Eurasia Press & News

The Biden Administration has created a vacuum of leadership on the global stage. If the US further pulls out of Asia, the Indo-Pacific, the Middle East, Ukraine, Latin America — anywhere — the vacuum created will surely be filled by the new axis of China-Russia-Iran. A US pull-out is, most …

Recent leadership appointments by United Arab Emirates President and Abu Dhabi ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MBZ) have clarified the succession during a time of significant regional challenges.There is debate over whether the appointment of a second UAE vice president, joining Dubai emirate leader and UAE Prime Minister …

The notion that a declining power like Russia, which has domestic problems, a shrinking economy, a shrinking demographic base, is somehow a bigger threat than China is laughable. It is indicative of a larger issue, which is that Biden essentially has a soft spot for Beijing. The question, of course, …

The US has told Israel that it is considering advancing a “partial agreement” with Iran based on freezing parts of its nuclear programme in return for lifting some sanctions, Walla news site has reported. The report cited ten Israeli officials, Western diplomats and American experts. According to the sources, President …

Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has said that his government will “teach America a lesson” in the upcoming Turkish elections next month, taking aim at Washington after its Ambassador visited the leading opposition candidate. Speaking at the opening ceremony of his ally, the Nationalist Movement Party’s (MHP) youth branch, the …

A new film looks at the harm done by the practice in Italy of ‘informal readmissions’ by which refugees and migrants were swiftly sent back over the border with Slovenia in 2020. Ignoring a court ruling that suspended the practice, Italy’s new government says it will be revived.

Ahead of the war crimes trial of ex-President Hashim Thaci and three other former guerrilla leaders, there is widespread distrust of the Hague-based Kosovo Specialist Chambers, which many Kosovo Albanians see as biased. Sejdi Zymeri’s house in the village of Likovc/Likovac is close to where the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA …

[The following is excerpted from David Barsamian’s recent interview with Noam Chomsky at AlternativeRadio.org.] David Barsamian: On March 20th, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its latest report. The new IPCC assessment from senior scientists warned that there’s little time to lose in tackling the climate crisis. UN …

A state actor’s involvement in the blast of the Nord Stream pipelines last year is the “absolute main scenario”, said the Swedish prosecutor investigating the attack. A Reuters report — State actor involvement in Nord Stream pipeline attacks is ‘main scenario’, says Swedish investigator, April 6, 2023, — said: A …

The President of the People’s Party, Vuk Jeremić, said that yesterday the implementation of the “French-German” plan for Kosovo and Metohija began with the signing of the Declaration on Enforced and Enforced Disappeared Persons during the 1999 War, which could cost Serbia hundreds of millions, if not billions of euros …