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April 17, 2015

Barack Obama’s foreign policy doctrine takes shape
Friday April 17th, 2015 at 11:30 AM

irst-term presidents dislike the idea of a foreign policy doctrine, fearing that it will limit their choices and force them to answer hypothetical questions. But with political mortality beckoning, Barack Obama has begun to flirt with the once-banned D-word.

“You asked about an Obama doctrine,” he said in a revealing interview with the New York Times this week. “The doctrine is: we will engage, but we preserve all our capabilities.”

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With his presidency well into its fourth quarter, Mr Obama is finally starting to flesh out his own foreign policy legacy. Fresh from last week’s potentially historic nuclear breakthrough with Iran, the president will reach out to another one-time enemy this weekend when he meets his Cuban counterpart Raúl Castro at a regional summit.

“I believe that engagement is a more powerful force than isolation,” Mr Obama said on Thursday about his attempts to normalise relations with Cuba after more than 50 years of estrangement. “We have to move past some of the old debates.”

The Cuba and Iran talks are emerging as a template for how Mr Obama believes US power should be applied — a willingness to use personal diplomacy to address the most intractable foreign policy problems. Or, as he put it in his 2009 inauguration speech: “We will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.”

In a first term where the demands of re-election were ever-present, Mr Obama’s interest in engagement was dwarfed by his decision to pour troops into Afghanistan and his extensive use of drones to kill suspected terrorists. Until recently, the second term had been a defensive slog marked by his hesitant responses to crises in Syria, Ukraine and Iraq that have been widely criticised.

Only in recent weeks has he started to compile elements of a record he can shout about. The“framework” nuclear agreement announced last week has left Mr Obama close to a final deal with Iran that he hopes will forestall another war in the Middle East, even if difficult gaps remain to be bridged in the negotiations.

On Cuba, Mr Obama said on Thursday that he was close to taking Havana off the list of state sponsors of terrorism, an important step in normalising relations between the two countries. The president is due to talk with Mr Castro on the margins of a summit in Panama on Saturday, their first meeting apart from an awkward handshake at Nelson Mandela’s funeral in 2013.

“We are beginning to see what the president always hoped to be the signature of his administration, the return of diplomacy as a cornerstone of US foreign policy,” said Vali Nasr, dean of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, and author of a highly critical book about his experiences as an official in the Obama first term.

Where the Iran and Cuba cases differ, however, is in the political risks involved. The striking aspect of the Cuba talks is how uncontroversial they have been. Beyond a small group of vocal politicians connected to the Florida Cuban community — which does includes two Republican presidential candidates — the opening has been largely welcomed. If the outreach were to collapse, little would have been lost.

The Iran negotiations, however, are fraught with legacy-defining dangers. Beyond the technical questions about whether Iranian cheating would ever be caught in time, the biggest risk for Mr Obama is the impact a final deal might have on the rest of the region.

Some observers hope that a deal could take the edge off Iran’s revolutionary hostility towards the US and allow Washington to act as a balancing power in the Middle East that could stand aside from some of its sectarian conflicts.

If not handled well, the nuclear talks could deepen rather than resolve the region’s instability

“The long-term plan is not to get in bed with Iran, but it is to have good enough relations that you can get out of bed with Saudi Arabia,” said Jeremy Shapiro, another former Obama administration official now at the Brookings Institution in Washington.

In his New York Times interview, Mr Obama sounded at times almost dismissive of the concerns of Washington’s Arab allies about a resurgent Iran, saying that the biggest threat was not an Iranian invasion but “dissatisfaction inside their own countries”.

But if not handled well, the nuclear talks could deepen rather than resolve the region’s instability. If sanctions are unwound, it could result in new funding for Iranian military units and their proxies that are already highly influential in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen.

Fearing encirclement by a resurgent Tehran, Saudi Arabia might eventually seek its own nuclear deterrent — sparking the very regional arms race that the Iran talks were designed to avoid.

“For the Saudis, this is adding insult to injury and feeds into the security vulnerability that they and the other Arab allies feel,” said Mr Nasr about the president’s comments on their vulnerability. “They see us talk about their regimes at a time when they are not certain about the assurances that we are willing to give them.”

Even if his outreach to Cuba fails, Mr Obama will still get good marks for having tried to end five decades of hostility. But if his Iran talks backfire, history will not be so forgiving of the president’s diplomacy.

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Top Saddam Hussein Aide Reported Killed in Northern Iraq
Friday April 17th, 2015 at 11:20 AM

BAGHDAD — An Iraqi provincial governor said Friday that militiamen had killed Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the highest-ranking official from Saddam Hussein’s regime who was still on the loose, in clashes in a mountainous region of northern Iraq.

News of Mr. Douri’s death has been announced several times by different authorities over the years, and officials cautioned that confirmation would not come until DNA testing had been conducted

The announcement was made by the governor of Salahuddin Province. Its capital is Tikrit, Mr. Hussein’s hometown, which was recently liberated from the Islamic State. A representative for one of the militias involved in the fighting on Friday, Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq, said a body that fighters believed was Mr. Douri’s was on its way to Baghdad Friday evening for DNA testing.

The elusive Mr. Douri, who in recent years has led a Sunni insurgent group that last year aligned with the Islamic State as it took over Mosul, was once declared dead, in 2005, by his own Baath Party. Mr. Douri’s insurgent group is made up of former intelligence officers and elite soldiers from the old Baathist regime, and is called the Men of the Army of the Naqshbandia Order, often called J.R.T.N., the group’s initials in Arabic.

The group’s role was said to be important in helping the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, seize territory last year. But Men of the Army is believed to have been marginalized as ISIS consolidated power through its sheer brutality.

Mr. Douri would have been in his early 70s, and was a former interior minister under Mr. Hussein. He was the king of clubs in the deck of cards that was issued to American soldiers in 2003 and carried the faces of the top regime leaders being sought by American-led military forces.

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US Troops Arrive in Ukraine for Training Exercises
Friday April 17th, 2015 at 10:08 AM

MOSCOW — About 300 US Army paratroopers have arrived in Ukraine for training exercises with national guard units, a move criticized by the Kremlin and eastern Ukraine's Russia-backed separatist rebels.

The troops, from the Italy-based 173rd Airborne Brigade, are to spend several weeks training a total of about 900 Ukrainian national guardsmen. The guardsmen are to come from units including the Azov Battalion, a far-right formation notorious for using an insignia used by many military units in Nazi Germany.

Though fighting has diminished substantially since a February cease-fire deal, clashes continue and each side accuses the other of wanting to resume the conflict.

On Friday, the UN Human Rights Commissioner's office said at least 6,116 people have been killed since the fighting broke out a year ago.

Obama’s Immigration Overhaul, Halted by Judge, Comes Before Appeals Court
Friday April 17th, 2015 at 10:00 AM

NEW ORLEANS — Justice Department lawyers on Friday will urge the federal appeals court here to let President Obama immediately move forward with his overhaul of the nation’s immigration and deportation policies, despite a legal challenge by more than half of the states.

A federal judge in February angrily ordered an indefinite halt to the president’s assertion of executive authority that would shield up to five million undocumented immigrants from deportation and provide work permits to many of them. The judge, in Brownsville, Tex., said Mr. Obama had abused his power and violated administrative procedures.

If the government lawyers fail in their bid to reverse the judge’s preliminary injunction, Mr. Obama’s immigration efforts could remain in legal limbo for months, raising doubts about whether the policies will be carried out before the president leaves office.

The rare hearing before a three-judge panel will allow lawyers for both sides to make their cases publicly. In most similar cases, legal experts said, appeals courts make decisions based solely on written briefs. In this high-profile case, however, each side will get an hour to argue — twice the amount of time generally provided to lawyers in Supreme Court cases.

Lawyers for Mr. Obama are expected to insist that the states have no right to challenge the executive actions because they will suffer no direct harm if the moves are carried out. They will ask the appeals court to lift the preliminary injunction while the legal case proceeds.

Mr. Obama declared in November that he was operating within his rights to take unilateral action in the face of years of refusals by congressional Republicans to change immigration laws. Advocates for Hispanics hailed the president’s move as a legacy-making effort to address a public policy crisis.

“The actions I’m taking are not only lawful, they’re the kinds of actions taken by every single Republican president and every Democratic president for the past half-century,” Mr. Obama said in a speech to the nation on Nov. 20.

But Republicans assailed the executive actions as the latest power grab by a president bent on circumventing Congress. A legal challenge by 26 states quickly followed.

In its brief to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, the Justice Department wrote that the preliminary injunction by the Texas judge, Andrew S. Hanen, was “unprecedented and wrong.” In allowing the lawsuit to move forward, the government lawyers said, the judge had accepted a legal theory “that would radically expand the ability of states to intrude into this uniquely federal domain.”

The challenge by the states is being led by Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, who has said that the administration is taking “rogue actions” that must be stopped. In a statement earlier this year, Mr. Paxton said Mr. Obama’s executive actions “represent a blatant case of overreach and clear abuse of power.”

In briefs to the court, Mr. Paxton has argued that the president’s actions would cost the State of Texas money because workers who acquire legal status would qualify to get driver’s licenses under Texas law. That, Mr. Paxton says, gives the state standing to sue.

Officials from the 26 states also accused the president of failing to abide by requirements under the Administrative Procedure Act when changing federal rules. They are urging the court to block the executive actions until the legal challenge has run its course.

“The preliminary injunction preserves the status quo, which has existed for decades,” the lawyers for the states wrote in their latest brief.

If the appeals court lifts Judge Hanen’s injunction, administration officials could quickly move to carry out the executive actions. That would mean that millions of undocumented immigrants could soon begin applying for protection under a program that would allow them to remain in the country legally but would not provide a path to citizenship.

Opponents could still seek to block the actions by appealing to the Supreme Court. And even if the program moves ahead, the underlying legal challenge could still continue in Texas. Briefs on the merits of the challenge are due in mid-May, and an initial hearing could come in June.

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Putin Takes Questions: More Economy, Less Ukraine
Friday April 17th, 2015 at 9:58 AM

MOSCOW — Sounding at times like a mayor promising to fix potholes and close noisy bars, President Vladimir V. Putin used his annual national call-in show on Thursday to try to reassure Russians that the country’s economic troubles were under control and that he shared their concerns on pocketbook issues.

If his marathon session in 2014 trumpeted the annexation of Crimea and issues of national pride, this year Mr. Putin fielded questions from across Russia on issues like dairy cow production, small-business loans and the rising price of car insurance.

Mr. Putin tried to paint an overall rosy picture of the economy, noting that the ruble had stabilized and strengthened even if inflation was over 11 percent. (Trading for as low as 80 to the dollar in December and volatile all winter, the ruble has risen to about 50; it was at 34 a year ago.)

“Experts see that we have passed the peak of the problems,” he said. “Nothing burst and everything works.”

Mr. Putin promised to help dairy farmers get better distribution and prices for their milk; told unpaid workers at the new national space launch center that they would receive back pay; and vowed not to lower public wages nationally even if his economic advisers pressed.

The questions came from reporters interviewing Russians in various corners of the country, the studio audience, callers and various forms of social media. The broadcasters said they had received more than three million questions, a record. Mr. Putin responded to roughly 70, and about half of them focused on the state of the economy.

Mr. Putin said he had not heard that trucks trying to get onto the single ferry to Crimea often waited in line for two weeks. (It was notable that the first mention of Crimea, annexed by Russia from Ukraine last year, came about three hours and 40 minutes into the program.)

When a weeping woman was interviewed from an area of Siberia devastated by wildfires this week, Mr. Putin spontaneously promised thousands of dollars to every family who had lost a loved one or property.

Foreign policy issues did enter into the discussion, but the first question did not come until an hour into the program. And Mr. Putin repeated many of Russia’s earlier positions.

The S-300 air defense system he had announced this week that Russia would deliver to Iran was a sale voluntarily suspended in 2010, he said, adding that it was a defensive weapon and that Russia could use the money, about $900 million.

Although Ukraine was failing to fulfill the Minsk cease-fire agreements when it came to constitutional reform and financial support for the separatist regions, Russia would stick with the accord, he said. There are no Russian troops fighting in Ukraine now, he said, and there will be no war along Russia’s southwestern border.

Mr. Putin took several pot shots at the United States, blaming it for the rise of the Islamic State, for example, through the destabilization of Iraq after the American-orchestrated overthrow of Saddam Hussein. And he accused Washington of pressuring world leaders into skipping Moscow’s celebration of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe.

Mr. Putin has two main public personas. There is the angry Putin who sometimes seems to sneer at the world and makes speeches like one exhorting security officers to stamp out internal threats. Then there is the “good,” avuncular Putin who was on display Thursday, giving mostly moderate answers to all manner of questions.

In the fall, Mr. Putin suggested that to protect Russian speakers, Moscow would seize back territory in neighboring states — notably areas in southeastern Ukraine first seized by Catherine the Great. On Thursday, he took virtually the opposite tack.

“We have no imperial ambitions,” he said, “but we can ensure a decent life to the people, including Russians, living abroad, in the neighboring countries of the former Soviet Union, by developing collaboration and cooperation.”

Mr. Putin said he saw no reason for the city of Moscow to keep removing all the flowers and flags citizens were placing on the bridge where the opposition politician Boris Y. Nemtsov was assassinated in February, and said he would have a word with Moscow’s mayor about it.

While Mr. Putin was speaking, however, a different face of Russia was on display in the capital. At a security conference across town, senior members of the military said Russia wanted global cooperation on issues like combating terrorism, but would not stand idly by as NATO expanded eastward.

And security officers raided the Moscow headquarters of Open Russia, an organization funded by Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, the jailed oil oligarch turned political exile.

This year’s studio audience was notable in that many of those called upon were often critical of Mr. Putin, and one television host, Kirill Kleymenov, asked tough questions.

But when topics seemed too closely linked to the president, he threw them right back at the questioner. At one point, Mr. Kleymenov suggested that Mr. Putin’s main economic policy seemed to be waiting for the price of oil to recover, a question Mr. Putin called “overly critical.”

Mr. Putin evoked the hated 1990s government economists who, in the view of many Russians, pursued a misguided policy of capitalist shock therapy that ushered in a decade of instability and poverty. Russians revile them, and Mr. Putin’s popularity in his third term as president rests in no small part on the fact that until last fall, the economy was stable and wages increased steadily along with the price of oil for much of the past 15 years.

“In order to build up economic policy competently, of course, you need a brain,” Mr. Putin said. “But if we want people to trust us, we also need a heart and need to feel how an ordinary man lives.”

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ISIS has lost control of most oil fields: German intelligence report by Joseph Fitsanakis
Thursday April 16th, 2015 at 6:22 PM

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The Islamic State has lost control of approximately 95 percent of its oil production capacity following the advancing Iraqi counteroffensive, according to a leaked German intelligence report.

Muslim migrants threw Christians overboard
Thursday April 16th, 2015 at 3:25 PM

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Shipwrecked migrants sit on the quayside after disembarking from a rescue vessel in the Italian port of Augusta in Sicily on April 16, 2015.(Photo: Giovanni Isolino, AFP/Getty Images)

ROME (AP) — Italy's migration crisis took on a deadly new twist Thursday as police in Sicily reported that Muslim migrants had thrown 12 Christians overboard during a recent crossing from Libya, and aid groups said another 41 were feared drowned in a separate incident.

Palermo police said they had detained 15 people suspected in the high seas assault, which they learned of while interviewing tearful survivors from Nigeria and Ghana who had arrived in Palermo Wednesday morning after being rescued at sea.

The 15 were accused of multiple homicide aggravated by religious hatred, police said in a statement.

The survivors said they had boarded a rubber boat April 14 on the Libyan coast with 105 passengers aboard, part of the wave of migrants taking advantage of calm seas and warm weather to make the risky crossing from Libya, where most smuggling operations originate.

During the crossing, the migrants from Nigeria and Ghana — believed to be Christians — were threatened with being abandoned at sea by some 15 other passengers from the Ivory Coast, Senegal, Mali and Guinea Bissau.

The statement said the motive was that the victims "professed the Christian faith while the aggressors were Muslim."

Earlier Thursday, the International Organization of Migration said four migrants who were picked up in recent days by the Italian Navy reported a shipwreck to aid workers after arriving in the Italian port of Trapani Thursday. They were among 580 migrants brought to the port on Thursday and said 41 others were believed to have died.

The IOM said the migrants — two Nigerians, a Ghanaian and one Nigerien — were found floating in the sea by a helicopter and were rescued by the Italian Naval ship Foscari. They had left Tripoli in Libya on Saturday and stayed adrift for four days. The location of the rescue was not immediately known.

The new tragedies come just days after aid agencies reported 400 presumed dead in the sinking of another ship near the Libyan coast. The deaths have raised calls for a more robust search and rescue of the seas between Libya and Europe amid a surge in migration between the Middle East and Africa toward Italy.

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New study challenges immigrant “catch-up” theory
Thursday April 16th, 2015 at 3:24 PM

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New research is challenging the consensus view of how the USA absorbed the huge wave of immigrant workers who arrived from 1850 to 1910.

Earlier studies showed that on average, immigrants started in lower-skilled jobs compared with native workers, but caught up within a generation as they learned English and adopted American customs. This “start hungry, work hard, sacrifice and succeed” formula has become a version of “the American Dream.”

The reality was more complicated. A study that traced thousands of workers from 1900 to 1920 through their census forms showed that the average immigrant made about the same amount as natives and moved up the occupational ladder at about the same rate.

Probing more deeply, the authors found that immigrants from high-income European nations – think Austria, England, France and Germany – made more upon arrival than comparable native workers and kept an edge as they assimilated. At the same time, workers from lower-income nations – such as Ireland, Italy and the Scandinavian countries – started close to or slightly below native workers in terms of income, and progressed at about the same rate.

The work was done by Ran Abramitzky of Stanford, Leah Platt Boustan of UCLA and Katherine Eriksson of Cal Poly. A version was published in the Journal of Political Economy last summer. The more detailed version released this week shows that average immigrant workers in the rapidly industrializing Midwest — Ohio, Illinois and Michigan — outearned natives, while the reverse was true in New England and the Great Plains.

The answers could shape ongoing debates about growing income inequality and how to overhaul the nation’s dysfunctional immigration policy.

The study used digital versions of census forms — which are made public after 72 years — from <a href="http://Ancestry.com" rel="nofollow">Ancestry.com</a>. The forms were from 1900, 1910 and 1920.

The team focused on men between 18 and 35 years of age in 1900. About 20,000 men who immigrated between 1880 and 1900 were paired with a similar group of 1,700 native men the same age. That let the researchers avoid averages and study actual people across 20 years as if they were in a long-term study. Lacking actual income data, the researchers used workers’ occupations to classify income. All Southern workers and black workers were excluded because few immigrants moved to the South and blacks were subject to harsh discrimination everywhere.

The consensus that immigrant workers started behind but caught up was due to the earlier need to analyze each census separately, according to the researchers. That approach misses the 25 percent of immigrants in the Great Migration who left, typically due to poor prospects. It also can’t account for the lower skill level of workers who arrived at the end of the period. Both shifts made it seem like long-term immigrants gained skills and income more than they did.

“Some of the conventional wisdom about the ‘American Dream’ for immigrants is more fiction than fact,” said Michelle Ercanbrack, a family historian at Ancestry.com. “The journey of American immigrants was far more complex than what we often think.” The service is offering free access to many of its searchable records through Monday.

The study suggests that sharp curbs on European immigration imposed in the early 1920s probably were not necessary, because the average immigrant worker arrived with competitive skills and rose on the occupational ladder about as well as natives did. However, “we also note that migrants that arrived with low skill levels did not manage to close their skill gap with natives over time, ” the team noted.

“I wouldn’t make a prescription for today but it’s food for thought,” Abramitzky said.

He said the team is extending its work to look at cultural assimilation. They are analyzing the names that Great Wave immigrants gave to successive children. Preliminary work shows that the “foreignness” of a name affected a child’s later earnings as an adult, he said.

Abramitzky is an immigrant from Israel. His two oldest children have Hebrew names but the youngest does not.

— Paul Overberg

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mikenova shared this story from world - Google News. Wall Street Journal Unscathed by Mideast Turmoil, Gulf Monarchies Try to Lead Arab World Wall Street Journal DUBAI—It is the hour of the Gulf monarchs in the Middle East. In the wake o...

» Unscathed by Mideast Turmoil, Gulf Monarchies Try to Lead Arab World
16/04/15 15:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . DUBAI—It is the hour of the Gulf monarchs in the Middle East. In the wake of the Arab Spring, the big countries that have traditionally dominated the Arab world are either struggling to rebuild institut...

» Gulf Monarchs Try to Lead Arabs
16/04/15 15:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. Middle East Crossroads: The future of the Middle East increasingly hinges on decisions made in Gulf nations such as Saudi Arabia—absolute monarchies whose rulers are unscathed, so far,...

» EU nations have no ready answers as the flow of thousands of migrants across ... - Fox News
16/04/15 15:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Fox News EU nations have no ready answers as the flow of thousands of migrants across ... Fox News Migrants arrive at Palermo's harbor, Italy, after being rescued at sea, Wednesd...

» Doctor tied to Menendez to seek release on Medicare charges - WRAL.com
16/04/15 15:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Doctor tied to Menendez to seek release on Medicare charges WRAL.com WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Lawyers for a Florida doctor charged with corruption alongside New Jersey Sen. Robert...

» Secrecy shrouds decade-old oil spill in Gulf of Mexico
16/04/15 15:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 12:54 p.m. EDT. OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) -- The company responsible for a decade-old oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico has downplayed its size and shrouded its work in secrecy. But an ...

» S. Africa Xenophobic Attacks Terrify Foreign Nationals - Voice of America
16/04/15 15:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Voice of America S. Africa Xenophobic Attacks Terrify Foreign Nationals Voice of America JOHANNESBURG—. Thousands of people marched through the South African city of Durban on Th...

» What has he been Putin on his face? How Russian leader Vladimirs appearance has changed dramatically through the years and he looks younger than ever
16/04/15 15:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Photos from years gone by show how Putin's face has dramatically changed - seemingly getting younger. The 62-year-old has never confirmed having cosmetic surgery despite startling changes.

» СМИ: в показаниях Дадаев рассказал подробности убийства Немцова - ИА "Репортер"
16/04/15 15:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. РБК СМИ: в показаниях Дадаев рассказал подробности убийства Немцова ИА "Репортер" Подозреваемый по делу Бориса Немцова Заур Дадаев во время дачи первых показаний рассказал подробно...

» Contributing Op-Ed Writer: Paranoia and Polarization in Turkey
16/04/15 15:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. Erdogan is alienating allies, curtailing civil liberties and stoking sectarianism simply for the sake of political gain.

» Clinton Charity to Allow 6 Countries to Donate, Not Others
16/04/15 15:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. In spite of criticism over accepting money from foreign governments, the Clinton Foundation has decided to continue to look abroad for millions of dollars while limiting donor nations to ...

» Putin the problem-solver: Russian leader's annual TV phone-in marathon
16/04/15 15:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia | The Guardian. Four-hour live show allows president to portray himself as the answer to all Russia’s difficulties as he fields calls from across the nation Former government ministers, hunger strik...

» Military intelligence warns of terrorists harassing Canadian Forces personnel, families online
16/04/15 14:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Ottawa Citizen. A secret military intelligence report has warned of an “emerging trend” in which terrorist groups use social media to harass the family and friends of Canadian military per...

» Russia's intelligence war against the west - Google Search
16/04/15 13:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Search Results Russia's silent war against the west <a href="http://FT.com" rel="nofollow">FT.com</a> (registration) (blog) - 22 hours ago As revelations about cyber-attacks launched against the U...

» Russia’s silent war against the west
16/04/15 13:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from beyondbrics. As revelations about cyber-attacks launched against the US last autumn show, Russia is engaged in a relentless intelligence war against the west. Other targets of Russian cyber-warfare have in...

» Russia says Western investment in Ukraine's farms is a plot to take over the world - Washington Post (blog)
16/04/15 13:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. The Moscow Times Russia says Western investment in Ukraine's farms is a plot to take over the world Washington Post (blog) MOSCOW — Ukraine has long tried to sell itself to Europe as ...

» The Russian financial rally - The Economist (blog)
16/04/15 13:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Newsweek The Russian financial rally The Economist (blog) NOT long ago, Russia and Ukraine's finances looked very precarious. But now one of those countries is doing a lot better. Sur...

» US: Growing China, Russia Military Activity in Asia-Pacific - ABC News
16/04/15 13:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. US: Growing China, Russia Military Activity in Asia-Pacific ABC News Adm. Samuel Locklear also told the House Armed Services Committee that Russia has escalated military activity in t...

» Russia's silent war against the west - FT.com (registration) (blog)
16/04/15 13:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. FT.com (registration) (blog) Russia's silent war against the west FT.com (registration) (blog) As revelations about cyber-attacks launched against the US last autumn show, Russia is e...

» Russia says US forced it to act on Ukraine - Reuters
16/04/15 13:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Reuters Russia says US forced it to act on Ukraine Reuters "How many more casualties are needed to force Ukrainians living in the east to feel 'Europeans'?" he said. He dism...

» Russia Threatens NATO Over Missile Shield - Wall Street Journal
16/04/15 13:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Wall Street Journal Russia Threatens NATO Over Missile Shield Wall Street Journal MOSCOW— Russia's top general warned European countries planning to host installations for a U.S.-led ...

» Pro-Russia journalist shot dead in Kiev - The Guardian
16/04/15 13:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. The Guardian Pro- Russia journalist shot dead in Kiev The Guardian Buzyna, who ran for a seat in parliament on the Russian Bloc ticket in 2012 and was known for his pro- Russia views,...

» Putin: Russian economy can rebound stronger from Western sanctions - Washington Post
16/04/15 13:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Wall Street Journal Putin: Russian economy can rebound stronger from Western sanctions Washington Post MOSCOW — In a measure of Russia's grinding economic difficulties, President Vlad...

» Senator Menendez’ Co-conspirator Separately Charged With Medicare Fraud
16/04/15 13:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from rss. Less than two weeks after being indicted on bribery charges along with his friend, New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, North Palm Beach ophthalmologist Salomon Melgen was charged on Tuesday with 46 count...

» Security measures questioned after gyrocopter breaches Capitol airspace
16/04/15 13:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Home - CBSNews.com. How did the craft fly without being detected into some of the most restricted airspace in the country? Why didn't the military scramble a jet to intercept the aircraft?

» Who is gyrocopter pilot Doug Hughes?
16/04/15 13:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Home - CBSNews.com. Perhaps nobody was more surprised by the mailman's stunt at the Capitol than his neighbors in Ruskin, Florida

» Министр обороны России выступил на IV Московской конференции по международной безопасности
16/04/15 13:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from RSS. Обращаясь к участникам форума, генерал армии Сергей Шойгу заявил, что сегодня как никогда важно найти такие решения сложных проблем международной безопасности, которые бы опирались на баланс интересов...

» Начальник Генерального штаба ВС РФ рассказал о военных опасностях и угрозах России в современных условиях
16/04/15 13:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from RSS. Выступая на 4-й Московской конференции по международной безопасности, генерал армии Валерий Герасимов заявил, что украинский кризис разразился из-за нежелания США и их союзников учитывать отстаивание ...

» В Москве состоялась встреча глав военных ведомств России и Китая
16/04/15 13:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from RSS. Генерал армии Сергей Шойгу и генерал-полковник Чан Ваньцюань выразили убежденность, что сотрудничество двух стран в военной области будет развиваться и крепнуть.

» Отношения между Россией и Ираном являются важным фактором международной безопасности
16/04/15 13:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from RSS. Об этом заявил Министр обороны России генерал армии Сергей Шойгу во время встречи со своим иранским коллегой бригадным генералом Хоссейном Декханом в рамках Московской конференции по безопасности.

» У Капитолия на гироплане приземлился “почтальон”
16/04/15 12:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from euronews. В Вашингтоне у Капитолия в среду ...

» Putin swats down Russian worries on annual televised call-in - YouTube
16/04/15 12:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Published on Apr 16, 2015 Concerning everything Russians want to know about their president's worldview, once a year, Vladimir Putin accepts their questions, sent through a triage centre, and broadcasts answe...

» Новости - Сергей Шойгу: «цветные революции» развиваются, и Украина пострадала от крупнейшей из них
16/04/15 12:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Министр обороны России генерал ар&...

» Vladimir Putin Q&A trailer: This is how all political events should be publicised - Europe - World
16/04/15 12:33 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . 1 / 1 Video: The buildup to the latest Vladimir Putin Q&A has all the trappings of a movie blockbuster Note: We do not store your email address(es) but your IP address will be logged to prevent abuse...

» В России из-за лесных и степных пожаров возбуждены более 30 уголовных дел // НТВ.Ru
16/04/15 12:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from НТВ. Новости. Как сообщает корреспондент НТВ...

» Россия сегодня опаснее Советского Союза, - экс-генсек НАТО
16/04/15 12:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Новости Америки. Популярные новости за 48 часов 15.04.2015, 1...

» Генштаб и Минобороны: НАТО и США «играют», угрожая международной безопасности - Политика, Россия
16/04/15 12:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Заигрывания с террористами чрева&#...

» Russian TV Runs Blockbuster Trailer For Putin Phone-In
16/04/15 12:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. S pring has come and with it Vladimir Putin's annual phone-in session, complete with its Hollywood-style trailer. Russian television aired the promotional clip ahead of t...

» Brent crude oil hits 2015 high as U.S. output slows
16/04/15 12:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . LONDON (Reuters) - Oil rose more than 3 percent on Thursday, pushing Brent crude to a 2015 high above $63 per barrel on increasing evidence that U.S. production is peaking, moving to balance a market that has...

» Russia blames U.S. for security crises, turmoil in Ukraine
16/04/15 12:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . MOSCOW (Reuters) - Top Russian officials accused the United States on Thursday of seeking political and military dominance in the world and sought to put blame on the West for international security crises, i...

» Генштаб: США и НАТО заинтересованы в развитии кризисных ситуаций у РФ
16/04/15 11:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Российское Информационное Агентство "РИА Новости". © Фото: Пресс-служба Мини...

» Прямая линия с Владимиром Путиным: Полный текст - Политика, выборы, власть - Новости
16/04/15 11:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from ИА REGNUM: Политика. 16.04.2015 13:32 Facebook 2 Вконтакте 1 Класс Google+ Предла ...

» Police Search Moscow Offices Of Khodorkovsky-Founded Organization
16/04/15 11:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. R ussian police on April 16 searched the Moscow offices of Open Russia, a pro-democracy initiative founded by the exiled Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Open Russia&...

» Захарченко заявил, что боевики захватят Мариуполь
16/04/15 11:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Новости Украины 24 часа в сутки : ЛІГАБізнесІнформ. В разговоре с журналисто ...

» US Lawmakers Warn of Russian 'Weaponization of Information'
16/04/15 11:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Published April 16, 2015 A number of Western officials, including U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, have voiced concerns about unprecedented efforts by Russia to spread misinformation a...

» Под прицелом чужих ПРО: глава Генштаба рассказал о взаимоотношениях РФ с НАТО
16/04/15 11:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Фото: globallookpress.com Виктория Фоменко Статья 14:23 16...

» Захарченко: Мариуполь будет в составе самопровозглашенной ДНР
16/04/15 11:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Ополченцы смогут взять город без с...

» Московская конференция по международной безопасности - YouTube
16/04/15 11:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Streamed live on Apr 16, 2015 Прямая трансляция заседания ...

» Московская конференция по международной безопасности - Google Search
16/04/15 11:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Московская конференция по междун&#...

» 16-17 апреля 2015 года проходит 4-я Московская конференция по международной безопасности
16/04/15 11:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Новости. 16-17 апреля 2015 года проходит 4-я Москов ...

» Russia Threatens NATO Over Missile Shield
16/04/15 11:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . MOSCOW—Russia’s top general warned European countries planning to host installations for a U.S.-led missile defense shield that Russian forces would be forced to target them. General Valery Gerasi...

» Russia's most daring theatre company
16/04/15 11:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . A fearless Russian drama company has risen from the dead after being evicted from its premises in Moscow this winter. The eviction seemed at first to be a political death sentence, but does a theatre with bar...

» Путин: Американцам нужны вассалы, а не союзники - Политика
16/04/15 10:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
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» 2015-04-15#Yemen
16/04/15 10:37 from Mike Nova - Google+
2015-04-15 #Yemen #Iran #SaudiArabia Iran-Saudi Rivalry Is Stoking Conflict in Yemen | » Influx of Migrants Across Mediterranean Nears Record Levels 13/04/15 15:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks Iran-Saudi Rivalry Is Stoking Conflic...

» The Friends We Left Stranded in Iraq
15/04/15 19:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . American troops have come home from Baghdad, Fallujah and Mosul, but many of the Iraqis who risked their lives to aid U.S. forces are still waiting for their tickets out of danger. Hundreds of American allies...

» The CIA Needs an Iran ‘Team B’
15/04/15 19:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Many of CIA Director John Brennan ’s gaffes over the years have raised eyebrows, but none has suggested the need for a legislative remedy—until the one he launched at Harvard last week. His past i...

» Countering Putin’s Information Weapons of War
15/04/15 19:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Vladimir Putin has a secret army. It’s an army of thousands of “trolls,” TV anchors and others who work day and night spreading anti-American propaganda on the Internet, airwaves and newspap...

» G7 Calls on Russia to Implement Minsk Accords
15/04/15 19:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Uploads by VOA News. G7 Calls on Russia to Implement Minsk Accords Foreign ministers from the world's seven leading industrialized countries have called on Russia to rein in Ukrainian rebels and abide by t...

» Iraqi Prime Minister: Don't Call The Militia "Militia" - BuzzFeed News
15/04/15 19:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. BuzzFeed News Iraqi Prime Minister: Don't Call The Militia "Militia" BuzzFeed News Iraqi Prime Minister al-Abadi plays word games during his first visit to Washington a...

» Unpaid spaceport workers appeal to Vladimir Putin with giant graffiti
15/04/15 19:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russian news, all the latest and breaking Russia news. Builders at the Vostochny cosmodrome in Russia's Far East have not been paid for four months

» Russia, Reeling From Cheap Oil, Talks Up OPEC Ties
15/04/15 19:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Russia has been holding active, “unprecedented” consultations with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, a senior official said on Wednesday, a clear signal of Moscow's desir...

» Two Ghanaians in Court Over 6-ton Cocaine Bust
15/04/15 19:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Two Ghanaian businessmen appeared in court in Accra on Wednesday accused of conspiring to import nearly 6 tons of cocaine from Bolivia, one of the biggest recorded cocaine seizures linked...

» Tam Mutu, on Broadway at Last, in ‘Doctor Zhivago’
15/04/15 17:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . For a few years there, Broadway must have seemed about as accessible as the icy battlefields of revolutionary Russia for Tam Mutu. The most conspicuous near miss came in 2011 for Mr. Mutu, a native of the sou...

» In Exile, but Ready to Save Russia
15/04/15 17:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . SAN JOSE, Calif. — Early in the morning on Monday last week, a phone call woke me. It was a friend from Washington, a political consultant who follows Russia closely: “There’s a billboard wi...

» Iran-Saudi Rivalry Is Stoking Conflict in Yemen
15/04/15 17:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Iran has proposed a peace plan to end the conflict in Yemen, but the idea has received little support from regional rivals like Saudi Arabia. They accuse Tehran of backing the Houthi rebe...

» Man Arrested for Landing Unauthorized Aircraft on US Capitol Lawn
15/04/15 17:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. An unauthorized aircraft landed on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, with a single unidentified occupant aboard. The person was detained, U.S. Capitol Police said. Nearby stree...

» U.S.-Led Coalition Air Strikes Hit Islamic State In Syria, Iraq
15/04/15 17:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Air strikes by a U.S.-led coalition targeted Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria and Iraq with some 23 air strikes in the past 24 hours.

» Роджер Холлис и тайны британской контрразведки
15/04/15 17:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Uploads by Голос Америки. Роджер Холлис и тайны британс...

» Romanian, U.S., British Troops Stage NATO-Planned Exercises
15/04/15 17:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Some 2,200 Romanian, U.S., British, and Moldovan troops will take part in military exercises in Romania, close to the Ukrainian border, beginning this week.

» Экс-депутат Верховной рады от партии Януковича застрелен на окраине Киева - РБК
15/04/15 17:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Подробности Экс-депутат Верховной рады от партии Януковича застрелен на окраине Киева РБК Неизвестный застрелил Калашникова в подъезде своего дома, рассказала украинской газете «Ве...

» Генпрокуратура Украины приступила к поискам «золотого батона» Януковича - Газета.Ru
15/04/15 17:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. РБК Украина Генпрокуратура Украины приступила к поискам «золотого батона» Януковича Газета.Ru Главное следственное управление Генпрокуратуры начало расследование кражи «золотого ба...

» Harry Reid on Republican Field: "They're All Losers" - RealClearPolitics
15/04/15 17:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. RealClearPolitics Harry Reid on Republican Field: "They're All Losers" RealClearPolitics Sen. Harry Reid speaks candidly to CNBC's Chief Washington Correspondent John H...

» Blades of glory: Capitol gyrocopter stunt is Florida mailman's special delivery
15/04/15 17:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Doug Hughes lands the flying craft on the west lawn carrying 535 stamped letters – one for each member of Congress – to protest campaign finance laws A Florida mailman landed ...

» Foreign Delegation on US Tour to Fight Extremism
15/04/15 17:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Uploads by VOA News. Foreign Delegation on US Tour to Fight Extremism President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi have discussed efforts to fight Islamic State militants. However, anoth...

» Global trade faces poor growth, says WTO
15/04/15 17:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News. Forecast from economists will add to fears that globalisation is stalling

» Anger Over Reports of DEA Agents' Parties, and Bewilderment at Mild Penalties - New York Times
15/04/15 17:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Anger Over Reports of DEA Agents' Parties, and Bewilderment at Mild Penalties New York Times WASHINGTON — Lawmakers expressed outrage at a House Oversight Committee hearing on Tu...

» Guam attorney general orders territory to allow gay marriage
15/04/15 17:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 4 p.m. EDT. HAGATNA, Guam (AP) -- Guam on Wednesday became the first U.S. territory to allow gay marriage after its attorney general directed officials to immediately begin processing s...

» 'Gay conversion therapy' conference: speakers claim religious freedom is under attack
15/04/15 17:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Attendees at Emmanuel Centre, London, say ‘sexual orientation change efforts’ are necessary as Barack Obama and the NHS say practice is harmful and unethical There was somethi...

» Ukraine looks to foreign-born reformists
15/04/15 17:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News. Kiev is pinning hopes on overseas talent to fight economic slump and corruption in war-torn nation

» Tombstone of Hillary Clinton's father toppled - Politico
15/04/15 17:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Tombstone of Hillary Clinton's father toppled Politico Most Read; Videos. Feds: Judge 'misconstrued' Obama on immigration · Al Qaeda Is beating the Islamic State · ...

» Gravestone Of Hillary Clinton's Dad Toppled
15/04/15 17:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky News. Police suspect an act of vandalism as the gravestone is found toppled over two days after Clinton launched her White House bid.

» Extra virgin '100% real' olive oil goes on sale in UK
15/04/15 17:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. French Querubi oil, claiming to be produced without insecticides or fertilisers, aims to stand out in an industry plagued by fraud An extra virgin olive oil produced in France...

» Reid Denies He Got Beat Up By The Mob [VIDEO] - Daily Caller
15/04/15 17:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. NBCNews.com Reid Denies He Got Beat Up By The Mob [VIDEO] Daily Caller “In the last few days, a bunch of people are saying, 'Reid, he didn't have an exercise accident. He got bea...

» 'No end to sanctions, no agreement': Iran sticks to nuclear deal demands - RT
15/04/15 17:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. RT 'No end to sanctions, no agreement': Iran sticks to nuclear deal demands RT There'll be no deal on Tehran's nuclear program without the simultaneous lifting of all sanctions a...

» Cuba has shown us that sanctions don’t work – so why keep using them?
15/04/15 17:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. With all the subtlety of Game of Thrones, this kind of warfare has become the default mode of western diplomacy. Yet the only people they hurt are the poor The days are long g...

» Iraq fails to halt Isis advance in Anbar
15/04/15 17:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News. Attempts to reduce reliance on Shia militias results in gains by jihadists

» Obviously Terrified Harry Reid Refuses to Finger Mafia Assailants - New York Magazine
15/04/15 17:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. New York Magazine Obviously Terrified Harry Reid Refuses to Finger Mafia Assailants New York Magazine Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) maintains implausible story. Photo:...

» US Congressional Hearing Looks at Countering Russian Propaganda
15/04/15 17:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Participants in a Congressional hearing Wednesday argued that Russia is waging sophisticated propaganda campaign that threatens American allies and interests - and that U.S. government-fu...

» Greece in talks with Russia to buy missiles for S-300 systems: RIA
15/04/15 17:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. MOSCOW (Reuters) - Greece is negotiating with Russia for the purchase of missiles for its S-300 anti-missile systems and for their maintenance, Russia's RIA news agency quoted Greek De...

» Diplomat's teen son indicted for murder of brother, drug dealer - Toronto Sun
15/04/15 17:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Toronto Sun Diplomat's teen son indicted for murder of brother, drug dealer Toronto Sun The 15-year-old son of a Canadian diplomat has been indicted on a first-degree felony murd...

» Planned Motorcycle Rally by the Night Wolves, a Putin Ally, Has Poland on Edge
15/04/15 17:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Amid tensions over Ukraine, hundreds of motorcyclists plan to roar from Moscow to Berlin to mark the 70th anniversary of the victory over the Nazis.

» Attacks Against Jews Spiked in 2014, Israeli Researchers Say
15/04/15 17:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TIME. (TEL AVIV, Israel) — Jewish communities around the world faced an “explosion of hatred” last year, with the number of violent anti-Semitic attacks rising by 38 percent, according to...

» Putin Mistakenly Believes His Nuclear Threats Will Keep NATO from Defending Baltics, Piontkovsky Says
15/04/15 17:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The InterpreterThe Interpreter. Staunton, April 14 – Vladimir Putin believes that he can dominate the Baltic countries and destroy NATO not by a direct invasion which the Western alliance is prepared...

» Are Russia And Europe Parting Ways?
15/04/15 16:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . If Europe wants to diversify away from Russian natural gas, ‘go ahead and make my day’ seems to be the words to read between the lines in the state run media in Moscow. The country’s b...

» Another Sign Russia’s Matryoshka Autonomies are at Risk of Being Further Downgraded
15/04/15 16:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The InterpreterThe Interpreter. Staunton, April 14 – Vladimir Putin’s press secretary says that no one from the Nenets Autonomous District in Arkhangelsk Region or the Khanty-Mansiisk and Yamalo-Nene...

» Ukrainian Troops Killed Despite Renewed Commitment to Cease-fire Deal
15/04/15 16:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Ukraine's military says more of its soldiers have been killed in the past two days by mortar and rocket fire from Russian-backed separatists. The fighting has intensified in eastern Ukrai...

» Young North Caucasians Ever More Often Using Fire Arms to Settle Disputes, Expert Says
15/04/15 16:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The InterpreterThe Interpreter. Staunton, April 14 – While Russians have been focusing on Ukraine, the situation in the North Caucasus has deteriorated in two important ways, according to Maya Astvat...

» President tightens grip on state
15/04/15 16:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Europe News. A flood of legislation has centralised power in the run-up to elections

» US Senate Panel Approves Legislation on Nuclear Deal With Iran
15/04/15 16:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. A U.S. Senate panel has approved legislation that would give Congress a right to vote on a possible deal with Iran aimed at preventing Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon in exchange ...

» To absent friends: Moscow defiant as Europe boycotts Victory Day parade
15/04/15 16:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia | The Guardian. Putin to rub shoulders with autocrats like Kim Jong-un on 9 May, as EU leaders decide to avoid 70th anniversary spectacle because of Russia’s actions in Ukraine About 16,000 soldiers...

» Пентагон признал беззащитность США перед атаками хакеров - Российская Газета
15/04/15 16:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Российская Газета Пентагон признал беззащитность США перед атаками хакеров Российская Газета США еще не обладают возможностями для защиты от серьезных кибератак. Это признал помощн...

» Gay ambassador to Vatican causes division
15/04/15 16:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Europe News. Pope’s commitment to liberalising Church questioned after approval of diplomat is stalled

» The Daily Vertical: Keep An Eye On Karelia
15/04/15 16:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The Daily Vertical is a video primer for Russia-watchers that appears Monday through Friday. Viewers can suggest topics via Twitter@PowerVertical or on the Power Vertical...

» 6 Celebrities You Didn't Know Had Russian Roots
15/04/15 16:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Moscow Times Top Stories. Dig a little deeper under the surface and it's surprising how many well-known celebrities and politicians have their ancestral roots in Russia.

» IS Militants Launch Counteroffensive, Capture Villages Near Ramadi
15/04/15 16:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Residents in Iraq’s western province of Anbar say Islamic State (IS) militants launched a fierce counteroffensive near the city of Ramadi on April 15, capturing three vil...

» Сотрудник ЦРУ признался в казни Мэрилин Монро и убийствах "неугодных Белому дому" - Правда.Ру
15/04/15 16:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Правда.Ру Сотрудник ЦРУ признался в казни Мэрилин Монро и убийствах "неугодных Белому дому" Правда.Ру Мэрилин Монро была убита смертельной инъекцией сотрудником ЦРУ за св...

» Глава СБУ вновь высказал обвинения в адрес Владислава Суркова - ИА REGNUM
15/04/15 16:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. ИА REGNUM Глава СБУ вновь высказал обвинения в адрес Владислава Суркова ИА REGNUM Украинские следователи в настоящий момент изучают мотивы пребывания помощника российского президен...

» Russian Professor Convicted Of Treason Dies In Prison
15/04/15 16:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. A Russian engineering professor convicted of passing military secrets to China has died in prison.

» Сотрудник ЦРУ признался в убийстве Мэрилин Монро - Российская Газета
15/04/15 16:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Российская Газета Сотрудник ЦРУ признался в убийстве Мэрилин Монро Российская Газета Сенсационное признание сделал бывший сотрудник ЦРУ 78-летний Норманн Ходжес. По данным американ...

» Iran To Use Influence As 'Major Power' To Bring Peace To Yemen
15/04/15 16:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Iran says it will use its influence as a "major force" in the region to broker a peace deal to end fighting in Yemen.

» FBI Increases Reward for 2008 Times Square Bombing Information
15/04/15 16:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. U.S. federal authorities on Wednesday announced an increased reward of $115,000 for information leading to the conviction of individuals responsible for the 2008 bombing in New York's Tim...

» Congress Split on Obama Push to Take Cuba Off Terror-sponsor List
15/04/15 16:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Congressional reaction to President Barack Obama’s push to remove Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism spans from ardent support to fervent opposition, with many lawmake...

» Mikhail Khodorkovsky Speaks at Stanford University on Future of
15/04/15 16:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Interpreter. Mikhail Khodorkovsky Speaks at Stanford University on Future of Russia, Ukraine Mikhail Khodorkovsky Speaks at Stanford University on Future of Russia, Ukraine Another Sign Russia’s Matryo...

» The FBI Informant Who Mounted a Sting Operation Against the FBI
15/04/15 16:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Intercept. When you’re introduced to Saeed Torres in the new documentary (T)ERROR , you hear him bickering with the filmmaker, Lyric Cabral. The screen is black. “I told you I didn’t want my face in th...

» Russia officially joins $50bn China-led infrastructure bank - RT
15/04/15 16:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. RT Russia officially joins $50bn China-led infrastructure bank RT On Tuesday Russia officially becomes a founder of the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). It means...

» Russia tells Sweden that hunting for its submarines is 'a mindless waste of ... - Business Insider
15/04/15 16:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Business Insider Russia tells Sweden that hunting for its submarines is 'a mindless waste of ... Business Insider Over the weekend, Swedish Rear Adm. Anders Grenstad confirmed to the ...

» RAF Sends Jets As Russia Planes Near UK Airspace - Sky News
15/04/15 16:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. International Business Times The Guardian RAF Sends Jets As Russia Planes Near UK Airspace Sky News The Ministry of Defence revealed the news hours after it emerged warships from Russ...

» Are Russia And Europe Parting Ways? - Forbes
15/04/15 16:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Forbes Are Russia And Europe Parting Ways? Forbes If Europe wants to diversify away from Russian natural gas, 'go ahead and make my day' seems to be the words to read between the line...

» China, Russia military spending surges - Military Times
15/04/15 16:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Military Times China, Russia military spending surges Military Times Trailing in a distant second was China, which spent an estimated $216 billion (15.1 percent), followed by Russia ,...

» Russia's seat in G8 'hinges' on resolution of Ukraine conflict – German FM - RT
15/04/15 16:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. RT Russia's seat in G8 'hinges' on resolution of Ukraine conflict – German FM RT “I wish for Russia to return to the G8 nations but the way to get there hinges on its assistance and e...

» Western leaders' snub casts shadow over Russia's lavish Victory Day celebrations - The Guardian
15/04/15 16:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. The Guardian Western leaders' snub casts shadow over Russia's lavish Victory Day celebrations The Guardian About 16,000 soldiers, 200 armoured vehicles and 150 planes and helicopters ...

» NATO commander urges Russia to stop fuelling Ukraine conflict - Yahoo News
15/04/15 16:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Yahoo News NATO commander urges Russia to stop fuelling Ukraine conflict Yahoo News BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Nato's top commander, U.S. General Philip Breedlove, voiced concern on Wednesd...

» In Exile, but Ready to Save Russia - New York Times
15/04/15 16:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. New York Times In Exile, but Ready to Save Russia New York Times SAN JOSE, Calif. — Early in the morning on Monday last week, a phone call woke me. It was a friend from Washington, a ...

» Where Does Hillary Clinton Stand on China and Russia? - The Atlantic
15/04/15 16:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. The Atlantic Where Does Hillary Clinton Stand on China and Russia ? The Atlantic On foreign policy, she'll take a tough line on Russia ; President Vladimir Putin and the Clintons show...

» Russia in Active Consultations with OPEC - Wall Street Journal
15/04/15 16:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Wall Street Journal Reuters Russia in Active Consultations with OPEC Wall Street Journal MOSCOW— Russia is conducting “unprecedentedly active” consultations with the Organization of t...

» Russia Blocks Hollywood Thriller Day Before Its Release - ABC News
15/04/15 16:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. euronews Russia Blocks Hollywood Thriller Day Before Its Release ABC News Russia's Ministry of Culture and a distributor have agreed not to release a new Hollywood movie, just a day b...

» Russia bans film adaptation of 'Child 44' - euronews
15/04/15 16:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. euronews Russia bans film adaptation of 'Child 44' euronews The film had been due for release in Russia on April 17 but has been pulled because of what the Russian culture ministry de...

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» Chicago to pay reparations to police torture victims
14/04/15 17:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Former Chicago Police Department commander Jon Burge is seen outside the Federal Courthouse in 2008 after he was released from custody in Tampa. (Photo: Steve Nesius, AP) CHICAGO — Mayor announced Tuesd...

» Despite Confrontation, Russia Still Looks to West for Approval
14/04/15 16:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Moscow Times Top Stories. Despite the ongoing confrontation with the West over Ukraine, Russian leaders still see it as the ultimate source of prestige and approval, analysts told The Moscow Times on T...

» UN approves arms embargo against Yemen rebel leaders - Fox News
14/04/15 16:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Fox News UN approves arms embargo against Yemen rebel leaders Fox News April 13, 2015: Yemeni expatriates and Iranians chant slogans during a protest against the Saudi-led coalition st...

» Russian biker gang to ride Red Army's route through Europe
14/04/15 16:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Grey Wolves plan to rally to mark defeat of Nazi Germany, provoking protests from Poland, Slovakia and Czech Republic amid tensions over Ukraine A Russian biker gang backed by...

» Drone Attack Kills Top Cleric, al-Qaeda Branch Says
14/04/15 16:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TIME. (CAIRO) — Yemen’s al-Qaeda branch announced on Tuesday that its top cleric, a Saudi-national who has had a $5 million bounty on his head, has been killed, allegedly in a drone attack. Al-...

» US Senate Panel Advances Congress Vote on Iran Deal
14/04/15 16:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Leaders of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee reached agreement on Tuesday on revisions to a bipartisan bill that would allow Congress to vote on an international agreement to re...

» Pentagon: IS-held Territory in Iraq Shrinking
14/04/15 16:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. U.S. defense officials are touting slow, but steady gains in the effort to degrade and destroy the group known as the Islamic State. The Pentagon says IS has lost 13,000 to 17,000 square ...

» Xenophobic violence in South Africa leaves at least five dead
14/04/15 16:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Hundreds forced to flee their homes amid unrest that has killed two foreigners and three South Africans, including a 14-year-old boy At least five people have been killed and ...

» Sentences in Blackwater Killings Give Iraqis a Measure of Closure
14/04/15 16:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Some Iraqis expressed relief at the news of prison terms for four former security contractors in the killings of 17 people in 2007, while others called for harsher punishments.

» Iran to appoint first female ambassador since the Islamic revolution
14/04/15 16:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Marzieh Afkham to become the second female ambassador Iran has ever had as Rouhani says it is government’s duty to create equal opportunities for women Iran is set to appoint ...

» Netanyahu Tells Putin Israel 'Dismayed' By Missile Decision
14/04/15 16:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called Russian President Vladimir Putin to express Israel's "dismay" with the Kremlin decision to supply S-300 missiles to I...

» Israeli Leader Expresses Dismay Over Russian Sale of Missiles to Iran
14/04/15 16:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Vladimir V. Putin that the sale of the S-300 missile system to Iran would “encourage Iranian aggression.”

» U.S., allies conduct 18 air strikes in Syria, Iraq against Islamic State: military
14/04/15 16:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces targeted Islamic State militants in Syria with three air strikes and conducted another 15 strikes against the group in Iraq from Monday to Tuesda...

» Seattle CEO sets $70K minimum wage as US 'pay gap' widens - Christian Science Monitor
14/04/15 16:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Quartz Seattle CEO sets $70K minimum wage as US 'pay gap' widens Christian Science Monitor Dan Price, the owner of Gravity Payments, has announced he will raise his employees' mi...

» Memorials to British colonials attacked across South Africa as protesters demand statues honouring 'racist' figures from its past are removed
14/04/15 16:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. CAPTION CORRECTS INFORMATION ON DEFACED STATUES - In this photo taken Friday, April, 10, 2015, a statue of Britain's Queen Victoria, outside the Port Elizabeth city library in South Afr...

» G7 Foreign Ministers Meet on Key World Issues
14/04/15 16:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Foreign ministers of the Group of Seven industrialized countries are meeting in Luebeck, Germany, to discuss issues ranging from Ebola to arms control as they prepare for the G7 summit in...

» Mideast Christians Trapped by Extremists
14/04/15 16:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. Under attack and with few options, many are forging alliances with former foes.

» Students barricaded inside classrooms, offices after Wayne Co. shooting - WNCN
14/04/15 16:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Students barricaded inside classrooms, offices after Wayne Co. shooting WNCN Kenneth Morgan Stancil III is wanted in the fatal shooting of Ron Lane at Wayne Community College. Wa...

» Russia opens way to missile deliveries to Iran, starts oil-for-goods swap
14/04/15 16:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia paved the way on Monday for missile system deliveries to Iran and started an oil-for-goods swap, signaling that Moscow may have a head-start in the race to be...

» Wallet squeeze: Apartment rents projected to rise again
14/04/15 16:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 2 p.m. EDT. Living in an apartment? Expect your rent to go up again....

» Starting up in Cuba, but not connected
14/04/15 16:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington Post. HAVANA — Great technology companies are born in garages, of course, and that is where 31-year-old Bernardo Romero has launche...

» WorldViews: Map: These are the world’s least religious countries
14/04/15 16:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington Post. The world's most populous country is also the globe's least religious. According to a new study, 90 percent of all Chinese co...

» Map: These are the world's least religious countries - Washington Post (blog)
14/04/15 16:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from world - Google News. Today's Zaman Map: These are the world's least religious countries Washington Post (blog) The world's most populous country is also the globe's least religious. According to a new stud...

» Russian Region Mourns As Fire Deaths Reach 23
14/04/15 16:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Russia's Khakasia region has held a day of mourning on April 14 as the death toll from fires that swept the province in southern Siberia rose to 23.

» Robot reveals inside Fukushima nuclear reactor – video
14/04/15 16:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news + Video | The Guardian. The view inside one of the wrecked nuclear reactors at Fukushima filmed by a robot. The robot collected temperature, radiation data and images before it became stuck and ...

» Fighting in Eastern Ukraine Rages On Overnight Despite Talks
14/04/15 16:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TIME. (DONETSK, Ukraine) — Fighting raged overnight and in the early hours on Tuesday on the outskirts of the rebel stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine despite an agreement reached by the Ukrain...

» Obama to discuss fight against Isis with Iraqi prime minister
14/04/15 16:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. In first US trip since becoming PM, Haider al-Abadi expected to seek billions of dollars worth of drones and other weapons, during White House visit The Iraqi prime minister, ...

» Czechs Sentence Russian Man Over Bomb Threat On Passenger Jet
14/04/15 16:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. A court the Czech capital, Prague, has handed a 30-month prison sentence to a Russian man who forced a passenger plane to make an emergency landing by claiming he was car...

» Iraqi Prime Minister, in Washington, Seeks Billions to Overcome Deficit
14/04/15 16:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is faced with declining oil revenues and the task of restoring essential services and repairing damage from the fight with the Islamic State.

» Our Man in Tehran - Episode 4: Mr. Big Mouth
14/04/15 16:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Hamid-Reza Ahmadabadi, a strong believer in Iran’s theocracy, confronts what he acknowledges is a losing battle against modernity.

» Manhole cover explodes during TV interview - video
14/04/15 16:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news + Video | The Guardian. A news crew in Buffalo, New York, is filming an interview when an underground explosion sends a manhole cover soaring up into the air, causing panic as the heavy object f...

» Kremlin confirms oil-for-goods swap with Iran under way
14/04/15 16:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin confirmed on Tuesday that an oil-for-goods barter deal between Russia and Iran was being implemented and said all legal barriers had been removed to Mosc...

» Navalny Associate Sentenced On Artwork Theft Conviction
14/04/15 15:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. A court in the city of Vladimir found Georgy Alburov guilty of "premeditated theft" on April 14 and sentenced him the same day.

» Internet pornography banned in Russia under 1923 convention
14/04/15 15:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. The crackdown comes after a court in Tartarstan's Apastovksy district ordered the state-controlled internet watchdog to block 136 websites hosting 'pornographic material' within the nex...

» Islamist Threat: Why Is Russia Scaring Turkmenistan?
14/04/15 15:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Anyone who is listening to Russian officials, or getting their information from Russian media lately would think that the Central Asian states are on the brink of disaste...

» Prison time for some Atlanta school educators in cheating scandal - CNN
14/04/15 15:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. CNN Prison time for some Atlanta school educators in cheating scandal CNN (CNN) There was nothing routine about a sentencing hearing Tuesday in Atlanta that wrote the final legal...

» Ukrainian President Poroshenko Dismisses Envoy To U.S.
14/04/15 15:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Ukraine's president did not explain the dismissal in his April 14 decree relieving Ambassador Oleksandr Motsyk of his post as Ukraine's envoy to the United States,

» Paul Simon and Sting review – moments of humbling magic from The Odd Couple
14/04/15 15:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Manchester Arena Simon and Sting’s contrasting voices and banter perfectly complement each other as they dip into each other’s songbooks in a curious but inspired union At fir...

» Russia Confirms Iran Missile Deal Can Go Ahead
14/04/15 15:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky News. The Kremlin confirms it will sell the S-300 system to Tehran and is already trading with it under an oil-for-goods agreement.

» Pankisi Parents Struggle To Learn How Islamic State Recruited Their Sons
14/04/15 15:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The parents of two teenagers from Georgia's Pankisi Gorge who ran away to join the Islamic State (IS) militant group are trying to find out who helped their sons travel t...

» U.S. Soldiers, Back in Iraq, Find Security Forces in Disrepair
14/04/15 15:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Returning for the first time since 2011, none of the American troops thought they would be here again, let alone return to find the Iraqi Army they had once trained in such a state. disrepair.

» German anti-Israeli Nobel writer, Günter Grass dies at 87
14/04/15 15:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The European Union Times - World News, Breaking News. Germany’s respected author and Noble Winning novelist, Günter Grass, known for his sharp criticism of Israel and those supporting the Tel Aviv regime, ...

» Six Ukrainian Soldiers Killed In Attacks
14/04/15 15:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Six soldiers have been killed and 12 injured as fighting has flared in eastern Ukraine in the past 24 hours, despite a cease-fire.

» The roots of Iran's revolutionary fighters
14/04/15 15:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Four members of the Revolutionary Guard recently killed in Syria are from a garden town in Isfahan that also played a decisive role in the Iran-Iraq war Young Isfahanis know b...

» NYPD: Man hides in bathroom stall at sports bar, rapes woman - Miami Herald
14/04/15 15:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. New York Daily News NYPD: Man hides in bathroom stall at sports bar, rapes woman Miami Herald New York City police say a man hiding inside a bathroom stall in the ladies room of ...

» Iraqi PM to Seek Billions for ISIS Fight at White House Visit
14/04/15 15:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TIME. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi will make his first official visit to the White House on Tuesday, where he is expected to request billions of dollars in financial and military aid from President...

» UK and US paratroopers undertake largest multinational exercise in decades
14/04/15 15:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Uploads by ODN. UK and US paratroopers undertake largest multinational exercise in decades Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/ODNsubs More than 2100 American and British paratroopers have jumped into Fort Bragg...

» Don't underestimate NATO, German minister says on Baltic visit
14/04/15 15:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. TALLINN (Reuters) - Germany's defense minister said on Tuesday that nobody should underestimate NATO's rapid response capacity, which has been ratcheted up in response to worries about...

» 6 U.S. Banks Have 278 TRILLION Dollars Of Exposure To Derivatives
14/04/15 15:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The European Union Times - World News, Breaking News. The very same people that caused the last economic crisis have created a 278 TRILLION dollar derivatives time bomb that could go off at any moment. Whe...

» US is Losing Its Status of World Power: German Media
14/04/15 15:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The European Union Times - World News, Breaking News. The US is losing its status of world power, as the country has lately not been able to enforce its geopolitical interests in several regions and has ha...

» Richard III kept scoliosis secret until his death, historian claims
14/04/15 15:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Historian Mary Ann Lund from the University of Leicester believes that Richard III used good tailoring and carefully made armour to disguise his scoliosis through his lifetime.

» Uzbek-German Human Rights Forum Lambasts Tashkent Over Cotton Harvesting
14/04/15 15:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The Uzbek-German Forum For Human Rights (UGF) has criticized Uzbek authorities for forcing "more than 1 million" Uzbeks to pick cotton in 2014.

» Marco Rubio wants to be identifiable without having a distinct identity
14/04/15 15:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. The newest candidate for the Republican nomination is totally different from all the old white guys in politics, except in the ways he’s exactly the same It’s impossible to se...

» UN imposes arms embargo on Yemen's rebels factions - Washington Post
14/04/15 15:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Newsweek The Express Tribune UN imposes arms embargo on Yemen's rebels factions Washington Post BEIRUT — The U.N. Security Council approved an arms embargo against Yemen's rebel factio...

» Senate Panel Deal Paves Way for Vote on Iran Nuclear Bill
14/04/15 15:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. The Foreign Relations Committee reached an accord on a bill giving Congress a vote on an international deal to reign in Iran’s nuclear program.

» Patients' medical records under threat from data breaches
14/04/15 15:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 2 p.m. EDT. CHICAGO (AP) -- Your private medical information is under threat. That's according to a study that found almost 30 million health records nationwide were involved in crimina...

» A Yazidi captive's tale: Sold by ISIS as a sex slave
14/04/15 15:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from CNN.com - World. In the canvas expanse of the Shariya refugee camp, thousands of Yazidis live within hearing distance of one of Iraqi Kurdistan's frontlines with ISIS.

» Morning Joe's Brzezinski Calls Marco Rubio a 'Little Boy' - National Review Online
14/04/15 15:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. National Review Online Morning Joe's Brzezinski Calls Marco Rubio a 'Little Boy' National Review Online Senator Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) is just a “little boy,” according to Mornin...

» AQAP leader killed in Yemen
14/04/15 15:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from CNN.com - World. A top leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was among five killed in an airstrike in Yemen, the terror group said in a statement.

» Putin Emergence As “Last Hope For World” Shocks West
14/04/15 14:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The European Union Times - World News, Breaking News. The Presidential Office ( PO ) in the Kremlin today is reporting that President Putin has “shocked” the capitols of the West, and their propaganda medi...

» Pentagon Slams Russian Intercept of US Spy Plane
14/04/15 14:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. The Pentagon is protesting the Russian intercept of one of its reconnaissance planes flying in international airspace over the Baltic Sea, calling it "unsafe" and "an example of sloppy ai...

» Pakistan Treads Lightly Between Iran, Saudi Arabia
14/04/15 14:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Pakistan’s prime minister sought to reassure Saudi Arabia and its Arab coalition in Yemen that his country “does not abandon friends and strategic partners, especially at a time when thei...

» Wildfires kill 23 in Russia's Siberia - Reuters
14/04/15 14:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Reuters Wildfires kill 23 in Russia's Siberia Reuters Wildfires in Russia often start when locals set grass on fire on rolling fields to clean them up after the winter, a widespread p...

» Russia Flexes Missile Diplomacy With Iran
14/04/15 14:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Russia’s potential delivery of antiaircraft anti-aircraft S-300 missile systems to Iran has long been shrouded in controversy and contradictions. But with Russian Preside...

» Turkish Minister Criticizes Pope Francis
14/04/15 14:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. Volkan Bozkir, Turkey’s minister for European affairs, criticized Pope Francis for describing the World War I-era massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide.

» США запустят проекты для информационной борьбы с Россией в соцсетях - Интерфакс
14/04/15 14:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Интерфакс США запустят проекты для информационной борьбы с Россией в соцсетях Интерфакс Москва. 14 апреля. INTERFAX.RU - Власти США создают "информационные войска", котор...

» Rival Factions in Ukraine Are Urged to Withdraw Heavy Weapons
14/04/15 14:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. In talks to try to shore up the fragile truce, Germany, France, Ukraine and Russia agreed that both sides should pull back tanks and artillery.

» Russian Ships in English Channel to Conduct Drills in Atlantic - Report
14/04/15 14:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Moscow Times Top Stories. Russian navy vessels Ships belonging to the Russian Northern Fleet entered the English Channel on Tuesday on their way to the northern Atlantic for and will hold anti-aircraft...

» Putin Tops TIME Reader's Poll of Most Influential People
14/04/15 14:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Moscow Times Top Stories. Russian President Vladimir Putin has been named the most influential person in the world - "for better or for worse" - by readers of TIME magazine.

» Vladimir Putin named most influential figure in the world for 2015 by Time 100 readers' poll
14/04/15 14:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from - Europe RSS Feed. Vladimir Putin has been named the most influential person in the world ahead of Barack Obama, the Pope and the Dalai Lama, according to Time magazine.

» Three Russian ships monitored in English Channel
14/04/15 14:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russian news, all the latest and breaking Russia news. Ministry of Defence confirms Udaloy class destroyer Severomorsk, tanker and support ship pass through waters while returning from Mediterranean

» Russian Missile Deliveries to Iran Could Begin in Late 2015
14/04/15 14:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. A senior Iranian official said Tuesday that Russia could begin delivering sophisticated S-300 air defense systems to Iran by the end of this year. The statement to Russia's Interfax news ...

» Putin’s Aggressiveness Alienating Central Asian Countries
14/04/15 14:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Window on Eurasia -- New Series. Paul Goble Staunton, April 14 – Vladimir Putin’s increasingly aggressive stance toward Russia’s ne...

» Six Ukrainian Soldiers Killed in Clashes With Rebels
14/04/15 14:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. A Ukrainian military spokesman says Ukraine's defense minister said six soldiers have been killed in clashes with Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine. Andriy Lysenko told reporters Tu...

» Her Majesty’s Jihadists
14/04/15 14:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. More British Muslims have joined Islamist militant groups than serve in the country’s armed forces. How to understand the pull of jihad.

» Fighting erupts in eastern Ukraine
14/04/15 14:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia | The Guardian. Heavy shelling heard in Donetsk as Russian-back rebels and Ukrainian forces clash in the latest threat to the Minsk ceasefire signed in February Fighting erupted overnight and in the...

» Russia's military arsenal - in 90 seconds
14/04/15 14:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russian news, all the latest and breaking Russia news. As Nato warns of an "unusual" spike in sightings of Moscow's aircraft over Europe - take a look at our 90 second guide to Russia military weapons

» Пишешь Путину? Урежем пенсию
14/04/15 14:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Uploads by Радио Свобода. Пишешь Путину? Урежем пенсию Пенсионерка из Самары Нелли Сироткина во время прямой линии с президентом хочет попросить Владимира Путин... From: Радио Свобода Views: 301 49 0 0 rat...

» Канада направит в Украину 200 военных инструкторов - Интерфакс - Украина
14/04/15 14:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. РИА Новости Канада направит в Украину 200 военных инструкторов Интерфакс - Украина Власти Канады сообщили о решении направить в Украину группу в 200 военных инструкторов, сообщает ...

» US Officials: IS Militants Losing Territory After Strikes
14/04/15 14:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. U.S. military officials say Islamic State militants have lost more than one-quarter of the territory they had gained in their campaign to create an Islamic caliphate. A U.S. defense offic...

» “An important aspect of the Eurasian worldview is an absolute denial
14/04/15 14:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Interpreter. “An important aspect of the Eurasian worldview is an absolute denial of Western civilization. In the opinion of the Eurasians, the West with its ideology of liberalism is an absolute evil....

» What conservatives care about that liberals don’t
14/04/15 14:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes. New York University psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s basic finding is simple. Throughout history, human beings have operated under five sets of moral commitments: avoidance of harm, fairnes...

» Senate committee to challenge Obama with vote on Iran bill
14/04/15 14:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes. In a direct challenge to the White House, a Senate committee pushed toward a vote on a bill that would give Congress a chance to weigh in on any final nuclear agreement that can be reach...

» Russia is now projecting serious power in the Black Sea - Business Insider
14/04/15 14:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Business Insider Russia is now projecting serious power in the Black Sea Business Insider Russia's seizure of Crimea ensured that Moscow could expand its naval capabilities throughout...

» Russia's cyberattacks grow more brazen
14/04/15 14:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Russia has ramped up cyber attacks against the United States to an unprecedented level since President Obama imposed sanctions last year on President Putin's government over its intervention in Ukraine. The e...

» Russia's cyberattacks grow more brazen - The Hill
14/04/15 14:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. The Hill Russia's cyberattacks grow more brazen The Hill Russia has ramped up cyber attacks against the United States to an unprecedented level since President Obama imposed sanctions...

» Putin Lifts Ban on Russian Missile Sales to Iran - New York Times
14/04/15 14:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. New York Times Putin Lifts Ban on Russian Missile Sales to Iran New York Times “I'm not in a position to speculate on the decision-making process that Russia is engaged in right now,”...

» Russia and Iran just showed how 'they can do whatever they like' right now - Business Insider
14/04/15 14:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Business Insider Russia and Iran just showed how 'they can do whatever they like' right now Business Insider On April 13th, the Kremlin retracted its hold on the transfer of S-300 mis...

» What Sanctions? The Russian Economy Is Growing Again
14/04/15 14:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Newsweek. World An employee works at a hot rolling workshop of the Novolipetsk (NLMK) steel mill in Lipetsk, about 500 km southeast of the capital Moscow, January 30, 2014. Not only is Putin still standing...

» What Sanctions? The Russian Economy Is Growing Again - Newsweek
14/04/15 14:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Newsweek What Sanctions? The Russian Economy Is Growing Again Newsweek An employee works at a hot rolling workshop of the Novolipetsk (NLMK) steel mill in Lipetsk, about 500 km southe...

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