June 29th – July 3rd
Monday, 29th June 2015 GREECE – Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis wrote in a letter to the Eurogroup on Saturday requesting it extend Athens’ bailout…
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June 22nd – 26th
Monday, 22nd June 2015 GERMANY – Prominent Al Jazeera journalist Ahmed Mansour walked free from a Berlin prison on Monday, drawing a line under an awkward…
June 15th – 19th
Monday, 15th June 2015 GREECE – Talks aimed at reaching an 11th-hour deal between Greek ministers and their bailout creditors collapsed on Sunday evening…
June 8th – 12th
Monday, 8th June 2015 EGYPT – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s one-year tenure in office has witnessed human rights abuses and an escalation in…
June 1st – 5th
Monday, 1st June 2015 GERMANY – The impoverished Gaza Strip is a “powder keg” at risk of exploding, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on…
May 25th – 29th
Monday, 25th May 2015 ISRAEL – Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced Monday to eight months in prison and a $25,000 fine for illegally…
May 18th – 22nd
Monday, 18th May 2015 EUROPEAN UNION – European foreign and defense ministers agreed on Monday to use naval forces to intercept and disrupt ships used by…
May 11th – 15th
Monday, 11th May 2015 EGYPT – A U.N. attempt to work out a ban on nuclear weapons in the Middle East was in jeopardy after Egypt complained on Monday about…
May 4th – 8th
Monday, 4th May 2015 ISRAEL – Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced on Monday that he would not join the new government being formed by Prime…
April 27th – May 1st
Monday, 27th April 2015 SYRIA – A coalition of Islamist rebels seized an army base in northwestern Syria at dawn on Monday after a suicide bomber from al…