SAccording to Reuters news agency, at least 35 Al-Qaeda’s militants were killed in two UAV strikes (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) carried out on Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 in Yemen[1]. These new strikes are part of the ongoing campaign against international terrorism that the United States are managing in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. Washington hasn’t commented the fact yet but it is almost impossible to rule US involvement out: these attacks are likely to be the White House response to the AQAP (Al-Qaeda in the Arabic Peninsula) attempt to gather about 100 militants in Yemen as testified by a video broadcasted by the CNN[2].

What happened to the European willingness to intervene in Central African Republic to solve the humanitarian crisis? Hard to say, but it seems that things are not going as they were intended to. On the 10th of February the European Union Council authorised the peacekeeping military mission EUFOR RCA[1] but nothing concrete has been achieved yet.

Relating to the Crimean crisis, two norms of international law must be taken into consideration. The first one is known as “the right to self-determination” and states that every people has the right to choose its own political status and that it can be done, for instance, by gaining independence or by full integration within another state. The second one is called “domestic sovereignty”: it means that a state has actual control within its borders and a violation of this norm occurs whenever a foreign presence in its territory is proved real and unauthorised.

After having assisted to the “political elimination” of former Ukrainian president Yanukovyc, the focus of international public attention switched from Kiev to the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula on the northern coast of the Black Sea, a region in which about the 60% of its population belongs to the Russian ethnic group.