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Ukraine Parliament Approves New Defense Chiefby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
Ukraine's parliament has approved a new defense minister - the fourth change in leadership since Russia's annexation of Crimea in March. The head of Ukraine's National Guard, Stepan Poltorak, will take over for Valeriy Heletey, who resigned amid heavy criticism for the crushing defeat of Ukrainian forces east of Donetsk in late August. Despite a cease-fire agreement signed last month, fighting between government and separatist forces has continued in parts of eastern...
BERLIN (Reuters) - Six years ago, weeks after U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, European leaders gathered in Paris to discuss a joint response to the financial earthquake shaking their continent.
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As Putin Talks Near, Both Sides Take Steps to Defuse Ukraine Tension
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Владимир Путин и Ангела Меркель по телефону обсудили подготовку к переговорам в Милане
Первый канал Владимир Путин накануне вечером провёл телефонные переговоры с канцлером ФРГ Ангелой Меркель. Лидеры государств обсудили подготовку к переговорам в рамках саммита "Азия-Европа", который состоится на этой неделе в Милане. Ранее сообщалось, что во время форума ... Путин и Меркель обсудили вопрос подготовки к переговорам на ASEMРИА Новости Путин и Меркель обсудили по телефону подготовку к переговорам на саммите АСЕМ в МиланеИТАР-ТАСС Кремль: Путин и Меркель обсудили встречу в МиланеФонтанка.Ру Взгляд -Lenta.ru -NEWSru.com Все похожие статьи: 205 » |
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Eastern Europeans are bowing to Putin's power
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Путин рассказал главе ВОЗ о тайном оружии по борьбе с Эболой — «специальных капсулах»
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The Washington Post: Путин наводнил НАТО и Европу своими сторонниками
Правда.Ру Страны Центральной и Восточной Европы из преданных союзниц НАТО внезапно одна за другой стали выражать свою поддержку действиям Владимира Путина, считает автор. Так, венгерский премьер-министр Виктор Орбан недавно назвал российского президента "политическим ... и другие » |
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Defense Ministry refutes press report on creating massive reserve army
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70-90% efficiency: Russia to send Ebola vaccine to W. Africa in 2 months
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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko proposed a new defense minister on Monday after the previous incumbent resigned amid sharp criticism.
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Places Islamic State is battling for hearts and minds include the pages of its English-language magazine "Dabiq," whose fourth edition was released on October 12.
Baku Concert By Russian Rocker, Kremlin Critic Makarevich Canceled by noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL)
A planned concert by Russian rock musician Andrei Makarevich has been canceled in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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Russia Claims to Have Ebola Vaccine
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IS Group Seeks to Justify Enslaving Yazidi Women, Girls in Iraqby webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)
The Islamic State group said it enslaved families from the minority Yazidi sect after overrunning their villages in northwestern Iraq, in what it praised as the revival of an ancient custom of using women and children as spoils of war. In an article in its English-language online magazine Dabiq, the group provides what it says is religious justification for the enslavement of defeated “idolators.” The ancient custom of enslavement had fallen out of use because of deviation from true Islam, but was revived when fighters overran Yazidi villages in Iraq's Sinjar region. “After capture, the Yazidi women and children were then divided according to the Shariah amongst the fighters of the Islamic State who participated in the Sinjar operations, after one fifth of the slaves were transferred to the Islamic State's authority to be divided as khums,” it said. Khums is a traditional tax on the spoils of war. “This large-scale enslavement of mushrik (idolator) families is probably the first since the abandonment of Shariah law,” it said. Dabiq, distributed in a slickly-produced online format, is described by the group SITE that monitors militant publications as Islamic State's English-language magazine. The cover shows a picture of St Peter's Basilica in Rome, with an Islamic State black flag superimposed in place of the cross atop its obelisk. Inside it features photos of the group's arsenal of heavy weaponry and what it says is the final letter to his mother from an American journalist the group beheaded. The article on slavery confirms practices documented by Human Rights Watch, which says Yazidi women and girls were forced to marry Islamic State fighters and shipped out in busloads from Iraq to Syria to be sold off as prizes. Islamic State practices a harsh form of Sunni Islam and has declared its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi the ruler of the entire Muslim world. Mainstream Sunni scholars around the world have denounced the group and its interpretation of Islam. The group has hounded ethnic and religious minorities in northern Iraq since seizing the city of Mosul in June, killing and displacing thousands of Christians, Shi'ite Shabaks and Turkmen who lived for centuries in one of the most diverse parts of the Middle East. “Family established” U.S. President Barack Obama justified his decision to bomb Islamic State targets in August in part because the group was poised to commit what he called “genocide” against Yazidis, who were trapped at the time on a mountaintop after fleeing an Islamic State assault on their towns and villages. Yazidis, who follow an ancient religion derived from Zoroastrianism, have faced some of the harshest penalties from Islamic State, which regards them as devil-worshippers. The Dabiq article said fighters were reviving a practice of the companions of the Prophet Mohammad by enslaving enemies. Enslaving women and forcing them to become wives reduces sin by protecting men from being tempted into adultery, it said. “One should remember that enslaving the families of the (non-believers) and taking their women as concubines is a firmly established aspect of the Shariah, that if one were to deny or mock, he would be denying or mocking the verses of the Quran and the narrations of the Prophet,” the article said. Many of the captives had “willingly” accepted Islam, the group said, “and now race to practice it with evident sincerity after their exit from the darkness of idolatry.” Mothers had not been separated from their young children, it said. U.S.-led air strikes have halted Islamic State advances in the north of Iraq, allowing Kurdish forces to regain ground. Many of the Yazidis trapped on the mountain they consider a holy site, Mount Sinjar, were eventually able to escape, but their nearby villages are still under militant control. Horrific crimes On Sunday, Human Rights Watch said Islamic State was holding hundreds of Yazidis captive in both Iraq and Syria and that the group had systematically separated young women and teenage girls from their families, forcing some into marriage with fighters. Fifteen-year-old Rewshe, one of several Yazidi girls who escaped Islamic State captivity and spoke to Human Rights Watch, said Islamic State fighters transported her with about 200 Yazidi women and girls on a convoy of four buses to Raqqa, their de facto capital in Syria. An Islamic State commander sold her and her 14-year-old sister to a fighter, who told her with pride that he had paid $1,000 for her, she said. The fighter sold her sister to another fighter, Rewshe said. She escaped through an unlocked door while the man who bought her slept. “The statements of current and former female detainees raise serious concerns about rape and sexual slavery by Islamic State fighters, though the extent of these abuses remains unclear,” Human Rights Watch said. “The Islamic State's litany of horrific crimes against the Yezidis in Iraq only keeps growing,” said Fred Abrahams, special adviser at Human Rights Watch.
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Порошенко хочет договориться в Милане о реализации мира в Донбассе
РИА Новости Президент Украины Петр Порошенко отметил, что на сегодня ключевым приоритетом для достижения мира в Донбассе является контроль за российско-украинской границей. Президент Украины Петр Порошенко. Архивное фото. © REUTERS/ Valentyn Ogirenko. КИЕВ, 13 окт — РИА ... Петр Порошенко намерен договориться на саммите АСЕМ в Милане о реализации мира в ДонбассеКоммерсантъ Порошенко хочет договориться о мире в Донбассе на миланском саммитеГазета.Ru Порошенко намерен договориться в Милане о реализации мира в ДонбассеМосковский комсомолец СЕГОДНЯ -ЛІГА.net -Фонтанка.Ру Все похожие статьи: 22 » |
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кампания о «сливе Новороссии»?
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Военные Ирака потеряли контроль над ключевой базой в провинции Анбар
Vesti Иракские военнослужащие в ходе борьбы с боевиками группировки "Исламское государство" потеряли контроль над стратегически важной базой в провинции Анбар. База на окраине города Хит была одной из немногих оставшихся под контролем правительства военных постов в ... и другие » |
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Shirtfront insult angers Russian paper
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Взрыв на химической фабрике произошел в штате Нью-Джерси
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How Russia Sees the Ukraine Crisis
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Порошенко отменил 23 Февраля
Интерфакс Москва. 14 октября. INTERFAX.RU - Президент Украины Петр Порошенко подписал указ, согласно которому ежегодно 14 октября будет отмечаться День защитника Украины. В то же время указ, устанавливающий Днем защитника Отечества 23 февраля, признан утратившим силу. Порошенко отменил празднование Дня защитника Отечества 23 февраляВзгляд Порошенко отменил праздник 23 февраля и учредил День защитника УкраиныМосковский комсомолец Украина отказалась праздновать 23 февраляВести.Ru Корреспондент.net -Главред Все похожие статьи: 57 » |
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Russian authorities are conducting a census in Crimea.
In a picture on the cover of ISIS's official magazine showing a mock-up of Caliphate-controlled Rome, its flag is superimposed on the obelisk in St Peter’s Square.
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Dow Jones industrial average slumps 222 points as stocks succumb to a late slide
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Vatican stuns Catholic world with greater openness toward gays and lesbians
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Police: Nearly 20 arrested in Ferguson protestby By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER and JIM SALTER
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) -- Pounding rain and tornado watches didn't deter hundreds of protesters who stayed outside Ferguson police headquarters for more than four hours Monday, the same amount of time that the 18-year-old Michael Brown's body was left in the street after he was fatally shot by police....
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Obama advisers appear at odds over US troop role, as ISIS holds ground
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The breakthrough saw IS claim half of Kobani, nearly a month after the Sunni extremists began their assault on the town on the Turkish frontier, despite more than three weeks of US-led air strikes in Syria aimed at stopping them.
A new video reveals how ISIS fighters are trained. CNN's Brian Todd reports on how the group became a formidable force.
The Dutch government says Ukrainian searchers have recovered belongings including passports, luggage, jewelry and children's toys from the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.
Iraqi security forces abandoned a military camp in the besieged province of Anbar after it was surrounded by Islamic State fighters, Iraqi officials said on Monday, calling it a strategic retreat.
Hillary Clinton swings by Colorado to help Udall
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Vatican document on gays draws cautious, mixed response
MSNBC A new document from the Vatican stating that gay people “have gifts and qualities to offer to the Christian community” drew mixed responses from some Catholics in the U.S. on Monday. Liberal Catholic leaders hailed the statement as a significant step to a ... and more » |
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Russia: Ministry Takes Aim at a Human Rights Groupby By SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY
The Justice Ministry has filed a suit in Russia’s Supreme Court to disband the Memorial Society, an organization created in the late 1980s to preserve the legacy of victims of Stalinism.
Dutch Experts, Investigators Return to MH17 Crash Siteby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
Dutch officials returned to the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine on Monday in a new bid to recover the human remains and personal belongings of the nearly 300 people killed aboard the downed plane. Four observers from the Netherlands joined representatives from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to monitor Ukrainian emergency workers Monday as they gathered passports, clothing, children's toys, and other items from the...
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Russian hackers target NATO, Ukraine and others: iSight
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will hash out a strategy to counter Islamic State on Tuesday with military leaders from some 20 countries including Turkey and Saudi Arabia amid growing pressure for the U.S.-led coalition to do more to stop the militants' advance.
BOSTON — In times of war, Americans can be counted on to rally behind the flag. And polling indicatesthat most Americans support President Barack Obama as he leads a new offensive against the so-called Islamic State (or ISIL) in Iraq and Syria.But in contrast to George W. Bush’s 2003 invasion of Iraq, it’s been just over a month since the president's speech on the Islamic State war, and already detractors appear to dominate. The big picture: How the battle against the Islamic State and Assad (yes, Assad) is meant to unfold.
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BOSTON — An interview with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond.
LIMA — Should this giant bronze eagle and swastika be smelted or put on public display?
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BELGRADE (Reuters) - In his 1949 memoir Eastern Approaches, British officer Fitzroy Maclean wrote of standing on top of Belgrade's fortress and watching the Nazis retreat across the River Sava, leaving the capital to the Red Army and Yugoslav Partisan guerrillas.
Credit Suisse study shows inequality accelerating, with NGOs saying it shows economic recovery skewed towards wealthy
The richest 1% of the worlds population are getting wealthier, owning more than 48% of global wealth, according to a report published on Tuesday which warned growing inequality could be a trigger for recession.
According to the Credit Suisse global wealth report, a person needs just $3,650 including the value of equity in their home to be among the wealthiest half of world citizens. However, more than $77,000 is required to be a member of the top 10% of global wealth holders, and $798,000 to belong to the top 1%.
Continue reading...US, Coalition Military Leaders to Meet on Islamic State Strategyby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
President Barack Obama and American military commanders are due to meet Tuesday with foreign defense chiefs to discuss their coalition efforts to combat Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria. A spokesman for General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the upcoming talks at Andrews Air Force Base just outside Washington will cover the challenges of the operation and a vision for the way forward. Representatives from about 20 countries,...
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