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Apr 12, 2013

Turkey, Egypt, & Tunisia block NATO meeting with Mediterranean partners

By Serkan Demirtaş, Hurriyet Daily News

From Serkan Demirtaş, Hurriyet Daily News:  An initiative to bring Israel and six Arab countries’ ministers together under NATO’s Mediterranean Dialogue group for the first time since 2008 has been nixed by Turkey and Egypt, who said “it was not the right time” for such a meeting. “The general-secretary was planning to invite the foreign […]

NATOSource

Apr 12, 2013

Russia threatens to use ‘asymmetrical’ measures to neutralize space weapons

By Xinhua

From Xinhua:  Russia will considerably beef up its space forces by 2030 to counter possible threats, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Friday.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Apr 12, 2013

Putin announces bold plans and billions in funding for Russia’s space program

By Stuart Williams, AFP

NATOSource

Apr 12, 2013

Secretary General: NATO’s partnership with South Korea is ‘young,’ but ‘has great potential’

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

NATOSource

Apr 12, 2013

UAE’s Foreign Minister opens first Arab mission at NATO headquarters

By Emirate News Agency

From Emirate News Agency:  H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Foreign Minister of the UAE, opened the headquarters of the Emirati mission at the Atlantic Alliance (NATO)

New Atlanticist

Apr 12, 2013

There’s No North Korea Crisis

By Robert A. Manning

From the hysterical TV portrayals of goose-stepping North Korean troops, breathless news reports of North Korean warnings of war, and maps depicting the range of imminent missile launches (complete with retired U.S. generals explaining the targets), you might think there is a crisis on the Korean Peninsula. But there is no crisis, only a farce.This […]

Korea

New Atlanticist

Apr 12, 2013

Reflections on Thatcher

By Julian Lindley-French

“To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say: ‘You turn if you want to. The lady’s not for turning.’”

Economy & Business United Kingdom

New Atlanticist

Apr 12, 2013

American Airpower Sequestered

By Aaron Burgstein

I like to run. One thing runners know, really that all athletes amateur to professional know, is that when you take time off or scale back on your training because of an injury or the like, it takes time to recover. I don’t mean taking a day off to recover here and there. I mean taking say a […]

Security & Defense

MENASource

Apr 12, 2013

Jordan’s Dilemma

By Faysal Itani

Jordan has long faced economic challenges, and now a convergence of political and economic factors threatens to undermine the social contract that has historically held the kingdom together. Its sporadic embrace of promarket reforms since the late 1980s, through privatization and the monarchy’s nurturing of an urban economic elite, failed to improve living standards for […]

MENASource

Apr 12, 2013

Top News: Shura Council Approves Election Law; Al Azhar Approves Sukuk Law

By Egypt Source

The Shura Council on Thursday approved laws governing the exercise of political rights and House of Representatives elections, while Al-Azhar approved a law that would allow the country, which is struggling with a soaring budget deficit, to issue sukuk (Islamic bonds), but said some articles passed by the Shura Council must be amended. 

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