Eurasia News

Bulgaria summons Turkish ambassador over Deputy PM Bozdağ’s remarks

Turkish Ambassador to Bulgaria İsmail Aramaz has been summoned to the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry in order to explain Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ’s recent remarks about Ankara’s intention to gain possession of a Plovdiv mosque and reopen it to prayers.

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Keita pledges to reunite Mali

Mali’s president-elect Ibrahim Boubacar Keita began the daunting task on Tuesday of planning the country’s recovery from political crisis, a military coup and war after his rival conceded defeat at the polls. Official results from the nationwide vote have not been announced, but Somaila Cisse congratulated Keita on his victory …

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Mali awaits election results on Wednesday to officialize Keita’s victory

Though results of Mali’s presidential run-off are not to be released till Wednesday, the officialization of the sweeping victory of Ibrahim Boubacar Keiti (IBK) has turned to be a mere formality, as his rival Soumaila Cisse had admitted defeat on Monday evening and confirmed on Tuesday that he would not …

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Angry Libya Berbers storm national assembly

Members of Libya’s Berber community, angered over what they believe is their marginalisation, stormed the national assembly Tuesday. Berbers “who had been demonstrating outside the seat of the General National Congress, broke in to the chamber… ransacking

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At least 30 killed in Cairo protest crackdown

Egyptian security forces killed at least 30 people on Wednesday when they cleared a camp of Cairo protesters who were demanding the reinstatement of deposed President Mohamed Mursi, his Muslim Brotherhood movement said.

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