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Violent protests in Georgia highlight the battle for the country’s future. Here’s why it’s important. Blogging Sole

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Live television reports showed police in the former Soviet republic of Georgia beating and arresting an opposition leader last week during a raid on his party offices. The scenes unfolded on the 10th day of violent clashes in the capital Tbilisi between police and demonstrators furious at the Georgian president’s decision to suspend European Union … Read more

Philippines vice president publicly threatens to assassinate country’s president Blogging Sole

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Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte said Saturday she had hired an assassin to kill the president, his wife and the speaker of the House of Representatives if she herself was killed, in a brazen public threat she said was not a joke. Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin spoke of an “active threat” against President Ferdinand Marcos … Read more