Terrorist attack in Tunisia sparks a political debate
Islamic State confirmed to be responsible for another terrorist attack in Tunisia on 26th of June that has caused strong reactions not only within the country but also worldwide. According to some...
View ArticleWednesday bombings in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula bring the domestic conflicts to...
Islamic State-linked militants struck Egyptian army outposts in the Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday in a coordinated wave of suicide bombings and battles. Authorities said 17 soldiers, including four...
View ArticleRussia investigates legitimacy of Baltic States’ independence
The Russian chief prosecutor's office examined whether the Soviet Union acted legally when it recognised the Baltic states' independence in 1991. A source related to the Russian Prosecutor General’s...
View ArticleProtests in Armenia forcibly ended by the police
The Yerevan Police ended the protests that went on for the past few weeks in the streets of Yerevan. The police had warned the protesters that the security forces will not allow for them to move any...
View ArticleViolence against migrants in Balkans
Amnesty International said Tuesday in a report that thousands of migrants and refugees face "violent abuse and extortion at the hands of the authorities and criminal gangs" in the Balkans. "Serbia and...
View ArticleTunisia declares state of emergency, rights group concerned on human rights...
Eight days after the June 26 gun attack in the city of Sousse, President of Tunisia, Beji Caid Essebsi decreed a state of emergency for 30 days. 38 tourists were killed in the attack that was claimed...
View ArticleRussia vetoes Srebrenica resolution
Russia has vetoed a UN resolution that would have condemned the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica during the Bosnian war as a "crime of genocide". Four other members of the council abstained while the...
View ArticleOSCE Parliamentary Assembly adopts resolution condemning Russia’s actions in...
The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, meeting in Helsinki this week at its 2015 Annual Session, has approved a resolution condemning Russia’s actions in and around Ukraine in the context of the ongoing...
View ArticleAK party starts its search to form a coalition in Turkey: first stop CHP
Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was given a mandate from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, leader of The Justice and Development (AK) party, to form a new coalition government. Davutoglu has 45...
View ArticleThe PM of Macedonia to resign: EU brokered deal to end political crisis
Macedonia's four largest political parties have reached a deal that will see prime minister Nikola Gruevski resign and is hoped to ease tensions in the former Yugoslav republic. The agreement was...
View ArticleRepublika Srpska to hold a referendum challenging the authority of the...
Lawmakers in the mainly Serb entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Republika Srpska (RS) has voted to hold a referendum on the authority of the national court over RS, in a move the West says is an...
View ArticleProtest in Georgia against Russia’s provocative “creeping occupation”
A protest rally, organized by some media outlets and civil society organizations, was held in Tbilisi on July 18. The protesters were criticizing government’s policies towards Russia and accusing the...
View ArticleSuicide bombing in Turkey triggered protests blaming the government
The Turkish government has promised to increase security on the country's border with Syria after 30 people were killed and over 100 wounded in a bombing yesterday in the town of Suruc. Investigators...
View ArticleRight Sector calls for referendum in Ukraine
According to various estimates, from 3,000 to 6,000 Right Sector activists took part in the rally held on Kiev’s Independence Square. Speaking Tuesday at the national congress of the radical...
View ArticleStill no agreement after UN proposes peace deal for Libya
In the recent weeks rival parliaments in Libya have been holding UN-sponsored talks in Morocco with an attempt to restore the stability within the country. The UN Security Council has urged Libyan...
View ArticleTurkey’s tactical shift: air strikes against ISIL and a permission for US to...
Turkey has launched air strikes against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) positions in Syria following a suicide bomb attack by a suspected ISIL affiliate in Suruc on Monday and an exchange...
View ArticleAnti-terrorism bill approved by Tunisian parliament
On 24th July Tunisia's parliament overwhelmingly approved legislation allowing the death penalty for those convicted on terrorism charges after Islamist militant attacks that killed dozens of foreign...
View ArticleIn Baku trials against prominent government critics begin
The Azerbaijani government escalated repression against its critics, marking a dramatic deterioration in its already poor rights record. According to Human Rights Watch 2015 report on Azerbaijan the...
View ArticleTurkey and NATO talks made it unclear what is Turkey’s real target
Turkey has requested an urgent NATO meeting on 28 July regarding the fight against ISIS. According to the agreement reached during the meeting, Turkey and US will create a buffer zone with Syria by...
View ArticleThe pro-European government sworn in Moldova
The new government, led by Prime Minister Valeriu Strelet, was sworn in office at the Palace of the Republic in the evening on 30 July. President Nicolae Timofti thanked the pro-European parliamentary...
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