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Contents: Iran’s ‘moderate pragmatist’ Hashemi Rafsanjani dies at age 82; Is Rafsanjani’s death a victory for Iran’s hardliners?

Contents: The Gambia’s president prepares for war with Senegal on January 19; Congo’s president Joseph Kabila refuses to step down after losing election

Contents: New armed militia emerges in Central African Republic: Return, Reclamation, Rehabilitation (3R); Central African Republic crisis war continues to spin out of control

Contents: Israel polarized over conviction of soldier for manslaughter; Protesters clash with police to protest the verdict; Comparison to Pakistan murder of Salman Taseer

Contents: Video emerges from Burma (Myanmar) showing police beating Rohingya Muslims; Syrian opposition groups suspend negotiations of peace talks

Contents: Istanbul Turkey New Year’s terror attack compared to Paris and Orlando attacks; Terror attacks expose deep divisions in Turkey’s society

Contents: In New Year’s address, Taiwan’s president responds to military threats from China; Did Taiwan’s president say that Taiwan is ‘an independent, sovereign country’?; Taiwan president’s planned US visit angers China even more

Contents: Mongolia’s herders faces a ‘dzud’ weather catastrophe; China punishes Mongolia for Dalai Lama visit during financial crisis

Contents: Bank run worsens Italy’s banking crisis; Following the money, Sao Tome and Principe switches allegiance from Taiwan to China

Contents: Palestinians declare a defeat for the forces of darkness; Statements by diplomats show they live in fantasyland; Israel’s Netanyahu orders retaliation against the United Nations

Contents: Greece evokes Dickens’ Christmas Carol, calling its lenders ‘Ebenezer Scrooge’; European lenders relent and unblock the frozen bailout loan

The views in this World View article are those of the author, John Xenakis, based on Generational Dynamics analyses of historic and current events, and do not necessarily represent the views of Algora Publishing.

Contents: UN Security Council fails to impose arms embargo on South Sudan; Leaders of South Sudan and Syria following parallel paths to genocide

Contents: Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin both call for nuclear weapons increase; Germany criticized for too few CCTV cameras, and Britain for too many

Contents: Italy announces bank bailout that will ‘bail in’ ordinary depositors; European officials refuse to unblock the next bailout loan to Greece

Contents: Man who shot Russia’s ambassador in Turkey was in security forces; Turkey and Russia blame Fethullah Gulen and the US for the assassination; Both Turkey and Russia stand to gain by blaming US for assassination

Contents: Russia’s ambassador to Turkey shot dead in Ankara; Large truck kills 12 driving into a crowded Berlin market

Contents: China says it will back down over US military drone seizure in South China Sea; Chinese bombers circling Taiwan raise talk of war during Trump’s first term

Contents: Syria’s Bashar al-Assad calls Aleppo’s ‘liberation’ a historic event; Syria and Russia suffer a big military setback in Palmyra; Syria’s civil war shows similarities to America’s Vietnam war

Contents: Russia and Japan fail to agree on ending World War II; Former UN leader Ban Ki-moon may run for president of South Korea

Contents: India-Pakistan belligerent war of words continues to escalate; World Bank declines to mediate Pakistan-India water dispute; India celebrates its 1971 victory over Pakistan

Contents: Greece financial crisis threatened after Tsipras announces new spending program; IMF says that Greece’s budget must be ‘more growth-friendly’

Contents: Syria’s Al-Assad, Russia, Iran and Hezbollah score victory in Aleppo; US’s Samantha Power makes excoriating attack on Syria’s al-Assad, Russia, Iran; Human Rights Watch reveals more ethnic cleansing imagery from Burma (Myanmar)

Contents: Egypt’s Christians demand revenge after Sunday’s church bombing; Italy’s bank crisis seems likely to cost thousands of people their savings

Contents: Furious Turkey vows revenge, as PKK/TAK takes credit for Istanbul bombing; Terror bombing of Coptic Christian church in Cairo Egypt kills 25; Europeans call Cairo bombing ‘terror’, but not the Istanbul bombing

Contents: A new terrorist bombing in Istanbul Turkey kills dozens; Erdogan says some Greek islands should really belong to Turkey; Greece delays extraditing Turkish officers implicated in coup attempt

Contents: Ukraine still on track to host Eurovision song contest in 2017; Ukraine war: fighting just to carry on fighting; EU agrees to grant visa-free travel to people of Ukraine and Georgia

Contents: Philippines to reject US use of its bases for South China Sea patrols; China says its South China Sea military buildup is a boon to the world; Vietnam and Australia reject China’s claims

Contents: Venezuela to print 20,000 Bolivar note as currency; Zimbabwe introduces a new currency, ‘bond notes’

Contents: Evidence of Burma ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas continues to mount; Burma’s Rohingya attacks generate calls for military action in Malaysia; Jihadists become radicalized by the Rohingya slaughter

Contents: China and Russia in military competition in Tajikistan; Russia promises Tajikistan a ‘large quantity’ of military aircraft

Contents: No war erupted from Trump’s ten minute phone call with Taiwan’s Tsai Ing-wen; From the Truman Doctrine to renewed nationalism

Contents: India’s Narendra Modi threatens to divert water from Pakistan to India’s farmers; Dangerous tensions continue in Kashmir; India says that Modi’s ‘demonetization’ program reduced Kashmir violence

Contents: Sunday’s referendum in Italy threatens EU’s stability; Referendum vote could affect stability of Italy’s troubled banks

Contents: Mediterranean migrant traffic to Italy and Greece continues, despite cold weather; Europeans wonder if Turkey will reopen the refugee floodgates

Contents: Mahmoud Abbas, 81, reelected leader of Fatah/Palestinian Authority; Hopes again grow for Gaza-West Bank unity government