October 2, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Turkey
Turkish President Abdullah Gul on Tuesday warned of an emergence of radical Islamists in Syria in the neighbor’s long-running armed conflict. “Civil war is the most merciless of wars. As these conflicts drag out, radicalism and extremism take root to establish their own infrastructure and threaten not only the
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October 2, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
International disarmament experts arrived Tuesday in the Syrian capital to begin the daunting task of cataloguing the country’s arsenal of chemical weapons ahead of its destruction. Nineteen inspectors from The Hague-based Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons travelled by road from Lebanon a day after UN experts left Damascus after probing alleged gas …
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October 2, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Magreb, Magreb News
Torture is widespread in Libyan detention centres run by brigades which emerged during the 2011 revolution, a UN report said Tuesday, urging Tripoli to bring all facilities under full state control. “The report indicates that torture is widespread and most
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October 2, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi called on Tuesday for a quick political transition to restore stability after he directed the overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and installed an interim government.
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October 1, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon met here late Monday with Nabil El-Arabi, Secretary General of the Arab League, discussing with him issues pertaining to the Syrian crisis. Ban briefed his counterpart on recent developments at the United Nations relating to Syria and expressed strong hopes that the successful
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October 1, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
Russian-Georgian relations were discussed by the Prime Minister of Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili, at a meeting with members of EU Council’s Political and Security Committee.
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October 1, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubakar Keita has cut short a visit to France and returned home to deal with an upsurge in violence by Tuareg tribesmen in northern Mali, official sources confirmed. The French parliamentary Foreign Affairs Commission said that
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October 1, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow together with ambassadors, commanders and other representatives from the Alliance and NATO’s Military Committee observed Allied naval forces in action in the Mediterranean Sea on Monday. A large fleet of warships from NATO’s Response Force (NRF) are currently conducting manoeuvres as part of the …
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October 1, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
More than three dozen people remain unaccounted for almost a week after the end of the four-day terrorist attack on Nairobi’s Westgate Mall that killed at least 67, the head of the Kenyan Red Cross said yesterday. The Red Cross’ report of 39 missing people conflicts with the government’s contention …
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October 1, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Magreb, Magreb News
Moroccan Foreign Minister Saad Dine El Otmani took to the podium of the United Nations General Assembly today to decry the lack of international aid and other obstacles that prevent Africa from reaching its full potential.
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