Turkey’s Erdogan to meet Armenian PM at Europe conference

Armenia’s Nikol Pashinyan announced plans for the meeting, which may be a step towards peace with Azerbaijan.

Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told the Armenian parliament today that he would be meeting Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of a European conference tomorrow in Prague.

Cyprus’s ‘State of Emergency’: Turkey’s ‘Weaponization’ of Illegal Mass Migration

The Cypriot government says that Turkey is orchestrating this illegal immigration crisis, as most migrants coming to Cyprus travel from Turkey. They reportedly fly from Istanbul or Ankara to the Turkish-occupied north of Cyprus, are then smuggled to the free, southern part of the Republic of Cyprus, and from there, under EU law, can apply for asylum.

Tunisia’s Islamists under siege as Saied rolls back democracy

Islamists are bearing the brunt of President Kais Saied’s “counter revolution” with their leaders facing possible jail time and little public sympathy, as many view them as the principal architects of the economic woes and political gridlock that has long gripped the country.

US will destroy Russian army if Putin uses nukes, says former CIA director

The warning comes after Putin and several others in his inner circle have expressed support for the use of nuclear weapons.

Former CIA director and retired four-star army general David Petraeus warned Sunday that the US army would destroy the Russian army if they were to use nuclear weapons on Ukrainian soil.

What is Russia’s Poseidon nuclear torpedo drone, and can it cause a nuclear tsunami?

Reports alleged that Russia is moving to test the Poseidon nuclear torpedo drone, but the Pentagon has no information.

The Pentagon currently has no information on the testing of Russia’s Poseidon nuclear torpedo-drone that would change the United States’ strategic posture, a senior US military official said in a US Defense Department press briefing Monday evening.

Why is Ukraine’s ‘breakthrough’ in Kherson strategically important?

Ukrainian forces reached all the way to Dudchany, 40 km from established front lines and into territories freshly annexed by Russia just last week.

Making their biggest breakthrough in the South since the war began, Ukrainian forces recaptured several villages in a tank-led advance along the west bank of the strategic Dnipro River on Monday, Ukrainian officials and a Russian-installed leader in the area confirmed.

Stoking Resentment Obscures Foreign Agendas

Italy’s new far-right leader, Giorgia Meloni, is attracting an unlikely African fan base. One would imagine that her xenophobic rhetoric, in which she claims there is a conspiracy to replace native-born Italians with immigrants and advocates for a naval blockade of North Africa, would trigger some discomfort on the continent. But her willingness to attack France, on prominent display in a speech from 2018 making the rounds on social media, has some circles celebrating Meloni as a truth-teller and self-styled “liberator.” This surprising turn of events is yet another example of how powerful a political tool longstanding resentment of the status quo can be, and how those resentments can act as a smokescreen for those who amplify them..

Vente de concessions pétrolières et gazières en RDC : attention danger !

Alors que les ministres de l’Environnement du monde entier se retrouvent à Kinshasa, ce 3 octobre, pour préparer la COP27, Human Rights Watch alerte sur les nombreux risques des activités de forage.

Le 28 juillet, le gouvernement de la République démocratique du Congo a lancé un appel d’offres pour les droits d’exploitation de 27 blocs pétroliers, et trois blocs de gaz méthane. Le même jour, les Nations unies reconnaissaient le droit à un environnement propre, sain et durable.