Now for our weekly wrap up of global politics with Dr Stephen Hoadley Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Arts. 

Afghanistan update.

Lebanon is in the news again. 

Two disputes in Great Britain.

New hypersonic weapons systems are being developed by several governments.  

An Australian academic has compared Fiji's experience with Covid 19 to that of Papua New Guinea.  

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