Eurasia Press & News

LIBYA Candidates in Libya’s 24 December presidential election are turning to the courts in likely futile last-ditch attempts to bar controversial rivals from the race. A local court ordered the electoral commission Wednesday to drop Khalifa Haftar, head of the military coalition that launched a war against Tripoli in 2019, …

Komisja Europejska chce ułatwić Polsce walkę z hybrydowymi atakami z Białorusi. Propozycja ma zalegalizować praktyki, stosowane przez nasze służby na granicy – co jest złą wiadomością dla krytykującej rząd opozycji i aktywistów, organizujących pomoc dla migrantów, przysyłanych przez Łukaszenkę.Nielegalne przekroczenie granicy Unii Europejskiej ma mocno ograniczyć migrantom prawo do ubiegania …

Die Unterstützungsbekundungen der Nato für die Ukraine sind leeres Geschwätz. Bei einem Einmarsch Russlands würde die Nato nichts tun. Die Kreml-Astrologie hat dieser Tage wieder Hochkonjunktur. Russlands Präsident Wladimir Putin lässt 115.000 Soldaten an der Grenze zur Ukraine aufmarschieren und alle Welt fragt sich, warum nur. Geht es lediglich um …

Six staff of the Borno State Ministry of Works are said to have been abducted by suspected members of the Boko Haram/Islamic State West Africa Province terrorist group on Wednesday. The six members of staff were kidnapped while supervising the construction of the 45km Chibok-Damboa road, Vanguard reports. According to …

The Paris attacks trial resumed on Tuesday with police evidence from Brussels on the background and Syrian activities of Mohamed Abrini. Abrini did not hear what was said about him, since he is one of five accused who continue to boycott the trial in protest against Belgian police witnesses being …

For Jerusalem, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s intentions for better relations need to be backed up with actions. Israel’s President Isaac Herzog met Dec. 1 with Natali and Mordi Oknin, who were liberated two weeks ago from an eight-day detention in Turkey. The couple thanked the president for his efforts …

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called for an “immediate cessation of negotiations” in Vienna. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett urged the United States on Thursday to immediately call off the seventh round of indirect negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program. In a phone call with US Secretary of State …

The opening of Sheikh Baqir al-Irawani’s office in Najaf indicates that he may be preparing to be one of the successors to 92-year-old Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, head of the Shiite religious authority. It appears that the sudden death of Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammed Saeed al-Hakim, who was the most …

The EU Set the Stage for Belarus’s Cynical Ploy Over the past month, as thousands of migrants gathered on Belarus’s border with Poland and tried to cross into the European Union, some European leaders accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of engaging in a “hybrid war.” In an effort to put …

The Sectarian Resurgence in the Post-American Middle East The Biden administration’s mantra for the Middle East is simple: “end the ‘forever wars.’” The White House is preoccupied with managing the challenge posed by China and aims to disentangle the United States from the Middle East’s seemingly endless and unwinnable conflicts. …