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January 16, 2023 Balkans, Eurasia
Ministar spoljnih poslova Srbije Ivica Dačić rekao je da Kosovo ima dovoljan broj glasova za prijem u Savet Evrope (SE), s obzirom na broj zemalja u tom telu koje su ga priznale, ali da je pitanje da li sve one smatraju da o toj temi sada treba razgovarati. „Kada je …
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January 16, 2023 Balkans, Eurasia
Direktor RTV KiM Isak Vorgučić kaže da za Danas da ne očekuje da kosovsko tužilaštvo postupi profesionalno i moralno u slučaju ranjavanja dečaka i mladića srpske nacionalnosti u Štrpcu, na koje je za Badnji dan pucao pripadnik Kosovskih bezbednosnih snaga, a kao ključan ističe pritisak albanske javnosti na KiM. S. …
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January 16, 2023 Eurasia, Middle Orient
The Islamic State (ISIS) jihadi group, which grew out of Al-Qaeda in Iraq during the first two decades of the 21st century and expanded into Syria following the outbreak of the ongoing civil war there, has remained an international jihadi militant organization despite the loss of its territory in Iraq …
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January 13, 2023 Eurasia
Predictions about the future of war follow narratives and intellectual fashions. At the beginning of the millennium, the emergence of high-tech drones—the U.S. military’s all-seeing eyes in Afghanistan—fueled futuristic visions of battles contested by robots and computers. By the mid-2010s, the success of Russian information operations, election interference, and weaponized …
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January 13, 2023 Balkans, Eurasia, Macedonia
The atmosphere in the joint North Macedonia-Bulgaria history commission has deteriorated, and if things don’t improve the current deadlock will continue, Petar Todorov, a Macedonian member of the commission, told BIRN. Until the spring of 2018, the members of the history commission with Bulgaria, as it is commonly called in …
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January 13, 2023 Balkans, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia
Bosnia enters 2023 with a new state government and the fillip of EU candidate status. But will anything really change? To the untrained eye, 2023 might look like a year filled with long-awaited change for Bosnia and Herzegovina as a newly-minted candidate for European Union membership. In truth, say experts, …
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January 13, 2023 Balkans, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia
Courts across the country have issued at least 172 warrants for the arrests of war crimes suspects, indictees and convicts who can’t be brought to justice because they are no longer in Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN has learned. When Sakib Mahmuljin, the former commander of the Bosnian Army’s Third Corps, …
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January 13, 2023 Eurasia, Romania
Moldova’s pro-European leaders may have the will to reform the justice system in the race for EU accession talks, but capacity is another matter. Moldova will get first feedback from the European Commission concerning its progress as a membership candidate in mid-2023, and a fuller picture in the autumn. If …
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January 13, 2023 Eurasia
Why the World Bank Needs to Get in the Game Any serious effort to grapple with climate change must begin by reckoning with the math involved in transitioning to so-called net-zero carbon emissions—that is, the point at which humans are removing as much carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they …
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January 13, 2023 Africa, Eurasia, Middle Orient
A high-ranking Kurdish delegation led by Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani met with officials in Baghdad over energy, security and finance disputes — but no resolution is expected. Iraqi Prime Minister Muhammad Shia al-Sudani received the prime minister of Iraq’s Kurdistan region, Masrour Barzani, on Wednesday in Baghdad where …
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