September 17, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
HM King Mohammed VI received this Tuesday a phone call from Senegalese president Macky Sall, says a release of the royal office. President Macky Sall expressed in this phone
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September 17, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
Senior member of the 50-strong committee tasked with amending the 2012 constitution Mohamed Abdel-Aziz said the political system in the new constitution will be balanced between the president and the parliament.
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September 17, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
Armed Forces Spokesman Colonel Ahmed Mohamad Ali asserted that the army has succeeded in the elimination of the hotbeds of the criminal gangs in Sinai, pointing out that the military operations in the peninsula aim to eradicate extremism and terrorism.
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September 17, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
Two years after the fall of the authoritarian regime, Libya faces a number of challenges in ensuring that its democratic transition proceeds peacefully, a United Nations envoy told the Security Council today, noting that recent months have been marked by pronounced political disagreements, a disruption of the country’s oil exports, …
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September 17, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
Libya’s prime minister, Ali Zeidan, has asked Britain to help remove Gadaffi-era weapons from the country, after warnings from the UN that arms are being smuggled to the civil war in neighbouring Syria. During talks with Prime Minister David Cameron at Downing Street, Zeidan said that
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September 17, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
Protesters threw stones at officials from Mali’s newly elected government during a weekend visit to the main northern rebel stronghold, but the reconciliation minister said on Monday that efforts to heal the country’s deep social rifts were on track.
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September 17, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
Egypt’s education authorities have recalled and destroyed thousands of textbooks glorifying the ousted Islamist president Mohammad Mursi and his Muslim Brotherhood group, sources said.
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September 17, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
The British Ministry of Defense said it sent a regiment to Mali for a six-month tour to support training operations for the nation’s military. The Ministry of Defense sent soldiers from the 1st Battalion The Rifles to Mali to support a training mission led by the European Union.
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September 17, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Serbia
Head of the team for negotiations with the EU Tanja Miščević and Branko Ružić, the minister in charge of EU integration, are in Brussels on Tuesday. They are holding a meeting with EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule.
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September 17, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
UN chemical investigators on Monday confirmed the use of sarin nerve agent in an August 21 poison gas attack outside the Syrian capital in a long-awaited report that the United States, Britain and France said proved government forces were responsible. “This is the most significant confirmed use of chemical weapons …
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