The indictment identifies categories of risk to the United States and its allies due to his alleged mishandling of classified documents. A scholar of intelligence studies examines four of them.
South African foreign minister Naledi Pandor hosts US secretary of state Antony Blinken for a strategic dialogue.
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Politically and socially, Australia is fast expanding its engagement with India and her neighbours. Universities, in contrast, have wound back their commitment to South Asian studies.
The Australian government has dropped protections for language programs at a time when universities are announcing plans to end Asian languages courses. That’s a mistake in the Asian Century.
While government-level relations are important, nothing beats personal contacts for building strong ties between Australia and India.
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Hindi is the most widely spoken language of India and of the many people of Indian origin in Australia. The teaching of Hindi has been in decline at a time when the need for it has never been greater.
It’s all in the details: the wide-ranging powers hinge on the yet-to-be-defined ‘institutional autonomy’ of foreign partners that enter into agreements with Australian public universities.
U.S. President Donald Trump (L) greets South Korean President Moon Jae-in during a joint news conference at the presidential Blue House on June 30.
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To sustain geo-political relations with French-speaking Pacific nations in the future, we need to change the way French is taught to young Australians.
Thousands marched to demand an end to xenophobic violence in South Africa recently.
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