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Topic: Balkans

UK troops join NATO exercise in Balkans

1,000 British soldiers are part of a three-month-long operation Chelonia. Other participating nations include Serbia, Romania, Kosovo, Georgia, Croatia, and Moldova.

Why India doesn’t recognise Kosovo’s statehood, despite new Kosovan trade office in Delhi

Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, India falls back on UNSC Resolution 1244 for not recognising the Balkan territory. India-Serbia relationship also plays role.

Serbia and Kosovo to have ‘fantastic relationship’ — Trump announces historic accord

US said Kosovo & Israel ties would normalise, and that Serbia had agreed to move its embassy to Jerusalem next year. But the actual impact of the deal brokered by Trump is uncertain.

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Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.