August 19, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
Tunisia was to push ahead on Monday with talks to resolve a political crisis sparked by the assassination of an opposition politician last month, but with no signs of compromise. The ruling Islamist Ennahda party was to hold fresh talks with the powerful UGTT trade union to try and find …
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August 19, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
Tunisia’s Foreign Ministry summoned on Friday evening the Egyptian ambassador in Tunis. The Foreign Ministry expressed its concern in light
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August 19, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
France on Sunday called on Saudi Arabia and Qatar to help find a solution to the crisis in Egypt as it received senior diplomats from the two rival regional powers.
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August 19, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
As ambassadors from the 28 members of the European Union gather in Brussels to “urgently review” a €5 billion aid package to Egypt, the interim government in Cairo has criticised the move.
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August 19, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
Militants fired rocket-propelled grenades at two buses in the Sinai on Monday killing 24 policemen, as Egypt’s military chief vowed a “forceful” response to violence roiling the Arab world’s most populous nation.
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August 19, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
The European Union (EU) held a first round of emergency talks today on the spiralling bloodshed in Egypt amid warnings the bloc was ready to “urgently review” ties with the country.
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August 16, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Turkey
Turkish Foreign Ministry strongly condemned Thursday’s attacks staged in various regions of Iraqi capital Baghdad killing numerous civilians in a statement released on Friday. “We wish God’s mercy upon those who lost their lives in the sad incidents, offer our condolences to the families of the victims and a speedy …
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August 16, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News, Turkey
Turkey will make every effort to resolve the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Turkish President Abdullah Gul said on Friday, speaking at the third Summit of the Cooperation Council of Turkic-Speaking States in Gabala (Azerbaijan).
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August 16, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
The office of the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has dispatched 33 trucks loaded with core relief items to the Syrians displaced by conflict and trapped in their own territory.
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August 16, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
A United Nations team is poised to fly to Syria to investigate allegations that chemical weapons have been used during the bloody civil war, the secretary-general’s office said Wednesday.
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