Eurasia

The Paris attacks trial resumed on Tuesday with police evidence from Brussels on the background and Syrian activities of Mohamed Abrini. Abrini did not hear what was said about him, since he is one of five accused who continue to boycott the trial in protest against Belgian police witnesses being …

The opening of Sheikh Baqir al-Irawani’s office in Najaf indicates that he may be preparing to be one of the successors to 92-year-old Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, head of the Shiite religious authority. It appears that the sudden death of Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammed Saeed al-Hakim, who was the most …

The EU Set the Stage for Belarus’s Cynical Ploy Over the past month, as thousands of migrants gathered on Belarus’s border with Poland and tried to cross into the European Union, some European leaders accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of engaging in a “hybrid war.” In an effort to put …

The Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) said on Wednesday it had recaptured more than eight towns from the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), including the historic town of Lalibela, helping push the TPLF further back from the capital. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s office announced on Wednesday that Lalibela had …

NATO allies are concerned about Russia’s military build-up along the border with Ukraine, and Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Russia will face serious consequences if it once again invades the country. Stoltenberg spoke to the Reuters NEXT Global Conference at the conclusion of the NATO Foreign Ministers meeting in Riga, …

The Kremlin has downplayed a renewed threat by Belarusian strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka to cut Russian gas supplies to the European Union in response to Poland’s possible move to shut down its border with Belarus over an ongoing migrant crisis. The EU has blamed Lukashenka’s regime for funeling thousands of migrants …

Možná to velká část z nás tak necítí, ale v posledních třiceti letech jsme se Německu dokázali přiblížit. Ne tolik, jak jsme si v roce 1989 představovali. Do německých platů, rychlovlaků, úrovně školství, dálnic a celkového fungování státu máme pořád daleko. Už to není vzdálenost několika světelných let jako v …

If insecurity in Burkina Faso keeps up, the West African nation could spiral into a humanitarian and human rights “catastrophe,” the U.N. human rights chief said Wednesday. Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, spoke to The Associated Press during her first visit to the war-weakened nation, which …

30 листопада в Ризі розпочинається зустріч міністрів закордонних справ країн-членів НАТО. Уже в неділю можновладні гості прибули в латвійську столицю й устигли провести низку зустрічей, зокрема з прем’єр-міністром Латвії. Перемовини міністрів закордонних справ НАТО відбуваються у складній безпековій ситуації через збільшення напруги в різних точках східного флангу Північноатлантичного альянсу. На …

Mit Waffen für die Ukraine kann der Westen Russlands Kosten für einen Angriff erhöhen. Schwere Zeiten für die Neulinge in der Ampel-Regierung. Wenn es teuer wird, überlegt es sich der Kunde noch einmal. In dem Punkt funktioniert die Friedenssicherung nicht viel anders als der private Konsum. Russland lässt Zehntausende Soldaten …