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Situation ReportApr 23, 2024 | 16:12 GMT
U.K.: Parliament Approves Controversial Plan To Send Asylum Seekers to Rwanda
The British government's Safety of Rwanda Bill, which aims to save a controversial plan to relocate asylum seekers to the African country, will become law after receiving the backing of the upper house, The Guardian reported on April 23.
READ MORESituation ReportApr 19, 2024 | 16:03 GMT
Iran, Yemen: Iranian Spy Ship Sails Home, Denying Houthis Strategic Intelligence
The Iranian ship MV Behshad, which the United States suspects is a spy ship gathering intelligence for Yemen's Houthi rebels to target ships in the Red Sea, has sailed back to Iran, NBC News reported on April 18.
READ MORESituation ReportApr 19, 2024 | 16:00 GMT
Senegal: Faye Conducts First Visit to Mauritania, Discusses Energy Projects
Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye met with Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani in his first state visit since being inaugurated on April 2, Radio France Internationale reported on April 19.
READ MORESituation ReportApr 18, 2024 | 16:25 GMT
U.K., China: London Considers New Restrictions on Emerging Tech Over Security Risks
Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden said the United Kingdom is considering possible new outbound investment and export restrictions on emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, semiconductors, cryogenic equipment and facial recognition technology due to potential security risks tied to technology transfers to adversarial countries such as Russia and China, Bloomberg reported on April 18.
READ MORESituation ReportApr 16, 2024 | 21:03 GMT
Italy, U.K.: Leaked Reports Highlight Governments' Concern Around AI Oversight
The British government is beginning to draft legislation to regulate artificial intelligence, or AI, the Financial Times reported on April 15.
READ MOREAssessmentsApr 13, 2024 | 23:00 GMT
How Israel Might Respond to the Iranian Attack
Iran's large missile and drone attack will prompt an Israeli retaliation that will focus on reestablishing deterrence and preventing future similar attacks on Israel, but in doing so, Israel risks expanding the conflict, further sinking the region into turmoil and possibly dragging in the United States.
READ MORESnapshotsApr 5, 2024 | 16:06 GMT
The U.S. and U.K. Ramp Up Innovation-Focused AI Collaboration
Despite a recent joint initiative to assess risks from artificial intelligence, the United States and the United Kingdom will maintain their pro-innovation approaches to AI that will keep regulations less robust than those in the European Union, although London's AI laws may grow stricter after the country's upcoming general election. The United States and the United Kingdom signed a first-of-its-kind agreement on AI safety on April 1, becoming the first countries to formally initiate bilateral cooperation on AI testing and risk assessments for emerging AI models. The agreement lays out how the two governments will share technical knowledge, information and talent on AI safety, as well as how they will evaluate private AI models via the United Kingdom's new AI Safety Institute, or AISI, and its U.S. counterpart of the same name. The bilateral agreement and the formation of these two institutes follow the November 2023 AI Safety Summit, which
READ MORESituation ReportApr 3, 2024 | 15:08 GMT
Russia: Arctic LNG 2 Suspends Liquefaction Due to Sanctions, LNG Carrier Shortage
Russian liquified natural gas exporter Novatek suspended production at its newly christened Arctic LNG 2 project due to Western sanctions and a shortage of LNG carriers, Reuters reported on April 2.
READ MORESituation ReportMar 25, 2024 | 21:21 GMT
U.K.: Government Officials Accuse China of Hacking Election Commission, Parliament Members
British Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden publicly accused Chinese cyber threat actors of hacking the election commission and targeting 43 members of parliament in a cyberespionage campaign that reportedly began in August 2021, The New York Times reported on March 25.
READ MOREQuarterly ForecastsMar 25, 2024 | 00:04 GMT
2024 Second-Quarter Forecast
During the quarter, elections in territories covering a joint population of more than 2 billion will determine the political and economic direction of some of the world’s largest economies.
READ MOREAssessmentsMar 20, 2024 | 19:25 GMT
Malaysia's Place in the Race for Semiconductor Business
Malaysia's success in attracting investment for the final stages of the semiconductor production process will likely continue in the coming years, but its push to move up the value chain will prove challenging amid labor shortages and rising U.S.-China tensions. In recent months, industry leaders from the United States such as Intel, NVIDIA, Texas Instruments, Applied Materials, Lam Research, Micron and Hewlett Packard have committed billions of dollars to establishing or expanding their presence in Malaysia, many of them with a focus on the chip industry. The phenomenon goes beyond U.S companies, as Infineon (Germany), Bosch (Germany), AT&S (Austria), Ericsson (Sweden) and Simmtech (South Korea) are likewise rushing to the country, with much of this activity taking place in the past 18 months. In 2023, Malaysia became the top exporter of semiconductors to the United States. Chinese companies -- particularly those that make machinery for semiconductor manufacturing -- are also
READ MORESituation ReportMar 14, 2024 | 21:32 GMT
Yemen: Houthis Set Three Conditions To Ending Maritime Attacks
Yemen's Houthi rebels said they would not cease maritime attacks in the Red Sea until the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza ends, Israel lifts its seige on Gaza and Israel allows humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, Anadolu Agency reported on March 14.
READ MORESituation ReportMar 14, 2024 | 20:05 GMT
U.K., Turkey: Countries To Begin New Free Trade Agreement Talks in June
The United Kingdom and Turkey announced that they would begin negotiating a new free trade agreement starting June 10 that would likely include services, investments and agricultural incentives, Reuters reported on March 14.
READ MORESituation ReportMar 11, 2024 | 19:54 GMT
Yemen: Houthis Launch Largest Drone Attack Yet
U.S. warships shot down at least 28 uncrewed aerial vehicles launched by Yemen's Houthi rebels into the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, the U.S. Central Command announced on March 9.
READ MORESituation ReportMar 6, 2024 | 20:53 GMT
U.K.: Government Unveils Preelection Tax Cuts, Raises Oil and Gas Windfall Levy
The United Kingdom's Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt announced a series of tax cuts as part of the government's Spring Budget unveiled in the House of Commons, The Guardian reported on March 6.
READ MORESituation ReportMar 5, 2024 | 17:38 GMT
Yemen: Damage to Three Undersea Cables Confirmed in Red Sea
Hong Kong-based HGC Global Communications announced that three cable lines under the Red Sea that offer telecommunications and internet have been damaged, AP reported on March 4.
READ MOREAssessmentsMar 2, 2024 | 14:00 GMT
The Weekly Rundown: Pakistan Selects a New Premier, China's Two Sessions
A look at what the coming week will bring -- and a list of recommended RANE articles from the week that was.
READ MOREAnalystFeb 23, 2024 | 19:24 GMT
Joshua Kroeker
Joshua Kroeker is an editor at RANE, using his free time to focus on geopolitical, political and economic issues in the Eurasia and European regions. Joshua holds a bachelor's in history and European studies from the University of British Columbia, a master's degree in Global History from Heidelberg University in Germany and a master's in International Relations with a focus on Russian foreign policy from the State University of St. Petersburg in Russia. Prior to joining RANE, Joshua worked and lived in Germany and Ukraine, working on his Ph.D. in Soviet history and interning at the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, respectively. Joshua is fluent in English, German and Russian and actively learning French and Ukrainian.
AssessmentsFeb 19, 2024 | 14:00 GMT
The Modern Geopolitics of Russia
For much of its history, Russia has been a quintessential geopolitical great power, and it arguably remains so today. Russia's power stems from its vast territory and geography, which spans 11 time zones and possesses large reserves of nearly every strategic resource. The country's amassment of the largest nuclear arsenal in the world has only solidified great power status in more recent decades.
READ MORESituation ReportFeb 14, 2024 | 15:58 GMT
Iraq: Shell Walks Away from Iraq's $11B Nebras Petrochemical Project
British oil and gas company Shell announced that it had decided not to proceed with the Nebras integrated petrochemicals project in Basra, Iraq, following an evaluation of its feasibility, Argus Media reported on Feb. 14.
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