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SACEUR Gen. Philip Breedlove, June 30, 2014

NATOSource

Jan 13, 2015

NATO Military Commander: Fighting Has Resumed in Eastern Ukraine

By Henry Foy, Financial Times

Nato’s top general has noted a “fairly important uptick” in fighting in eastern Ukraine in recent days, casting doubts over whether the cease-fire between the Kiev government and Moscow-backed separatists can survive.

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MENASource

Jan 13, 2015

Top News: Mubarak and Sons to be Retried for Embezzlement

By EgyptSource

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons will be retried in the ‘presidential palaces’ embezzlement case after the Court of Cassation accepted their appeal on Tuesday. Mubarak, his sons Gamal and Alaa, were sentenced to three years in prison on charges of embezzling funds allocated for developing communications centers at the presidency. 

MENASource

Jan 13, 2015

Top News: Turkey says Paris attacker’s partner crossed into Syria

By MENASource

The suspected female accomplice of Islamist militants behind attacks in Paris was in Turkey five days before the killings and crossed into Syria on January 8, Turkish officials said on Monday. France launched a search for 26-year-old Hayat Boumeddiene after police killed her partner Amedy Coulibaly while storming a Jewish supermarket where he had taken […]

MENASource

Jan 13, 2015

Signs of Investor Optimism in Egypt

By Alfred Jasins

Despite the political and economic issues that continue to plague Egypt, the country’s benchmark stock market index, the EGX 30, was up 32 percent (or 28 percent in USD-terms) in 2014. This led not only regional markets but outperformed nearly all major markets globally, lagging only behind exchanges in Argentina and China.

North Africa

MENASource

Jan 13, 2015

EconSource: Tunisia: Insufficient Tax Revenue in 2014

By EconSource

Tunisia’s Minister of Economy and Finance Hakim Ben Hammouda called the tax resources mobilized in 2014 estimated at an amount of 19 billion dinars insufficient. At a meeting on provisions of the Finance Act for 2015, he added that budget resources could reach 80 percent in 2015 and 85 percent in 2017 against the 70 […]

MENASource

Jan 12, 2015

EconSource: Foreign Investment in Egypt Will Reach $2 Billion in Second Quarter

By EconSource

According to Egyptian investment minister, foreign investment in Egypt will reach about $2 billion in the second quarter of the fiscal year, up from $1.8 billion dollars in the previous quarter. Egypt is preparing a new unified investment law and holding an investment conference in the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh in mid-March, hoping to […]

British Prime Minister David Cameron and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Oct. 29, 2011

NATOSource

Jan 12, 2015

Canada Rebuffs Call To Join British-Led NATO-UN Force

By Murray Brewster, Canadian Press

Canada has quietly rebuffed a call from Britain to join a multi-national expeditionary force that Prime Minister David Cameron’s government was promoting in light of heightened tensions with Russia.

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New Atlanticist

Jan 12, 2015

Massacre in Nigeria: Boko Haram Once Again Bigger, More Brutal

By Ashish Kumar Sen

A Violent Militia Moves Toward Its Goal: an ‘Islamic Caliphate’ in Africa’s Sahel Region As world attention fixes on the terrorist attacks in Paris, Africa’s most prominent Islamist militant group has massacred as many as 2,000 people in northeastern Nigeria. This new violence by Boko Haram—a movement described as “Africa’s ISIS”—is the latest in its […]

Africa Nigeria
General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Nov. 15, 2011

NATOSource

Jan 12, 2015

Dempsey: Cyber is the Only Domain in Which US has Peer Competitors

By Chris Wallace and Martin Dempsey, Fox News

Excerpt from interview of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey by Chris Wallace, January 11, 2015.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jan 12, 2015

US Energy Policy: Seek Diversification for Europe

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Energy Envoy Amos Hochstein Urges Creation of a True Euro-Energy Market, Including Russia Europe must diversify its energy sources to avoid the threat of Russia again shutting off its gas supply, said Amos Hochstein, the State Department’s Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs. About one-third of Europe’s gas comes from Russia, which has […]

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