The U.N. estimates that up to 80% of local health workers have been evacuated from the area, and those who remain endure dire shortages of supplies that exacerbate the humanitarian crisis throughout the region.
The protest was one of several launched by Polish farmers this month. So far, Polish officials have announced no plans to compensate farmers for lost profits.
As Russia and China look to Kazakhstan as a key player in their respective foreign policy strategies, Kazakhstan is bound to feel the impact.
This was reportedly the first official meeting of the two heads of state, whose countries have had a chilly relationship since Orban’s widely condemned conservative government took power in 2010. But this was no moment for bridge-building: in fact, the meeting and subsequent press conference between Merkel and Orban seem to have had more to do with each country’s orientation toward Moscow than with each other.
Although Armenia brushed off the charge as “absurd,” the episode is the latest in a series of escalating tensions between the uneasy neighbors of the South-Caucasus region.
That nearly ten nations in the Western Hemisphere do not have U.S. ambassadors appointed to them sends the wrong message regarding Washington’s interests and priorities towards its continental neighbors.
Joint efforts by Israel and Egypt to prevent Hamas from emerging from the Gaza war with a political victory will have some serious consequences.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has found himself in an uncomfortable defensive position in the face of global outrage over his government’s support for separatists in Ukraine.
This year’s World Cup is not just about soccer – at least not as far as the Middle East and North Africa is concerned.
The continent-wide song competition has provided a platform for anti-Russian sentiment this year with Russian-European tensions bubbling into the proceedings.
