Putin: ‘Politics prevails in the oil pricing’
Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested that the fall in global oil prices that is hurting Russia's economy was caused in part by political manipulation.
View ArticleTurkey, Saudi Arabia strive for Sunni leadership
The regional environment will likely push Ankara into a more confrontational stance regarding Tehran, as Turkey vies for a leading role in the Sunni world, writes global intelligence company Stratfor.
View ArticlePrinciples in the firing line? The EU and the death penalty
Inserting counter-terrorism into European Union foreign policy could undermine the EU's stance against the death penalty, warns Iverna McGowan.
View ArticleFirst major airline fined for breaking aviation ETS law
Saudia Airlines has been fined some €1.4 million by a regional Belgian government for breaching EU carbon emissions rules, making it the first big non-EU carrier to be fined for breaking the EU...
View ArticleHaidar: My husband, Raif Badawi, faces death for blogging
Raif Badawi could be sentenced to death for apostasy, says his wife Ensaf Haidar, who told EurActiv she feared that her blogger husband could be publically flogged at any time.
View ArticleMy husband, Raif Badawi, faces death for blogging
Raif Badawi is the Saudi Arabian blogger imprisoned for ten years and sentenced to 1,000 lashes, after being arrested on charges of insulting Islam on a website.
View ArticleSaudi tycoon donates fortune for development
Saudi tycoon Prince Alwaleed bin Talal on Wednesday promised his entire $32 billion (€28.8 billion) fortune to charitable projects in coming years, in one of the biggest ever such pledges.
View ArticleEU anxious ahead of COP21 conference
The EU warned today (20 August) that the window of opportunity for December's United Nations Climate Change Conference was closing fast, urging the 140+ countries that have not yet made public their...
View ArticleAt least 850,000 will cross the Mediterranean this year, UN says
At least 850,000 people are expected to cross the Mediterranean seeking refuge in Europe this year and next, the United Nations said on Tuesday (8 September), giving estimates that already look...
View ArticleNemtsov and others nominated for Sakharov prize
Assassinated Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, a Ukraine military pilot held on murder charges by Moscow, and jailed Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi were shortlisted yesterday (10 September)...
View ArticleMerkel urges West to work with Russia on Syria crisis
Germany and other Western European powers need to work with Russia as well as the United States to solve the crisis in Syria, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday (12 September).
View ArticleCameron, Hollande call on Syria’s neighbours to take in more refugees
British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President François Hollande agreed on Tuesday (22 September) that European Union leaders should look at ways to help countries neighbouring Syria take in...
View ArticleRussian Ambassador: West should stop playing ‘double games’ in Syria
If the West is determined to fight the Islamic State, which is the international community’s common enemy in Syria and Iraq, it should concentrate on that, and stop engaging in “double games”, Russia's...
View ArticleRussia confronts the Gulf states on Syria
The recent meetings of Russian President Vladimir Putin with Gulf states officials in Sochi have been much more confrontational than what was reported, writes Stratfor, the Texas-based global...
View ArticleRussia to unveil Syrian diplomatic initiative
The Kremlin believes it has taught Washington an object lesson in how to take on Islamist militants in Syria. Basking in the afterglow of Bashar al-Assad's surprise visit to Moscow this week, it now...
View ArticleWhy freeing Badawi matters for EU-Saudi relations
Free Raif Badawi and all prisoners of conscience, because such a precedent would create more opportunities for human rights reforms in Saudi Arabia, writes Alyn Smith.
View ArticlePiketty: Rich individuals must foot bill for climate change
Individuals, not states, should be charged for the CO2 they emit. This idea is central to the system proposed by French economist Thomas Piketty, which would place more responsibility for climate...
View ArticleA heady climate for Brussels’ revolving door policy
As negotiations at the climate talks in Paris move into their second week, the revolving door in Brussels continues to spin energetically, writes Vicky Cann.
View ArticleSaudi executions exacerbate ‘sectarian tensions’, EU warns
The European Union deplores the executions of 47 people in Saudi Arabia, warning that the death of Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr “has the potential of enflaming further the sectarian tensions that already...
View ArticleGermany is the poster child of an accident waiting to happen
Export-oriented Germany is the poster child for an accident waiting to happen, according to a review of countries most affected by the ongoing global economic slowdown, George Friedman writes in...
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