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Last Updated: Sep 17, 2019 - 10:49:45 AM |
Business
EU Court Decision Will Limit Gazprom’s Ability to Pump Gas to Europe Via Nord Stream Route
A constituent court of the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that the Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom may not use 100 percent of the capacity of OPAL, an onshore, German extension to the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline
Sep 17, 2019 - 10:48:19 AM
Defence & Arms
Leadership Claims at the "Wet Flank"
Under German command, numerous NATO member countries and close allies are participating in a naval exercise - that ends on Thursday - for the control of Baltic maritime routes
Sep 17, 2019 - 10:46:51 AM
Africa
Libya: Stranger Alliances
The civil war continues between the LNA (anti-Islamic radical Libyan National Army) and the GNA (UN backed but largely powerless Government of National Accord).
Sep 17, 2019 - 10:45:38 AM
Dark Side
Erdogan Doesn’t Want Nukes, He Wants to Blow Up the System
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan surprised a lot of people when he told an audience last week that the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) was unacceptable because some signatories — the United States, Russia, China, France, and the United Kingdom — could have nuclear weapons, while others — like Turkey — could not. Erdogan also mentioned a non-NPT member, Israel, and how its possession of nuclear weapons made it “untouchable.”
Sep 17, 2019 - 10:43:58 AM
Analyses
The New Problems with Putin's Old Political System
There remains no mechanism for selecting a successor to Vladimir Putin or for ensuring that the current system can perpetuate itself through this middle of the twenty-first century.
Sep 17, 2019 - 10:42:10 AM
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