L’interception de près d’une demi-tonne de cocaïne au large d’Oran fin juin rappelle d’autres affaires de saisies de stupéfiants dans la région. Dont celle mettant en cause Kamel Chikhi, alias « le boucher ». La chambre d’accusation près la cour d’Alger s’est penchée, ce 30 juin, sur l’affaire des 701 …

Recent weeks have demonstrated that Poland is rudderless and bobbing around on the waves of international politics with no clear course. Poland’s foreign policy can’t find its compass. The Western world is about to experience a redistribution in the global game, but Warsaw is more disoriented than ever. When it …

As the UN court prepares to rule on whether the Serbian State Security Service chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic illegally controlled wartime paramilitary units, BIRN looks at how they were deployed in the Croatian and Bosnian conflicts. Asenior official from the Serbian State Security Service, Franko ‘Frenki’ Simatovic, arrived …