51 injured, 4 critical, in Southern California commuter train collision with truck




Lithuania to Reinstate Limited Conscriptionby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
Tuesday February 24th, 2015 at 1:52 PM

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Lithuania said Tuesday it would reinstate limited conscription later this year as a precautionary measure, given a new geopolitical situation. "The current geopolitical environment requires us to enhance and accelerate army recruitment," said a statement by President Dalia Grybauskaite’s office issued after an emergency meeting of the State Defense Council.  The statement also said that “threats to the state's security” necessitate that “the country's defense capabilities need to be strengthened further." The conscription, which would be renewed for a five-year period, still requires parliamentary approval.   Once lawmakers sign off, starting in September some 3,000 men between the ages of 19 and 27 would be drafted to serve for a period of nine months. Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea in March of last year and subsequent separatist conflict between pro-Russia rebels and government forces in eastern Ukraine have sent jitters through Lithuania, as well as neighboring Latvia and Estonia. All three are former Soviet republics with sizeable ethnic Russian minorities. Even though all three are members of NATO, some analysts have warned that after breeding instability in Ukraine Russia might move to employ similar tactics against the Baltics. Russia denies that it is behind any efforts to destabilize Ukraine or party to the conflict in the country’s east.

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Lithuania reinstates military conscription
Tuesday February 24th, 2015 at 1:51 PM

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Baltic state to draft males aged between 19 and 26

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  • 28 Hospitalized After Metrolink Train Derails in Collision With Vehicle on Tracks
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    Metrolink train hits truck, derails in Oxnard; truck driver in custody
    Tuesday February 24th, 2015 at 1:48 PM

    Metrolink Train Hits Truck, Derails In Oxnard; Truck Driver In Custody - Los Angeles Times
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    A Metrolink train derailed early Tuesday in Oxnard after slamming into a truck that was in flames. Twenty-eight people were injured, four critically.
    The driver of the truck fled the scene and was taken into custody, officials said. 
    The train was going 79 mph near the crossing at 5th Street and Rice Avenue at about 5:40 a.m. when its engineer spotted the fiery truck, said Sergio Martinez of the Oxnard Fire Department.
    The engineer immediately hit the brakes but was unable to stop in time, officials said. Four train cars derailed.
    Four people were critically injured, officials said, but there were no fatalities. There were 51 passengers on board and 28 were taken to local hospitals. The other 23 were not injured.
    The injuries included significant head trauma, broken limbs, and back and neck injuries, emergency service personnel said.
    Metrolink spokesman Jeff Lustgarten said the train's engineer was among those injured.
    Fire officials at the scene said the train was traveling at its cruising speed of 79 mph when the conductor spotted the flaming truck and anticipated the crash from "a far distance out."
    The conductor immediately initiated the train's flashing lights and braking mechanisms.
    The exact type of vehicle struck by the train wasn’t immediately known. But fire officials said it was not uncommon for farm equipment to travel through the area.
    The driver left the scene but was found a couple of miles away and was taken into custody, officials said.
    Jorge Garcia, 56, was getting ready for work when he heard something unusual shortly before 6 a.m. He didn't think much of it until he heard the ambulances racing past his home. 
    "I just heard a bang and then an explosion," Garcia said. "It was a big old boom. And then the ambulances started. ... You could see it was something big."
    Multiple emergency units responded. Several tarps were laid out where victims were being treated. Others were on stretchers being wheeled into ambulances.
    Three of the four cars that derailed had been equipped with a “crash energy management” system meant to absorb the shock of a crash and redistribute force away from passengers, a Metrolink official said. The fourth car, a bicycle car, was not equipped with the system.
    Union Pacific was hoping to make repairs by the morning, fire officials said.
    The National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates rail crashes, said in a tweet that agency officials were aware of the incident and were gathering information.
    In 2008, a Metrolink commuter train collided with a Union Pacific freight train on a stretch of shared track in Chatsworth, killing 25 people and injuring others. Investigators said the Metrolink engineer went through a signal light that should have warned him to stop until the freight had moved onto a siding.
    A year ago, Metrolink launched a state-of-the-art safety system along sections of its 512-mile network in Southern California at a ceremony that remembered the Chatsworth crash victims.
    The Times will update this post soon with more information.
    Witness the crash? Please email joseph.serna@latimes.com
    Copyright © 2015, Los Angeles Times
    9:09 a.m.: Updated with officials saying truck was on fire before it was struck by the train.
    7:54 a.m.: Updated with latest details.
    The original version of this post was published at 6:41 a.m.
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    51 injured, 4 critical, in Southern California commuter train collision with truck
    Tuesday February 24th, 2015 at 1:46 PM

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    A commuter train crashed into a truck and derailed Tuesday, injuring dozens of people in farmland northwest of Los Angeles. (Ventura County Star)
    At least 51 people were injured, including four critically, Tuesday morning when a Metrolink commuter train collided with a tractor-trailer truck on the tracks in Ventura County, northwest of Los Angeles.
    Oxnard police Sgt. Denise Shadinger said the crash was reported at 5:44 a.m. Shadinger said the truck became fully engulfed in flames. Authorities are describing the scene as a multi-casualty incident.
    Authorities at a morning news conference said many of the victims were treated for head and extremity injuries. The train, which has a cruising speed of about 79 miles per hour, was traveling 'significantly' slower at the time of impact, an official said.
    "The conductor noticed the car early and established emergency protocol. He anticipated the crash from a far distance," Oxnard Fire Battalion Chief Sergio Martinez said.
    The train carrying 51 passengers was heading from Ventura County to Los Angeles. The stretch of track 65 miles from Los Angeles where the collision occurred was straight, and that allowed the conductor to see the truck on the tracks and begin braking, fire officials said.
    A Ventura County fire official told Fox News that the driver of the tractor trailer survived the crash and fled the scene. He was apprehended less than a mile from the crash site, the official said.
    The collision toppled three passenger cars. A fourth car is derailed but remains upright, along with the engine. The scene is in Oxnard, about 65 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
    A news helicopter is showing firefighters treating numerous people at the scene. Tarps were lying on the street and firefighters were treating victims.  Little was left of the truck but scorched and mangled wreckage -- some debris was in a nearby intersection and some close to the tracks.
    Metrolink's website says the train was on a run from Ventura County to Los Angeles.
    Emergency vehicles could be seen treating some passengers at the scene, while other passengers could be seen being wheeled on stretchers. 
    Feb. 24: Three cars of a Metrolink commuter train have derailed and tumbled onto their sides after a collision with a truck on tracks in Ventura County northwest of Los Angeles.
    The Los Angeles Times reported that in 2008, a train traveling on the same route was involved in a crash that killed 25 and injured 135.
    The National Transportation Safety board announced it was sending a team to investigate the crash.
    The Associated Press contributed to this report
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    28 Hospitalized After Metrolink Train Derails in Collision With Vehicle on Tracks
    Tuesday February 24th, 2015 at 1:45 PM

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    Nearly 30 people were hospitalized, including four in critical condition, and one person was in custody after five cars of a Los Angeles-bound Metrolink train derailed in a fiery collision with a produce truck on the tracks Tuesday morning in Ventura County.
    The vehicle was on the Ventura County Line tracks between Camarillo and Oxnard, about 70 miles northwest of Los Angeles, at the time of the collision, just before 6 a.m., according to Metrolink. The conductor used the train's emergency-braking system after noticing the truck and trailer on the tracks near 5th Street and Rice Avenue, according to officials with the Oxnard Fire Department.
    The train cars were being pushed by a locomotive from the rear at slower than the cruising speed of 79 mph, according to fire officials. The crash sent five cars off the track and toppled three cars on their sides near the rail crossing at 5th Street and Rice Avenue.
    The truck was sheared in half before it burned along with the trailer.
    Four victims were in critical condition, according to Oxnard Fire Department officials.
    The driver of the vehicle tried to run from the scene but was detained by police for questioning, according to authorities.
    RAW: 3 Derailed Train Cars After Truck CrashRAW: 3 Derailed Train Cars After Truck Crash A Metrolink train derailed in Oxnard, Calif. after striking a truck that got split in half at a railroad crossing. No fatalities were reported. (Published Tuesday, Feb 24, 2015)
    "He was found a little while later some miles down the road," said Oxnard Fire Battalion Chief Sergio Martinez.
    He was hospitalized with injuries not related to the crash, Oxnard police said. Details regarding the injuries were not immediately available.
    Fire-rescue personnel set up a color-coded triage area with green, yellow and red tarps at the site. The tarps indicate the severity of the victim's injuries, with red being the most serious and green indicating minor injuries.
    "The extent of injuries ranged from significant head trauma and extremity trauma to neck and back injuries and trauma that you'd generally get from being thrown around," said Steve Caroll, of Ventura County Emergency Medical Services. "We did transport a total of 28 patients and we have 23 on scene who were not transported who did not complain of any significant injuries."
    The 51 people involved in the crash included passengers, conductors and the truck driver, fire officials said.
    All Ventura County Line trains will be delayed, with tracks remaining closed between Oxnard and Camarillo. Trains will travel as far as Oxnard, where buses will provide transport. Repair work on the tracks is expected to continue into Wednesday morning.
    Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board confirmed a crash investigation team is headed to the location.
    The crash follows two major crashes involving Metrolink trains in the past 10 years. In January 2005, a truck abandoned on a rail line near Glendale caused a Metrolink train to derail and strike other trains on either side of the track, killing 11.
    In 2008, a freight train and Metrolink train collided head-on in Chatsworth, killing 25. Authorities determined the Metrolink train went through a red signal before entering the single-track section.
    There are 228,000 street crossings in the country, about 140,000 of them on publicly owned roads, according to the Federal Railroad Administration. About 53 percent of the public ones are equipped with active warning devices.
    Collisions at the crossings have dropped by 85 percent from a high of more than 13,500 in 1978 to just over 2,000 in 2011, according to the administration. It attributes the dramatic decrease to engineering improvements, better enforcement of traffic safety laws and education of motorists. The administration estimates that 94 percent of collisions and 87 percent of fatalities are the result of risky behavior by drivers or poor judgment.
    Noreen O'Donnell contributed to this report.
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    Керри назвал ложью заявления России об отсутствии войск на Украине - РБК
    Tuesday February 24th, 2015 at 1:28 PM

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    Керри назвал ложью заявления России об отсутствии войск на Украине
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    Вопрос главе внешнеполитического ведомства, выступавшего в сенатском комитете касался российских военнослужащих и российского вооружения на востоке Украины. На фразу «Врет ли Россия?», Керри ответил: «Да», передает Reuters. По его словам, «Россия по разным поводам ...
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    Britain to send military advisers to Ukraine - Cameronby Press Association
    Tuesday February 24th, 2015 at 1:27 PM

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    Prime minister says service personnel to provide infantry training as well as advice on logistics, medical care and tactical intelligence

    British military personnel are to be deployed to Ukraine over the next few weeks to provide advice and training to government troops, David Cameron has said. 
    The announcement came as the prime minister stated that Britain would be “the strongest pole in the tent” over the crisis, arguing for tougher sanctions against Moscow if Russian-backed militias in eastern Ukraine fail to observe the provisions of the ceasefire agreed earlier this month with the Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko.
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    Cameron says UK to send military advisers to Ukraine: Politics Live blog by Andrew Sparrow
    Tuesday February 24th, 2015 at 1:27 PM

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    Rolling coverage of all the day’s political developments as they happen, including the growing pressure on Sir Malcolm Rifkind to resign as chair of the ISC and David Cameron’s evidence to the Commons liaison committee
    Margaret Hodge, the Labour chair of the public accounts committee, goes next.
    Q: Yesterday a Ministry of Justice official said she went ahead with the appointment of Paul McDowell as chief inspector of probation, even though his wife worked for a company bidding for probation contracts. And HMRC told us they only had a limited role vetting appointments. Does the appointment system need an overhaul?
    At the hearing Cameron is now talking about schools.
    Graham Stuart, the Conservative chair of the education committee, asks it is viable to have more and more academies directly funded by the Department for Education.
    Here is a longer version of the quote from David Cameron about the despatch of military advisers to Ukraine.
    We are not at the stage of supplying lethal equipment. We have announced a whole series of non-lethal equipment, night-vision goggles, body armour, which we have already said that we will give to Ukraine.
    Over the course of the next month we are going to be deploying British service personnel to provide advice and a range of training, from tactical intelligence to logistics to medical care, which is something else they have asked for.
    Up to 75 personnel will begin to deploy to Ukraine from next month as part of the training mission, the Ministry of Defence said.
    There will be four separate areas covered by the deployment - medical, intelligence, logistics and infantry training.
    Jenkin presses Cameron on reforming the centre of government. Cameron says he thinks the key thing is to have a group of ministers who are working together on agreed aims. In this government, unusually, the prime minister and the chancellor actually work together, he says.
    Bernard Jenkin goes next.
    Q: Governments often fail to achieve their aims. Why do you think this is?
    Keith Vaz, the Labour chair of the home affairs committee, is asking questions now.
    Q: Do you know how many young people have been radicalised, or are going to Syria?
    Sir Malcolm Bruce, the Lib Dem chair of the international development committee, is asking the questions now.
    Q: What can we do to help Nigeria cope with Boko Haram?
    Here’s more on the British deployment to Ukraine.
    PM's new British military training mission to Ukraine will be 75 troops teaching medical, intelligence, logistics and infantry skills; No10.
    Reuters has just snapped this, from what David Cameron was saying about Ukraine earlier.
    Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday Britain would deploy military personnel to Ukraine in the next month to help train the Ukrainian army, warning that Moscow would move to destabilise other countries if left unchallenged.
    “Over the course of the next month we’re going to be deploying British service personnel to provide advice and a range of training, to tactical intelligence to logistics, to medical care,” Cameron told a committee of lawmakers in parliament.
    Q: What are we doing in Iraq?
    Cameron says there is a fully joined-up strategy there, but it takes time. It involves supporting the Iraqi government, and providing air cover in the fight against Isis. Britain is the second largest contributor of military help.
    Sir Richard Ottaway, the Conservative chair of the foreign affairs committee, goes next.
    Q: Do you accept that the fall of Assad is not in the UK’s interests?
    Bernard Jenkin, the Conservative chair of the public administration committee, goes next.
    Q: People say there is no military solution to this. But there is. When there was a conflict in George, it came to an abrupt end when America despatched its fleet.
    Cameron says Ukraine and the Baltic states see Britain as a very reliable ally.
    The key has been to get Russia and Urkaine together, he says. It matters less who is there on behalf of the EU.
    Don’t be precious about always being in the room.
    Cameron says Britain should be very tough insisting upon a good reform programme for Ukraine. “A good reform programme is worth billions of dollars of aid,” he says.
    Q: Would Britain consider further sanctions, going beyond the EU ones, if Russian aggression were to continue? And would it suspend Russia membership of the SWIFT banking system?
    Cameron says we should not rule that out.
    Cameron says there is no doubt that Russia is supplying the rebels in Urkaine with weapons. “You can’t buy these things on eBay,” he says.
    Q: Will you consider supplying Ukraine with lethal defensive equipment?
    Cameron says Britain is not at that stage.
    Q: Michael Fallon, the defence secretary, said recently the cold war is heating up. Is he right?
    Cameron says we should be “strong, measured and clear” when standing up to Russia.
    The RAF has the ability to deal with incursions by Russian aircraft, he says.
    Q: What protection does Article 5 of the Nato treaty offer to the Baltic states if Russia tries to destablise them using unconventional means, such as proxy troops or cyberwarfare.
    Cameron says the Baltic states know we are their friends.
    Q: Should sanctions by extended or deepened?
    Cameron says they should be extended anyway. And they should be deepened if the situation gets worse.
    David Cameron is at the committee.
    They start with Russia.
    David Cameron is giving evidence to the Commons liaison committee at 4pm. I’ll be covering the hearing in detail.
    According to the committee, the two subjects to be covered in the 90 minute hearing are:
    Issues likely to be raised include:
    · Tackling Islamist extremism in Syria, Iraq and Nigeria
    Here’s the Guardian video of Sir Malcolm Rifkind speaking to reporters after the ISC meeting. (See1.41pm.)
    In the Times today Douglas Carswell, the Ukip MP, has an article headed: “Enoch Powell was wrong about immigration” (paywall). Here’s an excerpt.
    Half a century ago, Enoch Powell made a speech about immigration that made it difficult to even mention immigration in Westminster. Full of foreboding, Powell warned of mass immigration leading to major unrest.
    Powell was, as Tony Blair put it, “one of the great figures of 20th-century British politics”. He was also a distinguished soldier, linguist and classicist. Yet in his pessimism, Powell was wrong.
    Nigel Farage has backed the “basic principle” of Enoch Powell’s warning that mass immigration can make people feel like strangers in their own country from the Tory politician’s 1968 “rivers of blood” speech.
    The Ukip leader was read several lines of the infamous speech on Sky’s Murnaghan show and agreed that it was true for “a lot of England” – without being told who had spoken the words.
    Liz Truss, the environment secretary, told the NFU conference this morning that a Conservative government would continue with the badger cull. This is from the Press Association.
    A Tory-led government would roll out badger culling to more areas where tuberculosis is rife in cattle, environment secretary Elizabeth Truss has said.
    Truss refused to be drawn on whether wider culling of badgers to tackle the disease in livestock could take place this year if the Conservatives win the general election, but she insisted the Tories would continue with their 25-year TB eradication strategy, which includes a roll-out of the badger cull.
    By my reckoning 87 MPs have now announced they're retiring in May - 36 Tory, 38 Lab, 11 Lib Dem; 2 others. I expect another 6 or so
    The Labour party has now released the text of the motion MPs will debate tomorrow on MPs’ second jobs.
    It won’t propose banning all second jobs, as the party originally suggested, but just paid directorships and consultancies.
    That this House believes that, as part of a wider regulatory framework for second jobs, from the start of the next parliament no honourable members should be permitted to hold paid directorships or consultancies.
    If you are one of the 1m people who have fallen off the electoral register (see 2.29pm), here’s how you can get your name back on.
    Give up not being registered to vote for lent. Register now at http://t.co/4zXMvnhg63
    I had a very bad interview on housing this morning. I’m very happy to confess that and I’m very sorry to the Green party members who I didn’t do a good job, any kind of job of presenting our policies on.
    That happens, I’m human. One can have a mental brain fade on these things.
    Ed Miliband warned weeks ago that nearly a million voters had disappeared off the register and these figures published today confirm Labour’s worst fears.
    They are a direct consequence of the way the Tories and Liberal Democrats hastily forced through changes to the way people register to vote. Ministers ignored warnings from experts, including the Electoral Commission, that young people, students and people living in private rented accommodation risked losing their vote, pushing ahead regardless, over-riding sensible safeguards that would have prevented this from happening.
    Politics is a vital and necessary vocation. It carries important responsibilities not only for policy decisions but also for shaping the hopes and aspirations of people. Political leaders can choose to appeal to our sense of hope or of fear, to our desires to care for others or for ourselves, and to our sense of solidarity or to our selfishness.
    We expect politicians to be committed to the common good. We also each have a responsibility to be involved in the democratic process. It is important that we vote. It is a duty which springs from the privilege of living in a democratic society.
    Kevin Barron, chair of the Commons standards committee, and Kathryn Hudson, the parliamentary commissioner for standards, have issued a joint statement confirming that the investigation into Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind will not be finished until after the election.
    Here it is.
    The parliamentary commissioner for standards is responsible for deciding whether or not there is sufficient evidence that there may have been a breach of the code of conduct to justify an inquiry. This is a decision for her alone.
    If the commissioner decides to conduct an inquiry, she will need to assemble evidence, including complete transcripts of the meetings on which recent reports have been based. In the past, broadcasting organisations have taken up to 5 weeks to release such transcripts to the commissioner. The commissioner’s procedures for investigation are designed to be fair and open. The commissioner shares the evidence she has gathered with the individual under inquiry and gives them an opportunity to comment on that evidence before she, or the committee, reaches any conclusions.
    My colleague Rowena Mason has sent me more on what Sir Malcolm Rifkind said when he spoke to reporters after the ISC meeting was over.
    No, I don’t think I did anything wrong. I may have made errors of judgement but then we all make errors of judgment. We are all human beings in that sense.
    Downing street does not have that power [to dismiss him]. The ISC acts under an act of parliament.
    I reflected on the situation last night and could see the issue is one of which there is a rising public interest. And I did not want the work of the committee to be distracted. I informed the committee at the very beginning of the discussions that have been going on all morning. It met at 10am and I read a statement about the issues in the press and then went on to the main business.
    I used the word entitled - it might not have been the right word. Each person determines on the work they do the kind of living standard they hope to aspire to and you make judgements based on that.
    I don’t blame the press. I certainly have some criticisms of some individual elements of the press.
    The prime minister’s spokesman told journalists at the lobby briefing that David Cameron “respects and supports” Sir Malcolm Rifkind’s decision to resign as ISC chair and to leave the Commons. The spokesman said:
    What the prime minister thinks is that there were very serious allegations and questions that had been raised. Because of that he thinks that Sir Malcolm has done the right thing, which is why he respects and supports his decisions.
    And here is some more from the Rifkind doorstep.
    Rifkind on standing down on ISC "I reflected on the decision last night. I could see that..it was a matter of public interest."
    Rifkind:on salary.. says if he used the word "entitled" to higher salary that might not have been the correct one
    “I may have made errors of judgement,” Malcolm Rifkind finally admits. A casebook example of how not to handle a scandal, others might say.
    Rifkind says the whip may be restored in 3 weeks time but his local association needed a new candidate after coverage
    And this one.
    Rifkind says he doesn't blame the press for what happened https://t.co/B8TzghA4RO
    The ISC meeting has just broken up.
    My colleague Frances Perraudin has posted this vine.
    Rifkind says he didn't want the work of the ISC to be disrupted https://t.co/YQYN97CjEL
    My colleague Rowena Mason, who gets all the best jobs, is still outside the ISC meeting.
    Andrew Parker, head of MI5, just left ISC meeting via back door. Still awaiting Rifkind....
    Alex Younger, MI6 boss, was also in there. Looks like a proper ISC meeting took place despite Rifkind drama
    Media and 4 police officers wait for Rifkind outside the Intel and Security Ctte officepic.twitter.com/j93Tx0d3QJ
    Like many people, the Lib Dem peer Lord Tyler suspects that Sir Malcolm Rifkind may have decided to quit in the hope of increasing his chances of getting a seat in the House of Lords after the election.
    #Rifkind about-turn: Did Tory whips say "Go today Malcolm and you'll get your peerage". "Go tomorrow, and you won't”?
    And here are two interesting blogs on Sir Malcolm Rifkind.
    I was working covering Scottish politics for The Times then, and during the 2001 campaign I had a chance to see how hard he worked at at a time where he had little national profile. He was giving his all, fighting for Scotland at a time when his party had pretty much given up on it. Had 900 people voted a different way in Edinburgh, he would have succeeded in fighting his way back to parliament in 2001.
    Stature, grit, oratory, courage — I became quite a Malky fan, and saw him as a potential Tory leader. As did he: when he came back in the 2005 election, he stood against David Cameron. But when he lost, and Cameron refused to make him shadow foreign secretary, he went into a huff.
    Here is some more Twitter comment on Sir Malcolm Rifkind.
    From the BBC’s James Landale
    Rifkind resignation shows once again that legalistic, lawyerly defence rarely succeeds in public arena. Tone trumps detail.
    Departure of Europhile Rifkind tips Tory party even further into Eurosceptic collective mindset.
    The Ladbrokes free advertising department has sent out its odds on the Tory candidate who will be chosen to replace Sir Malcolm Rifkind in Kensingston.
    10/1 James Cracknell
    Scottish Tory source on 20/1 odds by one bookmaker on Ruth Davidson for Kensington seat says:"We'd advise people not to place that bet."
    Here’s the Guardian video of Sir Malcolm Rifkind’s ill-tempered encounter with the cameraman who was doorstepping him earlier this morning. (See 11.06am.)
    Reprieve, the legal and human rights charity, has put out a statement following the resignation of Sir Malcolm Rifkind from the ISC. This is from Clare Algar, its executive director.
    Sir Malcolm Rifkind’s resignation should not distract from the ISC’s central problem: that it has been hopelessly inadequate when it comes to holding our security services to account.
    From UK complicity in CIA torture to mass-surveillance, the ISC has missed every major security-related scandal of the past 15 years. It has fallen to the press, the courts and NGOs to expose these events, with the ISC’s members only discovering them by reading the newspapers.
    My colleague Patrick Wintour says Lord Butler, the former cabinet secretary and an ISC member, is the obvious candidate to succeed Sir Malcolm Rifkind as ISC chair.
    Lord Butler is the obvious stop gap chairman of parliament's ISC now that Rifkind has decided to resign as committee chairman.
    Robin McGhee, the Lib Dem candidate in Kensington, has put out a statement welcoming Sir Malcolm Rifkind’s decision to stand down at the election. “Kensington people often say he is an absentee MP who does very little work,” McGhee says.
    Rod Abouharb, the Labour candidate in Kensington, has not commented yet on his blog today, but yesterday he wrote a post saying Rifkind’s behaviour illustrated why “so many people hold MPs in contempt”.
    Kensington & Chelsea has a history of Tory MPs who get into scrapes - Nick Scott, Alan Clark, Malcolm Rifkind. Arguably Portillo. Who next?
    Not Boris Johnson. At one stage there was speculation that he might stand in the constituency, buthe has already been selected for Uxbridge and he has been campaigning there. Recently one of his potential constituents sent me an email about what he’s been up to. Here’s an extract.
    There is a feeling that Boris expects voters to come to him rather than going out doing canvassing ... Where we live, one of the people in our road said they saw him doing canvassing of a few houses, but that he just stopped to do a photo near the site where a new health centre, much delayed, is due to be built. He is producing a full colour A3 newspaper on a regular basis. It has lots of pictures of Boris in it and not much else.
    I haven’t seen many Tories on Twitter paying tribute to Sir Malcolm Rifkind, but the TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp has a kind word to say.
    Oh bugger it, I might as well say it - Malcolm Rifkind is my local MP & I doubt very much they'll manage to replace him with someone better.
    My colleague Rowena Mason is doorstepping the ISC.
    ISC still holed up in Great Smith St after an hour. No comment on Rifkind from members on way in.
    Sky News has been showing footage of a journalist (a cameraman, I think) doorstepping Sir Malcolm Rifkind this morning. (“Doorstepping” is journalese for trying to get an interview with someone on the street, normally someone who doesn’t want to talk to the media.)
    Here’s a vine with a clip.
    Rifkind steps down as ISC Chair. Was inevitable really. Here’s his ill-tempered exchange with Sky News this morning https://t.co/GuMIjDsseB
    Labour’s Tom Watson says, even though Sir Malcolm Rifkind has resigned, the rules about ISC membership still need to be reformed.
    Inevitable Malcolm Rifkind has gone but the rules governing membership of the intelligence committee need immediate reform.
    The Conservative party has issued this statement on Sir Malcolm Rifkind’s decision to stand down as an MP.
    Sir Malcolm has had a long career of distinguished service both to the Conservative party and the country. We respect and support his decision to stand down.
    Kim Howells, the former Labour MP and former chair of the ISC, arguably helped tipped Sir Malcolm Rifkind over the edge with his Newnsight interview last night. (See 6.45am.) Howells has just told Sky News that Rifkind did the right thing.
    It’s a shame because he’s had a very distinguished parliamentary career and to end in this way is really awful ...
    The intelligence and security committee has such an important role that there can’t be any shadow across it whatsoever. And I’m afraid that the whole affair that Malcolm Rifkind got into would not be good for that committee at all. It’s far, far too important for the country at large. And I think he’s done the right thing.
    And here is Sir Malcolm Rifkind’s resignation statement as chair of the intelligence and security committee (ISC).
    None one of the current controversy with which I am associated is relevant to my work as chairman of the intelligence and security committee of parliament.
    However, I have today informed my colleagues that while I will remain a member of the committee, I will step down from the chairmanship.
    Here’s the statement Sir Malcolm Rifkind has issued.
    I have received tremendous support from my constituency association and from many constituents in Kensington over the last two days. 
    However, I have been pondering whether it is fair to my colleagues and friends in Kensington to remain the prospective Conservative candidate for the forthcoming general election. 
    Sir Malcolm Rifkind’s decision to stand down at the election means that one of the plummest seat in the Conservative party is about to become vacant.
    Kensington Tories about to be bombarded with CVs from prospective candidates hoping to replace Sir Malcolm Rifkind.
    This sounds right, from the BBC’s Nick Robinson.
    Rifkind may hope that by going quickly - as MP & intelligence committee chair - he'll able to win disciplinary enquiry & head to the Lords
    The Press Association has just snapped this.
    Tory MP Sir Malcolm Rifkind is to step down as an MP at the general election and has also resigned as chairman of the parliamentary intelligence and security committee, he said.
    Labour has announced that it will hold a Commons vote tomorrow on banning MPs from second jobs. It can do so because Wednesday is set aside for opposition business. Labour is not expecting to win - the Tories and the Lib Dems have both resisted the idea in the past - but the party knows that its stance on this has wide popular support.
    A party source said:
    We need to act to improve the reputation of our parliament in the eyes of the British people.
    Here’s some more Twitter comment from journalists on that Natalie Bennett interview.
    I must say @NickFerrariLBC v gently twisting the knife on Green leader does a rather masterful job. It's painful tho http://t.co/7U84A12A8j
    Natalie Bennett’s LBC interview is so bad I felt enormously sorry for her. Oh god. It’s just painful.http://t.co/IKuZkpVfSd
    Never pleasant to hear someone implode under gentle inquiry, but @natalieben is Greens' leader - talking abt numbers. http://t.co/8CtG1GW3Gx
    Painful: “@MichaelPDeacon: Maybe the Greens should start campaigning to be excluded from the Leaders' Debates. http://t.co/eGGZxvXSaJ”
    For a start, 500,000 times 60,000 is 30 billion, not 3 billion: http://t.co/eGGZxvXSaJ
    Greens should abandon TV debates after this @natalieben solar collapse with @NickFerrariLBC. Painful http://t.co/85waVznVSL
    Extraordinarily bad interview by @natalieben on the Greens' manifesto http://t.co/FOpQ1s8w1WBetter just to say "I don't have the figures"
    Have the Labour paid Bennett off?
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    Maybe the Greens should start campaigning to be excluded from the Leaders' Debates.http://t.co/jrepGipznG
    Natalie Bennett, the Green party leader, was on the Today programme earlier ahead of the party’s election campaign launch later. Here are the key points that emerged.
    What we’ve got to do is take a broad approach and change our place in the world. We’re in the place we are now as a product of decades of Cold War thinking; we’re in the place of acting as the world’s policeman, with America, in places like Iraq and Afghanistan – wars that we oppose. We need to build a new place in the world as a champion of human rights, as a champion of international law ...
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    This is a broader proposal than Labour’s mansion tax. What we’re talking about is, we don’t just tax property because that excludes about two-thirds of wealth; we also want to tax pension pots, holdings in cash, Ferraris, whatever else it might be.
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    The only question now is whether Rifkind resigns before he is pushed from security Cttee. He will not be there this time tomorrow.
    I really cannot see how Rifkind can continue as Chair of the ISC. He would now fail any sensible security vetting. #fb
    And here’s today’s ComRes poll for the Daily Mail.
    First ComRes / @DailyMailUK poll, 2 point Con lead Con 34% (+3) Lab 32% (+2) LD 8% (NC) UKIP 13% (-4) Green 8% (+1)
    Time for a change? Six in ten Britons think so in our new poll for @DailyMailUKhttp://t.co/oddQn6QflS pic.twitter.com/JGL60qwWn4
    There are 72 days to go until the election.
    Here’s today’s “election fact” from the Press Association.
    The unreformed county constituencies, prior to 1832, had - unlike the boroughs - a single fixed voting qualification for those having a freehold worth at least 40 shillings (2). Inflation over 400 years between 1430 and 1830 theoretically made the shires relatively democratic. In practice the parties, put off by the costs of bribing thousands of electors, normally did deals ensuring unopposed returns of one MP each from either side. William Wilberforce, the great anti-slavery campaigner, represented Yorkshire, one of the largest county constituencies. He was unopposed from 1784 to 1807 when he topped a tight poll with all three runners within 818 votes of each other out of 33,975 votes cast. Candidates’ spending was a then-record-breaking nearly £250,000.
    And you can watch the Newsnight interview with Kim Howells about Sir Malcolm Rifkind here.
    In case u missd Rifkind's ISC predecessor Kim Howells on why it will be difficult for Rifkind to survivehttp://t.co/SQ80IgyfsV (at 6'30'')
    Here’s today’s YouGov poll.
    Update: Lab & Con tied - Latest YouGov / The Sun results 23rd Feb - Con33%, Lab33%, LD8%, UKIP13%, GRN7%; APP -19 http://t.co/PGnN9Q0GXw
    Sir Malcolm Rifkind, the former foreign secretary suspended by the Conservatives over cash-for-access claims, is facing calls from his colleagues to stand down as chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee.
    He will be told on Tuesday by some of his colleagues at a meeting of the committee, which oversees the security services, that his position is now “untenable” and that he should stand down pending an investigation.
    I have acted in accordance with the parliamentary rules at all times in respect of Senator International, as in all other respects. All of these matters will be scrutinised by the parliamentary commissioner.
    Sir Malcolm Rifkind is under pressure to step down as chair of parliament’s intelligence and security committee. Here’s the Guardian’s story from last night about the plight he’s in and this is what Kim Howells, the former Labour MP and a former ISC chair, said about Rifkind’s situation on Newsnight last night. Howells said he was “bewildered” that Rifkind had time for outside work.
    It became for me a full time job, trying to get through that material and make sense of it. If the intelligence and security services are not properly overseen, if they are not properly accountable to Parliament and the people then all hell can break loose ...
    One would have thought that great care would have been needed by anyone who is chairing that committee. I think it is going to be very difficult for him.
    Continue reading...
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    Putin says the 'apocalyptic scenario' of going to war with Ukraine is 'very unlikely' as Russian-backed rebels finally begin to withdraw artillery
    Tuesday February 24th, 2015 at 10:53 AM

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    • Putin says a war between Russia and Ukraine is 'unlikely'
    • Russian President called possible war 'an apocalyptic scenario'
    • Security watchdog OSCE warns of several breaches of cease-fire
    Published: 14:34 EST, 23 February 2015 | Updated: 07:59 EST, 24 February 2015
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    Vladimir Putin has said that a war between Russian and neighbouring Ukraine is unlikely and that he hopes it 'never happens'.
    Speaking to Russian state TV, the President called a military conflict between his country and Ukraine 'an apocalyptic scenario'.
    This comes as an international security watchdog has warned of several breaches of the ceasefire agreed between Ukranian state troops and separatist rebels.
    Anti-war: Vladimir Putin, pictured yesterday, called a military conflict between his country and Ukraine 'an apocalyptic scenario', adding that he hopes it 'never happens'
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    Anti-war: Vladimir Putin, pictured yesterday, called a military conflict between his country and Ukraine 'an apocalyptic scenario', adding that he hopes it 'never happens'
    'I think that such an apocalyptic scenario [war] is unlikely and I hope this will never happen,' he told a reporter with Russia State TV company.
    This weekend's prisoner swap between Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels took place after Putin agreed to use his influence on the separatists during a conference call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko.
    Today, Putin said he did not see the need for another meeting with the leaders of France, Germany and Ukraine on resolution of the conflict.
    This follows a statement by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, that although the current cease-fire has 'very significantly' lowered the level of military exchanges in Ukraine, violations are still taking place.
    Lamberto Zannier, head of OSCE, said Monday there have been a number of violations in the south, and some limited incidents around the town of Debaltseve and around the Donetsk airport, both seized by separatists. 
    Vladimir Putin, seen at a wreath-laying ceremony at the tomb of the unknown soldier, during the 'Day of the Fatherland's Defender'-celebrations yesterday, said he 'did not see the need' for more peace meetings
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    Vladimir Putin, seen at a wreath-laying ceremony at the tomb of the unknown soldier, during the 'Day of the Fatherland's Defender'-celebrations yesterday, said he 'did not see the need' for more peace meetings
    Zannier called the agreed ceasefire 'the best chance ... to de-escalate and bring this conflict to an end,' but he stressed that 'there is work to be done.'
    Today, Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine said they have begun a large-scale pullback of heavy weapons in line with the peace plan.
    The claim by Eduard Basurin, a top rebel commander, couldn't immediately be confirmed. 
    Michael Bociurkiw, a spokesman for the observer mission that is monitoring the fighting in eastern Ukraine, said he couldn't comment until receiving monitors' reports at the end of the day.
    The peace plan that was signed February 15  calls for heavy weapons to be pulled back by each side from the front line by 25 to 70 kilometers (15 to 45 miles), depending on their caliber.
    Disturbing the peace: The OSCE has reported that although the cease-fire has 'very significantly' lowered the level of military exchanges in Ukraine, violations are still taking place
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    Disturbing the peace: The OSCE has reported that although the cease-fire has 'very significantly' lowered the level of military exchanges in Ukraine, violations are still taking place
    Pro-Russian: Locals greet separatists during a rally to mark the 'Defender of the Fatherland Day' in Donetsk, following several reports of cease-fire violations
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    Pro-Russian: Locals greet separatists during a rally to mark the 'Defender of the Fatherland Day' in Donetsk, following several reports of cease-fire violations
    The cease-fire has been troubled by violations, leading to concern that it wouldn't solidify and that fighting would continue. 
    A rebel website cited Basurin as saying about 100 122-mm howitzers would be moved on Tuesday.
    There was no immediate comment from the Ukrainian side, but military officials have said that they won't pull back weapons until a cease-fire fully takes hold.
    On Tuesday, military spokesman Lt. Col. Anatoliy Stelmakh said rebels had shelled the town of Popasna seven times and launched one barrage on the village of Luhanske.
    Stelmakh also said rebels tried to storm Ukrainian positions near the southern village of Shyrokyne, which is near the strategic Azov Sea port of Mariupol. 
    Concerns persists that rebels aim to take Mariupol to help establish a land corridor between mainland Russia and the Crimean peninsula that Russia annexed last March.

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    mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Russian President Vladimir Putin says a war with Ukraine is "unlikely" and he hopes "it will never happen."
    » WorldViews: Why a court decision in Manhattan could be a problem for the Palestinian cause
    23/02/15 20:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington Post. In a controversial decision, a jury in Manhattan found the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority gu...
    » Two men sentenced to 25 years in plot to attack Americans in Afghanistan
    23/02/15 20:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two men convicted of seeking to join al Qaeda and training to carry out attacks on Americans in Afghanistan were sentenced on Monday to 25 years in federal priso...
    » Israel attack victims awarded over $218 million in PLO trial in NY
    23/02/15 20:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. jury on Monday ordered the Palestine Liberation Organization and Palestinian Authority to pay more than $218 million for providing material support to terro...
    » Fun: Debbie Wasserman Schultz planned...
    23/02/15 20:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from dnc chair - Google News. Fun: Debbie Wasserman Schultz planned to accuse WH of being sexist, anti ... Hot Air  - ‎4 hours ago‎ The White House allegedly wanted Debbie Downer out as DNC cha...
    » Wasserman Schultz Reportedly Wanted to Paint Obama as ‘Anti-Woman,’ ‘Anti-Semitic’ If Ousted
    23/02/15 20:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Comments on: Wasserman Schultz Reportedly Wanted to Paint Obama as ‘Anti-Woman,’ ‘Anti-Semitic’ If Ousted. Buried inside a Politico report about Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wa...
    » What was motive to kill the 'American Sniper'? - CNN
    23/02/15 20:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. NBCNews.com What was motive to kill the 'American Sniper'? CNN <img alt="STEPHENVILLE, TX - FEBRUARY 11: Former Marine Cpl. Eddie Ray Routh walks to his seat during the c...
    » What was motive to kill the 'American Sniper'?
    23/02/15 20:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . Story highlights As closing arguments approach, motive for Chris Kyle's killing remains unclear Lawyers argue whether Eddie Ray Routh suffers from insanity or personality disorder Routh has provided a series ...
    » Leaked cables show Netanyahu's Iran bomb claim contradicted by Mossad - The Guardian
    23/02/15 20:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from world - Google News. The Guardian Leaked cables show Netanyahu's Iran bomb claim contradicted by Mossad The Guardian Binyamin Netanyahu's dramatic declaration to world leaders in 2012 that Iran was about a...
    » Islamic State uses social media to groom British Muslim girls: think tank
    23/02/15 20:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Islamic State is using social media and the promise of adventure to lure British Muslim girls to join its cause, an anti-extremism think tank said...
    » Netanyahu’s Iran bomb claim contradicted by Mossad, leaked spy cables show – video
    23/02/15 20:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from World news + Video | The Guardian. In September 2012, the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, told the UN general assembly that an Iranian nuclear bomb was imminent. But leaked intelligence documen...
    » Reuters journalist Maria Golovnina dies in Pakistan aged 34
    23/02/15 20:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. LONDON (Reuters) - Maria Golovnina, Reuters bureau chief for Afghanistan and Pakistan who was widely loved and admired for her courage, compassion and professionalism, died in Islamaba...
    » Reuters Pakistan bureau chief dies in Islamabad - Daily Mail
    23/02/15 20:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Times of India Reuters Pakistan bureau chief dies in Islamabad Daily Mail The Pakistan and Afghanistan bureau chief for Reuters news agency died on Monday after collapsing in the offic...
    » Blogger Who Led Protests Is Given a Five-Year Sentence in Egypt
    23/02/15 20:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Alaa Abd El Fattah and about two dozen others were convicted of taking part in an unauthorized demonstration in 2013 and were all fined $13,000.
    » New U.S. defense chief hints little change in Islamic State strategy
    23/02/15 20:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait (Reuters) - New U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Monday America had the right "ingredients" of a strategy to combat Islamic State, emerging from talks wit...
    » Pentagon chief says he is satisfied by U.S. campaign against Islamic State
    23/02/15 20:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington Post. CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait — Calling the Islamic State “hardly invincible,” new Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter gave his blessin...
    » Putin says war between Russia and Ukraine unlikely - Jerusalem Post Israel News
    23/02/15 20:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. The Moscow Times Putin says war between Russia and Ukraine unlikely Jerusalem Post Israel News "I think that such an apocalyptic scenario is unlikely and I hope this will never happen,...
    » Reuters Bureau Chief Is Found Dead in Pakistan
    23/02/15 19:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Maria Golovnina on assignment for Reuters in Dalton-in-Furness in northern England in 2012. She became the news agency's bureau chief for Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2013. Maria Golovnina, ...
    » UPDATE: Azeri Authorities Renew Attacks Against RFE/RL Journalists
    23/02/15 19:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani Service reports that authorities in the country took several actions against its journalists today, continuing a string of attacks that began in Dece...
    » France Confiscates Passports to Stem Flow of Fighters to Syria
    23/02/15 19:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. The French authorities began to use new counterterrorism powers to halt the stream of young people suspected of going to Syria to engage in terrorist activities.
    » War With Ukraine 'Unlikely', Says Putin
    23/02/15 19:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky News. The Russian president told state television that he hopes war between Russia and Ukraine "will never happen".
    » New US defense chief hints little change in Islamic State strategy - Reuters
    23/02/15 19:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Reuters New US defense chief hints little change in Islamic State strategy Reuters CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait (Reuters) - New U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Monday America had the...
    » An Extraordinary Pentagon ‘Bull Session’ Over ISIS
    23/02/15 19:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from TIME. College, where new Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has spent as much time as at the Pentagon, loves bull sessions. That’s just what Carter did Monday, summoning U.S. military and diplomatic brainpowe...
    » U.N. panel urges increased use of drones in peacekeeping missions
    23/02/15 19:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A United Nations panel assessing the future technological needs of peacekeeping missions has recommended dramatically expanding the use of unmanned surveilla...
    » Venezuela's ruling Socialists target another opposition leader
    23/02/15 19:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. CARACAS (Reuters) - Socialist Party legislators called on Monday for a probe of another Venezuelan opposition leader accused of conspiring against President Nicolas Maduro, just days a...
    » Russian Gas Flows to Eastern Ukraine in ‘Humanitarian’ Gesture
    23/02/15 19:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from TIME. Russia says it has begun supplying gas to the war-ravaged area of eastern Ukraine, now that the government in Kiev says it can no longer deliver fuel there because of heavy fighting and damage to fue...
    » To fight peanut allergy, it's better to eat peanuts than avoid them - Los Angeles Times
    23/02/15 19:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Los Angeles Times To fight peanut allergy, it's better to eat peanuts than avoid them Los Angeles Times It seemed like a good idea at the time: With the incidence of peanut aller...
    » French president pledges to protect Jewish community
    23/02/15 19:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 6:30 p.m. EST. PARIS (AP) -- French President Francois Hollande said his country must offers protection and affection to the Jewish community as anti-Semitism is on the rise in France....
    » French President Pledges to Protect Jewish Community - ABC News
    23/02/15 19:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Telegraph.co.uk U.S. News & World Report French President Pledges to Protect Jewish Community ABC News French President Francois Hollande said his country must offers protection an...
    » First US envoy for LGBT rights is named - OCRegister
    23/02/15 19:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Philly.com First US envoy for LGBT rights is named OCRegister For the first time, the United States has named an international envoy for gay rights. Randy Berry, a veteran diplom...
    » Alaska becomes 3rd state with legal marijuana
    23/02/15 19:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 6:30 p.m. EST. JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) -- Smoking, growing and possessing marijuana becomes legal in America's wildest state Tuesday, thanks to a voter initiative aimed at clearing away 40 ...
    » Angry Russia Investors Won't Like Recent Oil Forecasts - Forbes
    23/02/15 19:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Forbes Angry Russia Investors Won't Like Recent Oil Forecasts Forbes Russia investors aren't going to get any near-term relief from oil prices. Following a short spike in oil in recen...
    » Here's Why Russia Is Cracking Down on Google - TIME
    23/02/15 19:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. TIME Here's Why Russia Is Cracking Down on Google TIME Google may be running afoul of anti-monopoly anit-monopoly laws in Russia . The country's regulators are investigating the way t...
    » Russia accuses US of bringing 'chaos' to Middle East - Yahoo News
    23/02/15 19:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Channel News Asia Russia accuses US of bringing 'chaos' to Middle East Yahoo News United Nations (United States) (AFP) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the United Stat...
    » Russia offers to sell anti-aircraft missiles to Iran - The Guardian
    23/02/15 19:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. The Guardian Russia offers to sell anti-aircraft missiles to Iran The Guardian Sergei Chemezov, head of the Russian state arms conglomerate Rostec, was quoted by the Tass news agency ...
    » Rumsfeld: I Don't Think Obama Will Listen to New SecDef
    23/02/15 19:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Comments on: Rumsfeld: I Don’t Think Obama Will Listen to New SecDef. by Ian Hanchett 17 Feb 2015 77 Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld predicted that President Obama would not listen to new Defense ...
    » Jindal: Obama Has 'Disqualified Himself as Commander-in-Chief'
    23/02/15 19:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Comments on: Jindal: Obama Has ‘Disqualified Himself as Commander-in-Chief’. by Pam Key 23 Feb 2015 29 Monday after the National Governors Association closing news conference, Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) said...
    » More Than 20,000 Have Illegally Crossed the Border Since Jan. 1
    23/02/15 19:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Comments on: Abbott Reaffirms: More Than 20,000 Have Illegally Crossed the Border Since Jan. 1. In an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation” with Bob Schieffer on Sunday, Texas Governor Gr...
    » Dem. Rep: Amnesty Fight Will Decide Who Controls Country for Next 30 Years
    23/02/15 19:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Comments on: Dem. Rep: Amnesty Fight Will Decide Who Controls Country for Next 30 Years. An Oregon Democrat believes that the fight for amnesty for illegal immigrants is the “civil rights battle̶...
    » 2,349,3962,349,3962015-02-23M.N.: The West did not lose Russia. Russia, it appears, lost The West
    23/02/15 19:16 from Mike Nova - Google+
    2,349,396 2,349,396 2015-02-23 M.N.: The West did not lose Russia. Russia, it appears, lost The West for now: tragically, blindly, in her "sleepwalking trance" induced by her historical and resurgent, revengeful criminal imperial mentali...
    » State Department's Jen Psaki Is Pregnant, Leaving Russians Both Sad and Elated - New York Observer
    23/02/15 16:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. New York Observer State Department's Jen Psaki Is Pregnant, Leaving Russians Both Sad and Elated New York Observer U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki was a frequent target of...
    » Libya's Government Pulls Out of National Dialogue Talks
    23/02/15 16:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Libya's internationally recognized parliament based in Tobruk voted Monday to pull out of U.N.-sponsored national dialogue talks with a rival government based in Tripoli. The vote to susp...
    » Reuters скорбит в связи с кончиной шефа бюро в Пакистане Головниной - РИА Новости
    23/02/15 16:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. РИА Новости Reuters скорбит в связи с кончиной шефа бюро в Пакистане Головниной РИА Новости Мария Головнина, шеф бюро Reuters в Афганистане и Пакистане, скончалась в понедельник. Е...
    » Ukraine 'will not withdraw heavy artillery from the front line'
    23/02/15 16:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Russian news, all the latest and breaking Russia news. The decision by Kiev comes after two Ukrainian soldiers were killed and 10 wounded over a 24 hour period on Sunday and Monday
    » Moscow's Anti-Maidan March: Creating a Bogeyman to Fight a Bogeyman
    23/02/15 16:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from The Moscow Times Top Stories. As tens of thousands gathered in central Moscow on Saturday for the "Anti-Maidan" rally, the Russian public was asked to swallow an unsavory pill.
    » Путин назвал «апокалиптическим сценарием» войну между Россией и Украиной - РБК
    23/02/15 16:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. РБК Путин назвал «апокалиптическим сценарием» войну между Россией и Украиной РБК Владимир Путин назвал «апокалиптическим сценарием» возможность войны между Россией и Украиной. През...
    » Letter From Europe: What to Do About 'Grand Corruption'
    23/02/15 16:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. Most experts agree that now is the time to press for a comprehensive approach that would stop the rich from being able to hide their money.
    » Греция договорилась с Евросоюзом о продлении антикризисной помощи - РБК
    23/02/15 16:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. РБК Греция договорилась с Евросоюзом о продлении антикризисной помощи РБК 20 февраля Греция после двух неудачных попыток договорилась с еврозоной о продлении антикризисной помощи н...
    » Obama Cautions Against Domestic Security Agency Shutdown
    23/02/15 16:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. U.S. President Barack Obama says a partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security would have a direct impact on the economy, as well as national security. Speaking to a state gov...
    » Greek bailout: Syriza dissenters accuse government of reneging on election promises in new eurozone deal
    23/02/15 16:33 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from - Europe RSS Feed. Fractures began to appear in the Greek government today as Athens prepared to hand over a key proposed list of structural economic reforms to the country’s European creditors.
    » Israeli Ex-Official Urges Global Powers To Be 'More Determined' To Halt Iranian Nukes
    23/02/15 16:33 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. A former national security adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says world powers must step up their resolve to ensure that Iran does not develop nuclear ...
    » Exhausted MPs unable to summon the energy to fight Vlad's sabre-rattling
    23/02/15 16:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Russia | The Guardian. Defence secretary Michael Fallon back on message as George Osborne and Ed Balls fight over HSBC By the time David Cameron got to update MPs on assorted EU crises in Ukraine, Greece, ...
    » Russia offers to sell anti-aircraft missiles to Iran
    23/02/15 16:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Russia | The Guardian. Tehran said to be considering offer, which could have an impact on nuclear talks approaching a deadline next month Russia has reportedly offered to sell Iran powerful and advanced an...
    » Russia's Lavrov accuses West of trying to dominate world
    23/02/15 15:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday accused Western powers of trying to dominate and impose their ideology on the rest of world, while the Unite...
    » Yemeni President Is Taking Steps to Resume Duties
    23/02/15 15:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi on Sunday held his first public meeting with state officials since he fled house arrest by the Houthi militia.
    » Ukraine's Petro Poroshenko demands Vladimir Putin faces 'justice' over Crimean invasion
    23/02/15 12:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Petro Poroshenko says rights of Crimeans are being repressed by Russia Demanded both international and Ukrainian trials for all those responsible Insisted Russian officials stand trial ...
    » PETER McKAY: How we lost our chance for peace with Putin
    23/02/15 12:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. MOSCOW, RUSSIA - FEBRUARY 20: Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a speech during an award ceremony in which he gave awards to 30 veterans of WWII at the Grand Kremlin Palace on Febr...
    » Panel Disqualifies Egyptian Tycoon From Parliamentary Bid
    23/02/15 12:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. The steel tycoon who came to epitomize cronyism and corruption in Egypt during the era of President Hosni Mubarak was disqualified after An election committee disqualified Ahmed Ezz, a stee...
    » Oscars 2015: the best quotes of the evening
    23/02/15 12:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. We round up all this year’s key soundbites, as they’re served up at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood • Follow the action as is happens Tonight we celebrate Hollywood’s best and ...
    » ISIS parades caged Kurdish fighters through Iraqi streets - Jerusalem Post Israel News
    23/02/15 12:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. ISIS parades caged Kurdish fighters through Iraqi streets Jerusalem Post Israel News Islamic State released a new video in which caged Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers were were parade...
    » Australian PM Abbott announces fresh security crackdown
    23/02/15 12:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Monday announced a national security crackdown that could deny welfare payments to people seen as potential threats, strip t...
    » Mayor of Jerusalem tackles Palestinian knifeman after stabbing
    23/02/15 12:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Mayor Nir Barkat pinned the 18-year-old assailant to the ground after an ultra-Orthodox Jew was injured The mayor of Jerusalem and his security guard wrestled a Palestinian at...
    » Israel opens dams forcing hundreds of Gazans out of flooded houses (PHOTOS) - RT
    23/02/15 12:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. RT Israel opens dams forcing hundreds of Gazans out of flooded houses (PHOTOS) RT Palestinians ride horse carts as they evacuate their animals in the village of Al-Moghraga after it wa...
    » 'The Islamist death-cult has declared war on the world': PM announces he will ... - Daily Mail
    23/02/15 12:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Daily Mail 'The Islamist death-cult has declared war on the world': PM announces he will ... Daily Mail Many Australians who fight for the Islamic State will be stripped of their...
    » the Host the Oscars (and Viewers) Need - The Atlantic
    23/02/15 12:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. The Atlantic the Host the Oscars (and Viewers) Need The Atlantic Hosting the Academy Awards is a tough gig. On Sunday, Harris will attempt to get it right, likely with an eye tow...
    » Edward Snowden documentary Citizenfour wins Oscar
    23/02/15 12:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Laura Poitras’ film about Edward Snowden and the NSA spying revelations carries off Academy award for non-fiction films Oscars 2015 - live! Citizenfour has won the Oscar for b...
    » The Grand Budapest Hotel - WINNER - Telegraph.co.uk
    23/02/15 12:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Telegraph.co.uk The Grand Budapest Hotel - WINNER Telegraph.co.uk Want to know who has won what so far? Well, this is the best place to be. The full list of nominations below wil...
    » Oscars Red Carpet: The Best and Worst - Daily Beast
    23/02/15 12:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Daily Beast Oscars Red Carpet: The Best and Worst Daily Beast The #AskHerMore campaign on Oscars night, aimed at getting red carpet presenters to talk about anything but the gown...
    » Oakland dockworkers join others back in operation - San Francisco Chronicle
    23/02/15 12:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Philly.com seattlepi.com Oakland dockworkers join others back in operation San Francisco Chronicle seattlepi.com OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The seaport in Oakland, California, appear...
    » 'Citizenfour' Wins Oscar for Best Documentary - ABC News
    23/02/15 12:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Politico 'Citizenfour' Wins Oscar for Best Documentary ABC News Revealing state secrets have turned into Oscar acclaim for the makers of the Edward Snowden documentary "Citi...
    » 'Birdman' wins Oscar for best picture - Canton Daily Ledger
    23/02/15 12:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. 'Birdman' wins Oscar for best picture Canton Daily Ledger LOS ANGELES — "Birdman" has won the Academy Award for best picture. The film, directed by Alejandro Gonzalez I...
    » 'American Sniper' Competes at the Academy Awards as Routh Trial Heads to Jury - NBCNews.com
    23/02/15 12:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. NBCNews.com 'American Sniper' Competes at the Academy Awards as Routh Trial Heads to Jury NBCNews.com As Bradley Cooper and Clint Eastwood hit the red carpet and "American S...
    » Australian Leader Outlines Tough New Anti-Terrorism Measures
    23/02/15 12:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from TIME. Australians who hold dual nationality and flout antiterrorism anti-terrorism laws will have their citizenship suspended or revoked , Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced Monday during an a...
    » Hungary PM Orban's Fidesz loses by-election
    23/02/15 12:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's ruling Fidesz-KDNP party alliance lost its two-thirds majority in parliament after it lost a by-election in the town of Veszprem on Sunday, according to ...
    » Jack Straw and Malcolm Rifkind respond to 'cash for access' allegations: Politics Live blog
    23/02/15 12:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Rolling coverage of all the day’s political developments as they happen, including Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw responding to ‘cash for access’ allegations and David Cam...
    » Birdman Director: Film was Scary to Make - NBCNews.com
    23/02/15 12:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. NBCNews.com Birdman Director: Film was Scary to Make NBCNews.com After winning best director at the academy awards, Alejandro G. Inarritu reflects on the uncertainties he felt wh...
    » Oscars 2015: Most Heartfelt Speeches and Performances - ABC News
    23/02/15 12:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. ABC News Oscars 2015: Most Heartfelt Speeches and Performances ABC News There were plenty of golden moments at the 2015 Oscars, from the speeches to the performances to host Neil...
    » Australia Training With U.S. Drones
    23/02/15 12:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. Australia has indicated it is considering buying armed American-made drones of the type used against insurgents in Afghanistan and Syria, announcing its military has begun training to ...
    » Obama open to changes to military authority against IS
    23/02/15 12:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 11:04 a.m. EST. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House says President Barack Obama is open to negotiating with Congress on many elements of his request for war powers against Islamic State ...
    » Homeland Security chief: Budget impasse could harm states
    23/02/15 12:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 11:04 a.m. EST. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is warning states that the possible shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security would harm the nation's ability to counte...
    » Ukraine military says cannot withdraw heavy weapons as attacks persist
    23/02/15 12:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's military said on Monday it could not start withdrawing heavy weapons from the frontline in the east as pro-Russian separatists had not stopped attacking gove...
    » maria golovnina reuters - Google Search
    23/02/15 11:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . Hindustan Times Reuters Bureau Chief Maria Golovnina Dies in Pakistan <a href="http://NBCNews.com" rel="nofollow">NBCNews.com</a> - 1 hour ago Share Shared on Google+. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — ...
    » Reuters’ bureau chief found dead in Islamabad – The Express Tribune
    23/02/15 11:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from [Untitled]. Maria Golovn­ina had been workin­g with Reuter­s as the news agency's bureau chief for the past year-and-a-half ISLAMABAD:  Pakistan and Afghanistan bureau chief for Reuters...
    » New US Pentagon chief convenes unusual counter-IS meeting
    23/02/15 11:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 10:04 a.m. EST. CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait (AP) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter convened an extraordinary war council Monday on Iraq's doorstep, six days after taking office, to discuss ...
    » Birdman Tops Academy Awards
    23/02/15 11:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Uploads by VOAvideo. Birdman Tops Academy Awards The film Birdman starred on Hollywood's biggest night Sunday, winning the industry's top honor among its four Academy Awards. But as VOA's Chris Hannas repo...
    » Why Did A Tajik Student & Mixed Martial-Arts Champ Die For IS In Iraq?
    23/02/15 11:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. There appeared to be widespread disbelief among those who had known Tajik Alan Chekranov, Tajikistan's three-time national champion in mixed martial arts and a university...
    » Facebook’s privacy policy breaches European law, report finds
    23/02/15 11:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Belgian privacy commission study concludes company’s use of user data violates privacy and data protection laws, despite January update A report commissioned by the Belgian pr...
    » Icon of Egypt’s revolution jailed
    23/02/15 11:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from World News. Five-year imprisonment is the latest severe sentence against leaders of the 2011 uprising
    » Malls in US, Canada on High Alert After Terror Threat
    23/02/15 11:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Two shopping malls, one in the United States and the other in Canada, are operating with higher security measures following a terrorist threat made by Somali-based Islamist militants. The...
    » Reuters bureau chief dies in Pakistan
    23/02/15 11:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from CNN.com - World. The bureau chief for Reuters in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Maria Golovnina, died Monday after falling unconscious, her employer said.
    » Egypt's President: It's time for an Arab coalition against ISIS
    23/02/15 11:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from CNN.com - World. As ISIS continues it murderous rampage in the Middle East, Egypt's President said it's time for more Arab countries to join forces against the terror group.
    » Hearing loss ushers in a new world of isolation and paranoia – even for dogs
    23/02/15 11:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. It’s hard to love your 70s, especially when your faculties start going down the pan. The dog seems to be coping rather well, though Over the last few weeks, Rosemary and the d...
    » Russia Pressures Anti-Corruption Group
    23/02/15 11:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. The global anti-corruption group Transparency International is once again getting pressured by the Kremlin. The move is seen by Russia analysts as part of a broad plan to stifle criticism...
    » U.S., allies stage 25 air strikes on Islamic State: joint task force
    23/02/15 11:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and its allies staged 25 air strikes on Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria, focusing on the Syrian cities of Kobani and Hasakah, the Comb...
    » Swedish Scientists discover new brain cell types
    23/02/15 11:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from The European Union Times - World News, Breaking News. Swedish Researchers have discovered previously unknown cell types while producing an in depth map of cortical cell types and the active genes they harb...
    » US, allies stage 25 air strikes on Islamic State: joint task force - Reuters
    23/02/15 11:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Reuters US, allies stage 25 air strikes on Islamic State: joint task force Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and its allies staged 25 air strikes on Islamic State fighte...
    » The name ISIS hates to be called
    23/02/15 11:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from CNN.com - World. We know them as ISIS or ISIL. But there's another name the group hates -- so much they've threatened to cut out the tongue of anyone who uses it.
    » 'Cash for access' scandal: the reaction. Live - Telegraph.co.uk
    23/02/15 11:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. National Post 'Cash for access' scandal: the reaction. Live Telegraph.co.uk ... • Former ministers Straw and Rifkind brag about their political contacts to business •The MPs who ...
    » WorldViews: How the story of two fires reveal the UAE’s great inequities
    23/02/15 11:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington Post. Both places were called home by the vast foreign workforce drawn to the United Arab Emirates. Both caught fire last week.The ...
    » Scrappy deal keeps Greece from the wolves
    23/02/15 11:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Europe News. Athens and the eurogroup must improve the way they negotiate
    » СМИ: ЕС может заблокировать атомный контракт Венгрии с Россией - Коммерсантъ
    23/02/15 11:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Полит.ру СМИ: ЕС может заблокировать атомный контракт Венгрии с Россией Коммерсантъ Решение Венгрии заключить с Россией контракты в области атомной энергетики «сталкивается с нарас...
    » In Soviet Russia, the Oscars Host You - TIME
    23/02/15 11:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. TIME In Soviet Russia , the Oscars Host You TIME Bob Hope, back from his Russian junket, noted that there had been TV in all the rooms of his Moscow hotel—”only it watches you”—also c...
    » Hungary taking aim at NGOs and, critics say, democracy
    23/02/15 11:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Europe News: News and Headlines from Europe - The Washington Post. BUDAPEST — Veronika Mora was getting ready for work when her home phone rang. “I’m at your office,” she recalls a policewoman telling her....
    » Syrian Activists Use Caged Children in Disturbing Video Stunt
    23/02/15 10:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. In an attempt to highlight atrocities of Syrian regime, Syrian anti-government activists videotaped young children in a cage in a staged a re-enactment of a brutal Islamic State video sho...
    » Министры обороны США и Великобритании обсудили ситуацию в Украине - СЕГОДНЯ
    23/02/15 10:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. СЕГОДНЯ Министры обороны США и Великобритании обсудили ситуацию в Украине СЕГОДНЯ Обстановку в Украине обсудили в состоявшемся в воскресенье телефонном разговоре министры обороны С...
    » Times: Кэмерон потребовал активизировать поиск разведчиков из России - РИА Новости
    23/02/15 10:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. РИА Новости Times: Кэмерон потребовал активизировать поиск разведчиков из России РИА Новости Премьер-министр Великобритании выступил с обращением к руководителям британской службы ...
    » 60 Years Later, a Rolling Tribute on Waldorf Terrain
    23/02/15 10:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. A 71-year-old Jeep rolled in, and later out, at the Viennese Opera Ball at the Waldorf Astoria on Friday, a charity gala that was celebrating the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Aus...
    » Порошенко представил новые «доказательства агрессии российских войск» - РБК
    23/02/15 10:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. РБК Порошенко представил новые «доказательства агрессии российских войск» РБК Президент Украины Петр Порошенко показал европейским лидерам новые «доказательства агрессии российских...
    » Глава Пентагона еще не рекомендовал Белому Дому начать поставки оружия на Украину - Газета.Ru
    23/02/15 10:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. bigmir)net Глава Пентагона еще не рекомендовал Белому Дому начать поставки оружия на Украину Газета.Ru Глава Пентагона Эштон Картер еще не представлял рекомендации Белому дому по в...
    » US Defense Secretary Carter to Chair Meeting on IS in Kuwait
    23/02/15 10:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. New U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter will hold talks on Monday in Kuwait with top U.S. commanders and diplomats on U.S. efforts to fight the Islamic State group. Carter flew to Kuwait...
    » Война России против Украины: последние события в Донбассе - 22 - Odessa Daily
    23/02/15 10:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Odessa Daily Война России против Украины: последние события в Донбассе - 22 Odessa Daily Аннексировав Крым, Россия продолжила антиукраинскую агрессию на территории Донбасса. Искусс...
    » Кэмерон приказал активизировать борьбу с российскими шпионами - Lenta.ru
    23/02/15 10:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Lenta.ru Кэмерон приказал активизировать борьбу с российскими шпионами Lenta.ru Премьер-министр Великобритании Дэвид Кэмерон распорядился активизировать поиск и слежку за агентами ...
    » Russia's 'Leviathan' Misses Out On Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film
    23/02/15 10:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from The Moscow Times Top Stories. "Ida," Poland's entry in the 87th annual Academy Awards race, proved to be a formidable opponent for its competitors as it captured the Oscar in the The controversial Russian ...
    » The European ties Russia is binding closer - CNBC
    23/02/15 10:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. CNBC The European ties Russia is binding closer CNBC Russia's relationship with the European Union establishment is at its lowest ebb for decades. However, its ties with some sections...
    » U.S. Military Officials To Discuss Strategy To Fight IS Militants
    23/02/15 10:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Top U.S. commanders and diplomats are due to meet on February 23 for talks about the battle against Islamic State militants.
    » What is Russia's Real Population? - American Thinker (blog)
    23/02/15 10:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. What is Russia's Real Population? American Thinker (blog) If we want to assess whether or not international sanctions are having the desired effect on Russia , or whether the nation i...
    » "Оскар"-2015: лучшим фильмом признан "Бердмэн" - Вести.Ru
    23/02/15 10:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Вести.Ru "Оскар"-2015: лучшим фильмом признан "Бердмэн" Вести.Ru В Голливуде в воскресенье прошла 87-я церемония вручения премии Американской киноакадемии "...
    » Силы АТО начнут отводить тяжелое вооружение как только боевики прекратят обстрелы - штаб - УНИАН
    23/02/15 10:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. УНИАН Силы АТО начнут отводить тяжелое вооружение как только боевики прекратят обстрелы - штаб УНИАН Как передает корреспондент УНИАН, об этом сообщил пресс-офицер штаба АТО Анатол...
    » Greece Putting Final Touches on Reforms to Extend Bailout
    23/02/15 10:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Greek officials are putting the final touches on economic reform proposals that are due to their European creditors on Monday, as part of a deal to extend the Greek bailout for four month...
    » В украинских войсках сообщают об обострении ситуации на мариупольском направлении - Газета.Ru
    23/02/15 10:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. РБК Украина В украинских войсках сообщают об обострении ситуации на мариупольском направлении Газета.Ru По данным украинских силовиков, в течение выходных в зоне конфликта в Донбас...
    » Iran Weighs Up Russian Offer of New Anti-Aircraft Missiles, Report Says
    23/02/15 10:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from The Moscow Times Top Stories. Russia has offered Iran its latest Antey-2500 missiles, the head of Russian state defense conglomerate Rostec said Monday according to media reports.
    » Авианосец ВМС Франции «Шарль де Голль» подключился к борьбе против ИГ - Известия
    23/02/15 10:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. СЕГОДНЯ Авианосец ВМС Франции «Шарль де Голль» подключился к борьбе против ИГ Известия Авианосец французских ВМС «Шарль де Голль» присоединился к военной операции против террористи...
    » Kiev Fears Ukraine Unrest Could Spread After Deadly Blast in Kharkiv
    23/02/15 10:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from The Moscow Times Top Stories. The Ukrainian government has said it fears unrest could spread beyond territory held by pro-Russian separatists, after an explosion killed two people at a memorial rally in an...
    » Charlie Hebdo: Paris memorial vandalised four times in two weeks
    23/02/15 10:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from - Europe RSS Feed. A makeshift memorial for the 17 people killed in last month's Paris attacks by three Islamist gunmen has been desecrated four times in two weeks, according to reports in the French press.
    » Russian offers Iran latest anti-aircraft missiles: TASS - Reuters
    23/02/15 10:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Press TV Russian offers Iran latest anti-aircraft missiles: TASS Reuters MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has offered Iran its latest Antey-2500 missiles, the head of Russian state defense c...
    » Here's How Much Russia's Crisis Will Cost Its Neighbors - Bloomberg
    23/02/15 10:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Bloomberg Here's How Much Russia's Crisis Will Cost Its Neighbors Bloomberg NATO pilots, busy intercepting a growing number of Russian military patrols, aren't the only ones losing sl...
    » Ukraine: Rebel Attacks Halt Weapons Pullback
    23/02/15 10:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Ukraine's military says it cannot begin withdrawing heavy weapons from the frontlines in the country's east in accordance with a cease-fire deal, because pro-Russian rebels are still carr...
    » US Homeland Security Chief Calls for Vigilance Following New Video
    23/02/15 10:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is appealing for public vigilance following the release of a video purportedly by the Somali-based al-Shabab terrorist group calling for attac...
    » Margvelashvili Invites Ukraine's Poroshenko To Georgia
    23/02/15 10:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili has invited his Ukrainian counterpart, Petro Poroshenko, to Georgia.
    » Порошенко угрожает крымчанам украинским и международным судами - BFM.Ru
    23/02/15 10:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. РБК Украина Порошенко угрожает крымчанам украинским и международным судами BFM.Ru Украина непременно вернет контроль над «временно оккупированным» Крымом. Об этом говорится в обращ...
    » Russia Says Iran Studying New Missile Offer
    23/02/15 10:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Russia says it has offered to supply Iran with Antey-2500 anti-aircraft missile systems instead of S-300s, which have been the subject of a dispute between the countries ...
    » Kiev 'Unable' to Withdraw Heavy Artillery as Rebel Attacks Persist
    23/02/15 10:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from The Moscow Times Top Stories. Ukraine's military said Monday that it could not start withdrawing heavy weapons from the front line in the east because pro-Russian separatists who advanced last week were st...
    » Egypt Sentences Leading Activist to 5 Years in Prison
    23/02/15 10:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. An Egyptian court sentenced prominent activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah to five years in prison Monday on charges connected to a law banning protests. The Cairo court also sentenced 24 others to...
    » Google being investigated by Russian competition watchdog over Android
    23/02/15 10:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Russia | The Guardian. Anti-monopoly authority confirms investigation following complaints from competitor Yandex, alleging company abuses smartphone operating system domination Russia’s competition watchd...
    » 2 British Lawmakers Deny Wrongdoing Amid Graft Allegations
    23/02/15 10:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. Both acknowledged meeting with an undercover journalist claiming to represent a bogus company and offering to pay them to use their influence.
    » High-Level U.S.-Iran Nuclear Talks In Second Day
    23/02/15 10:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held a second day of talks on Tehran's nuclear program, seeking to narrow gaps ahead ...
    » Sweden changes racist bird names
    23/02/15 10:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from - Europe RSS Feed. Sweden’s Ornithological Society has banned racist bird names after completing the country’s first official guide.
    » Greek exit could open door for Russia, China: Faber - CNBC
    23/02/15 10:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Greek exit could open door for Russia , China: Faber CNBC The publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report Faber said the real concern of a possible Greek exit from the euro single ...
    » 11 Ways to Keep Yourself Safe Online
    23/02/15 10:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. To read the headlines these days is to get the sense that the Internet has become a scary place. Cyber espionage and identity theft abound while organized criminals and national spies lur...
    » Россия предлагает Ирану комплексы "Антей" вместо С-300 - BBC Russian
    23/02/15 10:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. BBC Russian Россия предлагает Ирану комплексы "Антей" вместо С-300 BBC Russian "Что касается Ирана: вместо С-300 мы предложили "Антей-2500". Пока они думают, решение пока не принят...
    » Afghanistan’s Abdullah: Taliban Talks to Start Soon
    23/02/15 10:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Afghanistan’s Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah told a cabinet meeting that peace talks with the Taliban will start soon. Following days of media reports that peace talks are imminent, Ab...
    » Top Nuclear Officials From U.S. and Iran Seek to Outline Accord
    23/02/15 10:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. The officials’ participation reflects the complexity of the potential deal, which seeks to place constraints on Iran’s program in return for suspending economic sanctions.
    » Ukraine Live Day 371: Russian-Backed Forces Continue Attacks Across Front Line
    23/02/15 10:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from The InterpreterThe Interpreter. Yesterday’s live coverage of the Ukraine conflict can be found here . An archive of our liveblogs can be found here . For an overview and analysis of this developing s...
    » 2,344,3242,344,3242015-02-22#SecretaryOfDefense
    22/02/15 22:33 from Mike Nova - Google+
    2,344,324 2,344,324 2015-02-22 #SecretaryOfDefense   #Afghanistan US Defense Secretary Reviews Troop Plans in Afghanistan | » Deadly Bombing Hits Peace March In Kharkiv 22/02/15 21:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks US Defense Secretar...
    » US Defense Secretary Reviews Troop Plans in Afghanistan
    22/02/15 21:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. New U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter traveled to southern Afghanistan Sunday to review plans to withdraw U.S. troops from the country within two years. On his second day in Afghanista...
    » Russian bombers threatening Britain could hit passenger aircraft - Telegraph.co.uk
    22/02/15 21:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Press TV ValueWalk Russian bombers threatening Britain could hit passenger aircraft Telegraph.co.uk A senior Tory MP warned the upturn in incidents proved Vladimir Putin had returned ...
    » US West Coast Ports Begin Working on Cargo Backlog
    22/02/15 21:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Activity at U.S. Pacific Coast ports began the process of reducing the backlog of billions of dollars' worth of cargo late Saturday, following a tentative deal on a new labor contract bet...
    » Классный час. Секреты марксизма: прошлое и настоящее - 22 февраля, 2015
    22/02/15 21:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Радиопрограммы и подкасты - Радио Свобода. Откуда берется потребность в тотальной революции? Каким образом идеи Маркса повлияли на сознание российских граждан? Работает ли марксистская теория в постиндустр...
    » Ukraine: Blast kills two at pro-government march in Kharkiv
    22/02/15 21:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Russian news, all the latest and breaking Russia news. Explosion happened during a pro-Ukrainian march marking the one-year anniversary of the overthrow of the country's former pro-Kremlin president
    » Passenger planes at risk from Russian bombers, says former head of armed forces
    22/02/15 21:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from - Europe RSS Feed. Passenger planes are in danger of being hit by Russian jets unless Britain increases spending and stands up to an aggressive country that’s “testing our defences”, the former head of the...
    » Секреты марксизма: прошлое и настоящее
    22/02/15 21:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Uploads by Радио Свобода. Секреты марксизма: прошлое и настоящее Какие стороны учения привлекают современных студентов? Работает ли марксистская теория в постидустриаль... From: Радио Свобода Views: 693 11...
    » Russian Army Currently ‘Unprepared for Modern War,’ Felgengauer Says
    22/02/15 21:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Window on Eurasia -- New Series. Paul Goble Staunton, February 22 – Russian forces fought in the Donbas the way Soviet forces fought “50 years ago,” a reflection of their lack of contemporary equipment and...
    » The man who organised a Muslim 'human shield' to protect a synagogue blamed Jews for 9/11
    22/02/15 21:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from - Europe RSS Feed. A Muslim man who organised a supportive ‘human shield’ around a Jewish synagogue has admitted he believed in Jewish conspiracy theories as recently as 2009.
    » Лавров, вероятно, проведет встречу с Керри в начале марта в Женеве - РИА Новости
    22/02/15 21:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. РИА Новости Лавров, вероятно, проведет встречу с Керри в начале марта в Женеве РИА Новости Как ожидается, глава МИД РФ в начале марта приедет в Женеву и выступит на 28-й сессии Сов...
    » High Hopes and Mixed Feelings About Russia's Oscar Nominee - Global Voices Online
    22/02/15 21:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Global Voices Online High Hopes and Mixed Feelings About Russia's Oscar Nominee Global Voices Online After months of global media adoration, the Russian film “Leviathan” has finally b...
    » Hungary-Russia nuclear power deal faces Brussels roadblock - Financial Times
    22/02/15 21:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Hungary- Russia nuclear power deal faces Brussels roadblock Financial Times A veto or prohibitive fine from Brussels would be a bruising setback for Viktor Orban, Hungary's prime mini...
    » Порошенко запретил жене поздравлять его 23 февраля - НТВ.ru
    22/02/15 21:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. НТВ.ru Порошенко запретил жене поздравлять его 23 февраля НТВ.ru Президент Украины Петр Порошенко рассказал о том, что договорился со своей супругой: поздравлять его с Днем защитни...
    » Мифы и репутации. Летающий ювелир - 22 февраля, 2015
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    mikenova shared this story from Радиопрограммы и подкасты - Радио Свобода. Александр Осипович (Иосифович) Маршак был одним из самых известных изгнанников в русском Париже. Ювелир, продолжатель семейного дела, коммерсант, общественный дея...
    » Ukraine crisis: Fears grow that vital port of Mariupol is Moscow's next target following Kharkiv blast
    22/02/15 21:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from - Europe RSS Feed. Violence in Ukraine spread today as the country’s second biggest city, Kharkiv, was struck by a bomb attack that killed at least two people .
    » Greece’s Leaders Face a Revolt at Home as They Try to Appease Creditors
    22/02/15 21:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. The new Greek government’s attempt to modify an austerity program was a climb down for the Syriza party, which had vowed to get rid of it.
    » Con-men's attempt to sell forged Goya painting backfires when they are paid with fake money
    22/02/15 21:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from - Europe RSS Feed. Two Spanish con-men’s attempted sale of a forged Goya painting backfired spectacularly after their client, supposedly a rich Arab sheik, paid them in counterfeit bank-notes worth 1.7 mil...
    » Bomb Kills Two in Eastern Ukraine After Peace Move - Bloomberg
    22/02/15 21:33 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. U.S. News & World Report Bomb Kills Two in Eastern Ukraine After Peace Move Bloomberg “ Russia continues to arm militants in Donbas in defiance of the Minsk agreements,” Ukrainian mil...
    » Political Economy: Greece Needs to Embrace Radical Reform
    22/02/15 21:33 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. The Greek prime minister had to accept virtually everything his creditors demanded. However, Athens will be able to propose its own list of reforms.
    » Two killed in Ukraine bombing on anniversary of president’s flight
    22/02/15 21:33 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Europe News: News and Headlines from Europe - The Washington Post. KIEV—A bomb killed two people Sunday at a march in the city of Kharkiv commemorating the first anniversary of the ouster of former Preside...
    » Prosecutor calls for arrest of Costa Concordia captain
    22/02/15 21:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Request comes after report that Francesco Schettino had considered appearance on reality TV show L’Isola dei Famosi A prosecutor in Tuscany has called for the arrest of France...
    » Ukraine's warring sides swap prisoners
    22/02/15 21:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Uploads by AFP news agency. Ukraine's warring sides swap prisoners Ukrainian forces and rebel separatists trade dozens of prisoners in a frontline eastern town, the first clear sign of progress for an othe...
    » This victory for free speech exposes newspaper bosses and Tory ministers as its enemy
    22/02/15 21:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Once again the Murdochs and Dacres and their friends in the Conservative leadership show that their public posturing on free speech is just hypocrisy Parliament will tomorrow ...
    » UK in 'ever-losing battle' over online radicalisation, says Lady Warsi
    22/02/15 21:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Former government minister says it is becoming increasingly apparent that people are being radicalised in their bedrooms rather than in places of worship Britain is fighting a...
    » Red Carpet Poetry | The Carpetbagger | The New York Times
    22/02/15 21:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Uploads by The New York Times. Red Carpet Poetry | The Carpetbagger | The New York Times Actors and directors recite a standout line from their films during the 2015 movie awards season. Produced by: Saman...
    » Swiss account secret of HSBC chief Stuart Gulliver revealed
    22/02/15 21:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Leaked files covering 2005-2007 show bank chief executive sheltered £5m of his own money at Panamanian company with Swiss HSBC account Stuart Gulliver, the HSBC chief executiv...
    » Hungary's Ruling Party Loses Two-Thirds Majority
    22/02/15 21:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. Hungary’s governing Fidesz party lost its two-thirds majority in parliament after the opposition won a seat on Sunday in the constituency of Veszprem
    » Zionism debate at heart of bitter Israeli vote
    22/02/15 21:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 7:38 p.m. EST. JERUSALEM (AP) -- What is Zionism? The ideological question, rooted in the 19th century, has gained surprising urgency in an Israeli election campaign that seems more ope...
    » Greece Working on Reforms to Extend Bailout
    22/02/15 21:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Greek leaders worked Sunday on a package of economic reforms to present to their European creditors as part of the agreement to extend the Athens bailout for four months. The lenders Frid...
    » Tsipras Can Expect More Humble Pie
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    mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. Europe File: Greek leader Alexis Tsipras will have to capitulate on yet more issues if he is serious about putting Greece’s place in the eurozone once again beyond doubt, says Simon Ni...
    » McCain ‘Ashamed’ of How U.S. Has Handled Ukraine Conflict
    22/02/15 21:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from TIME. Senator John McCain said in an interview Sunday that the United States and its allies haven’t done enough to stop the bloodshed in eastern Ukraine, where government forces and Russia-backed sep...
    » Deadly Bombing Hits Peace March In Kharkiv
    22/02/15 21:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. In the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, a bomb planted along the route of a peace march killed at least two people and injured several others on February 22. (Reuters)
    » The Imitation Game director defends film's lack of gay sex scenes
    22/02/15 20:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Oscar-nominated director Morten Tyldum says none were necessary as Alan Turing’s life and relationships were ‘all about secrecy’ Oscars 2015 - follow the action as it happens ...
    » The Pentagon Spills the Beans: Stupidity, or Strategy?
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    mikenova shared this story from TIME. Back on Dec. 10, lawmakers wanted to know how many Iraqi troops would be needed to drive the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) from Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city. Brett McGurk,...
    » Amid Venezuela’s Economic Chaos, a Political Crackdown
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    mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. A sample bank note bears the face of President Nicolás Maduro and the word "devalued." With inflation soaring to 68 percent, the Venezuelan authorities are seeking to manage the crisis with...
    » US Congress Faces Deadline on Domestic Security Funding
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    mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. After a weeklong recess, the U.S. Congress gets back to work facing a deadline: funding for domestic security operations expires at the end of the month. A Republican attempt to block Pre...
    » Oscar Nominee 'Leviathan' Stirs Controversy in Russia
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    mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Oscar nominee "Leviathan", which won the first Golden Globe for Russia since 1969, has caused some controversy at home. Its dark depiction of Russian life centers on the issue of official...
    » Terror threats issued against British, American and Canadian shopping malls
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    mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Security services assess credibility of al-Shabaab video threats made against retail targets in London, Minneapolis-St Paul and West Edmonton US and British security services ...
    » 'American Sniper' suspect's ex-comrades mourn man they knew - Daily Herald
    22/02/15 19:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Daily Herald 'American Sniper' suspect's ex-comrades mourn man they knew Daily Herald In this 2008 photo provided by Corey Smalley, Eddie Ray Routh poses with an AK-47 at Camp Fa...
    » HSBC should face UK criminal charges, says former public prosecutor
    22/02/15 19:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Lord Ken Macdonald QC says HMRC’s decision not to prosecute bank over Swiss revelations was ‘seriously legally flawed’ HSBC’s Swiss arm is potentially open to a range of crimi...
    » Arrest shows Venezuelan leader panicking: mayor's wife
    22/02/15 19:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's president is panicking over falling popularity and has revealed his authoritarian face by arresting Caracas's mayor, the opposition politician's wife said.
    » Sisi tries to reassure Egyptians despite host of challenges
    22/02/15 19:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. CAIRO (Reuters) - President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi sought to reassure Egyptians on Sunday that he is in control and steering the country on the right path in the face of Islamist militan...
    » Will my genes make me unfaithful?
    22/02/15 19:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Infidelity happens in most species, but is the apparently universal urge to cheat just down to thrill-seeking? Or is there an evolutionary advantage to sleeping around? Infide...
    » New Sanctions Weighed Against Russia - Voice of America
    22/02/15 19:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Voice of America New Sanctions Weighed Against Russia Voice of America The United States and Britain on Saturday discussed imposing more sanctions on Russia, as Ukraine's week-old ceas...
    » Israel's Jerusalem mayor wrestles Palestinian attacker in street
    22/02/15 19:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's mayor of Jerusalem and his security guard wrestled a Palestinian attacker to the ground near city hall on Sunday after an ultra-Orthodox Jew was stabbed ...
    » 2,344,3202,344,3202015-02-22#Cartoon
    22/02/15 18:26 from Mike Nova - Google+
    2,344,320 2,344,320 2015-02-22 #Cartoon #Funny Uncle Putya cartoons - Sunday is the cartoons day! Uncle Putya cartoons Uncle Putya cartoons - Sunday is the cartoons day! Uncle Putya cartoons 2015-02-22 The Truth is All Out There! - The ...
    » Stunning images show Venus and Mars 'dancing' alongside the Moon as they appear at the closest distance together for seven years
    22/02/15 14:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. These photographs of the phenomenon were taken on Friday night at Freshwater Bay on the Isle of Wight and in Derbyshire.
    » Tsarnaev's lawyer has saved notorious clients from death
    22/02/15 14:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 12:44 p.m. EST. BOSTON (AP) -- With her arm around the young man's back, she gives him a gentle pat and leans in to whisper something to him. Judy Clarke could be his mother, with this ...
    » Map shows how ISIS tentacles now reach from Algeria to Afghanistan
    22/02/15 14:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. ISIS began as 'Al-Qaeda in Iraq' in 2004 when they formed part of an armed insurgency against the British and US troops who toppled Saddam Hussein as the country's leader in April 2003.
    » Obama aide: We need homeland security funding - USA TODAY
    22/02/15 14:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. USA TODAY Obama aide: We need homeland security funding USA TODAY The secretary of homeland security went on five Sunday shows to warn that his department will run out of money F...
    » Sydney siege review finds gunman made two unexplained visits to London - Telegraph.co.uk
    22/02/15 14:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Telegraph.co.uk Sydney siege review finds gunman made two unexplained visits to London Telegraph.co.uk Man Haron Monis, the Islamist gunman behind a deadly siege in Sydney in December,...
    » Iraqi minister chides U.S. over Mosul assault timing
    22/02/15 14:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's defense minister criticized the United States on Sunday for declaring a timeframe for an offensive to recapture the Islamic State's northern stronghold of Mo...
    » Greek government races to meet Monday fiscal reform deadline
    22/02/15 14:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Minister of state Nikos Pappas said the government were compiling a list to make the civil service more effective and to combat tax evasion Greek government officials, with Wi...
    » Graffiti uncovered in church reveals plague victims
    22/02/15 14:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Uploads by ODN. Graffiti uncovered in church reveals plague victims Graffiti uncovered in a Cambridgeshire church has revealed how three sisters from one family died in a plague outbreak in 1515. Report by...
    » Australia to Challenge Radical Islam Online
    22/02/15 14:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. The Australian government plans to monitor social media in real time to try to combat terrorist propaganda on the Internet. Ministers said the effort will help authorities identify and di...
    » Iranian official and Kerry attempt to narrow gaps in nuclear talks
    22/02/15 14:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. As Mohammad Javad Zarif says US reliance on sanctions makes it ‘very hard, difficult to reach a settlement, meetings continue to reach agreement Secretary of State John Kerry ...
    » Israel Steps Up Iran Talks Criticism
    22/02/15 14:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Geneva to hold fresh nuclear talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stepped up crit...
    » Island Ceremony Rocks Tokyo-Seoul Relations
    22/02/15 14:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. South Korea lashed out at Japan on Sunday for its latest claim to territory controlled by Seoul where Japanese fishermen once caught abalone, octopus and sea lions.
    » Foreign Fighter: American Joins Battle Against Islamic State
    22/02/15 14:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Since Islamic State militants declared a "caliphate" last year in parts of Iraq and Syria, thousands of Westerners have traveled there to join the battle. But one American man told VOA he...
    » Iraq's defence minister criticises US about timing of battle against Isis
    22/02/15 14:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Khaled al-Obeidi says declaring timeframe of the Mosul assault on Isis was for Iraq to decide and military commanders should not show their hand to enemy Iraq’s defence minist...
    » 2,344,3242,344,3242015-02-22#Ukraine
    22/02/15 14:20 from Mike Nova - Google+
    2,344,324 2,344,324 2015-02-22 #Ukraine   #NATO Fox urges arms supplies for Ukraine Fox urges arms supplies for Ukraine Sunday February 22 nd , 2015  at  10:40 AM 1 Share 21 February 2015 Dr Fox warned that the credibility of the entire ...
    » UK Should Consider Arming Ukraine, Says Stirrup
    22/02/15 11:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
    mikenova shared this story . The UK should consider arming Ukraine as the war with pro-Russian separatists continues to rage in the east of the country, according to a former head of the army. Speaking on Sky's Murnaghan programme, Air C...



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