By Aine Cain Flat Hat News White House Communications Director Jen Psaki graduated form the College in 2000. COURTESY PHOTO / WIKIMEDIA White House Communications Director Jen Psaki ’00 first visited the College of William and Mary on a clear, sunny day in April. After touring campus with …

By Siarhei Bohdan Belarus Daily Speaking last week at a Moscow conference on global security, Belarusian Defence Minister Andrei Raukou said that Minsk views the increasing number of NATO forces on its borders as a challenge to the military security of the country. He did not explain how his …

Voice of Warsaw: The Polish government will negotiate the purchase of Raytheon’s Patriot system for its planned missile defense shield with the American government, President Bronislaw Komorowski said following a meeting with PM Ewa Kopacz and Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak. On Tuesday the government decided to choose the …

By Nasser Arrabyee Despite its stated aims, the main beneficiary of the Saudi-led Operation Decisive Storm at least so far  is Al-Qaeda and its jihadist followers, writes Nasser Arrabyee in Al Ahram Weekly. It has been about one month since Saudi Arabia started airstrikes on all Yemeni provinces …

Azeri Daily: The European Union’s foreign policy chief has expressed hope Iran can play a constructive role in a renewed United Nations push to restart negotiations to end Syria’s four-year civil war, RFE/RL reports. Federica Mogherini was speaking in New York on April 28 ahead of talks with …

Trend: The regulatory authorities in TAP’s host countries – Greece, Italy and Albania – have released a joint opinion, prolonging the validity period of TAP’s exemption from certain provisions of the EU Gas Directive. TAP’s exemption has been updated in line with the planned commencement date of Shah Deniz …

Azer News: Though the world powers and Iran have reached a framework accord on Tehran’s decade-old nuclear dispute, experts and analysts are skeptical on the success of the nuclear negotiations. They don’t believe that the P5+1 and Iran could achieve a final nuclear deal by the July 1 …

By Sara Rajabova Azer News Iran has set some conditions in view of allowing U.S. car manufacturers to access into the Iranian market should sanctions be lifted this summer. Assadollah Asgaroladi, the head of Iran-China Chamber of Commerce, said American car manufacturers should not be given “easy” access …

Representatives of the far-right Ukrainian nationalist political movement Right Sector are due to picket the administrative building of President Poroshenko in central Kiev later on Wednesday. The far-right Ukrainian nationalist political movement Right Sector will be picketing near the building of President Petro Poroshenko’s administration in central Kiev later in the day, …