Eurasia Press & News

U.S. President Barack Obama is continuing his push for congressional support of U.S. military action in Syria. Obama is hosting a meeting Monday at the White House with prominent Senator John McCain, who

Algeria rejected on Sunday any military intervention against Syria and called for resorting political negotiations, Algerian foreign minister said. “The military intervention’s expenses and implications over the whole region will be severe,” Murad Madlisi told

Thousands of Tunisians have marched through their capital, calling for the government to resign as the nation’s political crisis deepens. Saturday’s march was the culmination of a week of protests organised by a coalition of

Egyptian prosecutors referred Sunday ousted president Mohamed Morsi and 14 other people to a criminal court over the killing of a journalist and the violence that erupted over his controversial presidential declaration last year. The prosecutor general, Hesham Barakat, accused Morsi

Serbian Deputy prime minister Vucic said on Saturday that politicians in both Belgrade and Zagreb have “the obligation to make violence impossible”. “I’m convinced that our countries will never again confront each other,” Vucic said.

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister and government spokesperson Bulent Arinc has said that Syria should be punished. Bulent Arinc announced that the Syria issue would be discussed in details at today’s meeting of the Turkish government.

The Stabilisation and Association Agreement, which Serbia signed with the EU five years ago, became active on Sunday as Belgrade made another step towards membership of the European club.

On Sunday, First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić offered Tanja Miščević the post of Serbia’s lead negotiator in EU membership talks, which she accepted. Vučić conferred with Miščević in the Serbian government building, after

Pakistan’s Supreme Court Friday issued a notice to the government to comment on a petition, seeking a ban on President Asif Ali Zardari from leaving the country, court officials said. President Zardari’s tenure will complete on September 8.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said the U.S. statement on a “limited” military action against Syria will not be enough to satisfy Ankara, pleading for an intervention similar to the one in Kosovo in 1999.