URUS/CLEARPIC: Uzbekistan privatisation tracker

By Ben Aris in Berlin Privatisation in Uzbekistan is no new idea. Under the late President Islam Karimov, programmes in the late 1990s and 2000s existed and were ambitious in scope. But although multiple small state-owned enterprises (SOEs) did get pri…

Israel strikes Beirut in new attack, says military

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it carried out a new precision strike on Beirut, Lebanon, early Wednesday morning, in an escalation of regional tensions. ‘The Israel Defense Forces conducted a precision strike on Beirut,’ the IDF said in a stateme…