European Union
- Less hate speech and more European content on video streaming services: Council adopts new EU rules
- More effective mutual recognition of freezing and confiscation orders
- Venezuela: EU renews sanctions for one year
- Making Eurojust more efficient and effective
- Electronic publications: Council adopts reform allowing reduced VAT rates
Central Europe
- Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30, 5 August 2016
- Spot Report by OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine: Explosion in Luhansk city
- OSCE/ODIHR Director Link criticizes call for reintroduction of death penalty by Tajikistan’s Prosecutor General
- Raising awareness of human trafficking in crisis situations is objective of OSCE Special Representative’s Ukraine visit
- Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30, 4 August 2016
Africa
Balkan News
Russia & CIS
- Russia’s sanctions against Ukraine send message to Washington
- NATO’s Trident Juncture Exercise as a Deterrence Signal to Russia
- Russia imposes massive sanctions on Ukraine, but spares Chocolate King Poroshenko
- Merkel will not seek re-election as CDU party chair
- Work underway for potential second Putin-Trump summit, no details yet, Kremlin says
Defence`s Feeds
- Australian Military In A “Rebecca Black Situation” as Dislikes Mount over Memorial Video on YouTube
- The 2018 Election Observed (4) in Paktika: Pre-election fraud and relatively peaceful polling
- U.S. Navy F/A-18F From USS Ronald Reagan Crashes at Sea, Crewmen Rescued. Sixth U.S. Super Hornet crash in 2 years.
- Clouds with Drizzling Rain Prevented “Marine One” From Flying Trump To U.S. cemetery near Paris
- Check Out This Video Of U.S. Marine F-35B Jets Refueling Over the Middle East.
Diplomacy & Crisis News
- Guadalcanal: How the Marines Crushed the Japanese Army at Hell's Point
- Integrated Battle Groups Are India's Response to Pakistan
- How the U.S. Navy Captured One of Hitler's Deadly U-Boats
- How the U.S. Government Might Have Survived a Nuclear War
- Why the Marines Want a Piece of the Army’s Lethal New Sniper Rifle
Diplomacy & Defense Think Tank News
- PROGRAMME du SOMMET DES RÉFORMISTES EUROPÉENS
- Le bon côté de l’intelligence artificielle pour la Chine
- Simon Junker: „Die konjunkturelle Lage wirkt auf den ersten Blick schlechter als sie ist “
- Flexible Nutzung von Nachtspeicherheizungen kann ein kleiner Baustein für die Energiewende sein
- „Längerfristig spielen Wärmepumpen und die Gebäudesanierung eine größere Rolle für die Energiewende“: Interview mit Wolf-Peter Schill
