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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, October 23, 2013

NATOSource

Oct 29, 2013

NATO Congratulates Georgian People for Transparent Elections

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

I congratulate the Georgian people on holding transparent and peaceful presidential elections in which fundamental freedoms of expression, movement, and assembly were respected.

Elections NATO

MENASource

Oct 28, 2013

Debating Federalism in Yemen

By Rafat Al-Akhali

The Southern Movement in Yemen, known as Southern Hirak, is closer than ever before to achieving a negotiated resolution that addresses at least some of its demands. Capitalizing on Southern grievances following the 1994 civil war in Yemen, Hirak established itself as a protest movement in 2007 demanding to address many rights-based issues in the […]

Yemen
Ballistic missile defense groundbreaking ceremony in Romania

NATOSource

Oct 28, 2013

Romania Breaks Ground for NATO Missile Defense Facility

By NATO

NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Alexander Vershbow on Monday (28 October 2013) participated in a groundbreaking ceremony of the missile defence facility at the Deveselu airbase in southern Romania.

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Security force with Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Farah, February 6, 2013

NATOSource

Oct 28, 2013

NATO Reduces Scope of Its Afghanistan Plans

By Thom Shanker, New York Times

After months of tense negotiations over the size and role of a postwar presence in Afghanistan, senior North Atlantic Treaty Organization officials say they are planning a more minimalist mission

Afghanistan International Security Assistance Force

MENASource

Oct 28, 2013

The Week in Egypt – October 28, 2013

By Amira Mikhail

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

North Africa

New Atlanticist

Oct 28, 2013

Energy Analyst: Nabucco’s Gap Has to Be Filled

By Vassilios Sitaras

Having read, with great interest might I add, the article by David Koranyi, Ian Brzezinski and Matthew Bryza, published here on New Atlanticist and entitled After Nabucco – Croatia to the Rescue of Central Europe’s Energy Security, I totally agree with the authors that, for reasons of enhancing South-Eastern Europe’s energy security, Nabucco’s gap has to […]

Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance

MENASource

Oct 28, 2013

Top News: Egypt Officials Confirm Alleged Assassin in Militant Video was Ex-Army Major

By EgyptSource

The man Sinai militants claim was responsible for an attack on the interior minister in September was a former major in the Egyptian army, the interior ministry has confirmed. Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis released a thirty minute video on militant websites on Saturday that identified former army major Walid Badr as being responsible for the attack, […]

MENASource

Oct 28, 2013

Top News: Egypt’s Constituent Assembly Passes Articles on Rights and Freedoms

By MENASource

The fifty-member Constituent Assembly tasked with amending the 2012 constitution began on Sunday voting on the draft constitution by passing five draft articles in the rights and freedoms section. The first article the assembly passed on Sunday is article 37, concerned with human dignity.

MENASource

Oct 28, 2013

EconSource Headlines- October 28, 2013

By EconSource

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

New Atlanticist

Oct 28, 2013

Poaching Peace and Security

By J. Peter Pham

Last week, former rebels loyal to the opposition Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) announced that they were abandoning the twenty-one year old peace accord with the government of the southern African country after army troops overran a remote jungle base. The military action followed a spate of attacks on arms depots as well as civilian buses […]

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