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NATO provides airlift support to African Union mission in Somalia, March 2010

NATOSource

May 13, 2014

NATO and the African Union Increase Cooperation

By NATO

NATO and the African Union (AU) took a further step in advancing their cooperation, by signing on 8 May 2014 an agreement which formalizes the status of the NATO liaison office to the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa.

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MENASource

May 13, 2014

Top News: Foreign Minister Says Saudi Will Negotiate with Iran

By MENASource

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, said on Tuesday Riyadh had invited Iran’s foreign minister to visit the kingdom. “We sent an invitation to the foreign minister to visit Saudi Arabia, but this intention to visit has not become a fact … But any time he sees fit to come, we are ready to […]

MENASource

May 13, 2014

Egypt 2014: Debunking the Neo-Nasserist Myth

By Amr Hamzawy

Amid the grating cries of today’s agents of darkness, who propagate the fascist slogan “you are either with us or against us,” who serve our “sultan,” and not surprisingly buy into the deal of “obedience to the government for protection and profits;” amid the voices that justify injustices and violations of human rights and freedoms, […]

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Russian President Vladimir Putin

NATOSource

May 13, 2014

Europeans Dither on Defense While Putin Laughs

By John Vinocur, Wall Street Journal

On one hand, there are European countries reasonably bemoaning years of declining American leadership and resolve.

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MENASource

May 13, 2014

Top News: Morsi’s Pardons of Islamists to be Reviewed

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s Minister of Interior Mohamed Ibrahim said the ministry formed a committee to revise presidential pardons granted to Islamist “extremists” by former president Mohamed Morsi during his one year in office.

MENASource

May 13, 2014

Benghazi must not Overshadow Big Picture of Libyan Security

By Karim Mezran

Of Libya’s manifold challenges, deteriorating security has occupied most of the international community’s attention, particularly in the aftermath of the tragedy in Benghazi that claimed the lives of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in September 2012.

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New Atlanticist

May 12, 2014

The Other Referendum in Eastern Ukraine

By Irena Chalupa

Amid the big news of the secessionist referendum in Donetsk and Luhansk, a second plebiscite, less noticed, asked voters in 14 districts whether they would prefer not to secede from those provinces, to remain part of Ukraine and under the rule of Kyiv.

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New Atlanticist

May 12, 2014

Ukraine News Roundup | May 12

By Irena Chalupa

Ukraine: Part of America’s “Vital Interests”? from The National Interest The Battle in Ukraine Means Everything Fascism returns to the country it once destroyed from The New Republic  Russian History Is on Our Side: Putin Will Surely Screw Himself from The Daily Beast The Twitter War: Social Media’s Role in Ukraine Unrest Social media networks […]

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REUTERS/Baz Ratner

UkraineAlert

May 12, 2014

DIRECT TRANSLATION: ‘How I Voted – Four Times – Against the Donetsk People’s Republic’

By Irena Chalupa

Russian-Sponsored Rebels Hold a ‘Referendum’ on Separation from Ukraine, But a Local Journalist Finds It a Farce Donetsk resident Ihnat Svyachyshyn sets off to vote in the May 11 Donetsk separatist referendum. He asks his neighbors, a couple in their mid-twenties to join him but they refuse. While they support a federalization of political power […]

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REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

New Atlanticist

May 12, 2014

How Eastern Ukraine’s Chaotic ‘Referendum’ Might Reduce the Immediate Risk of War

By James Rupert

To Undercut Separatists, Kyiv Should Now Propose a Pro-Democratic Decentralization of Power Eastern Ukraine’s pro-Russian militants say yesterday’s chaotic simulation of a referendum gives them a popular mandate to secede from Ukraine. That claim, of course, won’t be taken seriously beyond the camp of the separatists and their Russian backers. But that exercise, along with […]

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