Eurasia Press & News
La transition énergétique fera inévitablement des gagnants et des perdants. Et si les hydrocarbures n’ont plus vraiment bonne presse, la découverte de nouvelles réserves continue d’être vécue comme un signe d’espoir pour des pays en quête d’émergence. Décryptage en infographies. Avec la « méga découverte » pétrolière au large du …
Read More »AUKUS: A Pact Of Global Security Or A Threat To Global Peace? – OpEd
As a recent development, a maritime defense pact has been initiated between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States named as (AUKUS). The nature of the pact elaborates that Australia would be building its first nuclear-powered submarines by the technology and assistance acquired from the United Kingdom and the …
Read More »Examining Belarus’ Growing Reliance On Russia – Analysis
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Belarus was the rare former Soviet state that remained strategically aligned with the Russian Federation. In 1999, Russia and Belarus reached an agreement to become a “union state,” which aimed to create a USSR-like federation with a similar government, currency, flag, and army. …
Read More »Will US Drawdown in Iraq Reboot Islamic State Militants?
In Mosul’s Old City, the rule of the Islamic State group is not a distant memory of horrors long past. On every block are reminders: bombed out houses, piles of rubble and families toiling daily, just to survive. “An IS family lived over there,” says Sahara Mahmoud, a mother of …
Read More »U.S. Antigovernment Groups Are Influencing the French Far Right
The top French intelligence official, who is visiting Washington this week, said QAnon and other conspiracy theories were spreading to Europe. Right-wing extremist groups in the United States have been influencing French groups, spreading antigovernment conspiracy theories in Europe, the top French intelligence official said on Wednesday. The official, Laurent …
Read More »Russia draws red lines for US
Moscow has categorically stated that it will not accept a US military presence in the Central Asian region. This reiteration has come at the level of Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov who told Tass that Afghanistan had been discussed at a meeting with Victoria Nuland, the visiting US Undersecretary …
Read More »UN Human Rights Council Abandons Yemen
The UN Human Rights Council has quashed an ongoing investigation into possible war crimes in Yemen. The HRC rejected a draft resolution on October 7 which would have continued the mandate of the UN Group of Eminent Independent and Regional Experts on Yemen (GEE) to investigate war crimes and human …
Read More »Iranian and Pakistani military leaders discuss cooperation, Afghanistan
The military chiefs of staff of Iran and Pakistan met near Islamabad and pledged to strengthen ties. Iranian and Pakistani military leaders vowed to improved cooperation and discussed Afghanistan on Wednesday. Maj. Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces, met his Pakistani counterpart Gen. Nadeem …
Read More »Iraqi and Kurdish prime ministers discuss election tensions in Kirkuk
Tens of Kurdish residents of disputed Kirkuk were arrested and later released after celebrating the victory of Kurdish parties in the election. The heads of the Kurdistan Region and federal governments in Iraq attempted on Wednesday to defuse election tensions in the disputed city of Kirkuk.
Read More »Six killed in shooting at Hezbollah protest over Beirut explosion probe
Hezbollah blamed the Christian political party the Lebanese Forces for the attack. Several people were killed in Beirut Thursday in a shooting at a protest. A total of six people have been confirmed dead so far in addition to 32 wounded in relation to the shooting in south Beirut’s Tayouneh …
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