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MENASource

Apr 25, 2014

The Week in Egypt [April 26, 2014]

By Daniel Stoker

Catch up on the latest out of Egypt every week, with analysis, news updates, photos, videos, and more.

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SouthAsiaSource

Apr 25, 2014

This Week in South Asia: April 19 – 25

Commentary from the South Asia Center on the most relevant news from the region, and suggested “must-read” analyses from the week. India The sixth phase of elections in India consolidated an increasingly apparent trend in the prior five phases which illustrated a distinct improvement in voter turnout as compared to the 2009 Lok-Sabha elections. Only […]

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US paratroopers arriving in Poland, April 23, 2014

NATOSource

Apr 25, 2014

Estonia Wants, Expects More NATO Troops on its Territory

By David Mardiste, Reuters

Estonia expects to see more NATO troops on its territory in reaction to what it fears will be Russian attempts to destabilize the former Soviet republic, the country’s defense minister said on Tuesday.

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FutureSource

Apr 25, 2014

Drifting Toward Plutocracy

By Christopher Colford

Inexorable Concentration of Capital Undermines the Drive for ‘Shared Prosperity’ Like seismic waves rippling outward after a tectonic shift, reverberations are roiling the economic-policy landscape after the US launch of the groundbreaking new analysis by Thomas Piketty, the scholar from the Paris School of Economics whose landmark tome – Capital in the Twenty-First Century – has newly […]

MENASource

Apr 25, 2014

Top News: Six Sinai Militants Killed; Seven Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis Members Arrested

By MENASource

At least six militants were killed on Wednesday in an air strike by the army in Northern Sinai’s Sheikh Zuweid, including one of the prominent leaders of Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis extremist group, army sources said. Twenty of the militants were wounded in the security operation, according to the sources. In Cairo and Qalyubiya, the National […]

MENASource

Apr 25, 2014

Top News: Two Killed in Clashes as Several Egyptian Cities Witness Demonstrations

By EgyptSource

Several cities witnessed demonstrations and rallies organized by supporters of former President Mohamed Morsi despite the presence of intense security on Friday. Two people were killed during clashes between Islamists and security forces south of Cairo according to reports from Al Ahram.

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NATOSource

Apr 25, 2014

France Sending Four Rafale Fighter Jets to Poland

By Michel Rose, Reuters

France will send four Rafale fighter jets to Poland next week as part of a show of NATO commitment to Central Europe and the Baltic states

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FutureSource

Apr 24, 2014

Toward Shared Prosperity

By Christopher Colford

With an Urgent New Focus on Overcoming Inequality The challenge of promoting shared prosperity was one of the unifying themes throughout the recent Spring Meetings at the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund – the whirlwind of diplomacy and scholarship that sweeps through Washington every April and October. A remarkable new factor, however, energized […]

Minilateralism

Trade in Action

Apr 24, 2014

Minilateralism: A New Book from Atlantic Council Expert, Chris Brummer

By Global Business and Economics Program

Dr. Chris Brummer, the Atlantic Council’s C. Boyden Gray Fellow and Project Director of the Transatlantic Finance Initiative recently released his new book on global trends in trade and finance, Minilateralism.

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

New Atlanticist

Apr 24, 2014

A ‘Dirty War’ in Donetsk

By Irena Chalupa

An Execution-Style Killing Deepens the Brutality in Ukraine’s Conflict Until last week Volodymyr Rybak, 42, was a municipal councilor in Horlivka, a coal-mining city 20 miles northeast of Donetsk. Rybak opposed the takeover of his city’s government by the gunmen who have proclaimed a separatist Donetsk People’s Republic in southeastern Ukraine. On April 17 he […]

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