Eurasia

Saudi foreign minister arrives in Syria, meets Assad

The visit is Prince Faisal bin Farhan’s first since the start of the civil war and follows the Syrian foreign minister’s trip to Saudi Arabia last week. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan landed in Syria on Tuesday, the first such visit since the start of the civil war …

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US convoy attacked as rival forces clash in Sudan

Following an attack on the EU ambassador in Khartoum and a US diplomatic convoy, the United States called on the parties to the current conflict to secure the safety of diplomatic personnel. Fear for the safety of diplomatic personnel in Sudan’s capital Khartoum grew after a US diplomatic convoy came …

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Syria FM visits Tunisia in latest Arab embrace of Assad

Mekdad’s three-day visit to Tunis marks the first by a Syrian official since the North African country cut ties with the Syrian regime in February 2012 over its brutal crackdown against peaceful protests. Syria’s Foreign Minister Faisal Mikdad headed to Tunisia on Monday for a three-day visit in the latest …

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Iran flaunts military hardware on Army Day as it threatens Israel

At a moment of escalating war of words, Iran’s president said Israel will face destruction should it strike his country, which the Jewish state has long considered as an existential threat. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi threatened Israel with annihilation in an address marking the Islamic Republic’s Army Day in Tehran …

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Saudi-Israeli normalization drifts further away as Riyadh courts Iran

The planned visit by a Hamas delegation to Riyadh reflects Saudi Arabia’s new diplomatic priorities, which do not include normalization with Israel. Meeting in Jerusalem with US Sen. Lindsey Graham on Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel wants normalization and peace with Saudi Arabia. “We view [normalization] as …

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The largely unknown Albanian candidates for mayors, Jablanović and Pantović are in the race again: Where did anyone run for office in the north of Kosovo?

In the elections for mayors and councilors in majority-Serb municipalities in the North of Kosovo, only two candidates for mayors and one electoral list from the Serbian community ran. Apart from the Civic Initiative “Mitrovica”, which includes one party of the Bosniak minority, there are other Albanian parties, and their …

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Department of State: We expect the fulfillment of earlier agreements and the formation of the ZSO

The US expects Serbia and Kosovo to fulfill everything agreed in the previous negotiations, including the formation of the Community of Municipalities with a Serbian majority, the State Department told the Voice of America this evening in response to a question about the implementation of what was agreed in Ohrid. …

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Vučić’s memories of the negotiations in Brussels: Who ate the tuna and who ordered the pizza?

Even today, ten years after the signing of the Brussels Agreement, he insists that this and other agreements must be fulfilled and the Association of Serbian Municipalities be formed, the attitude and memory of the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, regarding that first agreement on the principles of normalization of …

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Ten years since the signing of the Brussels Agreement: Map for staying in power, Serbs in the north still without ZSO

Now it can be seen that, after ten years, the Brussels process has returned to the beginning in a political sense. Once again, the Serbs are outside the institutions and are boycotting the elections, and they were returned to that again in 2013. The government in Belgrade got ten years, …

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