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Swedish corvette HMS Helsingborg

NATOSource

Oct 24, 2014

Sweden Submarine Search Called Off

By BBC

The Swedish military has called off its week-long search for a suspected submarine in the sea south of Stockholm, officials say.

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Trade in Action

Oct 24, 2014

TTIP Action | October 23

By Global Business & Economics Program

The Importance of the Internet and Transatlantic Data Flows for US and EU Trade and InvestmentIn his most recent blog entry, Joshua Meltzer, fellow for global economy and development at Brookings, stresses the importance of data flows for transatlantic trade, and global investment. With regards to TTIP, he underlines that the transatlantic economic relationship is […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

New Atlanticist

Oct 24, 2014

Ukraine News Roundup | October 24

By Jim Rupert

This Election Had Better Work, Because Ukraine Is Angry and Crumbling via Slate Election Includes Risky War Hero Candidates via Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group Untrained, Unequipped: Kyiv’s 12th Battalion May Be Ukraine’s Most Corruption-Ravaged Army Unit via Daily Beast Kyiv’s and Moscow’s Forces Both Have Committed Atrocities; Russian Accounts Are Exaggerated via Amnesty International […]

Ukraine

UkraineAlert

Oct 24, 2014

George Soros on Ukraine: Europe Is Sleeping Through Its Decisive Fight

By New Atlanticist

Billionaire investment magnate and pro-democracy philanthropist George Soros has sounded what he says is a wake-up call to Europe (and to the United States) over a failure to see that it is “facing a challenge from Russia to its very existence.” You can read here his full 3,200-word essay for the New York Review of […]

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SACEUR Gen. Philip Breedlove and Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, October 24, 2014

NATOSource

Oct 24, 2014

Russia Still Has Troops in Ukraine, NATO Says

By Adrian Croft, Reuters

Russia still has troops in eastern Ukraine and retains a very capable force on the border despite a partial withdrawal, NATO’s military commander said on Friday.

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MENASource

Oct 24, 2014

Top News: Presidential Decree Expels Azhar Students, Faculty for Protests, Appoints New Deans

By EgyptSource

 President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a decree on Thursday amending a law regulating Al-Azhar’s institutions, allowing the expulsion of staff members and students in cases involving violence.

MENASource

Oct 24, 2014

EconSource: Egypt’s Government has to Deliver Growth to Survive

By EconSource

According to Egypt’s investment minister, Egypt’s government has to deliver economic growth in order to survive and should not let complex laws and bureaucracy discourage foreign investment. Currently it takes foreign investors up to six months to secure the licenses and permissions needed to operate in Egypt.

UkraineAlert

Oct 24, 2014

A Night in War-Shattered Lugansk: Russian Soldiers Share Vodka with Western Journalists

By James Rupert

‘You Didn’t See Us Here,’ Officer Admonishes, as Moscow Keeps Military Options in Ukraine As Ukrainians elect a parliament this weekend, new evidence pops up of Russia’s military role in their country: Western journalists this week found destroyed Russian tanks in Donetsk—and very live (if somewhat drunk) Russian soldiers happy to socialize at one of […]

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MENASource

Oct 24, 2014

Egypt’s Crackdown on Student Protests: The Last “Open Space”

By Rana Muhammad Taha

With a tumultuous academic year in 2013/2014 that left at least sixteen students dead, Egypt’s authorities have braced themselves for more upheaval. Weeks ahead of the start of the semester, measures have been put in place to control, or even eliminate, on-campus student activity.

North Africa
Danish F-16 taking part in Baltic Air Policing, May 9, 2014

NATOSource

Oct 23, 2014

NATO Flexes Muscles in Baltics Amid Russian Incursions

By Sam Jones, Financial Times

Shortly before 1pm local time on Tuesday, a Russian spy plane flew briefly into Estonian air space in what Nato officials see as the first serious violation of a Nato state’s aerial sovereignty since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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