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The council will be sending 15 delegates to Iraq in support of the upcoming parliamentary elections. The meeting is scheduled to be held sometime this month. Holland’s ambassador to the U.N. spoke to local press while visiting the U.N. in New York, he confirmed the meeting would be in an effort by the U.N. to […]
Mike Pompeo, the newly confirmed Secretary of State for the United States, found himself singing a familiar tune to NATO allies in Brussels this past week: calling on America’s allies to meet their financial obligations to the alliance and cut their financial reliance on America’s defense apparatus. Each NATO member nation is required to devote […]
May 3, 1469 — Niccolò Machiavelli was born in Florence, in the Republic of Florence located in modern-day Italy. He was a politician, a philosopher, a diplomat and an early Italian humanist. He was devoted to the unification of Italy and penned many politically inclined philosophy books that would eventually make him (according to some) the […]
Kurdistan’s current Prime Minister, Nechirvan Barzani, is making some rousing statement amidst the current parliament electoral race in the region. In a campaign speech Barzani told supporters that, “The Democratic Party of Kurdistan agrees thoroughly with the right of self-determination, here, in Baghdad, or any place in the world. The KDP will struggle for it and seek […]
Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan has resigned after nation wide protests, which was in fact the primary demand of the activists. Sargsyan was supposedly nominated again for the position Prime Minister despite having previously served two terms, something that protesters would not tolerate and proceeded to demonstrate. In his resignation statement Sargsyan said, “I am leaving the post of […]
Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced snap presidential and parliamentary elections that will be held on June 24, 18 months sooner than the scheduled election date. The reasons for this are multiple. The difficulties the Turkish economy faces have probably made Erdogan unsure of how popular he’ll be in November 2019. So, he decided […]
A candidate belonging to Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi’s Nasr (Victory) Coalition, has been removed from the running because of a sex tape of her circulating on social media. The candidate, Dr. Intidhar Ahmed Jassim, submitted her resignation this morning but has insisted that the footage is fabricated and part of a conspiracy to defame her. […]
Many representatives spoke at the Kiev Security Forum this year where they expressed hopes for Ukraine as a nation and raised awareness for Russian transgressions. Among these speakers was Republic of Lithuania‘s 13th Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, who was resolute in explaining that it is a mistake to discriminate between the “opinion of the Russian government” and the “opinion […]
Haider al-Abadi, Iraq’s prime Minister, has demanded that the PKK militant’s within Kurdistan’s borders cease and desist all attacks against Turkey. He made it clear that the constitution of Iraq forbids a group or collective from threatening another country’s national security, especially from within Iraq. He also insisted that the Turkish military had not entered […]
Russian ambassador Maksim Maksimov and Erbil’s consul general, Victor Simakov, attended a meeting with Kurdistan’s Prime Minister, Nechirvan Barzani, recently to discuss economic relations. Officials from Gazprom, a major Russian energy company, attended the meeting as well. Director general Sergei Petrov who is the lead authority in Erbil for the company was the delegate elected by the company […]
When President Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Bill back in December, he not only put the largest defense budget in history into action, he also made the building of a “355 ship Navy” part of the formal national policy. That provision, championed by Senate Seapower Subcommittee Chairman Roger Wicker and Rep. Rob Wittman, mandated […]
On Monday, the F.B.I. raided the offices of President Trump’s personal attorney, Michael D. Cohen, reportedly seizing records and emails relating to several separate topics. Today the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York executed a series of search warrants and seized the privileged communications between my client, Michael Cohen, and his […]
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