Tunisian police on Thursday arrested former Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, who is also a former senior member in the Ennahda Islamist party, on suspicion of money laundering, his lawyer told Reuters. Police in the city of Sousse seized Jebali’s phone and his wife’s phone and took him to an unknown …
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Riyad’la swap, Şam’la sevap
2018’in ekim ayında gazeteci Cemal Kaşıkçı’nın İstanbul’da öldürülmesinin ardından diplomatik ilişkileri kopma noktasına gelen Türkiye ile Suudi Arabistan arasında buzlar eriyor. Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan’ın nisan ayında ziyaret ettiği Suudi Arabistan’dan dün Türkiye’ye üst düzey bir iadeiziyaret gerçekleşti. Bu hafta önce Mısır’a, ardından Ürdün’e giden Suudi Arabistan Veliaht Prensi Muhammed bin Selman, …
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At the plenary session during the 25th year of St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Russia’s President Vladimir Putin lambasted the United States and its Western and European allies, wholeheartedly predicted the end of the unipolar system and bristled at the idea of creating a new global order that might …
Read More »North Macedonia Doubts French Push To Solve Dispute With Bulgaria
As France made last-ditch efforts to unclog North Macedonia’s stalled EU accession process, currently blocked by Bulgaria, ahead of this week’s EU summit, North Macedonian experts expressed strong doubts about the French proposal. At a debate held in Skopje on Monday, experts said that if media leaks about the unpublished …
Read More »How Crypto And CBDCs Can Use Less Energy Than Existing Payment Systems
Most of the world’s central banks have already agreed they should help fight climate change, a critical challenge that necessitates reductions in both energy consumption, which is our focus here, and the carbon emissions associated with the energy consumed. To meet these aims, it’s important to pay attention to the …
Read More »COMMENTAIRE. L’Ukraine dans l’antichambre de l’Union européenne
Lors du sommet des 23 et 24 juin 2022, les pays membres de l’Union européenne auront à émettre un avis unanime sur la demande de l’Ukraine d’obtenir le statut de « candidat » à l’adhésion à l’UE. Un débat difficile qui demandera de surmonter nombre de réserves. L’analyse de Michel …
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Putin macht Litauen und Deutschland als Schwachpunkte der Nato aus. Doch die haben das Glück, Verbündete zu haben und ihnen vertrauen zu dürfen. Ein Kommentar. Christoph von Marschall Es kann einem Angst werden angesichts der rhetorischen Eskalation. Moskau wirft Litauen „feindselige Handlungen“ vor, weil es die EU-Sanktionen gegen Russland auf …
Read More »Great Power Competition Is Coming for the Arctic. NATO Should Prepare
Since Feb. 24, the eyes of the world have been fixed on Eastern Europe. But the events unfolding in and around Ukraine portend great changes for another region: the Arctic. Commonly viewed as a “territory of dialogue,” the Arctic has over the past three decades won a reputation as a …
Read More »Reckoning With the Iraq War Would Strengthen the U.S. Hand on Russia
Ever since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine last week, comparisons to the United States’ 2003 invasion of Iraq have inevitably and understandably emerged. After all, at transformative moments in world history like the one we’re currently witnessing, analysts naturally draw historical analogies to make sense of …
Read More »The U.S. Failure in Afghanistan Is Not Pakistan’s Fault
The anger directed by Americans at Pakistan in the wake of the disorderly end of the U.S. war in Afghanistan is understandable. After all, Pakistan really did give shelter to the Afghan Taliban, something that played a vital role in the Taliban’s eventual victory. However, the reaction in Washington is …
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