Bolsonaro has been under a lot of pressure from China skeptics within his own government, and Washington, to exclude tech giant Huawei from the bidding wars. But the process has not been smooth sailing because, well: China. Indeed, it's a lucrative prospect for telecom companies in a country where more than three-quarters of the population (or roughly 190 million people) are connected to the World Wide Web. In recent days, telecom firms have been vying to get a piece of the pie as the tender process heats up. Is China shut out of Brazil's 5G comp? Earlier this year, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro set an ambitious deadline to roll out 5G broadband вЂ“ which provides much faster internet connections - by July 2022. Now it's looking like he may have unleashed the very forces that could tear the country apart and drive him from office - or worse. When Abiy came to power after popular protests in 2018, he was hailed for liberalizing what was formerly an extremely repressive government (controlled, as it happens, by the TPLF). The US, which has threatened to suspend Ethiopia's trade preferences over the government's alleged war crimes, is currently trying to broker a cease-fire. The UN says all sides in the conflict have committed abuses. The Tigray-Oromo alliance, called the United Front of Ethiopian Federalist Forces, has called for Abiy's immediate ouster, either by negotiation or by force, and for the prosecution of government officials for war crimes. The TPLF, now in alliance with the Oromo Liberation Army - which claims to represent Ethiopia's largest ethnic group - have swept towards the capital Addis Ababa in recent days, prompting the embattled Abiy to call on civilians to take up arms in defense of the city. The Tigray People's Liberation Front, which has been locked in a brutal year-long civil war against Ethiopian government forces, has now teamed up with another powerful militant outfit that wants to oust Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.

Opposition forces unite in Ethiopia's civil war. But each side accused the other of being intransigent and, for the second winter in a row, Asia's two giants will keep their forces in areas where the temperature regularly drops to -30 degrees Celsius. Over the weekend, commanders from each side met вЂ“ for the 13th time вЂ“ to hash out an agreement on who controls what. Now each side maintains thousands of heavily armed troops, backed by artillery and air power, along the boundary. The two sides even came to blows last summer hand-to-hand combat between border guards left 20 Indians and four Chinese dead. With the current legislature's mandate set to expire in just ten days, the Czech Republic's relatively young democracy is now at risk of a serious constitutional crisis.Д¬hina-India high-altitude talks crash again: For more than a year now, China and India have been locked in a tense border standoff high in the Himalayas. If Zeman is out of the picture, the post-election responsibilities would fall to the speaker of parliament, but he's a member of BabiЕЎ' party too. That's BabiЕЎ' party, which was beaten only by a coalition of parties. Zeman said before the vote that he'd ask the party that won the most votes to form a government. But the plot thickens! The Together bloc has announced it will seek to form a government with a center-left opposition group led by the Czech Pirate party, but they can't do so officially unless they are asked to by Czech President MiloЕЎ Zeman, a staunch BabiЕЎ ally who was taken to a hospital over the weekend and remains in intensive care.

Is the Czech Republic headed for a constitutional crisis? The country's billionaire populist prime minister Andrej BabiЕЎ suffered a shock defeat in elections over the weekend, edged out by a center-right 'Together' coalition that agrees on little beyond the need to defeat him. Iraq's current prime minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, in some ways fits the bill, having played a key role in mediating negotiations between longtime rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran. Gulf countries and the US are hoping for a moderate who can ensure the stability of Iraq and challenge Iran's clout in the region. Preliminary results show that no candidate is on a path to win a clear majority, meaning that negotiations to choose a PM tasked with forming a government could take weeks or even months. The election came as Iraq grapples with crumbling infrastructure, a moribund economy, and ongoing sectarian strife among Shia, Sunni, and Kurdish players, with Iran meddling on behalf of the Shia groups. Lack of enthusiasm for the vote вЂ“ the first since mass protests in 2019 over political corruption and economic stagnation prompted a fierce crackdown вЂ“ shows the depths of popular dissatisfaction with the political elite. Iraq's dud of an election: Just 41 percent of eligible Iraqi voters showed up at the polls this weekend, the lowest turnout in the post-Saddam Hussein era.

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