Lured by the prospective EU membership, the North Macedonian government continues to negotiate unpopular agreements with neighboring countries

At least 37 African refugees were killed in Melilla on June 24 when security forces opened fire on them. Along with Spanish forces, Moroccan forces also participated in this operation.

Russia also objected to the West’s doublespeak on Ukraine, saying that platforms such as G20 were being used to push an anti-Russia agenda instead of trying to find ways to tackle the rising economic hardships the world is facing

Welcome to the European Union’s “sanctions from hell.” Won’t Europeans have the common intelligence to realize they have been had?

Rania Khalek of BreakThrough News talks about the recent political maneuvering by Turkey around the NATO membership of Finland and Sweden, and its revival of relations with Saudi Arabia

Spain is seeking NATO protection for Melilla, where the massacre occurred, and Ceuta, its other colonial enclave on the North African coast. The NATO Summit has declared irregular migration from Africa to be a threat to the “state security” of its members

Protesters claimed that NATO was responsible for various wars, from Yugoslavia to Libya, and is pushing for an arms race across the globe. They demanded that NATO be disbanded to ensure peace and stability in the world

The Russian forces are now almost in total control over the Luhansk region. However, peace is a long way off — several months away, perhaps

This weekend, a Peace Summit is organized in Madrid where various organizations and international movements will meet to oppose NATO and work together to organize the struggle for real security of the people and the planet

Paradoxically, the long war in Ukraine could only work to Russia’s advantage and the West’s over-extension may be its own undoing

Differences over the draft constitution and the electoral law have raised fresh fears of resumption of fighting between the different factions in Libya. The country has faced a decade-long war following the NATO-led invasion in 2011

Russia has been warning that the West’s military supplies to Ukraine will only prolong the war in the country, and may cause grave consequences. Russia has repeatedly accused NATO of fighting a proxy war against it at the cost of the Ukrainian people