On May 20, the US Congress Research Service released an updated report on the domestic political situation in Iran entitled “Iran: Internal Politics and U.S. Policy and Options”. The document is intended to provide members of Congress with an adequate understanding of US policy toward the Islamic Republic of Iran. It would be evident to anyone that the report primarily ...
Note: the data in the following article takes into account the state of Greek economy and society before the recent corona-crisis. According to the IMF, Greece will suffer a greater depression than all other EU members because of the pandemic, but nothing is certain for the time being. In any case, the economic and social results of the crisis will ...
By May 22, the coronavirus pandemic had taken the lives of 330,000 people, leaving 5 million people worldwide infected. The pandemic has shown that mankind is not ready to handle the rapid spread of such a disease… and it’s only a matter of time before the next breakout occurs. According to the World Health Organization, the SARS-CoV-2 virus causing COVID-19 ...
Iranian tankers reach Venezuela in defiance of sanctions The administration of US President Donald Trump said that Washington is considering measures against Iran, which supplies gasoline and other petroleum products to Venezuela. Reuters, citing an anonymous official, wrote that Washington has a high degree of confidence that the Venezuelan government is paying Iran “tons of gold”. The Iranian side reacted ...
The coronavirus pandemic has put many countries of the world, their health systems and their political organization under serious strain. The European Union has certainly not been exempt from this, the entire alliance strongly suffering from the outbreak’s impact, especially in Spain and Italy. At the recent European summit there were tense moments between representatives of various EU states who ...
The 73rd World Health Assembly has come to end, with 140 countries deciding to act and cooperate together moving forward. International institutions and world leaders, especially EU leaders, have reacted to Donald Trump’s threats, and united under the World Health Organization. The United States, which would not have been able to accept the results of the declaration, was kept out ...
Turkey and Egypt have significant importance not only in the region, but also in the world, with state traditions going back thousands of years. Relations between these two countries have been tense after the overthrow of Mohammad Morsi in 2013. The Turkish government’s insistent support for the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s anti-Turkish actions with the Greek-Southern Cypriot axis in the Eastern ...
Africa has been torn apart by internecine wars and conflicts throughout its post-colonial period of history, and the bloody history of the continent has naturally drawn the attention of many artists and directors. Unfortunately, most of the war movies where action takes place in Africa were shot from the perspective of white outsiders interested in catching a glimpse into the ...
On May 12, 2020, the US Ambassador to Nicosia, Judith Garber, visited the Commander of the Greek National Guard Army (GNG), Lieutenant General Democritus Zervakis, in Cyprus. Before her departure, the pair posed in front of a wall painting of Kyrenia (Girne) in his office. It was an interesting sight. The president of the Board of Directors of BAU Cyprus ...
Most observers today ask whether the zero hour of the first water war is upon us, after the rapid developments in the positions of the three countries, Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on the issue of the Renaissance Dam. Will Ethiopia force Egypt to carry out the first strike of the African water wars? Egyptian preparedness Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi ...