Eurasia Press & News

Iran’s president-elect staked out a hard-line position Monday in his first remarks since his landslide election victory, rejecting the possibility of meeting with President Joe Biden or negotiating Tehran’s ballistic missile program and support of regional militias. The comments by Ebrahim Raisi offered a blunt preview of how Iran might …

Hundreds of Palestinians on Saturday held their third day of violent protests in the West Bank against the Palestinian Authority, following last week’s death of Nizar Banat, a well-known critic of PA President Mahmoud Abbas. Banat reportedly died in custody after being violently arrested and beaten by Abbas’ security forces …

Analysts have broadly welcomed the formation of a new cyber unit to coordinate responses among member states to cyber-incidents, though warn its effectiveness could be compromised by distrust toward EU bodies. The European Commission on Wednesday laid out plans to build a new Joint Cyber Unit to coordinate responses among …

EU leaders said Friday the bloc had rejected a push by Germany and France to relaunch meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin after fierce resistance from member states worried about Moscow’s aggressions. Berlin and Paris blindsided EU counterparts by putting forward a last-minute proposal for the bloc to resume meetings …

U.S. President Joe Biden did not secure a commitment from his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on Wednesday to renew a U.N. cross-border aid operation into Syria, a senior administration official said ahead of an expected showdown over the issue at the United Nations Security Council next month. Washington and several …

Россия постоянно напоминает Западу о недопустимости провокаций — но никогда еще жизнь так быстро не подтверждала наши слова. Утром в среду на Московской конференции по международной безопасности глава Генштаба Валерий Герасимов заявил, что “действия кораблей США и их союзников у российских границ носят явно провокационный характер”, и привел несколько прошлогодних …

C’est l’une des premières mesures prises par Joe Biden : annuler l’interdiction édictée par Donald Trump de s’engager dans l’armée sous une “identité de genre”, celle que les transgenres peuvent faire reconnaître à l’état-civil. Les soldats qui n’auraient pas passé le cap peuvent aussi, désormais, se faire opérer aux frais …

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has much to lose, both domestically and internationally, if the truth comes out. A muddled debate about the origins of the virus serves China just fine. Evading accountability — and suffering no little negative fallout — for unleashing a pandemic on the world that killed …

Samal ajal kui Eestis peeti võidupüha ja jaanipäeva, tegutsesid Saksamaa ja Prantsusmaa juhid diplomaatilistes ringkondades, et eile-täna Brüsselis toimuval EL-i riigipeade ja valitsusjuhtide kohtumisel võetaks teemaks EL-i ja Venemaa suhete uus strateegia. Angela Merkel ja Emmanuel Macron soovivad muu hulgas, et hakataks jälle pidama EL-i ja Vladimir Putini tippkohtumisi, millele …

In one of his first speeches as PM, leader says that while Israel will defend itself, it will also work with allies to block an Iranian bomb, breaking from Netanyahu’s policy Prime Minister Naftali Bennett appeared to hint at Israel’s role in a recent attack on an Iranian nuclear site …