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MENASource

Jul 14, 2015

Top News: Pro-government Forces Retake Aden Airport in Yemen

By MENASource

Forces loyal to ousted President Abdrabbo Mansour Hadi, known as the Popular Resistance, recaptured the airport in Aden on Tuesday. Aden airport had been in the hands of the rebels since soldiers of the 39th Armored Brigade defected on March 25. The retreat by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels came as the Shia power struck a historic […]

MENASource

Jul 14, 2015

Top News: Egypt Issues New Law Liberalizing Electricity Market

By EgyptSource

A new legislation liberalizing Egypt’s electricity market and encouraging private sector investment in the market was published in the official gazette on Monday.

SyriaSource

Jul 14, 2015

Syria’s Hidden Crisis (Part II)

By Valerie Szybala

The Syrian government has trapped hundreds of thousands of its own people in besieged areas, intentionally depriving them of food, medicine, electricity, and water, as a cruel tactic of war. Despite the inhumane conditions they have been living with for years now, the people of these areas have received little help from the international community.

Syria

MENASource

Jul 14, 2015

EconSource: Algeria’s Foreign Reserves Fall by $19 Billion

By EconSource

Algeria’s foreign exchange reserves dropped by $19.02 billion to $159.9 billion in the first quarter of 2015 due to the collapse in global crude oil prices, the country’s central bank said.

TTIP Action July 9

Trade in Action

Jul 13, 2015

TTIP Action – July 9

By Global Business & Economics Program

The European Parliament voted in favor of TTIP recommendations for EU negotiators during its plenary session yesterday. This Week in a Nutshell The European Parliament voted yesterday to approve a set of recommendations for the EU’s negotiating position on TTIP. Calling for an end to the old investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system, which utilized private […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

Europe After The Vote

Jul 13, 2015

The Greek Debt Crisis – Latest Developments

By Demetrios Papageorgiou

After a weekend of marathon negotiations at an emergency Eurozone summit in Brussels, Greece’s creditors—the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Central Bank (ECB), and various Eurozone countries—have given the country an ultimatum: enact a laundry list of economic reforms by July 15 in order to start formal negotiations on the country’s third financing package […]

Europe & Eurasia Greece

Europe After The Vote

Jul 13, 2015

Deal will ‘Weaken’ Greece’s Tsipras

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Domestic Politics Weighed Heavily on Greek Negotiations, says Atlantic Council’s Fran Burwell The terms of an agreement between Greece and its Eurozone creditors are tough, but there is an implicit recognition that austerity alone is not the answer, says the Atlantic Council’s Fran Burwell. “There needs to be solidarity within the Eurozone and one has […]

Europe & Eurasia European Union
Russian Su-24, Sept. 26, 2009

NATOSource

Jul 13, 2015

Russia Lost 5 Aircraft Last Month, Linked to Too Many Exercises and Lack of Qualified Pilots

By Matthew Bodner and Aaron Mehta, Defense News

Russia’s Air Force is falling from the sky.

NATO Russia

Europe After The Vote

Jul 13, 2015

Not Yet a Done Deal with Greece

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Atlantic Council’s Andrea Montanino sees onerous limitations on Greek sovereignty A deal that paves the way to negotiations on a third bailout for Greece imposes tough limitations on Greek sovereignty that could endanger Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ government, says the Atlantic Council’s Andrea Montanino. Montanino said it is premature to declare that marathon negotiations over […]

Europe & Eurasia European Union
Lithuanian troops participating in NATO Saber Strike Exercise, June 18, 2015

NATOSource

Jul 13, 2015

Russia Jamming Technology Poses Challenge for NATO, US Officials Say

By Julian E. Barnes, Wall Street Journal

Sophisticated Russian electronic-warfare systems and jamming technology are posing an acute challenge for allied forces training in Eastern Europe, U.S. Army officials said Tuesday.

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