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Cairo urges U.S. to block Turkey-Libya maritime deal amid rising Eastern Mediterranean tensions
CAIRO (Realist English). Egypt has asked the United States to intervene and prevent Libya’s eastern parliament from ratifying a controversial...
UAE deepens energy and infrastructure ties across Africa ahead of AEW 2025
CAPE TOWN (Realist English). The United Arab Emirates is expanding its footprint in Africa’s energy and infrastructure sectors, with growing...
The governance paradox of southern Algeria: Natural wealth, systemic neglect, and emerging instability
ALGIERS (Realist English). Southern Algeria—home to the country’s most strategic oil and gas fields—represents a paradox at the heart of...
UN confirms discovery of mass graves and torture sites in Libya, urges immediate accountability
TRIPOLI (Realist English). The United Nations has confirmed the discovery of more than 80 bodies at official and clandestine detention...
Wagner Group declares mission in Mali complete, announces withdrawal after 3.5 years of operations
BAMAKO (Realist English). Russia’s Wagner Group has officially announced its withdrawal from Mali after more than three years of combat...
Algeria reclaims leverage: France faces shrinking influence in gas, trade, and security
ALGIERS (Realist English). France is no longer in a position to dictate the terms of its relationship with Algeria, according...
Algeria’s diplomatic isolation deepens amid rising regional tensions and domestic pressure
ALGIERS (Realist English). Algeria is entering one of the most turbulent phases of its recent diplomatic history, with escalating confrontations...
Nigeria needs urgent constitutional overhaul, says former Bar Association chief Olisa Agbakoba
LAGOS (Realist English). Prominent Nigerian lawyer and former president of the Nigerian Bar Association, Olisa Agbakoba, has called for an...
Kinshasa targets ex-president’s party amid M23 conflict
KINSHASA (Realist English). Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have suspended the activities of the People's Party for...
Sheaito Moussallam: Iran is the main obstacle to Greater Israel
BEIRUT (Realist English). The Middle East today is an echo of exploding bombs, diplomatic dead ends, and dozens of contradictory interpretations...
‘Capitalism is facing a crisis of legitimacy’: Larry Fink on inequality, AI and the evolution of markets
NEW YORK (Realist English). Larry Fink, founder and CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest investment company with $14 trillion in assets...
Maria Nikiforova: Young people of the liberated territories are waiting for peace and justice
MOSCOW (Realist English). Maria Nikiforova, an expert on youth policy at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian...
155 billionaires vs. 150 million people: Zyuganov on the social catastrophe in Russia
MOSCOW (Realist English). Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov presented the pre-election program "Victory...
UAE boosts production bypassing OPEC, but oil prices rise
MOSCOW (Realist English). Leading researcher at IMEMO RAS, Candidate of Historical Sciences Stanislav Ivanov has analysed for Realist English the possible consequences of...
Kurdish Genocide: From the Ottoman Empire to Erdoğan — a Chronicle of a Century of Terror
ISTANBUL (Realist English). Crimes against the Kurdish people have not been isolated episodes but have been carried out by successive Turkish...
Will Trump and Xi Agree on a New World Order?
BEIJING (Realist English). Relations between the United States and China in May 2026 can best be described as an “armed...
Pentagon withdraws troops from Germany: minus 5,000 soldiers in Europe and cancellation of a missile battalion
BERLIN (Realist English). On 2 May, the Pentagon officially announced the withdrawal of 5,000 US troops from Germany over the next...
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