Kazakhstan focuses on flood recovery
Sweeping across Central Asia, massive floods wreaked havoc in multiple regions of Kazakhstan, leaving thousands of people homeless. The floods are the worst the country has seen in the past 80 years....
View ArticleU.S.-Ukraine Partnership Forum focuses on engaging the private sector in...
On April 17, in partnership with the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and USAID, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce hosted the second U.S.-Ukraine Partnership Forum. The Forum...
View ArticleG7 Italy 2024 Foreign Ministers’ Statement on Addressing Global Challenges,...
The text of the following statement was released by the G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative...
View ArticleCOP 29: Azerbaijan takes the spotlight
The next global climate conference, COP 29, will occur in November in Baku, Azerbaijan. The gathering is essential to continue discussing and developing strategies to address climate change worldwide....
View ArticleKazakhstan: New law to protect women and children against domestic violence
Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has recently signed key legislation largely criminalizing domestic abuse, ensuring women’s rights and safety of children which has been hailed by the EU and...
View ArticleWider Middle East regional conflict must be avoided
In a moment of growing tensions in the Middle East, NE Global sat down for an interview about the Iran-Israel crisis with Giuseppe Manna, an Italian geopolitics expert focused on Middle East issues and...
View ArticleNew sanctions ordered following Iran’s April 13 missile and drone attacks...
Following Iran’s massive, but ineffective, missile and drone strikes against Israel April 13, the United States and the United Kingdom announced their new sanctions measures on April 18 and the EU...
View ArticleNE Global’s April Edition:New sanctions ordered following Iran’s April 13...
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View ArticleNew U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Humanitarian Issues named
Although currently traveling in China, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced a reshuffling of the position of Special Envoy for Middle East Humanitarian Issues, relieving Ambassador David...
View ArticleUK and Kazakhstan deepen strategic cooperation
During a visit to Astana, UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron, and Kazakhstan’s Foreign Minister Murat Nurtleu signed a Strategic Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, opening the path to even deeper...
View ArticleNorth Macedonia veers sharply to the right in presidential vote
On April 24, nationalist presidential candidate Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova trounced incumbent center-left President Stevo Pendarovski in a multi-candidate election, setting the stage for a runoff for...
View ArticleEU sharply reduces visa access for Ethiopians
Citing the lack of Ethiopian cooperation to facilitate repatriation of citizens deported from EU member states, the EU Council announced on April 29 a major tightening of most visa procedures for...
View ArticleNew wave of U.S. sanctions target Russia’s foreign suppliers and industrial base
On May 1, the U.S. Department of State together with the U.S. Treasury Department unveiled a wide-ranging new list of anti-Russia sanctions covering an additional 280 individuals and entities in Russia...
View ArticleEU welcomes Azerbaijan-Armenia peace treaty talks in Almaty
The European Union has welcomed the agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia to hold talks at the foreign ministers’ level to finalize negotiations for a peace treaty between the two states in Almaty,...
View ArticleUzbekistan to mobilize investment in environmental protection, sustainable...
NE Global sat down for an interview, in the Uzbek capital, during the 3rd Tashkent International Investment Forum (TIIF) with Aziz Abdukhakimov, Uzbekistan’s Minister of Ecology, Environmental...
View ArticleNavigating the climate challenges for COP29
The impacts of climate change have become more evident as greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from human activities cause increased heat, drought, floods etc. Changes in the earth’s climate balance...
View ArticleA Green 5+1, regional water issues in Central Asia and previewing next year’s...
Kazakhstan’s Astana International Forum (AIF) has been postponed to 2025, as Astana is diverting financial resources to assist the relief efforts after massive flooding hit several regions. While this...
View ArticleNorth Macedonia: Sliding back towards the political dark side?
As most analysts predicted after the strong showing of the nationalist presidential candidate in the first-round presidential elections on April 24, VMRO-DPMNE (Internal Macedonian Revolutionary...
View ArticleGeorgia’s “Foreign Representatives Law” moves forward amid protests
On May 14, Georgia’s parliament approved (84/150) a hotly contested law on “Transparency of Foreign Interests” regulating the amount of aid local civil society organizations may accept from abroad,...
View ArticleTackling new threats to critical energy infrastructure
The explosions that targeted the Nord Stream pipelines from Russia to Germany in September 2022 and the suspected sabotage of Baltic-connector pipeline, which supplies Finland with gas from Estonia,...
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