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MENASource

Jan 15, 2014

Top News: Day Two of the Referendum Marked with Arrests and Boycotts

By MENASource

Undeterred after a day of sporadic violence, Egyptians on Wednesday lined up to vote on the second and final day of a key referendum on the country’s new constitution. Supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi blocked the Cairo Metro on Wednesday afternoon as they marched along the track of the southern Ain Helwan station. They […]

NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Alexander Vershbow in Tel Aviv

NATOSource

Jan 15, 2014

Turkey Reassured that NATO Missile Shield Not Designed for Israel

By Dan Williams, Reuters

Turkey has accepted assurances a planned NATO missile defense system in which it is playing a part is not designed to protect Israel as well, the alliance’s deputy secretary-general said on Wednesday.

Israel Missile Defense

MENASource

Jan 15, 2014

Top News: Day Two of the Referendum Marked with Arrests and Boycotts

By EgyptSource

Undeterred after a day of sporadic violence, Egyptians on Wednesday lined up to vote on the second and final day of a key referendum on the country’s new constitution.

MENASource

Jan 15, 2014

EconSource Headlines- January 15, 2014

By EconSource

Follow the latest in economic news and developments about the Arab transition countries. 

MENASource

Jan 15, 2014

Egypt’s Constitutional Referendum [Liveblog January 15]

By EgyptSource

With polling stations opening across Egypt and voting underway for the second day in the constitutional referendum, keep up with live updates on EgyptSource here

North Africa Political Reform

New Atlanticist

Jan 15, 2014

Overblown Rhetoric Exaggerates Proliferation Risks of Japan-Turkey Nuclear Cooperation

By Jessica Varnum

The international community faces many grave nuclear proliferation challenges. Possible nuclear energy cooperation between Japan and Turkey is not one of them, although a January 8th editorial in Japan’s second most widely read newspaper, the Asahi Shimbun, suggested otherwise. It  called for an “urgent rethink” of the bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement currently under consideration by […]

Japan Nuclear Nonproliferation
Italian Defense Minister Mario Mauro

NATOSource

Jan 14, 2014

Libya Unrest Worries Italy

By AFP

Italy is seriously concerned over unrest in Libya and the government’s ability to rein in local militias, Defence Minister Mario Mauro said Monday during a visit to Washington.

Italy Libya

MENASource

Jan 14, 2014

Dispatch from Cairo: Day One of the Constitutional Referendum

By Tom Dale

In the first day of voting in a constitutional referendum, Egyptians queuing outside polling stations seemed to endorse, as much as the constitutional document itself, the leadership of army chief General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, who is now widely expected to stand for the presidency in the coming months.

North Africa Political Reform
Romanian soldiers and US Marines training together

NATOSource

Jan 14, 2014

US Will Keep Cutting Bases in Europe, Top General Says

By Gordon Lubold, Foreign Policy

The U.S. military will continue to close buildings and bases in Europe, the top American commander there told Foreign Policy.

Europe & Eurasia NATO

Trade in Action

Jan 14, 2014

What We’re Reading: January 14

By Global Business & Economics Program

TTIP Action aggregates the latest news and best analysis from across the United States and European Union on the ongoing negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs