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MENASource

Nov 4, 2013

EconSource Headlines- November 4, 2013

By EconSource

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

MENASource

Nov 4, 2013

Top News: Defiant Morsi Appears in Courtroom as Trial Adjourned to January 8

By EgyptSource

The trial of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, and fourteen codefendants, on charges of inciting murder and violence, was adjourned on Monday, state media reported, just hours after it began. 

MENASource

Nov 4, 2013

Top News: Egypt’s Mohamed Morsi on Trial, Adjourned to January 8

By MENASource

The trial of deposed president Mohamed Morsi and fourteen senior Islamist and Muslim Brotherhood leaders started at the Police Academy in New Cairo for defendants charged with incitement to murder and violence at the Ittihadiya presidential palace clashes in December 2012.

MENASource

Nov 2, 2013

Congress Discusses the Future of US Aid to Egypt

By Mohamed Elgohari

During the House of Foreign Affairs Committee hearing Next Steps on Egypt Policy,” three US administration officials, Derek Chollet, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Ambassador Elizabeth Jones, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Easter Affairs, and Alina L. Romanowski, USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for the Middle East, testified […]

North Africa
The Franco-German Brigade

NATOSource

Nov 1, 2013

The Widening Gap Between France and Germany Over Defense

By Judy Dempsey, Strategic Europe

Steadfast Jazz takes place against the background of a widening gap between France and Germany over defense and security matters.

European Union France

New Atlanticist

Nov 1, 2013

Eurozone at the Crossroads

By Jordan Smith

For decades, European Union nations have walked a constitutional tightrope, refusing to make the ultimate choice between their core sovereignty and the merging of powers necessary to construct a viable European polity. The recent financial hurricane unleashed by the dangerous combination of poor regulation, too much debt, and weak leadership has brought Europe’s constitutional balancing […]

European Union International Organizations
Russian TOS-1 30-barrel multiple rocket launchers

NATOSource

Nov 1, 2013

Poland, NATO, and the Return of History

By John R. Schindler, National Interest

The reemergence of Russia as a traditional military power is now clear to all who wish to see.

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Nov 1, 2013

A New Honeymoon for the United States and Pakistan?

By Shuja Nawaz

A relationship that has been described as a rollercoaster ride or tagged as a deal between “frenemies” appears to have been rejuvenated with a fresh infusion of bonhomie. Some might describe it similar to the Liz Taylor-Richard Burton marriages: shouting and screaming matches followed by a quiet make-up. Is there another honeymoon in the making […]

Pakistan
About 7,000 troops will be involved in NATO Exercise Steadfast Jazz

NATOSource

Nov 1, 2013

NATO Stages Exercise as Rearming Russia Worries Some Allies

By Peter Apps, Reuters

When NATO forces start a major exercise in Latvia and Poland this weekend, they will be rehearsing how to oust an anonymous invading enemy from a fictional region.

NATO Russia

MENASource

Nov 1, 2013

EconSource Headlines- November 1, 2013

By EconSource

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