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MENASource

Dec 3, 2013

Top News: Report finds corruption growing in Middle East hot spots

By MENASource

An international watchdog group says its annual survey shows the most violent nations in the Middle East are perceived to be the region’s most corrupt and are getting worse. Transparency International’s 2013 Corruption Perceptions Index ranks more than four-fifths of countries in the Middle East below fifty on a scale where zero is a country perceived to be […]

MENASource

Dec 3, 2013

Highlights from Egypt’s Draft Constitution (Part 2)

By Mai El-Sadany

On December 2, 2013, head of the fifty-member Constituent Assembly Amr Moussa presented the full text of the draft Constitution to interim president Adly Mansour, who is expected to approve it promptly. The draft comes into an Egypt that finds itself mired in political tension, unresolved issues of transitional justice, and attempted usurpations of the […]

North Africa Political Reform

MENASource

Dec 3, 2013

EconSource Headlines-December 3, 2013

By EconSource

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

MENASource

Dec 3, 2013

Mohsin Khan on an IMF Agreement with Egypt

By MENASource

Ever since the start of Egypt’s efforts toward a democratic transition began in 2011, repeated attempts by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help economically stabilize Egypt have been met with abortive efforts from the subsequent Egyptian governments.

North Africa

MENASource

Dec 3, 2013

EconSource Headlines-December 2, 2013

By EconSource

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

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Afghanistan, March 4, 2013

NATOSource

Dec 3, 2013

NATO Says Karzai Failure to Sign Pact Would End Afghan Mission

By Adrian Croft, Reuters

NATO would have to pull all its troops out of Afghanistan by the end of 2014 if Afghan President Hamid Karzai does not sign a security pact with the United States, alliance chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Monday.

Afghanistan International Security Assistance Force
Swedish Air Force JAS 39 Gripen

NATOSource

Dec 2, 2013

Swedish Fighter Jets to Join NATO Response Force

By Local (Sweden)

Sweden will contribute a squadron of Jas Gripen fighter jets as well as a mine-sweeping ship to join the Nato Rapid Reaction Force (NRF), the government decided on Thursday.

NATO NATO Partnerships

MENASource

Dec 2, 2013

An IMF Program for Egypt in 2014?

By Mohsin Khan

Discussions on an International Monetary Fund (IMF) program for Egypt have been going on for almost three years without a deal being struck. The two sides came close to an agreement in June 2011 and then in late 2012, but each time the Egyptian government walked away from the table. As recently as August this […]

North Africa
Remnants of Soviet-era tanks and cannons "reduced" into scrap in accordance with the CFE Treaty

NATOSource

Dec 2, 2013

Arms Control in Europe ‘Is Now in Crisis’

By Radoslaw Sikorski, Guido Westerwelle, and Villy Sovndal

Over the past 20 years, 70,000 tanks, combat aircraft and helicopters and other military equipment have been destroyed in Europe as a result of the treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) introduced at the end of the cold war.

Europe & Eurasia Germany
General Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses American paratroopers prior to D-Day

NATOSource

Dec 2, 2013

US Army Shrinking Number of Paratroopers

By Brett Barrouquere, AP

The legendary Pathfinders have taken their final jump and the Red Devils aren’t too far behind.

United States and Canada