Eurasia

A landlocked country has received Russia’s Bastion defense defense systems, amateur footage taken by Belarusian citizens on the Russian-Belarusian border. The news is puzzling, especially among Belarusian citizens, who know best that their country has no access to the sea, and the nearest is hundreds of kilometers away.

Asian shares were mostly higher on Monday buoyed by further signs of recovery in China’s manufacturing sector. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 surged 1.4% to 23,295.48, while South Korea’s Kospi gained 1.4% to 2,299.72. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 added 0.4% to 5,951.30. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng jumped 1.2% to 24,386.10, while the …

Iran’s currency, the rial, lost more than half its value so far just in 2020. Iran’s regime is currently running a $200 million budget deficit per week and it is estimated that if the pressure on Tehran continues, the deficit will hit roughly $10 billion by March 2021. This deficit …

Some believe the US space program should emphasize climate change research. If there is no overall increase in space spending, there will be less money for, among other things, defending American assets in space. Brandon Weichert of The Weichert Report said in an interview with Gatestone that there might be …

French President Macron – What He Said and What He Meant? Politics is a game of pretension, saying something and meaning something else. President Emmanuel Macron appears to be no exception in a hybrid political culture of uncanny coincidence to blame Islam for the criminal acts of one individual.

Greece continues to seek its partners around the world to help strengthen its defense on the one hand and to successfully oppose Turkey on the other. Last Thursday [October 29 – ed.], The Greek Foreign Minister held an in-depth and constructive conversation-analysis with his Indian counterpart on this topic.

Sources in Sudan and Egypt have revealed that Saudi Arabia is to pay $335 million to the US in order to accelerate normalisation of ties between the government in Khartoum and Israel, Safa news agency reported on Wednesday.

Israel strongly attacked Turkey and renewed its full support for Greece regarding the East Mediterranean crisis, The New Khalij reported on Friday. According to The New Khalij, an official Israeli Twitter account run by the Foreign Ministry posted: “Israel is following the latest developments in the East Mediterranean. Some unilateral …

The United States announces that it killed seven senior leaders of Al-Qaeda in Syria in an air strike last week as they were meeting near Idlib, US Central Command announced on Monday.

An attack on Belgium was not a matter of “if” but “when,” experts and officials warned. And still, the tragic events of March 22 came as a shock to us all — the counter-terrorism community included. These were the first large-scale suicide bombings coordinated in our country.