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Turkey Suspects Kurdish Separatists Behind Deadly Car Bombing in Ankara

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Turkish investigators suspect Kurdish separatists carried out a deadly car bombing in Ankara that killed at least 37 people in an attack that raised new fears that the country is heading into a destabilizing war.

Violent weekend leaves 10 dead in Puerto Rico

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A police spokesman in Puerto Rico says a man has been shot to death outside a fast food restaurant, bringing to 10 the number of people killed during a violent weekend in the U.S. territory.









9 suspected cartel members killed in Mexico border city

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At least nine suspected criminals died in gunbattles with government forces Sunday during an anti-cartel operation in the city of Reynosa, which sits across the U.S. border from McAllen, Texas, Mexican authorities said.









Top U.N. Official Calls on India to Criminalize Marital Rape

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India could be violating the U.N.’s development agenda if it fails to criminalize marital rape, the head of the U.N. Development Programme implied on Monday.
In an interview with the Hindu newspaper, UNDP chief Helen Clark said the only parameter for determining rape should be consent.
“It’s pretty clear in the circles I move in at the U.N. that rape is rape,” Clark said on the sidelines of a summit in New Delhi. “The issue is the consent of the women, and if it isn’t there, it is rape.”
She also added that each country needs to examine its laws under the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals, which India has officially adopted, to see whether they “take women forward or take them back.”
Clark, a former Prime Minister of New Zealand, was responding to a statement by India’s Minister for Women and Child Development in which marital rape was referred to as a foreign concept. The minister, Maneka Gandhi, said last week that factors like India’s “illiteracy, poverty, myriad social customs and values etc.” mean that the concept of marital rape “cannot be suitably applied” to India.
“An assault on women at home is never something ‘within the family,’” Clark told the Hindu. “It is a crime. It has to be recognized and dealt with.”

The Rise and Fall of the Putin Propaganda Czar Who Met a Violent End 

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The Russian phrase vsyo mogu! – “I can do anything!” – was a kind of motto for Mikhail Lesin. He first announced it to an interviewer in 2003, when he was serving as the propaganda chief to President Vladimir Putin, and it expressed the kind of indestructible ambition that took him out of the steppes of Mongolia, where he started out working in construction, and brought him to the heights of power in Moscow as a media mogul and mouthpiece of the state. He stayed at the top for nearly two decades, a stretch that earns him a place among the Kremlin’s most irrepressible survivors. But his death four months ago in a hotel room in Washington, D.C., showed that he wasn’t as invincible as he liked to let on.
On Thursday, the chief medical examiner in the U.S. capital announced that Lesin did not die of a heart attack, as the Russian embassy in Washington had previously claimed, but of blunt force trauma to the head. The medical examiner also revealed that Lesin’s body had been pummeled, with injuries to his arms, legs, neck and torso. So far, police have not determined how exactly Lesin died. But the marks of violence on his body have renewed speculation, even among Lesin’s associates, that the case leads back to Putin’s court.
If proof of foul play emerges, it would mark a remarkable end to the life of a man who helped cement Putin’s hold over Russia – only to fall as the country became more isolated and the Kremlin more intent on maintaining control.
Suspicious circumstances
According to the White House, the FBI is now involved in the investigation into Lesin’s death, which would be the bureau’s second case relating to the Russian power broker in as many years. Since 2014, it had been looking into his ties to money laundering and corruption, especially in connection to the luxurious estates that his family owns in Los Angeles. Lesin’s relatives, including his son Anton Lessine, a Hollywood movie producer whose credits include films starring Brad Pitt and Robert De Niro, have not commented on the medical examiner’s report. Echoing the Russian authorities, his family reportedly said in November that Lesin had died of a heart attack.
But on Friday, one of his close friends and former business partners, the Russian advertising mogul Sergei Vasiliev, suggested a new explanation: Lesin had simply fallen off the wagon while in Washington, drank himself into a stupor, fell down and hit his head – and, apparently, his neck, torso and extremities.
“There have been such incidents,” Vasiliev said in an interview with one of Putin’s biographers, Andrei Kolsenikov of the newspaper Kommersant. “He would fall down and accidentally hurt himself, including in fairly serious ways.” Citing the Russian Foreign Ministry and “other agencies” as his sources, Vasiliev said Lesin went on a 24-hour bender at the Dupont Circle Hotel before being found belligerently drunk on the evening of Nov. 4 by a security guard. Having failed to put the 57-year-old to bed, the guard left Lesin alone to sleep it off. Maids found his body on the floor the next morning.
Reached over the weekend, hotel management said it had “no comments whatsoever” on the matter, and declined TIME’s request to speak with the security staff. But the version of events Vasiliev offered, while consistent with Lesin’s history of alcoholism, did little to calm the theories of foul play that emerged right after he died.
Andrew Harnik—APThe Dupont Circle Hotel in Washington, D.C., Nov. 7, 2015. Mikhail Lesin, a former aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin who helped found the English-language news service Russia Today, was found dead in the upscale hotel.
On Nov. 8, another one of his old associates, Alfred Koch, posed a curious question on his Facebook page: How could the Russian embassy have known the cause of death before the medical examiner? “Why did the embassy want everybody to think it was a heart attack?” wrote Koch, who served as Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister in the 1990s. “Maybe they were scared of Lesin talking to the FBI in exchange for ending the investigation against him?”
Koch was not the only one to propose this theory. From the pages of Le Figaro in France to theRussian and American media, journalists and armchair sleuths have suggested Lesin might have become an FBI informant not long before he died. This was mostly speculation, but to many it seemed plausible. His intimate knowledge of the Kremlin’s financial dealings would have made him a valuable source for the FBI, and the bureau had the means to encourage his cooperation. The investigation into his family could easily have led to the seizure of Lesin’s assets, including the homes in Beverly Hills where his children and grandchildren live. “I’m not calm about what’s happened for one simple reason,” he confided to the Russian edition of Forbes in August 2014. “I worry for my family.”
At the time, a lot of Putin’s friends were also worried for their fortunes. The Russian invasion of Ukraine that spring had led the U.S. to impose a series of targeted sanctions against them, and the oligarchs closest to the Kremlin found their foreign bank accounts frozen and their companies shut out of global markets. In enforcing the financial blacklist, the U.S. Treasury Department began to study the links between Putin’s associates and their global business empires.
Lesin was among the insiders with access to such information, and he never seemed like the type to sacrifice himself to protect the state. He had earned, over his life, a reputation in Moscow for puckish irreverence to the rules the Kremlin tried to impose on the political elites. In a country where the individual is always beholden to the state, and the state is accountable to no one, Lesin long showed a knack for trying to game the system. The question now is whether that habit might have gotten him killed.
The master of illusion
Mikhail Yurievich Lesin was born into a military family in the summer of 1958 and grew up in the very center of the Soviet capital. His father, a high-ranking naval officer and engineer, often took the family in the summers to Crimea, the home of the Black Sea fleet, and the scenery there inspired Lesin’s dreams of following his father to the navy.
But his character proved too defiant for such a career. An argument with one of his schoolteachers got him banned from the youth league of the Communist Party, which then refused to grant him membership. Another spat with an authority figure later got him expelled from the economic faculty of Moscow’s most prestigious university.
In the late 1970s, when he went to serve in the Soviet marines, his commanders tried to send him to fight in the jungles of Angola. The civil war in that country, starting in 1975, was one of the murkier proxy conflicts of the Cold War, and the Kremlin preferred to send its soldiers there clandestinely. This would enable the authorities back in Moscow to deny any direct involvement in the conflict if the bodies of its troops were found in the warzone. (Incidentally, this is much the same ruse that Putin has employed in eastern Ukraine, where Russian fighters have gone into battle over the past two years with no identifying markers on their uniforms.)
But Lesin had no intention of following such orders. As an act of defiance, he tattooed his full name and other identifying information on his forearm, according to a biographical ode to Lesin that Russia’s state news agency published in 2009. The trick succeeded in exempting the young marine from involvement in that covert war; his dead body would have been too easy to trace back to Russia.
Having finished his military service, Lesin got a degree in engineering and went to work as a foreman at a construction site in Mongolia. The post was remote but lucrative, and it gave him his first taste of the good life. “We went there to make money,” he is quoted as saying in a fawning 2003 profile in the Russian journal Career. “Everybody was drinking moonshine. We liked wine and vodka. Everybody took the train to Moscow for a holiday. We flew on the airplane.”
After returning to the capital in the late 1980s, he got involved in the Soviet Union’s favorite form of television entertainment, a sort of competitive sketch comedy show called KVN, or The Happy and Quickwitted Club. He took tickets at the shows and designed costumes for the performers, gradually finding himself in the role of an impresario and talent agent.
In the grey world of Soviet television, these skills were exceedingly rare, and they opened a lot of doors for Lesin after the superpower collapsed. In 1991, he founded one of post-communist Russia’s first TV advertising companies, Video International, and took senior posts in some of the countries leading news organizations. These would become his tickets to power.
Unable to use the old tricks of persuasion on a populace flush with Hollywood movies, the Kremlin needed something new. The Russian economy was in the gutter. The war in Chechnya had ended in disaster. So President Boris Yeltsin called on the young entertainer to liven up his re-election campaign in 1996. The modern Russian style of propaganda – a pungent cocktail of jingoism, vaudeville and slander – was born out of those elections, and Lesin was one of its founding illusionists. His name is still associated with the winning slogan from that campaign: “I believe. I love. I hope.”
In the years that followed, the man with his name tattooed on his arm became the Kremlin’s leading image-maker, first for Yeltsin and later for Putin, who won the presidency in 2000. As one of his first orders of business, Putin set out to consolidate control over the mass media in Russia, and Lesin’s role in this endeavor earned him the nickname The Bulldozer. With the police and justice system at their command, they engineered the hostile takeover of Russia’s main television channels during Putin’s first term in office, forging a virtual monopoly on information which, to this day, helps ensure the sky-high popularity of Russia’s president.
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In 2005, they branched out into international news with the creation of Russia Today, which broadcasts in several languages around the world. Lesin was the driving force behind that project as well. But for all the enthusiasm he put into these efforts, he was never content to be a mere civil servant.
His original passion was earning money, and he pursued it even while serving on the Kremlin’s staff as an adviser on media affairs. His American property portfolio allegedly grew to a value of $28 million, and he dabbled in Hollywood movie production, using his wealth and growing connections to access American high society. By the early aughts, Lesin was spending much of his time in Beverly Hills, California. But back home, things were changing fast.
‘Bring your treasure home’
In 2012, when Vladimir Putin returned to the presidency for a third term, he gathered a few hundred of the country’s wealthiest and most influential men at the Kremlin to deliver a simple message in hisstate of the nation address. “The offshore nature of the Russian economy has become a running joke,” he said. No longer would they be able to earn fortunes and wield power in Russia while storing their money in the West. They would have to bring it home.
This directive, which unnerved a lot of officials in Moscow, wasn’t merely issued for the sake of the economy. Oil prices at the time were still well over $100 per barrel, and there was plenty of wealth to go around. The policy of “de-offshorization,” as Putin called it, was rather a kind of insurance policy. Relations with the West had entered a crisis over the previous year, as the U.S. criticized Russia for human rights abuses and corruption. The Kremlin elites were preparing for a drawn-out confrontation with Washington.
But they couldn’t be expected to win such a fight while also storing and investing their money in the West. Not only would it look hypocritical to the Russian public, it would also make the entire hierarchy vulnerable. By freezing assets or imposing travel bans, the U.S. could pressure Kremlin cardinals to turn against Putin or undermine his rule. Gleb Pavlovsky, who served as an adviser to Putin between 2000 and 2011, sums up the concern with an old Russian saying: “The place you keep your treasure is the place you keep your heart.”
With their lucrative access to power at home and their profits stashed in the West, members of the ruling class in Russia “live in two worlds,” Pavlovsky continues. “Over here they are dictators. Over there they are consumers, banking clients, players on the stock market and all around respectable guys. Putin, in his third term, decided to stop this duality.”
At first, much of the ruling class ignored these instructions or managed to find workarounds. The most popular trick was to hide assets in shell companies whose real owners were hard to trace, or to register them under the names of close relatives or friends. On paper, at least, that meant they had complied with Putin’s order. But these loopholes were no longer tolerated after the war in Ukraine began in 2014. With Russia’s occupation and annexation of the region of Crimea that spring, Putin’s fears began coming true. The West began imposing financial sanctions on dozens of his closest associates, and a global hunt for Kremlin-linked property began.
Some of the most difficult assets to protect were the ones belonging to the children of Putin’s associates. In many cases, these princelings had studied and lived in the West for most of their adult lives – Lesin’s children, for instance, studied in Switzerland from their early teens – and they could not simply be ordered by their fathers to return to Russia as adults. But their lives and businesses in the West had nonetheless become a liability, as they gave the U.S. a means of coercing Putin’s elites.
That became clear in July of 2015, when the U.S. imposed sanctions on Roman Rotenberg, a 34-year-old businessman who had lived in Finland for most of his life. His father, the billionaire Boris Rotenberg, is Putin’s childhood friend from judo school and one of the most influential oligarchs in Russia. The fact that his son was fair game for the U.S. authorities had serious implications for national security. “Every general of the Army or the FSB [Russia’s state security service] has a son in the business world with money offshore,” says one Kremlin insider and former adviser to Putin, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “That changes their system of coordinates.” It also calls their loyalty into question.
With that in mind, Putin quietly expanded his orders to repatriate foreign assets; they would now apply to children as well. This time no one seemed exempt, not even the President’s oldest friends and allies. Vladimir Yakunin, the head of the state railway monopoly, was fired last August soon after the Kremlin learned that his son, Andrei, had applied for British citizenship. This was deemed an “act of betrayal” amid the sanctions war, according to an investigative report in Russia’s only independent news network, TV Dozhd, which cited sources close to Yakunin.
After that, most of the Kremlin hierarchy got the message that Putin was serious about repatriating wealth. But Lesin, apparently, did not.
Mikhail and the money
By 2014, the former minister of propaganda had already fallen a few rungs from the heights he occupied during Putin’s first term. A Kremlin drive against corruption in 2009 had ordered all senior officials to sell up their business interests and leave the boards of private companies. Lesin refused to comply, an act of insubordination that contributed to his dismissal from the Kremlin that year for “systematic disciplinary violations.”
But that did not amount to ostracism. Lesin’s contacts remained intact, notably his ties to Yuri Kovalchuk, another one of Putin’s favored associates. After becoming President in 2000, Putin brought the Kovalchuk family along to Moscow from their hometown of St. Petersburg, and they have since become one of the wealthiest and most influential clans in Russia, with vast holdings in the banking and media sectors — including a major interest in the information conglomerate Gazprom-Media, where Lesin acted as chairman starting in 2013. Asked about their relationship the following August, Lesin said of Kovalchuk, “We talk, synchronize our positions, exchange information.”
By then, Kovalchuk’s name had been added to the U.S. sanctions list. In its assessment, the U.S. Treasury Department referred to him as Putin’s “private banker” and a member of his inner circle. The scrutiny soon spread to his old friend Lesin. In the summer of 2014, a few months after the annexation of Crimea, Senator Roger Wicker, a Republican from Mississippi, wrote a letter to the Justice Department calling for a money-laundering and corruption probe into Lesin’s offshore company, which is registered in the British Virgin Islands, as well as the property portfolio that Lesin’s immediate family owns in Los Angeles.
The prospect of having these properties seized had a sobering effect on Lesin, and he insisted that those mansions belonged not to him but to his children. “My children don’t have any connection whatsoever to my work. My daughter is 35 years old. My son is 31. They are adults, living independent lives.” But they were still fair game in the sanctions war. In December, the U.S. Attorney’s Office confirmed that it had referred Senator Wicker’s complaint to the FBI and the Justice Department for investigation. A few days later, Lesin resigned from his post at Gazprom-Media.
But despite his close ties to many of the people on the U.S. blacklist, Lesin continued traveling to the U.S. after the annexation of Crimea, and his family’s assets in California were never seized. That Lesin managed to avoid the Western sanctions that ensnared many of his closest associates lends some credence to the rumors that he had become an informant.
Certainly, it did not go unnoticed in Moscow, and the media magnate seemed to be aware that he was making powerful enemies. In the last major interview he gave before his death, Lesin suggested that the menace of sanctions against him and his family had been orchestrated by people who wished him ill. The interviewer from Forbes asked whether he meant people in Russia.
“There are plenty of them,” he answered, “both here and there.”
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American ISIS Member Captured By Kurdish Forces

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An American who is alleged to be a member of ISIS has been captured by the Kurdish security forces, a Kurdish News Service reports.
The man is identified by the Kurdish news service Rudaw as Muhammad Jamal Amin of Virginia with a Palestinian father and a Iraqi mother. The State Department was not immediately available to confirm.
The alleged ISIS member traveled to Syria via Turkey two months ago and then towards the Iraqi city of Mosul from there. Kurdish forces told the Kurdish news service that the American had mistakenly thought he was at the Turkish border when he wandered into Kurdish territory and was captured.CBS News has also reported his capture.
Amin also had cell phones, money, and ID cards on him when captured, which were photographed and broadcast by Rudaw.
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London Mayor Urges Obama Not to Get Involved in ‘Brexit’ Fight 

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London Mayor Boris Johnson has warned President Barack Obama not to intervene in the U.K’s European Union referendum during a visit to the country next month.
The mayor, the country’s foremost supporter of Britain’s withdrawal from the 28-nation bloc, predicted in his weekly newspaper column for the Daily Telegraph that Obama would use his visit to urge Britons to vote to remain in the E.U., as doing so would be in the best interests of the world. But he added that it would be “outrageous and exorbitant hypocrisy” for the president to say it.
A country that defends its own sovereignty with “hysterical vigilance,” he writes, has no right to be telling Britain to “comply with a system that the Americans would themselves reject out of hand.”
Johnson’s opinion piece was sparked by a report in the Independent on Sunday newspaper that claimed Obama would visit in April to “use his star power” to urge Britons to remain in the EU in the referendum set for June 23.
Prime Minister David Cameron backs staying in the European Union under a set of reforms he negotiated with European leaders over the winter. His Conservative Party, however, is split on the question of European Union membership, while opposition parties are largely united in support for remaining within it.
The White House has yet to confirm Obama will visit the U.K, Politico reports.

Syria warned not to derail peace talks 

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France and US issue stern dressing down over what they said were attempts to disrupt negotiations due to start on Monday











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Five years of war in Syria - is there any hope of an end?

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Rebels and regime finally agree to turn up to talks in Geneva - but won't make concessions or even meet each other face to face











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North Korea threatens to 'burn Manhattan to ashes' with a hydrogen bomb 

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The claim is the latest in a string of increasingly bold threats made by the hermit regime's leader, Kim Jong-un











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Is the far-Right on the rise again in Germany? 

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Germany's new anti-immigration party, AfD, has had a stunning rise. What does it portend for Germany?











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London Mayor Urges Obama Not to Get Involved in 'Brexit' Fight - TIME

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London Mayor Urges Obama Not to Get Involved in 'Brexit' Fight
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London Mayor Boris Johnson has warned President Barack Obama not to intervene in the U.K's European Union referendum during a visit to the country next month. The mayor, the country's foremost supporter of Britain's withdrawal from the 28-nation bloc, ...
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Ankara Bomb Attack Kills 34; Erdogan Vows to Fight Terrorism

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Turkish officials expect to announce Monday the conclusions of their investigation into a bombing Sunday in the country's capital, Ankara, that killed at least 34 people and drew condemnations from across the world. The blast happened near Kizilay square, a key shopping and transportation hub near foreign embassies and government buildings. Health Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu said it was a car bomb that targeted civilians at a bus stop, and that 125 people were wounded. The...

Syria Peace Talks Resuming With Divide Over Assad's Future

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U.N. envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura is due to meet with Syria's warring parties for "substantive" talks Monday in Geneva aimed at ending the country's five-year conflict. He spoke Sunday with delegates from both the rebels and the Syrian government and plans for this round of peace talks to last about 10 days. But serious questions remain about what each side is prepared to accept in order to stop the fighting that has already killed more than a quarter of a...

Throngs of Brazilian Protesters Demand President's Ouster

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Brazilian police say some 3 million people across the country took to the streets Sunday demanding the ouster of President Dilma Rousseff. Protesters urged lawmakers to continue with ongoing impeachment proceedings against the president who finds herself embroiled in a corruption scandal and presiding over the country's worst recession in 25 years. Sergio Praca, a political analyst at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro said the demonstrations "were very...

Amtrak says train derails in Kansas - Reuters

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Amtrak says train derails in Kansas
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Amtrak's Southwest Chief train from Los Angeles to Chicago with 128 passengers and 14 crew suffered a derailment of multiple cars about 20 miles west of Dodge City, Kansas, Amtrak said in a statement on Monday. The train company said initial reports ...
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The Daily 202: Breitbart exodus highlights schism over Trump within conservative media - Washington Post

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The Daily 202: Breitbart exodus highlights schism over Trump within conservative media
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THE BIG IDEA: Breitbart News reporter Michelle Fields and editor-at-large Ben Shapiro resigned last night to protest how the conservative web site has handled the alleged assault on Fields by Donald Trump's campaign manager. “I don't think they took my ... 
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American ISIS Member Captured By Kurdish Forces - TIME

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American ISIS Member Captured By Kurdish Forces
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Russia ready to cooperate with US-led coalition in fight for Syria's Raqqa: Interfax

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is ready to coordinate its actions with the U.S.-led coalition in Syria to push the Islamic State group out of Raqqa, Interfax news agency quoted Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying.









  

Senior Saudi prince condemns Obama comments on Middle East

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RIYADH (Reuters) - A senior Saudi Arabian prince on Monday condemned comments attributed to U.S. President Barack Obama, saying the American leader had "thrown us a curve ball" in criticizing Riyadh's regional role.
  

Ukraine President sees Yaresko as possible PM: spokesman

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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko sees technocrat Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko and the head of the reformist Samopomich party as potential candidates for prime minister, spokesman Svyatoslav Tsegolko said on Monday.
  

Hundreds of migrants march out of Greek camp, seek way over border

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IDOMENI, Greece (Reuters) - Hundreds of migrants streamed out of a camp near the northern Greek border on Monday to try to find a way around a border fence blocking their way into Macedonia, a Reuters witness said.









  

UN-Mediated Syria Peace Talks Open In Geneva

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United Nations-mediated peace talks have started in Geneva between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime and representatives of Syrian opposition factions. 

Editorial: Mr. Netanyahu’s Lost Opportunities

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It’s hard to understand how showing disrespect to the president of the United States serves Israel’s interests.
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Op-Ed Columnist: The Trump-Berlusconi Syndrome

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Lessons from Italy on the rise of a showman in a time of anxiety.

Israeli hiker finds 'second of kind' coin

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An Israeli hiker has found an almost 2,000 year-old Roman coin that is only the second of its kind, authorities say.

29 people taken to hospitals after Kansas train derailment

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CIMARRON, Kan. (AP) -- At least 29 people have been taken to hospitals after an Amtrak passenger train derailed in rural southwest Kansas early Monday, authorities said....

Army top brass skirt punishment in fraud probe as lower ranks take blame 

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With the exception of only one general, the Army's top brass have escaped punishment in one of the service's largest criminal investigations into contract fraud.
The Army Criminal Investigation Command has scrutinized thousands of lower-level officers to track down millions of dollars paid in recruit-referral bonuses from 2005 to 2012. ...

29 people taken to hospitals after Kansas train derailment

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At least 29 people have been taken to hospitals after an Amtrak passenger train derailed in rural southwest Kansas early Monday, authorities said.
     

There is only 1 Trump, and he’s unfit to lead us

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A man who gains power by showing contempt for democracy and civil discourse is not going to develop a finer sensibility as he gains more power. The reverse is far more likely.
     
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As U.S. Passports For Domestic Flights Loom, IRS Can Now Revoke Passports 

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Soon, your state’s driver’s license may not be enough to get you through airport security. In fact, 26 states do not meet federal regulations.

Official: Islamic State militants accidentally blow themselves up in Afghanistan

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At least a dozen Islamic State militants accidentally blew themselves up in eastern Afghanistan Sunday during a botched operation to plant a bomb, a local official said.
     

How Russia and the west are both guilty of paranoid propaganda 

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Only propagandists and arms dealers benefit from the regular claims that everything is being ‘weaponised’ by the Kremlin
The current state of relations between Russia and the west is not a cold war – or at least not the Cold War 2.0. But it is characterised by a similar profound refusal on both sides not only to listen to the other’s arguments, but even to admit that any such arguments could exist.
The debasement of much public discussion of Russia does us a disservice
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U.S. officials unhappy with Russian plans to upgrade spy planes ... - Russia Beyond the Headlines

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The lavish lifestyles of the children of Russia's mega-rich - Russia Beyond the Headlines

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The lavish lifestyles of the children of Russia's mega-rich
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The economic crisis, the fall of the ruble and the sanctions have had a negative impact on the prosperity of most Russians. Most, but not all. The Rich Russian Kids Instagram account shows how the children of Russia's elite are enduring the crisis. The ...

The Briefing: The Battle Of Geneva

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Over the past six months, Russia has managed to reset and reshape the civil war in Syria. They've saved Bashar al-Assad, frustrating Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the West in the process.
And with peace talks beginning this week in Geneva, Moscow is seeking to secure its gains in the postwar settlement. 
On this week's Power Vertical Briefing, we look at the diplomatic battle ahead.
Joining me are RFE/RL senior editor Steve Gutterman and Pavel Butorin, managing editor of RFE/RL's Russian-language television program Current Time.
Also on The Briefing, we discuss this week's meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels, which will debate Russia policy. 
The Briefing: The Battle Of Geneva
NOTE: The Power Vertical Briefing is a short look ahead to the stories expected to make news in Russia in the coming week. It is hosted by Brian Whitmore, author of the Power Vertical blog, and appears every Monday.
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mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko sees technocrat Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko and the head of the reformist Samopomich party as potential candidates for prime mi...
» Hundreds of migrants march out of Greek camp, seek way over border
14/03/16 10:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. IDOMENI, Greece (Reuters) - Hundreds of migrants streamed out of a camp near the northern Greek border on Monday to try to find a way around a border fence blocking their way into Mace...
» UN-Mediated Syria Peace Talks Open In Geneva
14/03/16 10:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. United Nations-mediated peace talks have started in Geneva United Nations mediated peace talks are due to begin in Geneva on March 14 between Syrian President Bashar al-A...
» Editorial: Mr. Netanyahu’s Lost Opportunities
14/03/16 10:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. It’s hard to understand how showing disrespect to the president of the United States serves Israel’s interests.
» Op-Ed Columnist: The Trump-Berlusconi Syndrome
14/03/16 10:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Lessons from Italy on the rise of a showman in a time of anxiety.
» Israeli hiker finds 'second of kind' coin
14/03/16 10:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from BBC News - World. An Israeli hiker has found an almost 2,000 year-old Roman coin that is only the second of its kind, authorities say.
» 29 people taken to hospitals after Kansas train derailment
14/03/16 10:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top News at 9:37 a.m. EDT. CIMARRON, Kan. (AP) -- At least 29 people have been taken to hospitals after an Amtrak passenger train derailed in rural southwest Kansas early Monday, authorities said....
» Army top brass skirt punishment in fraud probe as lower ranks take blame
14/03/16 10:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from www.washingtontimes.com stories: Security. With the exception of only one general, the Army's top brass have escaped punishment in one of the service's largest criminal investigations into contract fraud. ...
» There is only 1 Trump, and he’s unfit to lead us
14/03/16 10:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes. A man who gains power by showing contempt for democracy and civil discourse is not going to develop a finer sensibility as he gains more power. The reverse is far more likely.
» As U.S. Passports For Domestic Flights Loom, IRS Can Now Revoke Passports
14/03/16 10:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from In Homeland Security. Soon, your state’s driver’s license may not be enough to get you through airport security. In fact, 26 states do not meet federal regulations.
» Official: Islamic State militants accidentally blow themselves up in Afghanistan
14/03/16 10:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes News. At least a dozen Islamic State militants accidentally blew themselves up in eastern Afghanistan Sunday during a botched operation to plant a bomb, a local official said.
» How Russia and the west are both guilty of paranoid propaganda
14/03/16 10:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia | The Guardian. Only propagandists and arms dealers benefit from the regular claims that everything is being ‘weaponised’ by the Kremlin The current state of relations between Russia and the west is...
» U.S. officials unhappy with Russian plans to upgrade spy planes ... - Russia Beyond the Headlines
14/03/16 10:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. International Business Times U.S. officials unhappy with Russian plans to upgrade spy planes ... Russia Beyond the Headlines Russia plans to enhance the surveillance technology it use...
» The lavish lifestyles of the children of Russia's mega-rich - Russia Beyond the Headlines
14/03/16 10:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. The lavish lifestyles of the children of Russia's mega-rich Russia Beyond the Headlines The economic crisis, the fall of the ruble and the sanctions have had a negative impact on the ...
» The Briefing: The Battle Of Geneva
14/03/16 09:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. O ver the past six months, Russia has managed to reset and reshape the civil war in Syria. They've saved Bashar al-Assad, frustrating Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the West i...
» In Defense of the Obama Doctrine
14/03/16 08:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Defense One - All Content. In October 2007 , Senator Barack Obama, then a struggling Democratic presidential candidate, stood before a few hundred students at DePaul University in Chicago and delivered a s...
» The Hidden Costs of Obama's Vision of American Power
14/03/16 08:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Defense One - All Content. It is a criticism I have heard from more than one person who has worked with President Obama: that he regards himself as the smartest person in the room—any room.  Jef...
» Maryland police: Officer shot, 2 suspects in custody
13/03/16 21:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top News at 8:55 p.m. EDT. CHEVERLY, Md. (AP) -- Two suspects were in custody after a police officer and another person were shot and wounded near a police station in a Maryland suburb of the nation&...
» The New Interventionists, Putin’s Surprises, and Why Change in Russia Is Not Possible
13/03/16 21:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Home - Institute of Modern Russia. In this week’s Western media highlights, Mark Leonard writes in Project Syndicate that the post-Cold War international order is being challenged at several fronts simulta...
» Australian journalists held in Malaysia - Gulf Today
13/03/16 20:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Australian journalists held in Malaysia Gulf Today KUALA LUMPUR: Two Australian journalists were detained overnight and have been barred from leaving Malaysia after they tried to “aggr...
» Egyptian justice minister fired after saying he would jail the Prophet Muhammad - Los Angeles Times
13/03/16 20:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Los Angeles Times Egyptian justice minister fired after saying he would jail the Prophet Muhammad Los Angeles Times Egypt's Justice Minister Ahmed al-Zind was removed from his position...
» VIDEO: Turkish capital hit by huge explosion
13/03/16 20:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from BBC News - World. A car bomb has killed at least 34 people and wounded more than a hundred, in the heart of the Turkish capital, Ankara.
» Can Saudi Arabia fight two wars at once?
13/03/16 20:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from BBC News - World. How is Saudi Arabia managing to fight two wars at once?
» In the Apple Case, a Debate Over Data Hits Home - New York Times
13/03/16 20:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from james b. comey - Google News. New York Times In the Apple Case, a Debate Over Data Hits Home New York Times For the F.B.I. and local law enforcement agencies, the fight has become a high-stakes struggle to...
» Despite low hopes, another attempt to end war in Syria
13/03/16 20:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes. Still looking far from ready to compromise, representatives from Syria's government and opposition arrived here Sunday ahead of another round of U.N.-backed negotiations to end their cat...
» Bomb Attack Kills at Least 34 in Ankara
13/03/16 20:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Defense News - Home. A car bomb attack Sunday evening in Ankara killed at least 34 and injured 125, including seven police officers, Turkish officials said.             
» In Russia, there's a whole week dedicated to pancakes - AOL News
13/03/16 20:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. AOL News In Russia , Russia, there's a whole week dedicated to pancakes - AOL AOL News ROSTOV-ON-DON, RUSSIA . RUSSIA. MARCH 13, 2016. A girl eating blini ( Russian (Russian pancakes)...
» Voters deliver a message for Germany’s Angela Merkel: No more migrants
13/03/16 20:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Europe. An upstart populist party scored big gains in local elections.
» Why Does Putin Surprise Us Again and Again?
13/03/16 20:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . March 7, 2016 People walk past a graffiti depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin seen on a residential building in Simferopol, Crimea, August 19, 2015. The sign on the graffiti reads "Ours." REUTERS/Pavel...
» Intolerant Left Shuts Down Trump Rally in Chicago
13/03/16 20:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from rss. A collection of intolerant leftist groups and individuals, including <a href="http://Moveon.org" rel="nofollow">Moveon.org</a>, Black Lives Matter, and even former Weather Underground terr...
» San Bernardino Attackers’ Friend Spoke of ‘Sleeper Cells’ Before Rampage
13/03/16 19:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The regulars did not take it seriously when Enrique Marquez mused about terrorism at Morgan’s Tavern, a dank dive bar where Mr. Marquez hauled ice, cleaned bathrooms and checke...
» U.S. Stays Off Battlefield, Yet Is Drawn Into Saudi War in Yemen
13/03/16 19:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Fighters loyal to the Saudi-backed Yemeni government celebrated after clashes with Houthi rebels and their allies in Taiz, Yemen, on Friday.
» 10 suspected cartel members killed in Mexico border city
13/03/16 19:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. At least 10 suspected criminals died in gunbattles with government forces Sunday during an anti-cartel operation in the city of Reynosa, which sits across the U.S. border from McAllen, Texas, Mexica...
» Putin's $50 Billion Oil Cache Gives Russia Luxury to Ignore ECB ... - Bloomberg
13/03/16 19:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Bloomberg Putin's $50 Billion Oil Cache Gives Russia Luxury to Ignore ECB ... Bloomberg Russian central bankers have fewer reasons to offer relief to their recession-wracked economy t...
» Walesa, Gorbachev and Freedom's End
13/03/16 19:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Russia. In Eastern Europe, even Nobel Peace Prize winners are unsafe from the forces of illiberalism.
» England Avenges World Cup Loss to Wales With Six Nations Win
13/03/16 18:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . England is the 2016 European Six Nations champion, but must win again in Paris next Saturday to take the biggest prize: the Grand Slam. England’s players won the title while watching their televisions o...
» The New Interventionists, Putin’s Surprises, and Why Change in Russia
13/03/16 18:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Institute of Modern Russia. The New Interventionists, Putin’s Surprises, and Why Change in Russia Is Not Possible 5 – 11 March 11 March 2016 In this week’s Western media highlights, Mark Leonard writes in ...
» Review: ‘Iolanta’ and ‘The Nutcracker,’ Reunited Naturalistically at the Paris Opera
13/03/16 18:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. Dmitri Tcherniakov’s production reconstructs these two tales of a female heroine’s awakening, while stripping “The Nutcracker” of its sugarplum sweetness.
» Mass anti-president protests in Brazil
13/03/16 18:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from BBC News - World. Huge crowds of protesters march through Brazil's cities calling for President Dilma Rousseff to resign over her alleged mishandling of the economy.
» Ankara blast: Turkish court 'blocks Twitter and Facebook' after explosion
13/03/16 18:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news. After the attack kills 34 people and images from the explosion are widely shared, a court orders social media sites to be blocked, say local users
» Egypt minister sacked for Prophet remark
13/03/16 18:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from BBC News - World. Egypt's Justice Minister Ahmed al-Zind is sacked after boasting that he would jail Islam's Prophet Mohammad himself if the prophet broke the law.
» Rising Anger in Brazil Spills Into Streets
13/03/16 18:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Demonstrators in São Paulo, Brazil, on Sunday called for the resignation of President Dilma Rousseff amid an economic crisis and corruption scandals.
» USAF Acknowledges Expanded Risk of Neck Damage to F-35 Pilots
13/03/16 18:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Defense News - Home. In the latest hurdle for the Pentagon's F-35 joint strike fighter, testers this summer discovered that a lightweight pilot's neck could snap during a low-speed ejection.     ...
» TO VISITORS OF WINDOWS ON EURASIA
13/03/16 18:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Window on Eurasia -- New Series. I am happy to report that my heart surgery was successful and that I am recovering well. I hope to return to the production of Windows sometime later this week. Many thanks...
» Syria accused of 'disrupting' peace talks over Bashar al-Assad 'red line'
13/03/16 18:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Independent - Europe. John Kerry warns Damascus against trying to 'act as a spoiler' with the role of Syria's President still a major stumbling block
» Officer shot outside of police headquarters in Md. - CBS News
13/03/16 18:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. BNO News Officer shot outside of police headquarters in Md. CBS News PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, Md. -- A police officer was shot in Maryland outside of the Prince George County's Po...
» Bomb in Turkish capital kills more than two dozen
13/03/16 18:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. The second major bombing in a month heightened fears that Turkey's wars are spreading.
» Official: Turkish police believe Kurdish militants carried out Ankara suicide bombing
13/03/16 18:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. Official: Turkish police believe Kurdish militants carried out Ankara suicide bombing.
» February smashes global temperature record, says Nasa
13/03/16 17:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news. Nasa announces February exceded historical average temperatures by more than any month in history, making it the third consecutive month to break the record
» German state elections: What does it mean for Angela Merkel and how important are the results?
13/03/16 17:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news. After the exit polls suggest Mrs Merkel's party will lose two states, the German chancellor faces a rocky road as her party fears the impact of her refugee policy
» Brazil rallies call for president Rousseff’s impeachment - video
13/03/16 17:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news + Video | The Guardian. Crowds gather in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Sunday to protest against the government and demand the removal of president Dilma Rousseff. Chants of “Fora Dilma!” [Dilma Ou...
» Obama tells Cuban dissidents he will discuss rights with Castro
13/03/16 17:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. HAVANA (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama promised one of Cuba's most prominent dissident groups he would raise the issues of freedom of speech and assembly with Cuban President R...
» Why This Recent Piece of ISIS Intelligence Stands Out
13/03/16 17:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World – TIME. Two bonanzas surfaced in the war against the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) last week, although placing them in proper perspective proved daunting. You wouldn’t have gle...
» Turkey’s health minister says death toll in Ankara blast rises to 34
13/03/16 17:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. Turkey’s health minister says death toll in Ankara blast rises to 34.
» Turkey’s interior minister confirms car bomb targeted civilians at a bus stop in Ankara
13/03/16 17:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. Turkey’s interior minister confirms car bomb targeted civilians at a bus stop in Ankara.
» Violent weekend leaves 10 dead in Puerto Rico
13/03/16 17:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. A police spokesman in Puerto Rico says a man has been shot to death outside a fast food restaurant, bringing to 10 the number of people killed during a violent weekend in the U.S. territory.
» Reports: Explosion in Turkish capital
13/03/16 17:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from CNN's YouTube Videos. From: CNN Duration: 03:30 Turkish media is reporting an explosion occurred in the country's capital of Ankara.
» Ankara blast: Immediate aftermath of Guven Park explosion
13/03/16 17:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from RussiaToday's YouTube Videos. From: RussiaToday Duration: 01:50 An explosion hit the center of Ankara on Sunday evening, with a number of people reportedly killed and wounded. The blast appeared to be ...
» Can Donald Trump unify a Republican Party he fractured?
13/03/16 17:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from FoxNewsChannel's YouTube Videos. From: FoxNewsChannel Duration: 14:45 The Republican presidential frontrunner responds on 'Fox News Sunday'
» AP Top Stories 13 P
13/03/16 17:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AssociatedPress's YouTube Videos. From: AssociatedPress Duration: 01:02 Here are the top stories for Sunday, March 13th: French air investigators release details in Germanwings crash; Trump fires back ...
» Chaos erupts at Donald Trump rally in Chicago - YouTube
13/03/16 17:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Published on Mar 11, 2016 Chaos breaks out at a Donald Trump rally between protesters and supporters. CNN's Jim Acosta reports.
» Donald Trump Has Close Call in Dayton, Secret Service Steps in to Protect - YouTube
13/03/16 17:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Published on Mar 12, 2016 Saturday, March 12, 2016: At a Donald Trump for President rally in Dayton, OH, the U.S. Secret Service had to step in to protect Mr. Trump after a scare from a protester. Donald Trum...
» Attempted attack on Donald Trump at Dayton Ohio March 12, 2016 - YouTube
13/03/16 17:33 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Published on Mar 12, 2016 And attempted attack on Donald Trump during rally at hanger at Dayton international airport. To use this video in broadcast or in a media player contact <a href="mailto:licensing@...
» From ‘welcome’ to ‘enough’ — Europe’s migrant view shifts
13/03/16 16:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. Last fall, soccer fans celebrated refugee children at a legendary Munich stadium; today, European voters are boosting anti-immigrant political parties and governments are closing their gates to new ...
» Blast Rocks Turkish Capital, Killing Dozens
13/03/16 16:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from VOAvideo's YouTube Videos. From: VOAvideo Duration: 00:28 Officials said the blast occurred on Kizilay square, a key shopping and transportation hub near foreign embassies Originally published at - htt...
» Only Islamic State gains as powers bicker over Syria, UN envoy warns
13/03/16 16:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news. "Everybody is starting to get more concerned that the only one taking advantage of the war is Daesh," says Staffan de Mistura ahead of peace talks
» GOP hopeful Donald Trump stands by his campaign rhetoric - Washington Post
13/03/16 16:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Washington Post GOP hopeful Donald Trump stands by his campaign rhetoric Washington Post BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — Showing no signs of trying to ease the nation's tense political atmos...
» Egypt minister fired after comments about Prophet Muhammad
13/03/16 16:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. Egypt’s government spokesman says the prime minister has fired the justice minister, two days after he said on TV he would even imprison the Prophet Muhammad if he committed a crime.
» Saudi Arabia says it will punish anyone linked to Hezbollah
13/03/16 16:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said on Sunday it would punish anyone who belongs to Lebanon's Iran-backed Shi'ite Islamist group Hezbollah, sympathises with it, supports it financially...
» Syria's warring parties return to Geneva to talk peace, but hopes are low
13/03/16 16:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. The U.S. is frustrated with Russia's inability to stop Syrian government attacks.
» From 'welcome' to 'enough' _ Europe's migrant view shifts
13/03/16 16:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top News at 4:24 p.m. EDT. PARIS (AP) -- Last fall, soccer fans celebrated refugee children at a legendary Munich stadium; today, European voters are boosting anti-immigrant political parties and govern...
» Ten suspected gang members killed in gunfight in northeast Mexico
13/03/16 16:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - At least 10 suspected gang members were killed on Sunday in an early morning firefight with federal security forces in the dangerous northeastern Mexican city o...
» China-Pak economic corridor - Chandigarh Tribune
13/03/16 16:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. Chandigarh Tribune China -Pak economic corridor Chandigarh Tribune When China signed the boundary agreement with Pakistan in 1963, the objective given in its Article 1 was to '...
» Death toll rises to 33 in car bomb blast in central Ankara
13/03/16 16:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from DEBKAFile. March 13, 2016, 10:02 PM (IDT) A car bomb explosion Sunday at the Guvenpark near the Turkish Education Ministry in central Ankara caused at least 33 fatalities and dozens injured.  Man...
» Turkish government 'blocks Twitter and Facebook' as part of alleged media ban following Ankara blast
13/03/16 16:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Independent - Europe. The alleged move comes just a week after the state take-over of the Zaman newspaper
» France Says Iran Risks EU Sanctions Over Missile Tests
13/03/16 16:33 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. France has warned that Tehran could face European Union sanctions over the ballistic-missile tests conducted by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps last week.
» Election Drubbing For Merkel Over Refugees
13/03/16 15:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky News. The state polls are the largest since the German leader opened the country's doors to more than a million migrants.
» Russia Accuses Turkey Of Operating 'Inside Syria'
13/03/16 15:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Russia has accused Turkey of deploying troops "a few hundred meters from the border inside Syria" to prevent Kurdish groups in northern Syria from consolidating their pos...
» Car bomb in Turkey's capital kills at least 27, wounds 75
13/03/16 15:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top News at 3:11 p.m. EDT. ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- A car bombing in Turkey&apos;s capital has killed at least 27 people and wounded around 75 others on Sunday, officials said....
» Turkey explosion video: Dramatic CCTV shows moment 'car bomb' goes off in Ankara
13/03/16 15:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Independent - Europe. Witnesses in Ankara described seeing a huge explosion seen next to the main bus station
» Russia and the US now have the power to impose peace in Syria - The Guardian
13/03/16 15:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. The Guardian Russia and the US now have the power to impose peace in Syria The Guardian The conference, like the current ceasefire, which began on 27 February, is taking place because...
» Russia and the US now have the power to impose peace in Syria | Charles Glass
13/03/16 15:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia | The Guardian. The previous two rounds of Geneva talks failed. But today, with President Assad’s position no longer in question, they can bear fruit It was scheduled to start over a week ago. Then ...
» Deadly Blast Rocks Turkish Capital
13/03/16 15:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Turkish officials say at least 27 people were killed in a powerful explosion that occurred in the evening on March 13 in the capital, Ankara.
» Israel demands world powers punish Iran for missile tests
13/03/16 15:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from www.washingtontimes.com stories: Security. JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel is calling on world powers to punish Iran for its recent test-firing of ballistic missiles. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel ...
» France: Iran sanctions possible over missile tests
13/03/16 15:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from www.washingtontimes.com stories: Security. PARIS (AP) - France's foreign minister has raised the possibility of European sanctions against Iran after the country test-fired two ballistic missiles last week...
» Where is Islam’s Martin Luther?
13/03/16 15:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Washington Free Beacon. Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Heretic , now out in paperback, is a provocative and ambitious book that aims to reform the second largest religion in the world. Hirsi Ali, a Somali born, Dutch r...
» Intelligence report: 4 not-so-rosy scenarios for the world
13/03/16 15:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes. As a part of its new report on global trends, the National Intelligence Council developed four not-so-rosy scenarios that could become reality given major stresses the world faces during...
» Trump rally sparks extraordinary stretch in Republican race
13/03/16 15:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes. In a Republican presidential primary filled with extraordinary moments, a 24-hour stretch that began Friday night stands above them all.
» Who’s to blame for Trump’s rise? Everybody
13/03/16 15:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes. I am not saying that Trump is going to be the next president of the United States. I am out of the prediction business. I am in the warning business.
» Serbia: US-bound combat missiles found on passenger flight
13/03/16 15:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes. Serbia's authorities are investigating reports that a cargo package bound for the U.S. containing two missiles with explosive warheads was found on a passenger flight from Lebanon to Ser...
» Apple, FBI in encryption debate - State of the State KS (subscription)
13/03/16 15:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from james b. comey - Google News. Apple, FBI in encryption debate State of the State KS (subscription) With those two conflicting rulings in mind, Congress needs to get involved to address the broader collisio...
» Apple vs. FBI iPhone case: Edward Snowden explains how FBI can ...
13/03/16 15:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi aclu report - Google Blog Search. The method is described in a post on the American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ) site, which claims that FBI's stance on this particular matter is a lie. The Bureau is...
» Why the iPhone the FBI Wants to Crack Likely Has No Crucial Data ... - Fortune
13/03/16 15:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi - Google News. Fortune Why the iPhone the FBI Wants to Crack Likely Has No Crucial Data ... Fortune Should Apple still help the FBI unlock the iPhone used by San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook if it is...
» FBI, Apple ratchet up rhetoric - The Hill
13/03/16 15:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi - Google News. The Hill FBI , Apple ratchet up rhetoric The Hill Apple and law enforcement officials are ratcheting up the tone in their legal battle over a locked terrorist's iPhone, with both sides p...
» Why Apple is right to resist the FBI - TechCrunch
13/03/16 15:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi - Google News. TechCrunch Why Apple is right to resist the FBI TechCrunch The FBI wants Apple to do something no private company has ever been forced to do: break its own technology. Specifically, the ...
» Britain Sends More Troops To Train Iraqis Fighting ISIS
13/03/16 15:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Defense News - Home. Britain said Saturday it was sending more troops to Iraq to bolster its mission training up the armed forces taking on the Islamic State jihadist group.         ...
» Russia’s Military Capabilities
13/03/16 15:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Defense News - Home. Phillip Karber, the president of The Potomac Foundation, discusses Russia’s formidable new generation war capabilities.             
» Next Generation Cyber Security Operations Center - Forbes
13/03/16 15:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. Forbes Next Generation Cyber Security Operations Center Forbes This post is written with Troels Oerting (@TroelsOerting), Group Chief Information Security and Trust Officer at ...
» Wise Co airport renamed for captured CIA agent Powers | News ... - WCYB
13/03/16 15:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from cia - Google News. WCYB Wise Co airport renamed for captured CIA agent Powers | News ... WCYB A Wise County airport has a new name honoring a Tri-Cities hero. The Lonesome Pine Airport is now the home of t...
» M of A - Syria: Another CIA Supplied Group Hands Its Weapons To ...
13/03/16 15:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from cia - Google Blog Search. While Nusra and Ahrar have support from Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the "moderates" are supported by the CIA which provides them with anti-tank weapons. When in 2013...
» Donald Trump fans flames over violence at his campaign rallies
13/03/16 15:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news. Republican front-runner says he may pay legal fees for man who threw sucker punch at his rally, and threatens to send supporters to disupt Bernie Sanders events
» Brazil protests seen as key test for Pres. Rousseff
13/03/16 15:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. Brazilians took to the streets on Sunday for a day of nationwide protests against embattled President Dilma Rousseff that’s widely seen as a key test of her ability to weather the political and econ...
» The Latest: At least 27 killed in Ankara blast; 75 wounded
13/03/16 15:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. The Latest on an explosion in Turkey’s capital, Ankara (all times local):
» Ankara governor’s office says at least 27 killed in explosion
13/03/16 15:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. Ankara governor’s office says at least 27 killed in explosion .
» Explosion in Turkish Capital Kills at Least 27, Officials Say
13/03/16 15:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. The blast was believed to have been caused by a car bomb and came three weeks after a deadly bombing on a military convoy in the same city, Ankara.
» Investigators study dynamics of deadly Italy avalanche
13/03/16 15:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. Relatives of six backcountry skiers who were killed in an avalanche in the Italian Alps have paid their final respects as investigators piece together how such a huge block of snow could have dislod...
» For Donald Trump, protests create a short-term benefit and a long-term threat - Los Angeles Times
13/03/16 15:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Los Angeles Times For Donald Trump, protests create a short-term benefit and a long-term threat Los Angeles Times A flammable brew of populist anger, a candidate's provocative re...
» The Racist Backlash Against Barack Obama Is What Brought Us Donald Trump - Slate Magazine
13/03/16 15:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Slate Magazine The Racist Backlash Against Barack Obama Is What Brought Us Donald Trump Slate Magazine It's not just anger over jobs and immigration. White voters hope Trump will resto...
» Belarus Detains Prominent Businessman Once Close To President
13/03/16 15:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Belarusian authorities have detained prominent businessman Yury Chizh on suspicion of large-scale tax evasion.
» U.S., France say Syrian government trying to spoil peace talks
13/03/16 15:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. PARIS (Reuters) - The United States and France said on Sunday that comments by Syrian government officials ahead of a new round of peace talks were a provocation and Russia and Iran wo...
» Who is the man Europe's giving €6 billion to handle the refugee crisis?
13/03/16 15:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news. After 12 years of dominating Turkish politics, Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues his sweeping campaign against journalists, academics and bloggers - yet Europe continues to work with Ankara
» Syria under pressure ahead of talks
13/03/16 15:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from BBC News - World. The US and France condemn efforts by the Syrian government to set limits to the agenda of a new round of peace talks due to start on Monday.
» The Latest: Trump outside Chicago arrives to calmer crowd - Washington Post
13/03/16 15:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Washington Post The Latest: Trump outside Chicago arrives to calmer crowd Washington Post WASHINGTON — The Latest on the 2016 presidential race two days before critical contests ...
» Man arrested at Trump rally told police act was preplanned
13/03/16 14:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top News at 2:00 p.m. EDT. CLEVELAND (AP) -- A man arrested after trying to jump on the stage at Republican Donald Trump&apos;s campaign rally in Dayton reportedly told police he planned to grab the...
» Egypt's justice minister to step down after comments criticized as blasphemous
13/03/16 14:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's justice minister was asked to resign by the prime minister on Sunday, judicial sources said, after being criticized for saying he would jail Islam's Prophet M...
» Avalanche in Italian Alps Kills 6 People
13/03/16 14:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World – TIME. At least six people were killed and another was injured Saturday in an avalanche in the Italian Alps . A group of more than a dozen people were climbing at nearly 10,000-feet altitude when a ...
» Explosion in central Ankara
13/03/16 14:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from BBC News - World. An explosion has been heard in the Kizilay neighbourhood of the Turkish capital Ankara, with reports of injuries.
» Egypt media says it’s facing a European-Islamist conspiracy
13/03/16 14:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. Some Egyptian media and lawmakers are accusing the Muslim Brotherhood of bribing European Parliament members to adopt a resolution stating a “grave concern” that Egyptian authorities might be culpri...
» Explosion kills and wounds people in central Ankara, official says
13/03/16 14:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. ANKARA (Reuters) - An explosion rocked the Turkish capital of Ankara on Sunday, killing and wounding an unknown number of people, a senior security official said.
» Large Explosion Heard in Turkish Capital Ankara
13/03/16 14:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World – TIME. (ANKARA, Turkey) — A News reports say a large explosion in Turkey’s capital, believed to have been caused by a bomb, the capital Ankara has caused several casualties on Sunday, according to n...
» Blast Rocks Turkish Capital
13/03/16 14:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. A large explosion has been reported in Turkey's capital, Ankara. News reports say there have been casualties. The blast comes less than a month after a car bomb attack in the capital kill...
» Belarus arrests one of its wealthiest businessmen
13/03/16 14:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. Belarusian security services have announced the arrest of one of the country’s wealthiest businessman on suspicion of large-scale tax evasion.
» Syria talks set to struggle despite foreign pressure
13/03/16 14:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. BEIRUT/GENEVA (Reuters) - Syria peace talks due to begin in Geneva this week look set to struggle with the sides showing no sign of compromise over the issue at the heart of the five-y...
» Europe's Turkey Deal Takes Aim at Migrant Smugglers
13/03/16 14:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. The proposed migrant deal with Turkey marks the first serious attempt by the EU to destroy the people-smuggler’s business model, but its success faces big hurdles, Simon Nixon writes.
» Brazil Protesters Demand President's Removal
13/03/16 14:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky News. Demonstrators depicting Brazil's former President Lula da Silva and Brazil's President Rousseff attend a protest against Rousseff, part of...
» Kremlin calling? Meet the Russian pranksters who say 'Elton owes us'
13/03/16 13:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia | The Guardian. Duo who prank-called many influential critics of Russia deny links to its security services … but would they spoof Putin? Lexus and Vovan are fast gaining a reputation as the most mi...
» Lebanon Unveils Temporary Trash Crisis Solution
13/03/16 13:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Facing renewed protests over its months-long trash crisis, the Lebanese government on Saturday approved an emergency plan to open three landfills near Beirut. Information Minister Ramzi J...
» Kerry To Meet European Ministers In Paris Ahead Of Syria Talks
13/03/16 13:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. U.S.Secretary of State John Kerry was due to meet in Paris on March 13 with the foreign ministers of France, Britain, Italy, and Germany – along with EU foreign policy ch...
» Day 754: 2 Ukrainian Soldiers Killed in Battle with Russian-Backed Militants; Visitors Say Savchenko’s Health Improves
13/03/16 12:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Interpreter. LIVE UPDATES BELOW. Yesterday’s live coverage of the Ukraine conflict can be found here . READ OUR SPECIAL REPORT: An Invasion By Any Other Name: The Kremlin’s Dirty War in Ukraine &...
» Пушков назвал Обаму «утомленным солнцем» после интервью The Atlantic - Lenta.ru
13/03/16 12:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Lenta.ru Пушков назвал Обаму «утомленным солнцем» после интервью The Atlantic Lenta.ru Глава комитета Госдумы России по международным делам Алексей Пушков охарактеризовал президент...
» Саакашвили рассказал, чего боится Яценюк - РИА Новости
13/03/16 12:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. РИА Новости Саакашвили рассказал, чего боится Яценюк РИА Новости Премьер-министр Украины не справился со своей работой и потерял доверие граждан страны. Теперь для Арсения Яценюка ...
» Russian Wikipedia shut down to protest censorship bill
13/03/16 12:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Europe. A proposed bill would create an Internet blacklist in Russia
» Власти США объяснили посмертную запись о выезде Лесина из страны - BBC Russian
13/03/16 12:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. BBC Russian Власти США объяснили посмертную запись о выезде Лесина из страны BBC Russian Служба таможенной и пограничной охраны США (CBP) объяснила появление учетной записи о выезд...
» Migration Hangs Over German Elections
13/03/16 12:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. As three states vote, the ascendance of a far-right party points to the strains from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s policy of accepting refugees.
» Iran Has No Plans To Join Russia-Saudi Oil Freeze Deal
13/03/16 12:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Iran has said it has no plans to freeze its oil production, in a blow to a deal reached last month between Russia and Saudi Arabia to curb falling global oil prices.
» Al-Nusra Clashes With Syrian Rebels, Capturing Bases
13/03/16 12:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, the Al-Nusra Front, has seized bases and weapons from a Western-backed rebel group in fighting in northwestern Syria.
» Syria: President Assad's Ouster Is 'Red Line'
13/03/16 12:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with his British, French, German and Italian counterparts Sunday in Paris about the Syria crisis, a day before the U.N.-sponsored Syrian peace talks...
» Касьянов получил от ФСБ ответ на жалобу по поводу «экстремистского» видеоролика Кадырова - Росбалт.RU
13/03/16 12:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Росбалт.RU Касьянов получил от ФСБ ответ на жалобу по поводу «экстремистского» видеоролика Кадырова Росбалт.RU Экс-глава правительства РФ, председатель оппозиционной партии ПАРНАС ...
» Mikhail Lesin death: Vladimir Putin's propaganda chief reportedly flew out of LA 40 days after his death
13/03/16 12:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Independent - Europe. Alexei Navalny says the incident 'smells of a witness protection programme'
» Russia claims Turkish troops are on Syrian soil - Al-Arabiya
13/03/16 12:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Al-Arabiya Russia claims Turkish troops are on Syrian soil Al-Arabiya Russia has evidence that the Turkish army is on Syrian territory, Russian news agency Interfax reported the Kreml...
» Iran Rejects Russia-Saudi Oil Freeze Proposal - RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
13/03/16 12:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty Iran Rejects Russia -Saudi Oil Freeze Proposal RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty Iran has said it will not freeze its oil production, a blow to a proposal by R...
» Afghan Insurgent Group Says It Is Ready for Peace Talks
13/03/16 12:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. An insurgent group fighting alongside Afghanistan’s Taliban has said it is ready to join political reconciliation talks with the Kabul government, despite being deeply skeptical about pea...
» Lavrov: Russia has evidence Turkish troops on Syrian territory - Jerusalem Post Israel News
13/03/16 12:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. CBS News Lavrov: Russia has evidence Turkish troops on Syrian territory Jerusalem Post Israel News MOSCOW - Russia has evidence that Turkish armed forces are on Syrian territory, Russ...
» Russia has evidence Turkish troops on Syrian territory: Lavrov - Yahoo News
13/03/16 12:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Sputnik International Russia has evidence Turkish troops on Syrian territory: Lavrov Yahoo News MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has evidence that Turkish armed forces are on Syrian territor...
» Russia claims Turkish troops entrenched in Syria - CBS News
13/03/16 12:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. CBS News Russia claims Turkish troops entrenched in Syria CBS News ANKARA, Turkey - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Russia has information that Turkey's military is entren...
» Russia says cessation of hostilities in Syria violated 29 times in past 24 hours - TODAYonline
13/03/16 12:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Russia says cessation of hostilities in Syria violated 29 times in past 24 hours TODAYonline MOSCOW - Russia's Defence Ministry said on Sunday a cessation of hostilities in Syria had ...
» Disinformation Warfare: US Officials Working to Keep Russia, Europe at Odds - Sputnik International
13/03/16 12:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Sputnik International Disinformation Warfare: US Officials Working to Keep Russia , Europe at Odds Sputnik International NATO Supreme Allied Commander Philip Breedlove recently took U...
» Лавров заявил об «окапывании» турецких солдат на сирийской территории - РБК
13/03/16 11:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. РБК Лавров заявил об «окапывании» турецких солдат на сирийской территории РБК Турецкие солдаты «окапываются» на сирийской территории. Об этом в интервью телеканалу «РЕН ТВ» рассказ...
» Endangered Przewalski's Horses Back On Russian Steppe
13/03/16 11:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Conservationists in Russia say a small herd of endangered Przewalski's horses recently reintroduced in the Urals are enduring well their first winter in their new habitat...
» Адвокат депутата Резника обжаловал решение суда Испании о его розыске - Интерфакс
13/03/16 11:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Интерфакс Адвокат депутата Резника обжаловал решение суда Испании о его розыске Интерфакс Москва. 13 марта. INTERFAX.RU - Защита депутата Госдумы от "Единой России" Влади...
» Libya's unity government claims power
12/03/16 19:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from BBC News - World. Libya's UN-backed Presidential Council, in Tunis, calls on the international community to stop dealing with any rival powers within Libya.
» Merkel defends migrant stance in last push before ‘Super Sunday’ elections
12/03/16 19:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. The vote represents the German chancellor’s first electoral test of her refugee policy.
» Death of former Putin aide: conspiracy theories abound back home ...
12/03/16 19:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from world news - Google Blog Search. “Everything gets stranger and stranger,” Alexei Venediktov, the editor-in-chief of Ekho Moskvy radio wrote on Twitter about the news that Lesin had died of a bl...
» What Does Trump Mean for the G.O.P.? | Election 2016 | The New York Times
12/03/16 18:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TheNewYorkTimes's YouTube Videos. From: TheNewYorkTimes Duration: 03:39 Republican voters we interviewed over the past six months expressed elation, frustration, happiness and fear over the impact one ...
» Obama to visit London in bid to keep UK in the EU: report
12/03/16 18:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will come to London in April and urge British voters to back continued membership of the European Union, The Independent on Sunday newspa...
» US to Blame Iran for Cyber Attack on Small NY Dam - Fortune
12/03/16 18:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. Fortune US to Blame Iran for Cyber Attack on Small NY Dam Fortune The Obama administration is planning to publicly blame Iranian hackers for a 2013 cyber attack against a small...
» Corporate Sponsors Aim for Gold in 2016 Olympic Games
12/03/16 18:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Behind the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is another competitive sport: the olympics of marketing. Come August, international corporate sponsors will have just 17 days to...
» Torrential rains lead to unusually strong flooding in Louisiana and Mississippi - Washington Post
12/03/16 18:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Washington Post Torrential rains lead to unusually strong flooding in Louisiana and Mississippi Washington Post HATTIESBURG, Miss. — As the Leaf River rose north of Hattiesburg, ...
» Venezuela opposition launches protests
12/03/16 18:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from BBC News - World. Venezuela's opposition hold a day of nationwide protests at the start of a campaign to force President Nicolas Maduro from office.
» The Latest: 2nd escaped New Mexico inmate in custody - Lexington Herald Leader
12/03/16 18:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. CBS News The Latest: 2nd escaped New Mexico inmate in custody Lexington Herald Leader Authorities stop motorists on U.S. 285 between Roswell and Artesia, N.M., as part of the hun...
» Libya's Presidential Council calls for transfer of power to unity government
12/03/16 17:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. TUNIS (Reuters) - Libya's U.N.-backed Presidential Council called on Saturday on the country's institutions to begin a transfer of authority to a unity government, and appealed to the ...
» Report: Islamic State Forcing Enslaved Women To Use Birth Control
12/03/16 17:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The New York Times is reporting that Islamic State radicals are using contraception to ensure enslaved women do not become pregnant and can be passed among its fighters a...
» Greece Struggling To Move Thousands Of Migrants From Muddy Tent City
12/03/16 17:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Greece is struggling to move thousands of migrants trapped near the border with Macedonia, as an outbreak of Hepatitis A threatened a large-scale health crisis.
» ISIS is accused of chemical attack in Iraq that wounds hundreds, kills child
12/03/16 17:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. BAGHDAD — The Islamic State launched two chemical attacks this week near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, killing a toddler, wounding some 600 people and causing hundreds more to flee, Iraqi offic...
» How the Syrian revolt went so horribly, tragically wrong
12/03/16 17:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. Five years on, calls for peaceful change have been eclipsed by war, death and persecution both by the government and extremists.
» Signs of Hope Five Years After Start of Syria's War - New York Times
12/03/16 16:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. The Nation Signs of Hope Five Years After Start of Syria's War New York Times The cease-fire has brought new protests. Demonstrators shouted slogans against the government on Fri...
» Secret Service briefly surrounds Trump at Dayton rally
12/03/16 16:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top News at 3:14 p.m. EST. VANDALIA, Ohio (AP) -- Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump was briefly surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents on stage at a campaign rally in Ohio on Saturday,...
» Iraqi Officials: IS Launched Chemical Attacks Kill Child, Wound 600
12/03/16 16:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. The Islamic State group has launched two chemical attacks near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, killing a three-year-old girl, wounding 600 people and causing hundreds more to flee, Ira...
» 1 dead, 2 missing after tugboat crash on Hudson River
12/03/16 16:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top News at 3:14 p.m. EST. NEW YORK (AP) -- A tugboat crashed into a barge on the Hudson River north of New York City early Saturday, killing one crew member and leaving two missing....
» Secret Islamic State Files: 64 With Links To UK
12/03/16 16:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky News. Several Britons have been connected to IS training camps in Syria - including two young, married fathers from Manchester.
» Chicago violence overshadows Republican race as rivals vie to stop Donald Trump
12/03/16 16:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news. Opponents accuse front-runner of stoking tensions with an uncompromising message that exploits racial tensions ahead of crucial votes on Tuesday
» Obama warns against US campaign anger
12/03/16 16:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from BBC News - World. President Barack Obama warns White House contenders to avoid fanning tensions, a day after a Donald Trump rally was called off amid clashes.
» Trump Shaken As Protester Tries To Storm Stage
12/03/16 16:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky News. Security guards swarm around the billionaire as he addresses supporters in Ohio, but his critics say he only has himself to blame.
» Israel calls on powers to punish Iran for its missile tests
12/03/16 16:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday called for world powers to take "immediate punitive steps" against Iran, following its ballistic missile tes...
» Opinion: How Saudi Arabia Turned Its Greatest Weapon on Itself
12/03/16 16:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. For decades, the kingdom used oil prices to wage economic war on its enemies. Now it’s the big casualty.
» Op-Ed Columnist: Where the Soldiers Are Scarier Than the Crocodiles
12/03/16 16:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. A South Sudanese boy fishing in the swamps of an island where his family took refuge when their village was attacked.
» Protester tries to storm stage at Donald Trump rally
12/03/16 16:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news. Secret service agents leap to the rescue as campaign comes under intense scrutiny over angry rhetoric and violence
» Cruz says he would support Trump as GOP nominee
12/03/16 16:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes News. Sen. Ted Cruz said he will support Donald Trump if is he the Republican nominee for president, despite stating that the businessman's campaign "affirmatively encourages violence" an...
» Syrian Firms Take Refuge Abroad---and Create Jobs
12/03/16 14:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey see some economic rewards from being on the receiving end of Syria’s capital flight and brain drain.
» Protests Grow Against Brazilian President
12/03/16 14:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. Following spontaneous outbursts over the faltering economy and alleged corruption, groups are planning marches nationwide on Sunday against the government.
» Italian police: 6 dead in avalanche in Italian Alps
12/03/16 14:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. Authorities say six backcountry skiers have died in an avalanche on Monte Nevoso in the Italian Alps.
» ISIS Chemical Attacks Wound 600, Iraqi Officials Say
12/03/16 14:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World – TIME. (BAGHDAD) — Iraqi officials say the Islamic State group has launched two chemical attacks, killing a three-year-old girl and wounding some 600 people near the northern city of Kirkuk. S...
» Donald Trump rally cancellation triggers protests and chaos - video
12/03/16 14:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news + Video | The Guardian. Demonstrators and supporters of Donald Trump clash in the streets of Chicago after the Republican presidential candidate cancelled a rally on Friday citing safety concern...
» Donald Trump cancels Chicago rally amid protests - live
12/03/16 14:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news. Republican candidate makes decision due to security reasons after meeting with police
» Turkey Is 'Sliding Backwards,' Says Top Turkish Novelist - Huffington Post
12/03/16 14:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Huffington Post Turkey Is 'Sliding Backwards,' Says Top Turkish Novelist Huffington Post "We have become a society of anger, paranoia [and] intimidation. And artists, writers, academic...
» Dead ex-Russian press minister may have been attacked outside hotel: source
12/03/16 14:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Police are investigating whether former Russian Press Minister Mikhail Lesin, who was found dead in a Washington hotel in November, was brutally assaulted before...
» Man dead after tugboat, barge collide on Hudson River
12/03/16 13:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top News at 12:58 p.m. EST. NEW YORK (AP) -- One person is dead and two more are missing after authorities say a tugboat overturned and sunk on New York&apos;s Hudson River following a collision wit...
» North Korea warns of pre-emptive strikes against the South
12/03/16 13:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes. North Korea said Saturday its military is ready to pre-emptively attack and "liberate" the South in its latest outburst against the annual joint military drills by the United States and ...
» Influx of Puerto Ricans could be game changer in Florida, country’s biggest swing state
12/03/16 13:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes. The surging Puerto Rican electorate, a swing demographic in the nation’s quintessential swing state, supported Barack Obama for president but backed Charlie Crist for governor when he wa...
» To Maintain Supply of Sex Slaves, ISIS Pushes Birth Control
12/03/16 13:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Modern methods allow the Islamic State to keep up its systematic rape of captives under medieval codes.
» Here's What Obama Said at SXSW About Apple vs. FBI - Fortune
12/03/16 13:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi - Google News. Fortune Here's What Obama Said at SXSW About Apple vs. FBI Fortune “So the question now becomes, we as a society, setting aside the specific case between the FBI and Apple, setting aside...
» Source: Members Of Congress Dismayed By FBI Director's Lack Of Tech Knowledge - Fast Company
12/03/16 13:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi - Google News. Source: Members Of Congress Dismayed By FBI Director's Lack Of Tech Knowledge Fast Company Members of the House Judiciary Committee were disappointed with the low level of technical know...
» Snowden says FBI doesn't really need Apple to unlock iPhone - MarketWatch
12/03/16 13:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi - Google News. MarketWatch Snowden says FBI doesn't really need Apple to unlock iPhone MarketWatch He said the FBI is attempting to compel Apple to help unlock the iPhone out of convenience, not necess...
» France shuts down Hamas Al Aqsa TV for incitement
12/03/16 13:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from DEBKAFile. March 12, 2016, 3:36 PM (IDT) Paris acted in response to a request from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to shut down the Hamas Al Aqsa TV station for anti-Israel and anti-Jewish incitement by ...
» The Gathering Storm Of The Chinese Military - Investor's Business Daily
12/03/16 13:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. Investor's Business Daily The Gathering Storm Of The Chinese Military Investor's Business Daily We don't have to guess at the intentions of the country that for more than four ...
» Another Point in Apple's Court; Ex CIA Director Against FBI - Tech News Today
12/03/16 13:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from cia - Google News. Tech News Today Another Point in Apple's Court; Ex CIA Director Against FBI Tech News Today During the interview, he added that he spent a lot of time with the FBI as CIA director, and h...
» Russia to probe possible meldonium 'provocations' against its athletes - Reuters
12/03/16 13:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Reuters Russia to probe possible meldonium 'provocations' against its athletes Reuters Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich told Russia's R-Sport agency that law enforcers ...
» Russia & China closing in: US fears losing air dominance to 'more ... - RT
12/03/16 13:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. RT Russia & China closing in: US fears losing air dominance to 'more ... capable adversaries' RT Top US Air Force personnel have told the Senate they need more funds to modernize ...
» US, Russia to meet on Syria truce violations ahead of talks - Daily Mail
12/03/16 13:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Daily Mail US, Russia to meet on Syria truce violations ahead of talks Daily Mail Asked at the end of a visit to Saudi Arabia whether indirect dialogue in Geneva between the Syrian re...
» Far-right activists 'impersonated police to attack refugees for money and mobile phones' in Calais
12/03/16 13:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Independent - Europe. The group (not pictured) allegedly formed a chain to intercept asylum seekers trying to board lorries to the UK
» Московские суворовцы — лучшие в рукопашном бою
12/03/16 13:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from RSS. В ходе этапа спартакиады по военно-прикладным видам спорта среди воспитанников довузовских общеобразовательных учреждений юные спортсмены показали отличные результаты по АРБ и пулевой стрельбе.
» All Unquiet On The Tajik-Afghan Frontier
12/03/16 12:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. A murky security operation on Tajikistan's border with Afghanistan has brought attention briefly back to an area that for nearly 25 years has rarely seen an entire week p...
» Two French girls charged over 'concert hall terror plot'
12/03/16 12:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Independent - Europe. Teenage girls handed preliminary terrorism charges over plot to attack concert hall in Paris
» «Кошелек» положили в сейф КГБ - Новая газета
12/03/16 12:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Новая газета «Кошелек» положили в сейф КГБ Новая газета В августе Юрий Чиж собирал арбузы вместе с Александром Лукашенко. За год до того — получал почетную грамоту из рук председат...
» Despite His Claims, Obama Was Not A Realist On Russia, Syria, And Libya
12/03/16 12:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Interpreter. President Obama, in the twilight of his career, did what every US President is expected to do, give a legacy defending interview . He defended his primary foreign policy ideas including th...
» Russia’s Post-Crimea Enthusiasm Wearing Off
12/03/16 11:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Institute of Modern Russia. Russia’s Post-Crimea Enthusiasm Wearing Off This post has been generated by Page2RSS
» Opinion: Stalinist Nostalgia in Vladimir Putin’s Russia
12/03/16 11:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. The gulag is a distant memory. In today’s Russia, people pine for an era of order and superpower status.
» Stalin, Russia's New Hero - New York Times
12/03/16 11:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. New York Times Stalin, Russia's New Hero New York Times And yet views like Zhenya's are becoming more common in Russia . Polls show a gradual improvement in perceptions of Stalin, who...
» Afghan Air Force Not Ready Until 2020, Top US General Says
12/03/16 11:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. The Afghan air force will not reach necessary strength levels until 2020, according to a top U.S. general. General John Campbell, who ended his command of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanis...
» As UN Prepares to Resume Syrian Talks, US Condemns Cease-Fire Violations
12/03/16 11:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. The United States on Friday condemned the Syrian government for hampering deliveries of humanitarian aid and for launching airstrikes that have reportedly hit civilians. The strongly word...
» Israeli Security Agents Shut Down Palestinian Media Operation
12/03/16 11:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Israeli police shut down a Palestinian media outlet in Ramallah on Friday, accusing it of using television and the Internet to incite violence. The Shin Bet security agency said the stati...
» Drone Technology Opens Up New Options for Photographers
12/03/16 11:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. An interest in remote-controlled helicopters and a lot of practice helped Skye De Moya and Ross Shafer get their business off the ground in 2013. Based in Baltimore, Maryland, their compa...
» ЕС опубликовал решение о продлении санкций против России - ОРЕАНДА
12/03/16 11:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. ОРЕАНДА ЕС опубликовал решение о продлении санкций против России ОРЕАНДА ОРЕАНДА-НОВОСТИ. Решение о продлении до 15 сентября индивидуальных санкций против граждан и юридических лиц...
» Сноуден вновь рассказал о желании вернуться в США - Lenta.ru
12/03/16 11:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Lenta.ru Сноуден вновь рассказал о желании вернуться в США Lenta.ru Бывший сотрудник американских спецслужб Эдвард Сноуден заявил, что намерен продолжать заниматься разоблачениями ...
» Russia, China oppose US missile-defense in South Korea - KMOV.com
12/03/16 11:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. KMOV.com Russia , China oppose US missile-defense in South Korea KMOV.com Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told a news conference Friday after meeting with Russian counterpart Sergey ...
» As Ankara Eyes Tougher Visa Rules, Neighbors Fret
12/03/16 11:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The EU's drive to get Turkey to toughen its visa regulations to help resolve the migrant crisis is giving regional businessmen reason to worry.
» Poland Still Refuses To Honor Constitutional Court Ruling
12/03/16 11:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Poland's government says it is still refusing to publish a ruling by the Constitutional Tribunal, which struck down key legislation that has blocked the work of the court.
» Two Ukrainian Soldiers Killed In Eastern Ukraine
12/03/16 11:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The Ukrainian military says two of its soldiers were killed in clashes between government forces and pro-Russia separatists in southeast Ukraine over the past 24 hours.
» Turkish President Erdogan threatens court's 'existence' after it releases two journalists
12/03/16 11:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Independent - Europe. The court's ruling was 'against the country', he said
» Turkish Air Strikes Kills 67 Kurdish Militants in Iraq
12/03/16 11:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Turkey's air force has carried out air strikes against Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq, killing at least 67 militants, the military said Saturday. The March 9 raids were carried ou...
» Italy avalanche: Six dead and others injured in mountain slides in Alps
12/03/16 11:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Independent - Europe. Rescue teams are currently searching for others trapped in the snow
» Today's Headlines and Commentary
12/03/16 09:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Lawfare - Hard National Security Choices. Yesterday, news broke that an Islamic State defector has been disclosing inside information about the terrorist group’s inner bureaucracy. The New York Times share...
» Paris attackers 'named in IS files'
11/03/16 18:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from BBC News - World. The names of three men who carried out the Paris attacks in November appear in files leaked from the Islamic State militant group, according to German media.
» EU refugee deal hits setback as Cyprus objects to Turkey bid
11/03/16 18:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Independent - Europe. Under the planned deal, Turkey would take back Syrian refugees who land in Greece in exchange for €6bn in aid
» United States accuses Apple of 'false,' 'corrosive' rhetoric in Federal Bureau of Investigation dispute - Examiner Gazette
11/03/16 18:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from james b. comey - Google News. Examiner Gazette United States accuses Apple of 'false,' 'corrosive' rhetoric in Federal Bureau of Investigation dispute Examiner Gazette In its filing, the federal government...
» Ex-CIA Director: Does Donald Trump understand the role of ... - Fox News
11/03/16 18:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from cia - Google News. Fox News Ex-CIA Director: Does Donald Trump understand the role of ... Fox News Recently I had a chance to comment on some policy proposals put forward by Donald Trump. I really didn't t...
» US ambassador calls Iran missile tests provocative
11/03/16 18:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from www.washingtontimes.com stories: Security. UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says Iran's recent ballistic missile launches are "provocative and destabilizing." Samantha Power,...
» Obama weighs in on Apple v. FBI: “You can't take an absolutist view” - Ars Technica
11/03/16 18:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi - Google News. Daily Beast Obama weighs in on Apple v. FBI : “You can't take an absolutist view” Ars Technica AUSTIN, Texas—In his keynote address at the 2016 South By Southwest conference, President B...
» Syrians see few prospects for peace from Geneva talks
11/03/16 18:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. IDLIB, Syria/DAMASCUS (Reuters) - As peace talks are set to get under way in Geneva next week, residents in Syria from nurses to street vendors voice little optimism over the United Na...
» Brazilian president refuses to resign
11/03/16 18:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from BBC News - World. The Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff, insists she will not resign over her alleged mishandling of the economy after moves to impeach her.
» EU Agrees to Framework With Cuba on Closer Ties - Wall Street Journal
11/03/16 18:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Wall Street Journal EU Agrees to Framework With Cuba on Closer Ties Wall Street Journal BRUSSELS—The European Union reached agreement with Cuba on Friday on a new framework allowing cl...
» FDA says GMO mosquito likely OK to fight Zika in Florida - CNN
11/03/16 18:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. CNN FDA says GMO mosquito likely OK to fight Zika in Florida CNN (CNN) The U.S. came one step closer today to getting its first genetically modified mosquito to fight the Zika vi...
» US: No significant impact from field test of genetically modified mosquitoes - West Hawaii Today
11/03/16 18:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. West Hawaii Today US: No significant impact from field test of genetically modified mosquitoes West Hawaii Today MIAMI (AP) — A field trial releasing genetically modified mosquit...
» Cuba and Europe sign deal normalizing relations
11/03/16 18:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. Cuba and the European Union have signed a deal normalizing their relations after years of tensions spawned by disagreement over human rights on the island.
» Why the U.S.-U.K. Relationship Is Less Special than Ever
11/03/16 18:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World – TIME. Almost 70 years to the day since Winston Churchill immortalized the term in his historic ‘ Sinews of Peace ’ address, the “special relationship” between the U.K. and U...
» Non-aligned countries reject US sanctions on Venezuela
11/03/16 18:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. Venezuela’s U.N. ambassador has read out a statement from a group of 120 developing countries rejecting President Barack Obama’s decision to renew sanctions on several of his country’s top officials.
» Russia seeks details on aide's US death
11/03/16 18:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from BBC News - World. Russian officials criticise a lack of communication by the US authorities over the death of Mikhail Lesin, a former aide to President Putin.
» Kerry arrives in Saudi for talks on Syria, Yemen wars
11/03/16 18:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from www.washingtontimes.com stories: Security. HAFR AL-BATIN, Saudi Arabia (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry landed Friday at a sprawling military facility in northeastern Saudi Arabia where the kingdo...
» Iran to Be Blamed for Cyberattack on New York Dam, U.S. Official Says
11/03/16 18:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Washington Free Beacon. A criminal probe by the Justice Department has concluded that Iran was behind a cyberattack on a dam outside of New York City in 2013. According to the  Associated Press , a U.S. of...
» Pentagon Won’t Hold Captured ISIS Fighters Beyond 30 Days
11/03/16 18:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Washington Free Beacon. The Pentagon said Friday that it will not hold captured ISIS operatives beyond 30 days, after which they will be turned over to the Iraqi government. “Fourteen to 30 days is a ballp...
» Poland turns from model of democracy into European problem
11/03/16 18:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes. For years, Poland was considered a model of democratic transformation, with Lech Walesa's peaceful revolution heralding a new era based on the rule of law.
» Purported banker in New York admits he was actually a Russian spy
11/03/16 18:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes. A man posing as a banker in the United States admitted Friday he was actually a Russian spy helping run a conspiracy that could have been ripped from the headlines of the Cold War era, p...
» Moscow’s Desire to Micro-Manage the North Caucasus Causing Multiple Inefficiencies
11/03/16 18:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from North Caucasus Analysis - The Jamestown Foundation. On February 19, the governor of North Ossetia–Alania, Tamerlan Aguzarov, suddenly died at a Moscow hospital from complications of pneumonia. The 52-year-...
» Chechens Fighting in Syria Increasingly Joining Forces With Islamic State
11/03/16 18:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from North Caucasus Analysis - The Jamestown Foundation. Chechen militants in Syria have been going through organizational changes since last summer. The position of the Chechen militants in the Middle East was...
» Kadyrov at Loggerheads With Chechen Diaspora in Europe
11/03/16 18:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from North Caucasus Analysis - The Jamestown Foundation. Ramzan Kadyrov has repeatedly voiced discontent with the actions of Chechens who reside in Europe. During the first years of his rule in Chechnya, he man...
» Chechnya’s Planned New Oil Refinery Marks a Victory Over Rosneft
11/03/16 18:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from North Caucasus Analysis - The Jamestown Foundation. Many analysts say the two wars in Chechnya in the 1990s were caused by the republic’s oil. These analysts, however, have tended to overlook the fact that...
» FBI channels Kafka with new rules on slurping Americans' private ... - The Register
11/03/16 18:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi - Google News. The Register FBI channels Kafka with new rules on slurping Americans' private ... The Register Comment The murky world of surveillance turned a little more Kafkaesque this week. The FBI ...
» Minister of Defense of Georgia Continues to ‘Knock at NATO’s Door’
11/03/16 18:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Eurasia Daily Monitor - The Jamestown Foundation. Georgia’s newly appointed Foreign Minister Mikheil Janelidze recently visited the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), where he h...
» Berlin, Paris Side With Moscow Against Kyiv In Normandy Group’s Meeting
11/03/16 18:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Eurasia Daily Monitor - The Jamestown Foundation. As anticipated (see EDM , February 26), the “Normandy” meeting on March 3–4, in Paris, cornered Ukraine to extract its acceptance of “elections” in the Rus...
» Death of Top Chechen IS Commander May Change the Face of the Syrian Insurgency
11/03/16 18:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Eurasia Daily Monitor - The Jamestown Foundation. On March 5, in the fighting for the city of al-Shaddadi in eastern Syria, one of the most influential commanders of the so-called Islamic State (IS), Tarkh...

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