Situation took a turn for the near-tragic and embarrassing with reports that Egyptian troops searching for the hostages on the peninsula mistakenly fired on a Bedouin funeral.
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Monthly Archives: May 2013
E.U. mulls adding Hezbollah to terror list
Concretely, adding Hezbollah to the E.U.’s terror list will block any person or entity from financial dealings with the group and will facilitate collective efforts to curb the organization’s extensive European criminal networks, not to mention needed funding.
Will Syria spark a larger regional conflict?
The civil war may be the opening of a nightmare, at once new and old, in the Middle East — a broad confrontation between Sunni and Shiite.
Kagame on the offensive over U.N. Congo force
The Rwandan president accused MONUSCO of making the situation in the DRC worse and linked the U.N.’s authorization of the new brigade to the failures of the peacekeeping force in the country.
Tunisia’s Salafist tangle and the long road to stability
Despite their limited numbers, the Salafists’ visibility has placed the movement squarely at the heart of an intensifying socio-political debate on Ennahda’s credibility.
Russia’s back… or did it ever leave?
And more recently, Russia’s getting very much in the way of bringing an end to the murderous regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
Mot injuste: France deploys new, worrying tactic against racism
Late Thursday, the National Assembly adopted a bill sponsored by the far-left Left Front coalition to omit the words race and racial from the text of all French laws.
C.A.R. asks France to intervene — here’s why it won’t
Despite the relative success of Hollande’s Mali campaign, don’t look for France to jump into another former colony just yet.
Benghazi and the meaning of ‘terror’
The word has undergone serious changes in its usage.
Protests after Malaysia election show no clear way forward
For the ruling BN there is a risk of this continued discord crippling its electoral mandate, such as it is.
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