Monthly Archives: July 2013

Erdogan debuts new containment tactic for protesters

July 31, 2024 by Matt Taylor in Europe.

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan addresses foreign ambassadors after a traditional iftar, the meal to break Ramadan in Ankara, on July 18. 2013.

Along with aggressive police responses, Turkish prime minister’s government is threatening to deny student loans to those who take part.

Manning verdict doesn’t fix Obama’s leak problem

July 30, 2024 by Matt Taylor in U.S..

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U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning (R) is escorted out of court after the verdict for his military trial at Fort Meade, Maryland July 30, 2013. REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan

U.S. president is losing a domestic debate about surveillance and the national security state, a legal victory against the first Wikileaker notwithstanding.

Russian official’s fighting words on foreign industry

July 30, 2024 by Lara Vergnaud in Europe.

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) listens to Deputy Prime Minister, the government's military hardware pointman, Dmitry Rogozin, during their meeting in Putin's Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, on November 19, 2012.

Who better than Deputy Prime Minister Rogozin, a longtime Kremlin mouthpiece, to implement President Putin’s industrialization strategy?

U.K. visa move could be savvy politics by Cameron

July 29, 2024 by Matt Taylor in Europe.

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Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha arrive at the market of Aljezur, in southwestern Portugal July 26, 2013. REUTERS/Armando Franca/pool

A fig leaf to populist conservatives flirting with the U.K. Independence Party, albeit one that the P.M. expects to be derailed, pleasing much of the British right.

Tunisia, in crisis, still won’t follow Egypt’s path

July 29, 2024 by Lara Vergnaud in Africa.

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Tunisians hold a large banner with the image of assassinated opposition leader Mohamed Brahmi during his funeral procession in the Tunis suburb of Ariana on July 27, 2013.

Granted, Tunisia’s bumpy trajectory is familiar: like Egypt, the predominately Muslim nation elected an Islamist party, only to turn on said party amid economic stagnation and high unemployment.