Europe Brexit is delayed… again The United Kingdom and the European Union approved the postponement of the beginning of the UK’s exit process. It was originally scheduled for the end of March 2019. However, the British Parliament did not approve Prime Minister Theresa May’s version of the plan. Now, there are three important dates for Brexit: April 12 and May ...
Israel’s parliamentary elections were held on April 9. While final results have not yet been published, according to preliminary data, the party of current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has won. Following the election, a new government will be formed in the country, occupying the 120 seats in the Knesset. Netanyahu’s Likud party had about 35 seats in the Knesset, while ...
On April 8, Turkish president Erdogan met Russian president Vladimir Putin. The meeting of the two leaders marked the opening of Turkish-Russian cultural interchange and tourism season. This is the third meeting of Erdogan with Putin since the beginning of 2019. Rusya’da iş dünyası temsilcileri toplantısındayız. https://t.co/Z9nCDfWjql — Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (@RT_Erdogan) April 8, 2019 S-400 One of the major ...
Turkey’s local elections Turkey held local elections on March 31, which ended in numerous disputed regions, leading the Commission to recount the votes. Particularly controversial was the battle for Istanbul, where the candidate from the ruling party, ex-speaker of parliament Binali Yıldırım and opposition member Ekrem İmamoğlu faced off. The US State Department had previously called on the parties to ...
Libyan government forces lost 32 people in recent clashes with a rebelling faction of the army. Violence in the country resumed with new force after field marshal Khalifa Haftar ordered the Libyan National Army to advance on Tripoli Thursday, aiming to seize power from the government. Reuters reports that the southern portion of Tripoli was subjected to air strikes on ...
Decades-long conflict between the two nuclear-armed powers in Kashmir has had a strong effect on all world powers, leaving allies and enemies intertwined, each player defending its position in the interest of maintaining or improving their position in the world. Given the current geopolitical deadlock, is there anyone with close enough relations to both sides to actually facilitate dialogue? American ...
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro recently announced that the US is conducting an “electric war” against the country. According to him, this represents a broader attack of “US imperialism against our people”. The electric war announced and led by the US imperialism against our people will be defeated. Neither anyone nor anything may overcome the people of Bolívar and Chávez. Let's ...
Nord Stream II: Europe – Russia Cooperation In April 2017, five European companies and the Russian State Oil Company, Gazprom, signed an Earth shaking €9.5 billion agreement. It was a vow to finance the expansion of the Nord Stream gas pipeline into Europe, providing dirt cheap natural gas to the continent – courtesy of Vladimir Putin. At the ...
Not much to our surprise, on Monday February 26th, we learned that United Kingdom finally blacklisted the political wing of the Lebanese resistance movement known as Hezbollah, literally meaning, “The Party of God”, in Arabic. The Neocons who are now back in power in Washington are driven by a pathological obsession against Iran and its ally Hezbollah. These people failed ...
Türkiye, 31 Mart günü yerel yönetimleri belirlemek amacıyla sandık başına gitti. 57 milyon 93 bin 985 seçmen oy kullandı. Tüm partiler için büyük önem taşıyan İstanbul sonuçları netleşmeden A.A. verileri kesince gergin bir bekleyiş başladı. Sabah saatlerinde YSK Başkanı Sadi Güven, Ekrem İmamoğlu‘nun 4.159.650 oy, Binali Yıldırım‘ın ise 4.131.751 oy da olduğunu açıkladı. İmamoğlu sosyal medya hesaplarından başkanlığını ilan etti. 25 İL EL ...