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May 8, 2012

Top News: Electoral Commission Suspends Work Under Criticism from Parliament

By Tarek Radwan

The Supreme Presidential Electoral Commission (SPEC) announced that it will suspend its work in the face of insults and criticism from members of parliament.

New Atlanticist

May 8, 2012

Prince Harry: Wounded Veterans Paid Terrible Price to Keep Us Safe And Free

By James Joyner

Prince Harry of Wales paid tribute to the wounded veterans of the transatlantic Alliance, noting that, “They have paid a terrible price to keep us safe and free.”

New Atlanticist

May 8, 2012

Unilever’s Polman: Business Simply Has to Take the Lead

By James Joyner

Unilever CEO Paul Polman declared that “business simply has to take the lead” to solve global challenges ranging from hunger to climate change.

New Atlanticist

May 7, 2012

Ban Ki-moon: Assad May Suffer Fate of Qaddafi or Taylor

By James Joyner

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hinted that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will suffer the fate of Laurent Gbago, Charles Taylor, or Muammar Qaddafi if his reign of violence continues. He declared, “no leader, anywhere, should imagine that he—or she—enjoys impunity for crimes of atrocity.”

International Organizations Politics & Diplomacy

New Atlanticist

May 7, 2012

Ban Ki-moon: World Needs West’s Leadership

By James Joyner

Ban Ki-moon declared that the world faces “an over-supply of problems,” a “deficit of solutions,” and a “deficit of leadership” and called on the United States and its transatlantic allies to provide it.

International Organizations Politics & Diplomacy

NATOSource

May 7, 2012

Hollande to officially announce early withdrawal of French forces from Afghanistan at NATO summit

By Ben Farmer, the Telegraph

From Ben Farmer, the Telegraph:  Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the alliance’s secretary general, said he would speak with the new French president immediately amid concerns France would soon announce the withdrawal of its 3,600-strong contingent.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

May 7, 2012

Vaclav Klaus: ‘Europe’s nations must break free from the Brussels straitjacket’

By Vaclav Klaus, the Telegraph

From Vaclav Klaus, the Telegraph:  European integration was originally based on a rational idea to liberalise Europe, to open it up and to expand trade by building a common market and a large, interconnected economic space.

Economy & Business European Union

NATOSource

May 7, 2012

Obama invites Hollande to special meeting before G8 and NATO summits

By the White House

From the White House:  President Obama called President-elect Francois Hollande of France to congratulate him after the results of the French election were announced today.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

May 7, 2012

Central European nations agree to set up joint combat force

By AFP

From AFP:  Defence ministers from Visegrad Group states grouping the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia agreed Friday to create a 3,000-strong joint combat unit to be put at the EU’s disposal.

European Union International Organizations

MENASource

May 7, 2012

Notes on the Bloodshed at Abbassiya

By Haitham Tabei

Last week, Cairo witnessed a blood bath in Abbassiya next to the headquarters of the Defense Ministry, which ended on Friday afternoon with another show of force, in which the armed forces dispersed a sit-in of supporters of disqualified presidential candidate Hazem Saleh Abu Ismail and other protesters who had been demonstrating in solidarity with […]

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