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Members of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, April 24, 2013

NATOSource

Jan 9, 2015

Report: US Seeks Permanent Deal to Base Additional Troops in Spain

By Hope Hodge Seck, Military Times

The Defense Department is seeking an agreement that would allow Marines with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response-Africa to be permanently stationed in Morón, Spain, according to a report from the Spanish newspaper El Pais.

Southern & Southeastern Europe United States and Canada
HMS Ambush, July 15, 2013

NATOSource

Jan 9, 2015

Britain Again Forced to Ask US For Help in Tracking ‘Russian Submarine’

By Victoria Ward, Telegraph

The Ministry of Defence has again been forced to call for US military assistance to help track a suspected Russian submarine spotted off the Scottish coast.

Russia United Kingdom

UkraineAlert

Jan 9, 2015

What the Kremlin’s Setback May Mean

By Elizabeth Pond

Economics Have Stalled Putin, But He Often Answers Reversals With Military Threats In the Ukraine crisis, soft economic power last month trumped hard military power for the first time. The threatened meltdown of the Russian economy could push Russian President Vladimir Putin to dial down his undeclared war on Ukraine in return for some easing […]

Eastern Europe Russia

New Atlanticist

Jan 9, 2015

Sri Lanka Election: A ‘Win for Democracy’

By Ashish Kumar Sen

A Longtime President’s Departure Gives US ‘an Opportunity,’ Gopalaswamy Says The defeat of Sri Lanka’s long-serving president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, presents an opportunity for the United States to deepen its ties with the South Asian island nation, which has grown closer to China over the past decade, says Atlantic Council analyst Bharath Gopalaswamy. Rajapaksa, who was […]

South Asia

MENASource

Jan 9, 2015

Top News: Suspect in Charlie Hebdo Attack Trained in Yemen

By MENASource

One of two brothers suspected of carrying out the deadly shooting at a French satirical weekly visited Yemen in 2011 to train with al-Qaeda affiliated militants, US and European sources close to the investigation said on Thursday.

MENASource

Jan 9, 2015

Top News: Egypt to Hold Parliamentary Elections Starting March 22, 23

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s top election committee said on Thursday that parliamentary elections will take place in two stages in March and April. Head of the Higher Elections Committee (HEC), Ayman Abbas said the first stage of the vote will take place March 21 to 22 for expats and 22 to 23 for residents in Egypt. 

MENASource

Jan 9, 2015

Sisi’s Visit to Coptic Cathedral Cements Alliance with Egypt’s Christian Minority

By Khaled Dawoud

Without any prior announcement, and only a few hours after his return from an official two-day visit to Kuwait, President Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi further won the hearts and minds of the country’s Coptic Christian minority when he became the first Egyptian president to attend the mass celebrating Eastern Orthodox Christmas on January 6.

North Africa

UkraineAlert

Jan 9, 2015

January: An Important Month for Shaping the US Role in Europe

By Ian Brzezinski

Amid Ukraine-Russia Crisis, New Decisions Will Define America’s ‘Force Posture’ for Years to Come Almost a year after Russia’s invasions of Ukraine, the US government will roll out a series of decisions in the next month that will play a big role in shaping how the United States and its transatlantic allies respond in the long […]

Eastern Europe Europe & Eurasia

MENASource

Jan 9, 2015

EconSource: Egypt’s urban consumer price inflation rises to 10.1 percent

By EconSource

According to Egypt’s official statistics agency CAPMAS, urban consumer inflation rose to an annual 10.1 percent in December from 9.1 percent the previous month. Inflation spiked after the government slashed energy subsidies in July but fell in November from a peak of 11.8 percent in October. The central bank has kept interest rates steady after […]

Polish Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak, Oct. 14, 2014

NATOSource

Jan 8, 2015

Poland to Seek NATO Response to Russia’s Military Exercises

By Wiktor Szary and Pawel Sobczak, Reuters

Poland expects the NATO alliance to step up its military exercises around the Baltic Sea after a flurry of activity by Russian warships and jet fighters in the area last month, Defence Minister Tomasz Siemoniak told Reuters in an interview.

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