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Trade in Action

Feb 4, 2014

What We’re Reading: February 4

By Global Business & Economics Program

TTIP Action aggregates the latest news and best analysis from across the United States and European Union on the ongoing negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs
Victory Day Parade in Moscow, May 9, 2005

NATOSource

Feb 4, 2014

Russia Named World’s Third-Largest Military Spender

By RIA Novosti

Russia is now the world’s third-largest military spender after the United States and China, pushing the United Kingdom into fourth place

China France
Flag of the Russian Ministry of Defense

NATOSource

Feb 4, 2014

Russia to Create Cyberwarfare Units by 2017

By RIA Novosti

Russia plans to create special cyber-defense units to protect the country against online warfare in the coming years

Cybersecurity Russia
French Rafales jets refuel on the deck of the USS Harry S. Truman

NATOSource

Feb 4, 2014

French Fighter Jets Operate from the USS Truman in Joint Operation

By Navy News Service and Stars and Stripes

From Navy News Service:  Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group (HST CSG) and French Navy Task Force 473 concluded five weeks of combined carrier strike group operations

France United States and Canada

MENASource

Feb 4, 2014

Top News: Clashes in Tunisia Leave Eight Dead

By MENASource

 On Monday, police surrounded a house in Raoued (a northern suburb of Tunis) in an attempt to capture members of the hardline Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia who were taking refuge there. Washington has designated this group as a terrorist organization.

MENASource

Feb 4, 2014

Top News: Egypt Summons Qatar’s Chargé d’Affaires over Extraditions

By EgyptSource

The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Qatari chargé d’affaires on Tuesday to demand that Qatar “stop the media campaigns” against Egypt, and to hand over a number of fugitives currently facing trial. 

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Feb. 3, 2014

NATOSource

Feb 4, 2014

UK Prime Minister and NATO Secretary General Discuss Future of the Alliance

By Office of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The Prime Minister met with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen this afternoon ahead of the forthcoming biennial summit which the UK will host in Wales in September.

NATO Security & Defense

MENASource

Feb 4, 2014

What Libya Can Learn from Yemen

By Danya Greenfield

Libya-watchers should be encouraged by the initiation of the country’s National Dialogue last month and an election date set for the constitution-making body on February 20, both of which give much-needed positive momentum to lift Libya out of the cycle of violence and recrimination.

Libya Yemen

MENASource

Feb 4, 2014

EconSource Headlines- February 4, 2014

By EconSource

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

MENASource

Feb 4, 2014

Egypt’s Silenced Youth

By Rana Muhammad Taha

A look at Tahrir Square on January 25 during the 2011 uprising’s third anniversary would leave one wondering where all the younger protesters who led the movement have gone. Not only was the square packed with army supporters and devoid of any slogans referencing the original revolutionary demands, it included demonstrators holding posters of ousted […]

North Africa
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