from the EU’s 28 member states will gather in Brussels today for an Economic and Financial Affairs Council
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The EU’s foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, will begin a visit to Ethiopia today. The focus of Ms Mogherini’s trip
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Today, Taliban representatives and Afghan politicians will gather in Moscow for two days of peace talks. Last week, the US
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The US is expected to suspend its observance of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) today and mark the beginning
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Leaders from France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus, Greece and Malta will gather in Nicosia today for this year’s Med7 summit—a
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Togo’s coalition of 14 major opposition parties (C14) will hold demonstrations in Lomé today, protesting the results of last month’s
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Leading business leaders and politicians will descend on Davos today to kick off the annual World Economic Forum. The theme
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Representatives of Arab League countries will gather in Beirut today for the Arab Economic and Social Development Summit. On the
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Today, the House of Commons will finally vote on Theresa May’s Brexit deal. The vote was delayed on December 10
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Thousands of members of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) will gather in Durban today for the launch of
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US National Security Adviser John Bolton is in Ankara today to discuss the US’ plans to withdraw from Syria with
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More than 50 bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodoxy will gather in Kiev today for a “Council of Unification”—one of the
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Kosovo’s parliament is expected to pass legislation today to turn the Kosovo Security Force (KSF)—currently a paramilitary organisation—into a national
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Following Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision to postpone a parliamentary vote on Brexit, EU negotiator Michel Barnier will discuss the
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Today, the Christian Democratic Union’s (CDU) 1,001 delegates will gather in Hamburg to elect a new party leader. There are
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Representatives from Morocco and Polisario Front will gather in Geneva today for discussions over the disputed Western Sahara, the first
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Nineteen leaders of the world’s largest economies and an EU representative will gather in Buenos Aires today to kick off
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Representatives from Russia, Turkey and Iran will gather in Astana, Kazakhstan, today for their eleventh round of Syrian peace talks.
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