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.

Hydrocarbures : la Turquie va explorer les eaux libyennes

Un mémorandum signé entre Tripoli et Ankara prévoit de « développer des projets liés à l’exploration, la production et le transport de pétrole et de gaz ».

La Libye et la Turquie ont signé le 3 octobre un accord de prospection d’hydrocarbures dans les eaux libyennes, trois ans après avoir conclu un accord de délimitation maritime controversé qui avait suscité l’ire de l’Union européenne (UE). « Nous avons signé un mémorandum d’entente pour la prospection d’hydrocarbures dans les eaux territoriales de la Libye ainsi que sur le sol libyen par des compagnies turco-libyennes mixtes », a déclaré le chef de la diplomatie turque Mevlüt Çavusoglu, lors d’un point presse avec son homologue libyenne Najla al-Mangoush.

Thinking About the Unthinkable in Ukraine

What Happens If Putin Goes Nuclear?

As the war in Ukraine rages on, Russian President Vladimir Putin has engaged in nuclear saber rattling. “Whoever tries to impede us, let alone create threats for our country and its people, must know that the Russian response will be immediate and lead to the consequences you have never seen in history,” Putin declared in February in the first of many statements warning of a potential nuclear strike. For the most part, Western observers have dismissed this talk as idle chest-thumping. After all, whichever side fired nuclear weapons first would be taking a very risky gamble: betting that its opponent would not retaliate in an equal or more damaging way. That is why the odds are very low that sane leaders would actually start a process of trading blows that could end in the destruction of their own countries. When it comes to nuclear weapons, however, very low odds are not good enough.