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Europe at night, July 28, 2008

NATOSource

May 27, 2014

Russia Crisis: Why Europe Must Adopt a Comprehensive Energy Strategy

By Sigurd Neubauer

Amid escalating U.S.-Russian tensions over Moscow’s illegal incursion of Crimea and subsequent provocations in eastern Ukraine, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak threatened last week to halt gas supplies to Ukraine and Europe should Western leaders decide to impose punitive sanctions on his government.

Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance
Presidents of the Baltic republics at NATO's Steadfast Jazz exercise, Nov. 6, 2013

NATOSource

May 27, 2014

Europeans Explore Regional Security Relationships as Ukraine Crisis Tests NATO Solidarity

By Edward Lucas, POLITICO Magazine

[N]ow there are new concerns – verging from mere worries to outright fears of a new generation of abandonment by the West provoked by Russia’s land-grab in Ukraine and the Western weakness it has exposed.

NATO NATO Partnerships

MENASource

May 27, 2014

In Pictures: Egypt Votes

By Jonathan Rashad

As voting winds down in Egypt’s second presidential elections in as many years, Jonathan Rashad takes a look back at the days leading up to the presidential elections. With thirteen candidates competing in the 2012 elections, only two presidential candidates are in the running this year, former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Nasserist Hamdeen Sabbahi. With Sisi forecast […]

Elections North Africa
Italian surveillance drone (STRIX) participating in Unified Vision Exercise

NATOSource

May 27, 2014

NATO’s Biggest ISR Exercise Currently Testing Drones and Satellites

By NATO

Unified Vision 2014 . . . is NATO’s biggest ever trial of Joint Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (JISR), comprising satellites, aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, naval vessels, ground sensors and human intelligence from 18 NATO Allies.

NATO NATO Partnerships

MENASource

May 27, 2014

Dispatch from Cairo: Polling Stations and Patriotic Festivals

By Amr Kotb

The scene at polling stations in Giza’s Dokki District on election day was not that different from the one in al-Gamaleya district, the birthplace of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

Elections North Africa

MENASource

May 27, 2014

Top News: New Libyan Prime Minister’s Home is Attacked

By MENASource

A government official says Prime Minister Ahmed Maiteg was unharmed in an attack on his home that set off a gun battle with guards. The official says four attackers fired rocket-propelled grenades early Tuesday at Maiteg’s house, sparking clashes in which one of the assailants was killed, one was arrested, and the others fled.

MENASource

May 27, 2014

Top News: Sisi Closing in on the Presidency

By EgyptSource

Former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is expected to emerge from a second and final day of voting on Tuesday as Egypt’s next president, with supporters seeing him as the man who can pull the Arab world’s most populous nation back from the brink.

MENASource

May 27, 2014

EconSource: New Egypt budget sets deficit at 12 percent of GDP: Finance minister

By EconSource

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

UkraineAlert

May 26, 2014

President-Elect Poroshenko’s Post-Election Remarks

President-elect Poroshenko makes his first remarks after Ukraine’s landmark elections. English subtitles available via close captioning, and translation available below.

Ukraine

New Atlanticist

May 26, 2014

Ukraine News Roundup | May 26

By Irena Chalupa

The planned May 25th vote proceeded with little incident. Elections for the European Parliament were held across the continent this weekend, too. These reads encompass both.

Ukraine
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