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Jun 4, 2013

Top News: Egypt Sentences Forty-Three, Including Americans, in NGO Case

An Egyptian court handed down jail terms to forty-three Americans, Europeans, Egyptians, and other Arabs on Tuesday in a case against democracy promotion groups that brought US-Egyptian ties to the lowest point in decades.

NATOSource

Jun 4, 2013

Colombia Expresses Interest in Joining NATO

By AFP

From AFP:  Colombia’s defense ministry later this month will sign a cooperation agreement with NATO, in hopes of joining the international military alliance, President Juan Manuel Santos said Saturday.

NATOSource

Jun 4, 2013

NATO Chief Highlights Freedom of Expression in Turkey Protests

By Fatma Demirelli, Today's Zaman

From Fatma Demirelli, Today’s Zaman:  NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has called on Turkish authorities and anti-government protesters to ensure peaceful protests, saying freedom to express one’s political views is a democratic value embraced by the alliance. Rasmussen, a former Danish prime minister who has clashed with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan over freedom […]

NATO Security & Defense

NATOSource

Jun 4, 2013

Senior NATO Military Leader Discusses Closer Security Cooperation With Powers in Asia-Pacific

By NATO

MENASource

Jun 4, 2013

Why the Muslim Brotherhood Doesn’t Want to Hold Elections Now

By Amr Hamzawy

Let’s temporarily set aside positions held by the country’s opposition, the National Salvation Front (NSF), regarding parliamentary elections, and questions over whether or not to boycott due to the need to change unjust electoral rules. We will also ignore the position of the country’s far right religious factions for now, and their rejection of calls […]

MENASource

Jun 4, 2013

Top News: Egypt Sentences Forty-Three, Including Americans, in NGO Case

An Egyptian court gave jail terms to forty-three Americans, Europeans, Egyptians and other Arabs on Tuesday in a case against democracy promotion groups that plunged US-Egyptian ties into their worst crisis in decades.

MENASource

Jun 4, 2013

Syria: Steps to Resolve the Problem from Hell

By Frederic C. Hof

The problem of Syria is a problem from hell. It is a problem for which there are no easy or painless solutions. It is a problem that will likely be with us for a long time, even if we had every lucky break imaginable.

New Atlanticist

Jun 4, 2013

Chuck Hagel’s Shangri La La?

By Julian Lindley-French

In James Hilton’s fictional 1937 novel Lost Horizons, Shangri-La is a heaven on earth, a happy island of peace, permanently isolated from the outside world (no, not Britain).  For the High Lama (a sort of David Cameron) harmony, “is the entire meaning and purpose of Shangri-La.  It came to me as a vision long, long ago.  I saw all […]

New Atlanticist

Jun 4, 2013

How Shinzo Abe Could Win the Nobel Peace Prize

By James Clad and Robert A. Manning

Shinzo Abe has summoned the ghosts of nationalism in the Pacific. Neighbouring countries are worried by the Japanese prime minister’s revisionism concerning the historical behaviour of his country. The impact of this on Sino-Japanese relations tends to receive most attention in the western media. But there is also an increasingly fractious relationship between Japan and […]

China Japan

NATOSource

Jun 4, 2013

NATO Decides to Send Team to Help Build Libya’s Security Institutions

By NATO

From NATO:  NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said ahead of the start Tuesday’s (4 June 2013) NATO Defence Ministerial that Allied nations have decided to send an expert-level delegation to Libya to identify areas where NATO can provide assistance.

NATO Security & Defense
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