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March 21, 2015

'Unimaginable': Hot Plate Fire Kills Seven Children in Brooklyn - NBCNews.com
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'Unimaginable': Hot Plate Fire Kills Seven Children in Brooklyn
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Renewing Call to End Turkey Conflict, Kurdish Rebel Leader Hails ‘New Era’ by CEYLAN YEGINSU
Saturday March 21st, 2015 at 4:57 PM

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Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, urged his group to hold a congress in the spring to end the insurgency.

Pope asks Naples mobsters to repent and stop 'mothers' tears'
Saturday March 21st, 2015 at 4:56 PM

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NAPLES, Italy (Reuters) - Pope Francis urged members of organized crime to turn away from violence and exploitation and stop the "tears of the mothers of Naples" after visiting one of the city's most violent and drug-infested neighborhoods on Saturday.

Shiite insurgents in Yemen call for supporters to attack government by Hugh Naylor
Saturday March 21st, 2015 at 4:56 PM

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BEIRUT — Shiite insurgents called on supporters to attack institutions under the control of Yemen’s embattled president on Saturday, as 100 U.S. troops were preparing to evacuate a base in the southern part of the country after al-Qaeda briefly captured a neighboring city.Read full article >>

NATO launches war games near Russian borderby The European Union Times
Saturday March 21st, 2015 at 4:56 PM

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Despite being quick to condemn Russian military manoeuvers, NATO is conducting wide-scale war games in the Baltic states and creating a “line of troops” across Eastern Europe. The US denies a double standard, but records and transcripts suggest otherwise.

Thousands of US troops and hundreds of tanks have poured into Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the past two months as part of an operation dubbed “Atlantic Resolve.” In February, 140 NATO vehicles and 1400 troops swept through Narva, a mere 300 meters from the Russian border.

“As you connect countries, there is almost a line of US troops,” Defense News quoted Col. Michael Foster of the 173rd Airborne Brigade on March 2 as saying. US forces have previously held joint war games with Baltic nations, with names such as “Saber Strike,” “Spring Storm” and “Flaming Sword.”

When asked why the US was condemning Russian exercises inside Russia, State Department press official Jeff Rathke told RT no such statement had ever been made.

While the US has not criticized every military drill conducted by the Kremlin, last August State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Russia’s aviation exercises are “provocative and only serve to escalate tensions.”

Just last week, Washington pushed Vietnam to prevent Russian aircraft from refueling there.

“We have urged Vietnamese officials to ensure that Russia is not able to use its access to Cam Ranh Bay to conduct activities that could raise tensions in the region,” one State Department official told Reuters, on the condition of anonymity.

Meanwhile, in the first three weeks of February, the US Navy flew its latest surveillance aircraft from bases in the Philippines over disputed islands in the South China Sea. The P-8 Poseidon is equipped with the latest sensors and electronics in the US Navy arsenal, and can “pack a serious punch,” according to one US military analyst.

“Wouldn’t US and NATO maneuvers on Russian borders, at a time when the West and Russia are at odds over the crisis in Ukraine, also “raise tensions?” asked AP diplomatic correspondent Matt Lee.

“We would disagree with that,” replied Rathke.

Some, however, found the assertion unconvincing.

“It’s a shocking level of hypocrisy, double standards, doublespeak,” Brian Becker of the ANSWER coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) told RT.

Russia announced a massive surprise military drill earlier this week, putting forces all over the country on high alert and conducting exercises in the Baltic Sea, Black Sea, the Arctic and the Far East. The ongoing snap check of the military involves about 76,000 troops, over 10,000 vehicles, 65 warships, 16 support vessels, 15 submarines, 200 warplanes and helicopters.

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Tunisia arrests suspected militants after museum attack - Reuters India
Saturday March 21st, 2015 at 4:55 PM

Medical treatment is becoming unaffordable for Ukrainiansby The European Union Times
Saturday March 21st, 2015 at 4:52 PM

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A visit to a pharmacy is like a tour to a museum for many Ukrainians now. They rather come to check out the price tags than to buy anything. Pensioners, the biggest clients of pharmacies, have been suffering the most.

The hryvnia has seen 40-percent devaluation over the last month and an 11 percent tax has been levied on almost all imported goods. This has forced many Ukrainians to do without any medical treatment or to make do with traditional medication. The alternative therapies did not work for Natalia.

Druggists say clients have turned to buying the domestically produced manufactured medication. 70 percent of the imported drugs have Ukraine-made substitutes. Now the currency exchange rate has stabilized, but pharmacies do not seem willing to reduce the prices. And experts warn of a future rise in the prices.

The government is hoping to reduce prices by canceling a registration for the foreign medicines and monitoring retailers. Experts say that law initiative is a good start but it needs months to pass through the parliament while people need immediate help. In the meantime, they urge the government to lift obstacles like customs duties and taxes on medication.

Ukrainian patients are not protected by the state. While subsidies partially ease the pressure from the expensive utility bills, patients are left to face the unaffordable medicine costs on their own.

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Tunisian PM promises 'detailed investigation' into Bardo Museum attacks by Eileen Byrne
Saturday March 21st, 2015 at 4:52 PM

Network Front | The Guardian

Habib Essid says inquiry will examine security at site housing parliament building following armed raid that left 21 dead

The Tunisian authorities have pledged to hold an inquiry into possible security lapses at the capital’s Bardo museum, where gunmen reportedly armed with Kalashnikovs carried out an attack on Wednesday that left 21 people dead, most of them foreign tourists. The two gunmen were themselves also shot dead, as rapid response ploice units intervened.

On Friday afternoon, prime minister Habib Essid announced a “detailed investigation” into security at the site – which houses the parliament building as well as the museum.

Russia Under Attack by The European Union Times
Saturday March 21st, 2015 at 4:52 PM

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Russia faces the renewal of conflict in Ukraine simultaneously with three more Ukraine-type situations along its Asian border.

While Washington works assiduously to undermine the Minsk agreement that German chancellor Merkel and French president Hollande achieved in order to halt the military conflict in Ukraine, Washington has sent Victoria Nuland to Armenia to organize a “color revolution” or coup there, has sent Richard Miles as ambassador to Kyrgyzstan to do the same there, and has sent Pamela Spratlen as ambassador to Uzbekistan to purchase that government’s allegiance away from Russia. The result would be to break up the Collective Security Treaty Organization and present Russia and China with destabilization where they can least afford it. For details go here: http://russia-insider.com/en/2015/03/18/4656

Thus, Russia faces the renewal of conflict in Ukraine simultaneously with three more Ukraine-type situations along its Asian border.

And this is only the beginning of the pressure that Washington is mounting on Russia.

On March 18 the Secretary General of NATO denounced the peace settlement between Russia and Georgia that ended Georgia’s military assault on South Ossetia. The NATO Secretary General said that NATO rejects the settlement because it “hampers ongoing efforts by the international community to strengthen security and stability in the region.” Look closely at this statement. It defines the “international community” as Washington’s NATO puppet states, and it defines strengthening security and stability as removing buffers between Russia and Georgia so that Washington can position military bases in Georgia directly on Russia’s border.

In Poland and the Baltic states Washington and NATO lies about a pending Russian invasion are being used to justify provocative war games on Russia’s borders and to build up US forces in NATO military bases on Russia’s borders.

We have crazed US generals on national television calling for “killing Russians.”

The EU leadership has agreed to launch a propaganda war against Russia, broadcasting Washington’s lies inside Russia in an effort to undermine the Russian people’s support of their government.

All of this is being done in order to coerce Russia into handing over Crimea and its Black Sea naval base to Washington and accepting vassalage under Washington’s suzerainty.

If Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, Assad, and the Taliban would not fold to Washington’s threats, why do the fools in Washington think Putin, who holds in his hands the largest nuclear arsenal in the world, will fold?

European governments, apparently, are incapable of any thought. Washington has set London and the capitals of every European country, as well as every American city, for destruction by Russian nuclear weapons. The stupid Europeans rush to destroy themselves in service to their Washington master.

Human intelligence has gone missing if after 14 years of US military aggression against eight countries the world does not understand that Washington is lost in arrogance and hubris and imagines itself the ruler of the universe who will tolerate no dissent from its will.

We know that the American, British, and European media are whores well paid to lie for their master. We know that the NATO commander and secretary general, if not the member countries, are lusting for war. We know that the American Dr. Strangeloves in the Pentagon and armaments industry cannot wait to test their ABMs and new weapons systems in which they always place excessive confidence. We know that the prime minister of Britain is a total cipher. But are the chancellor of Germany and the president of France ready for the destruction of their countries and of Europe? If the EU is of such value, why is the very existence of its populations put at risk in order to bow down and accept leadership from an insane Washington whose megalomania will destroy life on earth?

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The slow death of the great American newsroom by Tim Adams
Saturday March 21st, 2015 at 4:51 PM

Network Front | The Guardian

The newspaper industry in the US is in freefall as the shift to digital news accelerates. One photojournalist has spent five years lamenting the decline, and charting what has been lost

The death of the American newsroom – in pictures

In the past decade, as a percentage, more print journalists have lost their jobs than workers in any other significant American industry. (That bad news is felt just as keenly in Britain where a third of editorial jobs in newspapers have been lost since 2001.) The worst of the cuts, on both sides of the Atlantic, have fallen on larger local daily papers at what Americans call metro titles. A dozen historic papers have disappeared entirely in the US since 2007, and many more are ghost versions of what they used to be, weekly rather than daily, freesheets rather than broadsheets, without the resources required to hold city halls to account or give citizens a trusted vantage on their community and the world.

The reasons for this decline are familiar – the abrupt shift from print to pixels, the exponential rise in alternative sources of information, changes in lifestyle and reading habits, and, above all, the disastrous collapse of the city paper’s lifeblood – classified advertising – with the emergence of websites such as Craigslist and Gumtree. The implications are less often noted.

A coffin fit for King Richard III
Saturday March 21st, 2015 at 4:51 PM

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Three years after his remains were found beneath a car park in Leicester, Richard III's remains will be reinterred in the city's cathedral this weekend in a coffin made by one of his descendants.

Sources: U.S. pulling Special Ops forces out of Yemen
Saturday March 21st, 2015 at 4:50 PM

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The U.S. military is in the process of evacuating about 100 Special Operations forces members from the Al Anad airbase in Yemen due to that country's deteriorating security situation, sources in the region familiar with the situation told CNN.

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ISIS' explosive expansion
Saturday March 21st, 2015 at 4:50 PM

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On Friday, ISIS claimed responsibility for Yemen's deadliest terror attack.

Shi’ite Rebels Call for Yemen Offensive as U.S. Troops Evacuate by Dan Hirschhorn
Saturday March 21st, 2015 at 4:47 PM

TIME

(ADEN, Yemen)—Yemen’s Shi’ite rebels issued a call to arms Saturday to battle forces loyal to the country’s embattled president, as U.S. troops evacuated a southern air base over al-Qaeda militants seizing a nearby city, authorities said.

The call by the rebels, known as Houthis, for a general mobilization only increases the ongoing chaos in Yemen, which grew exponentially in September when the Shiite rebels stormed into the capital, Sanaa.

In their statement, the rebels described their coming offensive against security and military institutions loyal to President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi as a battle against extremists.

Their appeal came just minutes after Hadi gave a defiant speech challenging the Houthis, his first address broadcast to the public since fleeing Sanaa last month. He described the rebels’ rule in Sanaa and elsewhere as “a coup against constitutional legitimacy.”

The U.S. troops, including Special Forces commandos, were leaving the al-Annad air base near the southern city of al-Houta, Yemeni military and security officials said. Speaking on condition of anonymity as they weren’t authorized to discuss troop movements, the officials did not say whether the troops had left the country.

Some 100 American troops and Special Forces commandos are believed to be stationed there. U.S. officials declined immediate comment Saturday.

The al-Annad base is where American and European military advisers help Yemen battle the country’s local al-Qaeda branch through drone strikes and logistical support.

Al-Qaeda’s local branch is considered by Washington to be the group’s most dangerous offshoot. The U.S. has carried out a series of drone strikes in Yemen targeting suspected militants. Al-Qaeda militants took al-Houta on Friday. Their offensive comes as Shi’ite rebels hold the capital and nine of Yemen’s 21 provinces.

In his address, Hadi declared Aden a “temporary capital” and told the rebels’ leader, Abdel-Malik al-Houthi, to stop trying to trick the Yemeni people. He accused Iran of backing the rebels, a claim the rebels deny.

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Pope Urges Residents of Naples to Resist Organized Crimeby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
Saturday March 21st, 2015 at 4:46 PM

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Tens of thousands of people greeted Pope Francis on Saturday in Italy’s impoverished south, where he addressed issues of organized crime and corruption. Francis told residents in Scampia, a run-down neighborhood of Naples dominated by Camorra, the regional mafia, that "the lack of work is stealing our dignity." "The most difficult problem is not having the possibility to bring home the bread, to earn it," the pontiff said. "And when you can't earn your...

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Fighting Rages Outside Mariupol Despite Cease-Fireby webdesk@voanews.com (Adam Bailes)
Saturday March 21st, 2015 at 4:44 PM

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The cease-fire in eastern Ukraine has been in place just over a month, but on the front line outside Mariupol, between the Russian border and Crimea, the fighting has never stopped. Signs of war are everywhere — Ukraine’s government fears this area could be the focus of the next rebel offensive. Tanks and armored personnel carriers face east, toward the village of Shyrokyne, a no-man’s land. A Ukrainian commander, identified for this story only by his code name of Tank, said a soldier...

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Tens Of Thousands March Against Government In Georgia
Saturday March 21st, 2015 at 4:43 PM

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Thousands of people have rallied in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, demanding the government step down.

SIU investigates fatal police shooting in Mississauga - Toronto
Saturday March 21st, 2015 at 4:38 PM

Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit is investigating a shooting that left one person dead and sent three to hospital on Friday night in Mississauga, Ont.

Two officers with the Peel Regional Police were among the injured.

'Next thing you know I hear the pop, pop, pop, pop gunshots.'- Neighbour Rachel Firlotte

One of the officers was shot, the other was stabbed. Both were taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries and, according to the police union, the officers had been released by Saturday morning.

A 30-year-old male civilian was shot multiple times and was pronounced dead on the scene. Another civilian was taken to hospital with undetermined injuries.

Little is known about the incident. According to the SIU, the officers responded to a call for assistance at 3070 Queen Frederica Dr. near Dixie Road and Dundas Street East, around 10:40 p.m.

After an "interaction" with police, the 30-year-old male was shot multiple times and died.

Neighbour Rachel Firlotte told CBC News she heard screaming around 10:30 p.m.

"I got up to look out the window and see what the fighting was about. Next thing you know I hear the pop, pop, pop, pop gunshots."

Police are not commenting, as is standard procedure when the SIU becomes involved in an investigation.

But area residents tell CBC News an argument between two neighbours had been escalating since early last week, until one allegedly made threats against the other, which led to the call for assistance on Friday.

Peel Regional Police said at the time they were not looking for any suspects. Everyone involved in the incident was "accounted for" according to spokesman Const. George Tudos.

The incident drew a heavy police presence to the neighbourhood. As many as 80 police cars were on the scene at one point, and investigators remained on the scene Saturday morning.

Five investigators and three forensic investigators have been assigned to the case by the SIU. The SIU investigates all incidents involving police in which serious injury or death occurs.

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Mexican Wrestler Dies After Hit in the Ring by Alice Park
Saturday March 21st, 2015 at 3:39 PM

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Mexico’s Pedro Aguayo Ramirez, a popular member of the country’s ‘Lucha Libre’ wrestling world,died Saturday after a blow during a bout in Tijuana. He was 35.

Ramirez was fighting Oscar Gutierrez in a team matchup when he was apparently hit in the neck and went limp against the ropes, the Associated Press reports. Referees and other wrestlers continued fighting for several minutes before realizing Ramirez wasn’t moving.

The local prosecutor’s office said he was taken to a hospital nearby and pronounced dead at 1:30 a.m. Ramirez began wrestling as a teen, following his after father, a well-known wrestling personality.

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20 Detained in Tunisia in Aftermath of Deadly Museum Attack
Saturday March 21st, 2015 at 3:37 PM

SIDI BOU SAID, Tunisia — Tunisian prosecutors say 20 people have been detained over links to the deadly attack on the Bardo museum.

Prosecutor's spokesman Sofiane Selliti declined to offer details on the Saturday detentions beyond saying there had been an "important evolution" in the investigation.

Two Tunisians trained in neighboring Libya opened fire in the museum Wednesday, killing 21 people before they died in a shootout with security forces.

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U.S. Authorities Seize $180 Million Colombian Cocaine Shipment
Saturday March 21st, 2015 at 3:37 PM

BOGOTA — U.S. authorities confiscated a $180 million shipment of cocaine from Colombian drug traffickers aboard a boat on the Pacific Ocean bound for the United States, the Colombian attorney general's office said on Saturday.

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) found 5.28 tonnes of the drug aboard the vessel, captured in international waters off Central America, said Alexandra Ladino, director of the attorney general's specialized police force, which cooperated with the DEA on the operation.

The Panamanian-flagged boat had earlier departed the Colombian port city of Buenaventura, Ladino said. The drugs belonged to a Colombian trafficking group, which she said would not be named for fear of compromising further investigations.

Fourteen crew members, from Colombia and other Latin American countries, were detained and will be processed in the United States, Ladino told reporters.

Colombia, a major cocaine producer, manufactures some 300 tonnes annually, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Authorities confiscated about 166 tonnes of the drug in 2014.

Marxist rebels, gangs made up of ex-paramilitaries and small cartels dominate much of Colombia's narcotics trade. Cocaine and other drugs are some of the principal sources of financing for groups fighting in the country's 50-year civil war, which has killed over 200,000 people.

(Reporting by Luis Jaime Acosta; Writing by Julia Symmes Cobb; Editing by Frances Kerry)

From Minneapolis to ISIS: An American’s Path to Jihad
Saturday March 21st, 2015 at 3:34 PM

MINNEAPOLIS — Reading back over Abdi Nur’s Twitter feed, his chilling progression from the basketball courts of South Minneapolis to the battlefields of Syria is clear.

Early last year, he began posting stern religious pronouncements and snippets of scripture. By April 2, a day after turning 20, he hailed Islamic fighters: “If the sky would be proud of the existence of the stars, the land should be proud of the existence of the Mujahideen.”

On May 29, the day he disappeared, he posted, “I Thank Allah For Everything No Matter What!” Soon he was in Turkey, rebuffing his mother’s and sister’s anguished pleas to come home. In late July, he declared, “What A Beautiful Day in Raqqa,” the de facto capital of the Islamic State in Syria. Last Aug. 7, he posted a picture of himself online with his finger on the trigger of a Kalashnikov.

Mr. Nur had become one of a small number of Americans enticed by the apocalyptic religious promise of the self-described Islamic State, which has seized large sections of Syria and Iraq and claims to be building a caliphate.

A slightly built man with an easy smile, he is a rare example of an American fighting for the terror group whose story can be pieced together from online postings, interviews and public records. His case suggests that the Islamic State may rely on recruiters inside the United States and shows how hard it is to predict who will be swept away by ideological fervor.

Mr. Nur was enrolled in community college outside Minneapolis and spoke of becoming a lawyer. Then he started visiting a new mosque and dressing in more traditional garb. He plotted his getaway with a friend, Abdullahi Yusuf, 18, but their fates starkly diverged. Mr. Yusuf was stopped as he tried to leave the country and is now in a Minneapolis halfway house, part of a closely watched experiment to spare him a long prison term and give him a role dissuading others attracted to terrorism.

The number of Americans drawn to the Islamic State remains modest, especially by comparison with the 3,000 or so who have joined the group from Europe. More than two dozen men and women have been stopped by the F.B.I. and charged before they could fly away. Social media posts and court records suggest that perhaps another two dozen have made it to the group in Syria, though even intelligence agencies do not have an exact count. At least four Americans have died fighting for the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.

With no clear pattern among recruits, law enforcement officials have scrambled to identify people attracted to the terror group in time to intervene — blocking their travel or potentially stopping a plot at home.

Most of the American ISIS volunteers display an earnest religious zeal, usually newfound. In an incongruous touch, several have visited malls to buy athletic gear before leaving for jihad — Mr. Nur, for instance, went to Macy’s for Nike apparel, the F.B.I. discovered.

The majority of the Islamic State recruits are men, but there are quite a few women. The volunteers include teenagers too young to drive and middle-aged adults with families and careers; petty criminals and diligent students. A substantial minority are converts to Islam, while others are the children of immigrants with roots in 10 Muslim countries.

The only cluster in the country is in Minneapolis, where two dozen young men with Somali roots departed in recent years to fight with the Shabab, the affiliate of Al Qaeda in Somalia. Now, to the distress of Somali elders, more than a dozen others have left or have tried to leave to join ISIS.

But the trickle of volunteers has come from across the country. On Tuesday, a 47-year-old Air Force veteran with a checkered work history was charged in Brooklyn with trying to join the Islamic State. Two weeks earlier, a computer-savvy 17-year-old boy in Virginia was charged with helping a man a few years older make contact with the terrorist group and get to Syria.

The cases raise a pressing question: Is the slick online propaganda that ISIS has mastered enough to lure recruits, or is face-to-face persuasion needed? A federal grand jury in Minneapolis is investigating whether an Islamic State recruiter gave Mr. Nur and Mr. Yusuf cash to buy plane tickets.

“No young person gets up one day and says, ‘I’m going to join ISIS,’ ” said Abdirizak Bihi, 50, a Somali activist who has worked against radicalization since his nephew left Minnesota in 2008 and was killed fighting for the Shabab.

“There has to be someone on the ground to listen to your problems and channel your anger,” Mr. Bihi said. “Online is like graduate studies.”

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Biographies are most complete on those caught at airports trying to leave the United States. Michael Todd Wolfe, 23, a convert to Islam from Texas with a record of assault and theft charges, for example, was stopped at the Houston airport. He had agonized over whether he would fit better with the Islamic State or the Nusra Front, an Al Qaeda affiliate.

F.B.I. agents were waiting at the Denver airport for Shannon Conley, a 19-year-old who thought she could use her skills as a nurse’s aide to help ISIS fighters. She hoped to marry a Tunisian recruiter for the Islamic State whom she had met online.

Mohammed Hamzah Khan, 19, took his younger brother and sister with him to O’Hare airport in Chicago, where agents intercepted them. He left his parents a long letter saying he could not stay in the United States because his taxes might be used to kill Muslims overseas.

Recruits have a remarkable ISIS travel guide to draw on, called “Hijrah to the Islamic State” — hijrah meaning “emigration” or “journey.” Distributed on the web since February, the 50-page book mixes Fodor’s-style advice on electrical plugs and packing — “I also advise a backpack with many small pockets” — with more tailored counsel, including the Twitter accounts of 15 men and three women with ISIS in Syria who offer guidance.

“Use a software to ‘hide’ all jihadi material you might be bringing,” the book warns, in flawed English. It advises travelers on what to tell suspicious officials in Turkey, the usual transit country. It comically alters a Turkish visa form to add a new checkbox for “purpose of trip”: “Commit jihad in Syria.” It advises travelers to check “tourism” instead.

For the most part, the Americans who have reached ISIS can be glimpsed only through their occasional online appearances, hidden behind screen names. Anat Agron, who studies the online trails of English-speaking foreign fighters in Syria for the Middle East Media Research Institute, said she had tracked six men and four women who credibly claimed to be Americans now with ISIS.

They include a young woman who calls herself Chloe, a Muslim convert from San Francisco who appears to have married an Islamic State fighter from Wales. Both posted pictures of their cat on Twitter, along with expressions of marital devotion. Chloe’s posts are mostly religious exclamations or lighthearted remarks on life under ISIS, including wearing the niqab, or face veil.

“At the market being hugged by every little kid with a niqabi mother lol #niqabproblems #notyomama,” she tweeted on March 8. Another woman calling herself “Umm Jihad” posted a picture of an American passport, along with the passports of three other Western women. “Bonfire soon,” she wrote on Twitter, “no need for these anymore.”

A man posting online as Bandar al-Californi documented his preparations for hijrah in a long-running Twitter series. “I have much to do yet. Learn Arabic, save money, plan my course,” he wrote last November, adding that he was giving himself six months to leave.

“What an honor,” he tweeted to a self-described Islamic State fighter. “I hope to be in Sham soon,” he added, using a name for greater Syria. His Twitter account was suspended late last year, making it hard to say if he had succeeded.

Then there are those who encountered the violence of the Islamic State and the brutal war it is fighting. One American from Pennsylvania and three from Minnesota have died in combat with the group. Last month, when masked militants beheaded 21 Egyptian Christians on a Libyan beach, their leader spoke to the video camera in American-accented English, leading to speculation that he might have lived in the United States.

On March 2, ISIS-linked Twitter accounts claimed that a suicide truck bombing outside the Iraqi city of Samarra was carried out by “Abu Dawoud al-Amriki,” a nom de guerre that indicated he was an American. Officials say they have not been able to determine the bomber’s identity.

‘Who Brain Washed You?’

Because Mr. Nur, the Minneapolis man, is active on social media and has been charged in absentia with supporting ISIS, his story is easier to follow than most. His family declined to be interviewed. “They are devastated,” said Omar Jamal, a Somali-American activist in Minneapolis who spoke to family members. “They are afraid.” They are worried that anything they say might somehow endanger their son in Syria or relatives in Somalia, he said, in addition to attracting a hostile reaction from neighbors and co-workers.

Mr. Nur’s immigrant parents most likely did not see that by late March of last year, he was posting a quote from Anwar al-Awlaki, the late American recruiter for Al Qaeda: “We are fighting for truth and justice and you (americans/westerners) are fighting for oppression and worldly gain.”

Somehow “you” had become his fellow Americans. “We” were the jihadists. It was a few weeks after Mr. Nur and Mr. Yusuf had begun visiting a new mosque in Bloomington, outside Minneapolis. It was there that they became interested in ISIS, which was not yet associated with the videotaped beheadings of Westerners that would come later.

A passport specialist, suspicious when Mr. Yusuf applied for an expedited passport and seemed vague about its purpose, alerted the F.B.I. On May 28, agents intercepted Mr. Yusuf at the Minneapolis airport and kept him from boarding. They found that the blue Volkswagen Jetta that had dropped him off belonged to the boyfriend of Mr. Nur’s sister. But when they searched for Mr. Nur late on May 29, they learned he had left the country hours earlier.

Word that he was missing was a blow for the city’s large Somali community. “It went out like wildfire that he had left and nobody knew where he had gone,” said Abdirizak Warsame, a friend and, like Mr. Nur, a 2013 high school graduate. They had played basketball together just a few days earlier. “I had no clue,” he said.

The next day, May 30, Mr. Nur’s older sister, Ifrah, walked to the police station near the family’s apartment to report his disappearance. Over the next day or so, she managed to reach him in Turkey via messages on Facebook and an app called Kik. Their exchanges are recorded in court papers.

She challenged him, saying that their father “went into shock” and telling him that “going to kill poor people is not the answer.” She made an emotional appeal: “respond to me I love u and can’t live knowing this.” He gently put her off, saying that “if I didn’t care I wouldn’t have left but I want jannah” — paradise — “for all of us.”

Since 2013, 29 people in the United States have been charged or detained as juveniles on allegations of supporting the Islamic State, usually after trying to travel to Syria to fight for the terrorist group. Two dozen other Americans are believed to either be with the Islamic State or to have been killed in the fighting.

6 converted to Islam, the rest are from Muslim families.

11 are teenagers. The rest are ages 20 to 47.

During his early months in Syria, Mr. Nur was upbeat and posted frequently online. He was teaching English (“Got a Full Class”), trading tips on handguns and pistols, expressing excitement about fighting Kurdish forces (“Never Felt So Hyped”) and praising the “amazing brothers” with him. On Aug. 7, he answered questions on the website Ask.fm, including some from angry friends in Minneapolis.

“Who brain washed you?” one asked.

Mr. Nur was unfazed. “The Words of Allah, The Quran, that’s what brain washed me,” he wrote.

But there were hints of homesickness — multiple messages about the mothers of jihadists — and his posts fell off. “Oh Mother Be Patient,” he wrote, suggesting that they would be reunited in the afterlife.

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Since then, two related dramas have unfolded in Minneapolis. The federal grand jury investigating recruitment has called many young Somalis as witnesses. According to people who have talked to him, Mr. Yusuf said he received $1,500 for his plane ticket to Turkey from a young acquaintance who claimed he got it from a local man.

Meanwhile, leaders of the Bloomington mosque, Al Farooq Youth and Family Center, have publicly accused Amir Meshal, a 31-year-old mosque volunteer, of encouraging militancy among the teens there.

“When they learned in June that this particular individual was spreading radical views, they had him banned from the premises,” said Jordan Kushner, a lawyer for the mosque. A complaint filed with the police speaks of “concerns about Meshal interacting with our youth.” Officials at a second local mosque made a similar complaint about Mr. Meshal in local media.

Mr. Meshal, an American citizen originally from New Jersey who has been involved in a long-running lawsuit against the federal government, said in a statement, “I would never suggest that anyone join ISIS or any other group that kills innocent people, nor would I provide money to do so.”

In his 2009 civil rights lawsuit, Mr. Meshal accused F.B.I. agents and other American officials of threatening him while he was imprisoned secretly for four months in 2007 in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia. By his account, he was studying Islam in Somalia when fighting broke out; the government claims he got weapons training and helped translate for leaders of the Shabab.

His lawsuit was dismissed last year, though the judge called his treatment “appalling.” The case is now on appeal.

Mr. Yusuf, Mr. Nur’s co-defendant, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide material support for terrorism and faces a maximum sentence of 15 years. But in an experiment being watched nationally, Judge Michael J. Davis of Federal District Court agreed to a presentence plan to divert Mr. Yusuf to a halfway house with the support of Heartland Democracy, an education nonprofit in Minneapolis. He is working at Best Buy and attending community college.

The idea, said Mary McKinley, executive director of Heartland Democracy, is to gradually reintegrate Mr. Yusuf into the community, and possibly give him a role in countering the radicalization of young people.

“Ideally, Abdullahi will be able to tell his story in a way that is useful to young people who are frustrated and disengaged,” Ms. McKinley said. His lawyer, Jean M. Brandl, said her client was not prepared to speak publicly.

Federal prosecutors opposed giving Mr. Yusuf a break, noting that he had lied to F.B.I. agents at the airport. But Judge Davis, who knows the Somali community well enough to ask about clans and sub-clans, went along with the plan, intended to reduce the chasm between Somalis and law enforcement officials. Parents and friends concerned about a young person drawn to the Islamic State are more likely to call the police, advocates say, if they believe there is an alternative to a long prison sentence.

Meanwhile, in Syria, Mr. Nur, or someone using his account, still occasionally posts on Twitter. If he has regrets, he does not acknowledge them. In January, he praised the two gunmen who attacked a satirical newspaper in Paris: “Well well well done Iqwah,” or brothers, he wrote. On March 2, he posted a photograph of Beretta handguns, adding: “How Sweet Does That Look.”

His most recent post came on March 8. “All Warfare,” he wrote, “Is Based on Deception.”

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7 Children From an Orthodox Jewish Family Die in Brooklyn Fire
Saturday March 21st, 2015 at 3:32 PM

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Seven children from an Orthodox Jewish family died early Saturday when a fire ripped through their home in Brooklyn, trapping the children — ages 5 to 16 — in their second-floor bedrooms as their mother and a teenage sister clambered outside through windows.

The fire, the deadliest in New York City in eight years, was sparked by a malfunctioning hot plate, the authorities said. Such devices are often used by observant Jewish families because they are forbidden from lighting a flame on the Sabbath. They can light one or turn on an electric device before the Sabbath begins Friday night and keep it going through the day.

The blaze started on a first-floor kitchen counter at the home of the Sassoon family in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, a neighborhood populated by many large Orthodox families, and then raced up the stairs to the second floor, investigators said, where nine family members were in bed.

Witnesses described hearing screams from the mother and her children piercing the cold night.

The open stairwell through which the fire rose was transformed into a column of flames, Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro said, confining the children to their bedrooms in the back of the house as thick smoke filled the home.

The children’s mother, 45, jumped out a front window, Mr. Nigro said, and a 14-year-old daughter leapt from a side window, barely escaping the fast-deteriorating home, which was shrouded in smoke. Both sustained burns and smoke inhalation, and were in critical condition at local hospitals on Saturday.

Firefighters arrived three and a half minutes after the blaze was reported, the fire department said.

“Firefighters forced their way in, extinguished fire on the first floor, which had started in the kitchen,” Mr. Nigro said, “then pushed upstairs and found the children in their bedrooms.”

Firefighters grabbed the children through windows, passing them to colleagues who were waiting on ladders and on a porch behind the house.

“They took them out every which way,” said James Long, a fire department spokesman.

The firefighters then rushed the children to waiting ambulances, which took them to hospitals, but they could not be revived. Three girls, ages 6, 11 and 16, died, as did four boys, ages 5, 8, 10 and 12, the police said. The two survivors were closer to the front of the home when the flames ignited.

“It’s a tragedy for this family, it’s a tragedy for this community, it’s a tragedy for our city,” Mr. Nigro said, calling it “the largest tragedy by fire” in nearly a decade.

The seven children of the Sassoon family who were killed were identified as Eliane, 16; Rivkah, 11; David, 12; Yeshua, 10; Moshe, 8; Sara, 6; Yaakob, 5.

In March 2007, nine children and a woman were killed by a fire in the Bronx, all of them from two families of immigrants from Mali. That blaze started in a cord attached to a space heater, then raced up a staircase in a 100-year-old wooden building.

On Saturday, fire investigators found a smoke detector in the basement of the Brooklyn home at 3371 Bedford Avenue, between Avenues L and M, but had not found any on the first or second floors, Mr. Nigro said. They were still searching the debris.

“There was no evidence of smoke detectors on either the first or the second floor that may have alerted this family to the fire,” Mr. Nigro said.

Mr. Long, the fire department spokesman, said that at a minimum, homes are typically required to have a smoke detector on every floor as well as outside areas where people sleep.

The fire, the frantic escape and the unsuccessful search for survivors cast anguish over a Brooklyn block still flecked with the previous day’s snow. A large, square, charred hole gaped from the front of the light-colored, red-roofed house.

On Saturday morning, many neighborhood residents had not yet heard the news because they had turned off their phones, televisions and computers the night before in observance of the Sabbath. The names of the victims had not yet been released Saturday morning because of difficulty reaching the children’s father, who was not at home when the fire broke out.

A neighbor who gave only her first name, Bonnie, said the mother, a beautiful and popular girl in high school, had married in 1998 and moved to Israel, and that her husband worked in banking. She had moved back to Brooklyn to the house where she grew up about two years ago to be closer to her large extended family in Midwood, Bonnie, 40, said. The mother’s parents live in New Jersey, she said.

"They’re a very close-knit family," Bonnie said. "It’s a tragedy."

Another friend of the mother, who declined to give her name, described her as “wonderful.”

Reached by phone, a man who identified himself as a relative of the family but refused to give his name said between heavy sighs that “it’s not a good time.”

It was more than a coincidence that the fire struck on the Jewish Sabbath, a day of rest.

Orthodox Jews do not cook on the Sabbath because doing so requires the lighting of a flame, which is forbidden at that time. But they will often light an oven on Friday before sunset, and keep it going through the next day, to heat a stew known as cholent or will keep a stovetop flame on covered by tin sheet called a “blech” in Yiddish and warming, say, a teakettle. Sometimes food is kept extra warm by covering a pot with a cloth.

On Saturday, the Fire Department handed out fliers titled “Fire Safety for Jewish Observances” with a list of tips to avoid fires while cooking. However, some of them, such as “Stay in the kitchen — Don’t leave cooking food unattended,” were not compatible with the regular practice of leaving a heat source on overnight.

Correction: March 21, 2015

An earlier version of this article included an incorrect age range for the victims of the fire, based on information from the police. The children were ages 5 to 16, not 5 to 15. An earlier version of this article also misstated the number of people killed in a 2007 fire in the Bronx. Nine children and one adult died as a result of that fire, not eight children and one adult.

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In Putin’s Nationalist Russia, a Tolstoy as Cultural Diplomat
Saturday March 21st, 2015 at 3:28 PM

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YASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — On a sunny winter afternoon here, Vladimir Tolstoy, a great-great-grandson of Leo Tolstoy and an adviser on cultural affairs to President Vladimir V. Putin, strode up the birch-lined path that leads to the bucolic family compound where his forebear wrote “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina.” It is now a state museum. At each step, he was greeted by staff members heading home for the day.

“Good evening,” Mr. Tolstoy said with a warm smile. “Good evening,” the museum employees, mostly women, responded. “Please send our best regards to our czar and tell him we respect him very much,” one woman told Mr. Tolstoy, who nodded cheerfully.

At once friendly and feudal, the scene at this estate some 125 miles south of Moscow captured something of the mood in Russia today, where Mr. Putin is regarded as a czar, especially outside the big cities, even as the liberal intelligentsia reviles him and laments his popularity. It also reflects the benefits for Mr. Putin of enlisting the support of a member of an illustrious family as he continues to strike notes of national pride.

Since being tapped by Mr. Putin in 2012, Mr. Tolstoy, 52, has emerged as the more conciliatory, highbrow and Western-friendly face of Kremlin cultural policy. He works with, but is temperamentally different from, Russia’s more combative culture minister, Vladimir Medinsky, who is known for aggressive assertions of Russian superiority and conservative values.

Mr. Tolstoy said he had worked to remove language from a ministry policy draft that was leaked last year stating that “Russia is not Europe.” But, like most Russians, Mr. Tolstoy is full-throated in his support of Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea, a territory that many Russians believe should not have been ceded to Ukraine by Khrushchev in 1954.

“Leo Tolstoy was a Russian officer who defended Russia in the Fourth Bastion in Sevastopol,” he said, speaking through a translator over tea in a cafe near the museum. “For us, in our mind, this has always been Russia.”

He was referring to the siege of Sevastopol in 1854-55 in the Crimean War, in which Russia fought the allied forces of France, Britain, Sardinia and the Ottoman Empire and ultimately lost control of the city. “Of course, as a descendant of the Russian officer Leo Tolstoy, I cannot have any other attitude toward that,” he added.

Mr. Tolstoy was raised in a middle-class family in the Moscow region and trained as a journalist. In 1994, he was named director of Yasnaya Polyana, which is centered on the house where the novelist wrote and has been preserved as it was at the time of his death, in 1910. There are also a working farm and orchards, and Tolstoy’s grave is in a wooded glen that the writer associated with his beloved older brother, who died young.

Mr. Tolstoy improved the quality and range of activities at the museum, adding lectures, a literary prize and Russian-language classes. His wife, Ekaterina Tolstaya, took over as director after he became an adviser to Mr. Putin.

Mr. Tolstoy said that Mr. Putin had offered him the post after a meeting of museum directors in April 2012 at which Mr. Tolstoy criticized the government’s cultural strategy and the president’s advisory council for culture as ineffective. “When the meeting was over, the president asked me to stay for a bit and asked if I was so critical, could I do this job better?” Mr. Tolstoy said. Now, he briefs Mr. Putin on cultural issues and acts a bridge between Russia’s cultural world and the Kremlin.

On a recent afternoon, he was fielding calls from Irkutsk, Siberia, for help with funeral arrangements for the writer Valentin Rasputin, who died last week at 77 and had expressed a preference to be buried in Irkutsk, his birthplace. Mr. Tolstoy said he regarded Mr. Rasputin as the best writer of the past half-century. He was known for his vivid portrayals of the environmental devastation caused by industrialization in rural Russia and also for his conservatism: He called for prosecuting the punk activist group Pussy Riot after its provocative performance in a Moscow church and inveighed against perestroika, the liberalization initiated under Mikhail S. Gorbachev before the Soviet Union disintegrated.

Not long ago, the sense that Russia had somehow lost its way after the fall of the Soviet Union was pervasive here, but Mr. Tolstoy and other Putin loyalists have succeeded in reviving a sense of national pride expressly through cultural policy.

Guided by Mr. Tolstoy, a committee of leading cultural figures and state officials ultimately produced an 18-page policy document that defines culture broadly, saying it is as valuable to Russia as its natural resources. It also touches on moral precepts, the importance of religion in shaping values and the place of the Russian language in uniting a country of more than 140 million people and diverse ethnicities. The document also highlights Russia’s distinctiveness “as a country which unites two worlds, East and West.”

Some cultural figures have criticized the document for not addressing the pervasive influence of Russian state television, which operates as a mouthpiece for the Kremlin. Many didn’t pay it much attention. “It’s abstract, like a biblical text,” said Kirill Razlogov, a prominent film historian.

Far more concrete is the impact of laws that ban obscene words in the theater, films and public performances and that criminalize giving offense to religious believers, both of which were passed after Pussy Riot’s members were jailed in 2012.

While Mr. Tolstoy may agree with the general direction, his approach is more tolerant. “I believe everything has a right to exist unless it’s a provocation,” he said. “I think art shouldn’t be offensive.” As for Pussy Riot, he said: “I don’t support them, but on the other hand I also believe the reaction was inappropriate. An artist shouldn’t be punished in court.”

He described himself as a moderate who could “find balance” between traditionalists and liberals looking Westward. “On the one hand, Russia is open for cooperation,” he said. “And on the other hand, we have our own perspective on good and evil.”

Mr. Tolstoy seems to be generally respected by the intelligentsia. Victor Erofeyev, a writer who has been critical of Mr. Putin, said he thought Mr. Tolstoy was “a smart guy” who also reflects a growing tendency since Mr. Putin’s re-election in 2012 to see Russia as somehow purer than the West.

“They really believe in it,” Mr. Erofeyev said. “It’s not like during Communist times under Brezhnev” when “people say, ‘I love Communism,’ but we never believe in it. Here they play with a notion of Russia in a more delicate way. They say, ‘You know, Russia is still is a country of big culture, it’s a country of big human relationships, friendship, love affairs and so on, and that’s why we are more interesting than the West.’ ”

Back at the cafe, Mr. Tolstoy grew animated in talking about Russian pride. “Today’s Russia cannot be forced to do what it doesn’t want to,” he said. “It’s impossible to achieve either by sanctions, or even by an overt attack. Russia respects itself, and it wants only justice, nothing else.”

On that wintry afternoon, dozens of visitors flocked to Yasnaya Polyana. There was snow on the ground and gray ice on the pond, and the birch trees caught the afternoon light. The spirit of the novelist’s former home “is love,” Mr. Tolstoy reflected.

In Tolstoy’s novels, “there are no characters who are complete villains,” his great-great-grandson said. “All of his characters are real people.”

Correction: March 21, 2015

An earlier version of this article misstated the given name of a Russian writer who died last week. He is Valentin Rasputin, not Vladimir.

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Pope Francis Bows, Asks For Blessing From Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew In Extraordinary Display Of Christian Unity
Saturday March 21st, 2015 at 3:02 PM

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ISTANBUL (AP) — Pope Francis and the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians demanded an end to the persecution of religious minorities in Syria and Iraq on Sunday and called for dialogue with Muslims, capping Francis' three-day visit to Turkey with a strong show of Christian unity.

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mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Two men who killed 21 people in attack on Bardo museum trained with weapons in neighbouring country in December, security secretary says The two gunmen who killed 21 people in...

» At least 16 people killed in Yemen's mosque bomb attacks: sources
20/03/15 17:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. SANAA (Reuters) - At least 16 people were killed when suicide bombers blew themselves up in two mosques in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Friday during noon prayers, medical sources told ...

» India train derailment: 30 killed, 50 injured - CNN International
20/03/15 17:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. CNN International India train derailment: 30 killed, 50 injured CNN International New Delhi, India (CNN) A passenger train overshot a stop and jumped its tracks in northern India...

» Germany condemns Russian deal with South Ossetia as threat to Georgia
20/03/15 17:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government on Friday condemned Russia's new treaty with Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region, saying it posed a threat to Georgian sovereignty and wou...

» Vikings were more trade and bling than rape and pillage, museum shows
20/03/15 17:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Cornwall exhibition including coins, combs and even a teddy bear brooch challenges popular image of Vikings as homicidal raiders They are generally thought of as fearsome, unk...

» Bibi Walks Back - The Atlantic
20/03/15 17:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. The Atlantic Bibi Walks Back The Atlantic Just days after his electoral victory, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reversed his position on the two-state solution—again. ...

» U.S., allies launch eight airstrikes against Islamic State: task force
20/03/15 17:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and its coalition allies staged eight air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq since early Thursday, the Combined Joint Ta...

» Picasso Electrician Guilty Of Stealing 270 Works
20/03/15 17:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky News. The 75-year-old and his wife claimed they were given the drawings and sketches when they worked for the artist before his death.

» EU leaders pledge security cooperation, aid for Tunisia
20/03/15 17:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders agreed on Friday to increase cooperation with Tunisia following an Islamist attack on tourists in the capital this week, saying they would a...

» Obama: US to reassess ties with Israel
20/03/15 17:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The European Union Times - World News, Breaking News. US President Barack Obama with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. US President Barack Obama has told Benjamin Netanyahu that Washington will &#...

» Major US circus scraps elephant acts
20/03/15 17:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Uploads by AFP news agency. Major US circus scraps elephant acts Across America through the decades, children of all ages delighted in the arrival of the circus, with its retinue of clowns, acrobats and, m...

» Kurds Celebrate 'Nawroz' - New Years
20/03/15 17:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Uploads by VOAvideo. Kurds Celebrate 'Nawroz' - New Years Kurdish residents of the northern Syrian city of Kobani are marking the New Year festival Nawroz. Celebrations were held along the border with Turk...

» Dozens Killed in Suicide Attacks at Shiite Mosques in Yemen
20/03/15 17:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. At least 35 people died after suicide bombers detonated explosives at two Zaydi Shiite mosques in the capital, Sana.

» Pay with a poem: cafes around the world to exchange coffee for poetry
20/03/15 17:33 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. To mark World Poetry Day, more than a thousand coffee establishments around the world will use poetry as their currency this Saturday Find out about the participating cafes in...

» Jerusalem at boiling point of polarisation and violence – EU report
20/03/15 17:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Exclusive: Leaked report says city more divided than at any time since 1967 and calls for consideration of tougher sanctions tougher EU sanctions against Israel over settlemen...

» Militants Attack Police Station in India
20/03/15 17:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. The heavily armed militants, wearing Indian Army uniforms, opened fire on a station near the Pakistani border, leaving six people dead

» Drones aren’t just toys that cause a nuisance. They’re still killing innocent people
20/03/15 17:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Current media coverage might make you think drones are what naughty people land on the White House lawn. This is a dangerous disconnect from the bloody reality For anyone conc...

» Indian train accident kills at least 30, leaves 50 injured
20/03/15 17:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. Bachhrawan, India (Reuters) - At least 30 people were killed and 50 injured when an express train overshot a railway signal and some carriages went off the rails in a northern Indian s...

» U.S. air power in Afghanistan at five-year low as aid to Afghan forces wanes
20/03/15 17:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. KABUL (Reuters) - The United States' use of air power in Afghanistan in the first two months of 2015 was its lowest in five years, as the reduced international military coalition sharp...

» Rapper Azealia Banks: I Hate White Americans
20/03/15 17:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The European Union Times - World News, Breaking News. Rapper Azealia Banks hates “white Americans” and everything about the U.S. In a recent interview with Playboy , the 23-year-old Harlem rapper said she ...

» World Health Organisation 'intentionally delayed declaring Ebola emergency'
20/03/15 17:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Internal documents show WHO was receiving emails by mid-April 2014 from staffers in Guinea calling for help with epidemic The World Health Organisation dragged its feet for tw...

» India derailment: 30 killed
20/03/15 17:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from CNN.com - World. At least 30 people were killed and more than 50 others were injured in a passenger train derailment Friday in northern India, according to Northern Railway spokesman Neeraj Sharma.

» Dozens killed in Yemen mosque attacks
20/03/15 17:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from CNN.com - World. Suicide bombers on Friday attacked two mosques frequented by the Yemeni capital's Houthi conquerors, killing at least 120 people and injuring scores of others, two Houthi officials said.

» In a country that reveres its heroes, the prospect of a nuclear deal with foreig...
20/03/15 17:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from FT World News's Facebook Wall. In a country that reveres its heroes, the prospect of a nuclear deal with foreign powers begs the question of who in Iran stands to benefit politically in Iran As nuclear...

» 1 off-duty New Jersey cop dead, 2 critical after NYC crash - WRBL
20/03/15 17:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. 1 off-duty New Jersey cop dead, 2 critical after NYC crash WRBL NEW YORK (AP) - A New Jersey mayor says a wrong-way crash in New York City has left one off-duty police officer de...

» German Defense Chief Calls for EU Army
20/03/15 17:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen threw her weight behind the idea of a European Union army, floated by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker earlier this month.

» ATF's first Senate-confirmed director resigns - Kansas City Star
20/03/15 17:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Kansas City Star ATF's first Senate-confirmed director resigns Kansas City Star The first Senate-confirmed director for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is...

» Afghan Leader Said to Be Centralizing Power as Unity Government Plan Stalls
20/03/15 17:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. From left, Hamid Karzai, the former president of Afghanistan; Ashraf Ghani, the current president; and Abdullah Abdullah, the Afghan government's chief executive officer, in Kabul on March 9.

» Oligarch calls for Ukraine nationalisation
20/03/15 17:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News. One of the country’s most powerful businessmen says privatisation process was criminal conspiracy

» Podcast: Three Weeks That Shook The Kremlin
20/03/15 17:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. One thing has become clear over the past few weeks. Something is seriously wrong in Moscow.

» ATF chief steps down after bullet ban flap - The Hill
20/03/15 17:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. The Hill ATF chief steps down after bullet ban flap The Hill The director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is stepping down, the oft-criticized ag...

» Feds open investigation into Aaron Schock - CBS News
20/03/15 17:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. CBS News Feds open investigation into Aaron Schock CBS News A federal official tells CBS News that the FBI and Department of Justice are investigating Rep. Aaron Schock's spendin...

» Man Wrongfully Jailed For 39 Years Gets $1m
20/03/15 17:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky News. Ricky Jackson, the longest-held US prisoner to be cleared of a crime, says the repayment from Ohio state is "fantastic".

» 'EU report urges sanctions against Israel over Jerusalem policies' - Jerusalem Post Israel News
20/03/15 17:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Jerusalem Post Israel News 'EU report urges sanctions against Israel over Jerusalem policies' Jerusalem Post Israel News The report, which was leaked to the British newspaper 'Guardian...

» Is India big enough for man and man-eater?
20/03/15 17:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from CNN.com - World. "The Law of the Jungle, which never orders anything without a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man."

» Russia 'Very Unhappy' at Sanctions Link
20/03/15 17:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. Russia is “very unhappy” with the European economic sanctions being linked to the full implementation of a peace deal agreed in Minsk last month, a senior Russian official said.

» Speaker Boehner to travel to Israel following Netanyahu reelection - Christian Science Monitor
20/03/15 17:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Christian Science Monitor Speaker Boehner to travel to Israel following Netanyahu reelection Christian Science Monitor Speaker John Boehner, who announced his travel plans on Friday, a...

» Threat of Islamic Radicalization, Russian Influence Converge in the Balkans
20/03/15 17:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Uploads by VOAvideo. Threat of Islamic Radicalization, Russian Influence Converge in the Balkans The White House says violent extremism and Russian aggression in Ukraine are two of the greatest challenges ...

» Is this giant stingray the world's biggest freshwater fish?
20/03/15 17:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Uploads by ODN. Is this giant stingray the world's biggest freshwater fish? Scientists believe the Giant Whiptail stingray caught in Thailand could be the world's largest freshwater fish. . Report by Cara ...

» U.S. moving additional artillery battalion to South Korea: Pentagon
20/03/15 17:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army is sending a field artillery battalion of about 400 soldiers and multiple-launch rocket systems to South Korea, a move the Pentagon said on Friday ...

» Fracking: US tightens rules for chemical disclosure
20/03/15 17:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 4:05 p.m. EDT. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration said Friday it is requiring companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands to disclose chemicals used in hydrau...

» Teenager Jailed For Planning to Murder Soldier
20/03/15 17:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. A British teenage Muslim convert convicted of planning to behead a soldier received a 22 year jail sentence, one of a growing string of plots across Europe targeting police and the mil...

» Penis transplant surgeon, André van der Merwe, becomes medical superstar
20/03/15 17:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Doctor who performed first successful penis transplant inundated with requests from around the world to share his expertise His fame does not yet that match of heart transplan...

» 5 Dead Babies Found in French Home
20/03/15 17:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TIME. Police discovered five dead babies in a house in the south of France on Thursday after a man who lives there called to say he had found one corpse in a cooler bag. When law enforcement arrived and se...

» How can a feature film about Amanda Knox ring more true than the news?
20/03/15 17:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. The role of the media in whipping up the idea of Knox’s character as murderer or victim is lambasted by director Michael Winterbottom in The Face of an Angel, while he ma...

» Peru's Premier Removes Senior Spy Officials
20/03/15 17:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. Peru’s prime minister removed the head of the National Intelligence Service and other high-level officials, as allegations widened that the spy agency for years gathered information on...

» White House Antagonism Toward Netanyahu Grows
20/03/15 17:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s election victory, he is still out of the good graces of the Obama administration, which has had to reassess its policy toward Israel.

» The Guardian view on Richard III: he should be reburied with dignity
20/03/15 17:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Even notorious kings deserve a dignified last resting place. Richard III’s reinterment is a proper gesture It is more than half a millennium since King Richard III of England ...

» You adore Prince Charles, America? Keep him
20/03/15 17:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Without his biscuits, homoeopathy and Madonna-like dancing, Britain will struggle. But perhaps it takes a greater nation to appreciate this perennialist sage It is a measure o...

» Alzheimer's drug trial shows promising early results
20/03/15 17:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Experts cautiously welcome results of trial of antibody known as aducanumab, which appears to show benefit in patients given it in very earliest stage of disease A new drug fo...

» Russia Rebounds, Despite Sanctions - Bloomberg View
20/03/15 17:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Bloomberg View Russia Rebounds, Despite Sanctions Bloomberg View Now the picture is changing, with investors starting to favor Russia in 2015. The ruble, which became the world's most...

» Подозреваемый в организации убийства экс-депутат Рады задержан в Подмосковье - Интерфакс
20/03/15 17:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Комсомольская Правда в Украине Подозреваемый в организации убийства экс-депутат Рады задержан в Подмосковье Интерфакс Москва. 20 марта. INTERFAX.RU - Депутат Верховной рады Украины...

» Nuclear Talks Interrupted by a Death in Iran
20/03/15 17:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Talks on an Iranian nuclear deal being negotiated by the United States and several other world powers were suspended Friday when the Iranian delegation left Switzerland following the sudd...

» Дежавю. Политические убийства - 20 марта, 2015
20/03/15 17:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Радиопрограммы и подкасты - Радио Свобода. В российской истории власть часто использовала убийства для устрашения своих политических оппонентов. Или для устранения досаждающих им критиков режима. От Троцко...

» Russia Vows Response to EU Sanctions Extension
20/03/15 17:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Russia has denounced the European Union's move to maintain sanctions against Moscow over its role in the Ukraine conflict, calling Thursday's decision to extend the measures "destructive....

» Staying Ukrainian In Crimea
20/03/15 17:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Since Crimea's annexation from Ukraine a year ago, the vast majority of local residents have taken Russian citizenship. Those who chose to remain Ukrainian are grappling ...

» К концу марта Россия станет основным поставщиком продуктов в ДНР - Российская Газета
20/03/15 17:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Российская Газета К концу марта Россия станет основным поставщиком продуктов в ДНР Российская Газета Власти Донецкой народной республики сообщили о резком сокращении поставок товар...

» Kyrygz Mercenary Describes Fighting Alongside Separatists In Ukraine
20/03/15 17:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. A Kyrgyz military reserve officer has told RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service about his seven months of service as a mercenary in the ranks of the Russia-backed separatists in easte...

» Pope Accepts Cardinal O'Brien's Resignation
20/03/15 17:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Pope Francis has removed the rights and privileges of the former head of the Catholic Church in Scotland, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, two years after he resigned admitting sexual misconduct w...

» Ukrainian Oligarch Tears Into RFE/RL Journalist
20/03/15 17:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. One of Ukraine's richest and most powerful men responds to a question from RFE/RL with an expletive-filled rant.

» Могерини считает, что отказ от сотрудничества с Россией в сфере безопасности будет ошибкой - Газета.Ru
20/03/15 16:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. РИА Новости Могерини считает, что отказ от сотрудничества с Россией в сфере безопасности будет ошибкой Газета.Ru Прекращение сотрудничества с Россией в сфере безопасности, в частно...

» Akhmed Zakayev: “The decision for the ‘hit list’ was made not in Grozny, but in Moscow.”
20/03/15 16:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Home - Institute of Modern Russia. Akhmed Zakayev, political emigrant and head of the government of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in exile, spoke with Elena Servettaz about his take on Boris Nemtsov’s m...

» Близ российской границы начались учения ВВС США и Эстонии - Российская Газета
20/03/15 16:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Российская Газета Близ российской границы начались учения ВВС США и Эстонии Российская Газета Вечером в пятницу в Эстонии на авиабазе Эмари близ Таллина приземлились 14 истребителе...

» Obama Calls on Iran to Free Detained Americans
20/03/15 16:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Invoking the "familial spirit" of the Persian new year, U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday called for Iran to free three imprisoned Americans and to help find a fourth who went missing...

» Power Vertical Podcast: Three Weeks That Shook The Kremlin - March 20, 2015
20/03/15 16:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Power Vertical - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. One thing has become clear over the past few weeks. Something is seriously wrong in Moscow. Download audio: http://flashvideo.rferl.org/clips/ENGL/20...

» Four Russians Reportedly Deported From Turkey After Trying To Cross Into Syria
20/03/15 16:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Four Russian nationals have reportedly been deported from Turkey after trying to illegally cross the border into Syria to join the Islamic State (IS) group, Russian news ...

» Corruption in Italy 'worse than ever' as minister quits over links with gang accused of bribery
20/03/15 16:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from - Europe RSS Feed. In Italy, it’s terribly important to appear suave – “fare una bella figura” – even while you’ve got your hand in the till. Hence the Infrastructure and Transport Minister Maurizio Lupi’s...

» Merkel Warns That Greece Will Receive Aid Only if Reforms Are Met
20/03/15 16:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. The statement, at a European Union leaders’ summit, came as Greece scraped together enough money to pay around $2.17 billion in debts.

» Russia, Ukraine, EU Start New Round Of Gas Talks
20/03/15 16:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Representatives of Russia, Ukraine, and the European Union have started talks on gas supplies in Brussels.

» Germans’ obsession with Greek ‘Stinkefinger’
20/03/15 16:33 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Europe News. Video clip brings fascination with Varoufakis to fever pitch

» Аксенов назвал мотивы двух тысяч крымчан, отказавшихся от российских паспортов - NEWSru.com
20/03/15 16:33 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Regions.ru Аксенов назвал мотивы двух тысяч крымчан, отказавшихся от российских паспортов NEWSru.com Глава Крыма Сергей Аксенов сообщил, что 99% жителей республики получили российс...

» Putin: No Reason Yet for Confidence in Russia's Economy
20/03/15 16:33 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday it was still too soon to feel confident about the country's economy, although his ministers said the worst is over. Speaking to a confere...

» Defense Minister Says Moldova Must Be Ready To Counter 'Hybrid War'
20/03/15 16:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Moldova's defense Minister has said that his country must be prepared to deal with the threats posed by "hybrid" warfare, a reference to tactics Russia is widely accused ...

» Арсений Яценюк обратился к западным партнерам за помощью по закрытию госграницы с Россией в Донбассе - Коммерсантъ
20/03/15 16:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. РБК Украина Арсений Яценюк обратился к западным партнерам за помощью по закрытию госграницы с Россией в Донбассе Коммерсантъ Украина просит западных партнеров поддержать ее в усили...

» Conflict, Climate Affect Food Security
20/03/15 16:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. A new report says there were both advances and setbacks in food security in 2014. Poverty was reduced last year and the number of hungry people declined. However, conflict, climate change...

» Putin urges billionaires to bring money back to Russia - U.S. News & World Report
20/03/15 16:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. U.S. News & World Report Putin urges billionaires to bring money back to Russia U.S. News & World Report Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures speaking at an business forum in Mos...

» Nagorno-Karabakh Accuses Azerbaijan Of Killing Three Soldiers
20/03/15 16:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Officials in the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh accuse Azerbaijan of attacks that have left three ethnic Armenian soldiers dead.

» Russia Declares Worst Is Over as Economy Adapts to Sanctions - Bloomberg
20/03/15 16:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Press TV Bloomberg Russia Declares Worst Is of Crisis Over as Economy Adapts to Sanctions Stabilizes Bloomberg (Bloomberg) -- The worst is over for Russia's economy after a tailspin i...

» Russia declares worst of economic crisis over - Salt Lake Tribune
20/03/15 16:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Bloomberg Russia declares worst of economic crisis over Salt Lake Tribune The Bank of Russia last week lowered its main interest rate for the second time this year and signaled more p...

» Alexander Litvinenko suspect 'willing to co-operate'
20/03/15 16:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russian news, all the latest and breaking Russia news. Man giving name Dmitri Kovtun contacts inquiry, causing lawyers to ponder if he might give evidence by video link or face questioning by police over R...

» Isis claims responsibility for Tunisia museum attack and warns deadly shooting is 'just the first drop of the rain'
20/03/15 16:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from - Europe RSS Feed. Isis has claimed responsibility for the attack on a museum in the capital of Tunisia , which claimed the lives of 23 people, saying it was only the “first drop of the rain”. people.

» Marion Maréchal-Le Pen: The poster-girl of the French far-right is more extreme than her aunt and bigger box office than her grandfather
20/03/15 16:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from - Europe RSS Feed. A young woman, tall, slender and blonde, greets market-goers in the pretty town of Bollène in the Rhône valley. She wears smart black trousers and a black woollen jacket with big zips on...

» Россия и Запад: взаимное недоверие
20/03/15 16:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Uploads by Голос Америки. Россия и Запад: взаимное недоверие Originally published at - http://www.golos-ameriki.ru/media/video/russia-ukraine-global-security/2687529.html. From: Голос Америки Views: 2 0 0 ...

» EU businesses in Russia: American sanctions are clearer
20/03/15 16:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from EU-RussiaCentre. Here is published an interview with Frank Schauff, the CEO of the Association of European Businesses. Schauff met with EU officials to express the concerns of the European business communi...

» Putin Turns Up His Special War Against Europe
20/03/15 15:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The InterpreterThe Interpreter. Over the last year, since the Russian theft of Crimea, I’ve unambiguously warned that Vladimir Putin means what he says and he will not shy away from confrontation with the ...

» Russia, China, others snub UN meeting on Crimea - Sydney Morning Herald
20/03/15 15:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Sydney Morning Herald Russia , China, others snub UN meeting on Crimea Sydney Morning Herald United Nations: Russia , China, Venezuela and Angola snubbed an informal United Nations Se...

» NSA Chief: US Needs Offensive Strategy to Deter Cyber Attacks
20/03/15 15:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. The United States needs to step up its offensive cyber capabilities, a top security official said on Thursday, warning that looming defense budget cuts could hurt efforts to bolster the n...

» US Troop Levels, Development Remain Focus of US-Afghan Talks
20/03/15 15:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Months after taking office in the first democratic transition of power in Afghanistan, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah will meet with U.S. Presiden...

» US to train 750 Ukraine troops as Russian aggression continues - Fox News
20/03/15 15:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. U.S. News & World Report US to train 750 Ukraine troops as Russian aggression continues Fox News With Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine continuing, the White House announced Wedne...

» Study: 9.2% of Europe's Wild Bee Species Face Extinction
20/03/15 14:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Almost one in 10 of Europe's wild bee species is at risk of extinction because of threats from the spread of farms and pesticides among other factors, a first assessment of the continent'...

» Senators Seek US Strategy to Stop China's Maritime Reclamations
20/03/15 14:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Leading U.S. senators expressed alarm on Thursday at the scale and speed of China's land reclamation in the South China Sea and said a formal U.S. strategy was needed to slow or stop the ...

» Yanis Varoufakis’s Gesture
20/03/15 14:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. Speaking in 2013, the Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis, now his nation’s finance minister, gestured obscenely while talking about the debt crisis. The editor of the video confirmed its aut...

» Varoufakis Says Video Was Doctored
20/03/15 14:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. Greece’s finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, denied making an obscene gesture in reference to Germany during a 2013 lecture in Croatia, saying video of the talk was “doctored.”

» US Urges New Natural Gas Links for Southeastern Europe
20/03/15 14:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. U.S. energy envoy Amos Hochstein urged southeast European states to build new gas links and focus on smaller projects to curb reliance on supplies from Russia, rather than blockbuster pip...

» Порошенко заявил о готовности провести референдум по устройству Украины - РБК
20/03/15 14:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. РБК Порошенко заявил о готовности провести референдум по устройству Украины РБК Президент Украины Петр Порошенко заявил в интервью Euronews о готовности провести референдум по устр...

» Solar Eclipse and Supermoon Have Europe Energy Providers Watchful
20/03/15 14:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. Energy operators reliant on the sun prepared for a day of headaches as a total eclipse coincided with a supermoon.

» Obama Greets Iranians on Nowruz
20/03/15 14:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. U.S. President Barack Obama sent Nowruz or new year's greetings to Iranians Friday, telling them that this year is the best opportunity in decades to pursue a different future between Ira...

» Antibiotic Use in Livestock to Grow, Raising Resistance Concerns
20/03/15 14:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. When people rise out of poverty, experts say, the first thing they want to do is eat better. For most people, that means meat. In the last half century, rising global prosperity in Asia a...

» США решили тренировать украинских бойцов Национальной гвардии - Последние новости России и Украины, главные новости дня.
20/03/15 14:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Последние новости России и Украины, главные новости дня. США решили тренировать украинских бойцов Национальной гвардии Последние новости России и Украины, главные новости дня. Воен...

» Open Source: Greco-German ‘Fingergate’ Gets Curiouser and Curiouser
20/03/15 14:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. The debate over an obscene gesture by Greece’s finance minister took a comic turn as a German satirist claimed to have faked video of it.

» More Assertive Japan Seen Positively in Washington
20/03/15 14:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. The security alliance between Japan and the United States is expected to feature prominently in talks between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Barack Obama during the Japanese lead...

» Ukraine crisis: EU links Russia sanctions to truce deal - BBC News
20/03/15 14:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. BBC News Ukraine crisis: EU links Russia sanctions to truce deal BBC News European Union leaders have agreed to keep sanctions on Russia in place until the end of this year at the ear...

» EU Leaders Unlikely To Offer More To Eastern Partners At Upcoming Summit
20/03/15 14:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. EU leaders at an Eastern Partnership summit in Riga in May are unlikely to offer a closer relationship between the European Union and some of its eastern neighbors outsid...

» EU Leaders Link Russian Sanctions To Minsk Agreement
20/03/15 14:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The European Union has decided to link its economic sanctions on Russia to the implementation of the Minsk agreement.

» Obama Tells Iranians Rare Opportunity For Better Relations
20/03/15 14:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. U.S. President Barack Obama has told Iranians this year represented the "best opportunity in decades" to pursue a different relationship between their two countries.

» U.S. To Train Ukrainian Guardsmen
20/03/15 14:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The Pentagon has announced that some 290 U.S. Army paratroopers will travel to western Ukraine next month to train three battalions of Ukrainian national guard troops.

» США отправят на Украину 290 десантников для обучения бойцов нацгвардии - Российская Газета
20/03/15 14:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Российская Газета США отправят на Украину 290 десантников для обучения бойцов нацгвардии Российская Газета США планируют приступить к обучению бойцов Национальной гвардии Украины в...

» Tunisians Vow to Defeat Terrorism
20/03/15 14:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Tunisians and others have expressed outrage after Wednesday's deadly terrorist attack on a major museum in Tunis. Hundreds of protesters gathered there Thursday and vowed to defeat terror...

» US to 'Reassess' Options After Netanyahu Comments
20/03/15 14:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. President Barack Obama has told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu he will "reassess" aspects of the U.S.-Israeli relationship after the Israeli leader's comments rejecting the two...

» Обучение бойцов нацгвардии Украины начнется в конце апреля — Пентагон - Trans-Port
20/03/15 14:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Обучение бойцов нацгвардии Украины начнется в конце апреля — Пентагон Trans-Port Почти 300 американских десантников будут направлены на запад Украины в конце апреля для проведения ...

» In Crimea, Adjusting to New Citizenship, New Political Realities
20/03/15 14:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. A year after Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula, its people are adjusting to new citizenship, new political conditions, and new economic realities. Russian navy and special forces ...

» EU Links Russia Sanctions to Minsk Cease-Fire Deal
20/03/15 14:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Moscow Times Top Stories. European Union leaders agreed on Thursday that economic sanctions imposed on Russia will stay in place until a Ukraine peace deal is fully implemented, effectively extending t...

» U.S. Army Paratroopers to Train National Guardsmen in Ukraine
20/03/15 14:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Moscow Times Top Stories. About 290 U.S. Army paratroopers will travel to western Ukraine next month to train three battalions of Ukrainian national guard troops, the Pentagon said Thursday, moving ahe...

» Britain revives Margaret Thatcher's free market fund in struggle against Vladimir Putin
20/03/15 14:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russian news, all the latest and breaking Russia news. David Cameron unveils successor to Margaret Thatcher's Know How Fund to help Balkans resist Russian influence

» European Leaders Urge Greece to Accelerate Overhaul Efforts
20/03/15 14:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. After late-night talks, French, German and Greek leaders asserted that Greece could can get back on track by speeding up the implementation of a February agreement.

» Миссия ОБСЕ проинспектировала позиции ополченцев в Донбассе - Первый канал
20/03/15 14:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Миссия ОБСЕ проинспектировала позиции ополченцев в Донбассе Первый канал В самом Донбассе люди надеются, что политические шаги всё же будут приняты. До тех пор, пока стороны не нач...

» 2 Police Killed in Kashmir
20/03/15 14:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Militants stormed a police station in Indian Kashmir and opened fire, killing two police officers, local authorities said. At least three militants attacked the station Friday in the Kath...

» Олланд: разрешение конфликта на Украине - в выполнении минских соглашений - Аргументы и факты
20/03/15 14:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Аргументы и факты Олланд: разрешение конфликта на Украине - в выполнении минских соглашений Аргументы и факты Французкий лидер Франсуа Олланд заявил, что решением ситуации на Украи...

» Obama Urges Progress on Iran Nuclear Deal
20/03/15 14:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. In a greeting to Iranians marking the Persian new year, U.S. President Barack Obama told has delivered a new year's message to Iranians, telling them this year represents the "best opport...

» Убийство Немцова стали планировать в январе - Дни.Ру
20/03/15 14:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Дни.Ру Убийство Немцова стали планировать в январе Дни.Ру 09:12 / 20.03.2015 Дадаев, Немцов, УбийствоПо данным следствия, группа для убийства Бориса Немцова была организована еще в...

» Russia Update: March 20, 2015
20/03/15 14:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The InterpreterThe Interpreter. Welcome to our column, Russia Update , where we will be closely following day-to-day developments in Russia, including the Russian government’s foreign and domestic po...

» Leaders Of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan To Meet
20/03/15 14:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The trilateral meeting in Astana was originally scheduled for March 12 and 13, but Russian President Vladimir Putin pulled out at the last minute, sparking rumors, denied...

» 15 Killed in Indian Train Derailment
20/03/15 14:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Three coaches of a passenger train derailed Friday morning in northern India, killing 15 people. At least 50 at least five people. Several people were injured in the accident in Uttar Pra...

» Japan Arrests Suspect in US Embassy Threats
20/03/15 14:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Japanese police said Friday they have arrested a man who threatened to bomb the U. S. embassy in Tokyo. Police say Okinawa resident Mitsuyoshi Kamiya made phone calls threatening to bomb ...

» EU Unlikely To Offer More To Eastern Partners At Upcoming Summit
20/03/15 14:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. EU leaders at an upcoming Eastern Partnership summit in Riga are unlikely to offer a closer relationship between Brussels and some of its eastern neighbors, outside of th...

» Dead bodies of five babies found at house in southern France
20/03/15 14:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from - Europe RSS Feed. The Police have discovered the dead bodies of five new-born babies – four of them hidden in a deep-freezer– have been discovered in a rural home south of Bordeaux in south west France. b...

» EU Launches First Step in 'Spreading Word' Against Russian 'Disinformation'
20/03/15 14:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Moscow Times Top Stories. The European Union is set to launch a first operation in a new propaganda war with Russia within days of EU leaders giving formal approval to the campaign at a summit on Thurs...

» Trial of US Marine Charged with Transgender Murder to Start Monday
20/03/15 14:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. The trial of a U.S. Marine accused of murdering a Philippine transgender in October is starting Monday. The trial begins almost one year after the two countries signed a much-vaunted mili...

» Экологические НКО признают иностранными агентами вопреки решению КС
20/03/15 14:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Новости дня. Подробнее...

» Профсоюзные активисты - о сокращениях на заводах Ford и GM в Петербурге
20/03/15 14:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Uploads by Радио Свобода. Профсоюзные активисты - о сокращениях на заводах Ford и GM в Петербурге Активисты Межрегионального профсоюза работников автотранспорта - о ситуации на заводах Ford и GM в Ленингра...

» Sanctions on Russia 'to last until the end of the year'
20/03/15 14:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russian news, all the latest and breaking Russia news. The EU suggests it will only lift sanctions on Russia when the Minsk peace agreement is fully implemented

» Russian Cutoff From Banking Backbone Said to Be Ruled Out - Bloomberg
20/03/15 14:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Russian Cutoff From Banking Backbone Said to Be Ruled Out Bloomberg Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's prime minister, said in January that his country's response to any Swift restrictions wou...

» Ukraine sending new $15mn gas prepayment to Russia - Naftogaz - RT
20/03/15 14:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. RT Ukraine sending new $15mn gas prepayment to Russia - Naftogaz RT Naftogaz, Ukraine's state gas company, says it has sent another $15 million installment to Gazprom for March suppl...

» Дэвид Кэмерон создал фонд борьбы с российским влиянием - РБК
20/03/15 14:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. РБК Дэвид Кэмерон создал фонд борьбы с российским влиянием РБК Премьер-министр Великобритании Дэвид Кэмерон возродил программу времен холодной войны по поддержке стран в борьбе с «...

» Mobius: Russia will get worse before it gets better - CNBC
20/03/15 14:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Mobius: Russia will get worse before it gets better CNBC The current weakness in Russia is the big question hanging over emerging markets, fund manager Mark Mobius said on Friday. The...

» В Верховной раде требуют уволить посла Украины в Белоруссии - РИА Новости
20/03/15 14:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. РИА Новости В Верховной раде требуют уволить посла Украины в Белоруссии РИА Новости Посол Украины в Белоруссии Михаил Ежель был назначен послом Украины в Белоруссии в апреле 2013 г...

» Europeans (Carefully) Gaze Upward for Glimpse of Solar Eclipse
20/03/15 14:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. Friday’s eclipse The next one will not occur until 2026, and Friday’s was also expected to provide a supermoon, the moment the moon orbits at its closest proximity to the earth.

» Russia's Putin calls for regional currency union - Reuters
20/03/15 14:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Reuters Russia's Putin calls for regional currency union Reuters Kazakhstan, the second-largest post-Soviet oil producer and economy after Russia , has said the three nations should s...

» Another Construction Boss Sacked at Russia's Mega Cosmodrome Over Corruption Scandal
20/03/15 14:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Moscow Times Top Stories. The head of construction at Russia's 150 billion ruble ($2.5 billion) Vostochny Cosmodrome project been removed from his post amid corruption scandals and missed deadlines.

» Kazakh Security Official: 150 Kazakh Citizens Fight Abroad
20/03/15 14:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. A Kazakh National Security Committee official says some 150 Kazakhs are fighting alongside militant groups abroad.

» Solar eclipse pictures: Best photos from the phenomenon seen around the UK and around the world
20/03/15 14:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from - Europe RSS Feed. Many in the UK missed out on the eclipse, as a cold front brought a blanket of cloud that covered up the view. But for those who managed to sneak a picture through the holes in the cloud...

» The Daily Vertical: The Crimea Question
20/03/15 14:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The Daily Vertical is a video primer for Russia-watchers that appears Monday through Friday. Viewers can suggest topics via Twitter@PowerVertical or on the Power Vertical...

» US House Speaker Boehner to Visit Israel
20/03/15 14:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Republican John Boehner, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and an ardent backer of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, will visit Israel at the end of this month, diplom...

» Greek PM Assures EU Creditors Reforms Coming
20/03/15 14:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Greece said on Friday it was moving swiftly to meet creditors' demands for a detailed economic reform plan after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras assured eurozone leaders his leftist-led coa...

» European Power Grids Keep Lights on During Solar Eclipse
20/03/15 14:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Electrical grids in Europe claimed success on Friday in managing the unprecedented disruption to solar power from a 2 1/2-hour eclipse that brought sudden, massive drops in supply. German...

» Alexander Lebedev gives up bankrolling Russia's Novaya Gazeta
20/03/15 14:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia | The Guardian. Independent owner says decision is due to expense and ‘the strain’ Alexander Lebedev, the Independent’s owner, has given a candid interview to the Times in which he reveals that he i...

» Russian News Site Forced to Delete Material on Spate of Cancer Suicides
20/03/15 14:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Moscow Times Top Stories. Russia's media watchdog is pressuring a religion-focused news site not to report on why nearly a dozen people suffering from cancer committed suicide last month in Moscow, the...

» Fire Extinguished At Kazakh National Arts Academy
20/03/15 14:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Firefighters have extinguished a massive fire at the Kazakh National Arts Academy in Almaty.

» Putin's war decimates Ukraine as economy shrinks 15pc
20/03/15 14:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russian news, all the latest and breaking Russia news. Crisis-gripped country contracts as runaway inflation and collapsing currency forces it into bail-out programme

» In the USSR, There Was No Sex; In Putin’s Russia, No Suicides from Medical Despair
20/03/15 14:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Window on Eurasia -- New Series. Paul Goble Staunton, March 20 – In the USSR, it was sometimes said, there was no sex because that ...

» Tunisian Official: Gunmen Trained in Libya Before Attack
20/03/15 14:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. The two extremist gunmen who killed 21 people at a museum in Tunis trained in neighboring Libya before carrying out the deadly attack, a top Tunisian security official said. Wednesday's a...

» Solar eclipse from space: International Space Station astronauts and European Space Agency tweet spectacular images
20/03/15 14:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from - Europe RSS Feed. While the patchy weather as the eclipse moved across the UK today meant that some people were unable to see it at all, there were others with the best possible view — satellites floating...

» Boko Haram Blamed for 11 Deaths in Gomboru
20/03/15 14:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. At least 11 people have died in the Nigerian border town of Gomboru in an apparent attack by the Boko Haram militant group, which had ceded the territory to Cameroonian forces a few weeks...

» Perm's Big Chill
20/03/15 14:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The Perm-36 gulag The Perm-36 Gulag memorial's downplaying of the abuses of Josef Stalin's terror are just one example of the changes in the Urals region since Vladimir P...

» Vladimir Putin calls for 'Eurasia' currency union
20/03/15 14:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russian news, all the latest and breaking Russia news. Russian president says currency union with Belarus and Kazakhstan could help overcome falling oil prices and decline of rouble

» Ukraine Live Day 396: Stand-Off Outside Stanitsa Luganskaya Ends With Only Remaining Bridge Destroyed
20/03/15 14:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The InterpreterThe Interpreter. Yesterday’s live coverage of the Ukraine conflict can be found here . An archive of our liveblogs can be found here . For an overview and analysis of this developing s...

» Suicide Bombers Kill Dozens at Yemen Mosques
20/03/15 14:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Medical officials say dozens Dozens of worshippers were killed and more than 100 injured when three suicide bombers Friday when two suicide attackers blew themselves up at a pair of mosqu...

» Kazakhs Fighting With IS Are 'Victims Of Radical Propaganda'
20/03/15 14:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Some of the Kazakh nationals who have gone to fight alongside the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria and Iraq are "victims of radical propaganda," the deputy chairman of K...

» IS Video Allegedly Shows 3 Kurdish Fighters Beheaded
20/03/15 14:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. The Islamic State group has released a new online video purporting to show the beheadings of three Kurdish peshmerga fighters, with a warning that it will execute "dozens more" prisoners ...

» Political Backlash Mounts Against Philippine President
20/03/15 14:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Philippine President Benigno Aquino is facing the biggest challenge of his political career as more people come to believe he is responsible for a bungled January police operation that le...

» Pablo Picasso's descendants win case of lost art work, but mystery of missing pieces remains
20/03/15 14:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from - Europe RSS Feed. The descendants of Pablo Picasso became £50m richer today, but the mystery of the 271 “lost” works by the Cubist master stored in a garage remained intact.

» Kyrgyz Mercenary Details Alleged Russian Military Role In Ukraine
20/03/15 14:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. A Kyrgyz military reserve officer has spoken in detail about his seven months of service as a mercenary in the ranks of the Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. ...

» Ukraine's Economy Contracted By 6.8 Percent In 2014
20/03/15 14:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Ukraine's state statistics service has reported that the country's economy shrank by 6.8 percent in 2014, citing financial strains caused by fighting in the eastern part ...

» EU Criticizes Belarus Over Death Sentence
20/03/15 14:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The European Union has sharply criticized Belarus, the only European country that applies capital punishment, for sentencing a man to death.

» Russia Targets NATO With Military Exercises - Forbes
20/03/15 14:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Forbes Russia Targets NATO With Military Exercises Forbes Russian military exercises, the latest in a series across the country, have taken on a threatening posture. While the most re...

» Ukrainians Fear Russia But Don’t Trust EU, New Poll Results Show
20/03/15 14:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Window on Eurasia -- New Series. Paul Goble Staunton, March 20 – Since the Maidan, a new Kyiv poll shows, the share of Ukrainians f...

» Malaysian Woman In IS Calls On Western Muslims To "Terrorize" Civilians
20/03/15 14:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. A 26-year-old Malaysian woman who has joined the Islamic State (IS) group in Raqqa has called on Western Muslims to "terrorize" non-Muslims in their home countries.

» Top Mexican Journalist Says President's Office Backed Her Firing
20/03/15 14:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. A Mexican journalist fired from her popular radio show after helping uncover a conflict of interest scandal that embarrassed President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Thursday that she believe...

» Чиновники старые, привилегии новые?
20/03/15 14:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Uploads by Радио Свобода. Чиновники старые, привилегии новые? Имело ли смысл понижение зарплат чиновников на 10%, если они имеют реально дорожающие номенклатурные привел... From: Радио Свобода Views: 0 2 1...

» Hatred of Americans and ‘Fifth Column’ has Deep Roots among Russians, Sociologists Say
20/03/15 14:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Window on Eurasia -- New Series. Paul Goble Staunton, March 20 – It has become a commonplace to blame Kremlin-controlled media for ...

» Экономическая среда: рубль отдалился от барреля - 20 марта, 2015
20/03/15 14:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Радиопрограммы и подкасты - Радио Свобода. За последние четыре недели нефть подешевела на 12%. При этом курс рубля к доллару, наоборот, вырос - на 4%, хотя еще в январе нефть и рубль почти синхронно падали...

» Николай Патрушев обнаружил "финских реваншистов" в Карелии
20/03/15 13:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from www.dp.ru. Председатель Совета безопасно...

» Patrushev Says Helsinki Stirring Up Nationalists in Karelia
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mikenova shared this story from Window on Eurasia -- New Series. Paul Goble Staunton, March 20 – Nikolahy Patrushev, head of the Russian Security Council, says Fin...

» U.S. Welcomes Azerbaijan's Release Of Activists, Urges More
20/03/15 12:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The United States has welcomed a decision by Azerbaijani authorities to release several activists from prison but urged Baku to release others.

» CIA Director Describes How the U.S. Outsources Terror Interrogations
20/03/15 12:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Intercept. In rare remarks about a sensitive issue, the director of the CIA confirmed today that the U.S. government works with foreign intelligence agencies to capture and jointly interrogate suspecte...

» 2,464,3942,464,3942015-03-13The Contradictory Accounts of Boris Nemtsov's Murder: A Timeline
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mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2,464,394 2,464,394 2015-03-13 The Contradictory Accounts of Boris Nemtsov's Murder: A Timeline - by Reuters The Contradictory Accounts of Boris Nemtsov's Murder: A Timeline by Reute...

» 2,464,3962,464,396Task Force Chair: Terror Cells Are in the US, Americans Should Prepare
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mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2,464,396 2,464,396 Task Force Chair: Terror Cells Are in the US, Americans Should Prepare | Russia and Chechnya - The Economist Russia and Chechnya - The Economist Thursday March 12 t...

» 2,464,3902,464,3902015-03-13» Putin's back in the saddle. If only Russia's economy were, too.
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mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2,464,390 2,464,390 2015-03-13 » Putin's back in the saddle. If only Russia's economy were, too. 13/03/15 11:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks Putin's back in the saddle. If only Ru...

» 2,470,8942,470,8942015-03-14#ISIS
20/03/15 12:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2,470,894 2,470,894 2015-03-14 #ISIS #Google The Roots of ISIS - Google Search The Roots of ISIS - Google Search Saturday March 14 th , 2015 at 10:00 AM 1 Share Search Results The Ev...

» 2,470,8892,470,8892015-03-14#Putin
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mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2,470,889 2,470,889 2015-03-14 #Putin #Kremlin What's happening with Putin and Russia: True, the NTV channel aired images Friday of Putin meeting with supreme court president Vyachesla...

» 2,470,8922,470,8922015-03-14Illarionov: Putin to be removed from power in the next few days
20/03/15 12:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2,470,892 2,470,892 2015-03-14 Illarionov: Putin to be removed from power in the next few days - The latest world news: According to the former adviser, it is possible that the conspir...

» 2,476,2542,476,2542015-03-15#Russia
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mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2,476,254 2,476,254 2015-03-15 #Russia #Putin #Moscow » Seven air strikes target Islamic State in Iraq, four in Syria: U.S. military 15/03/15 17:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks | ...

» 2,476,2552,476,2552015-03-15#HansZimmer
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mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2,476,255 2,476,255 2015-03-15 #HansZimmer A Watchful Guardian Hans Zimmer - A Watchful Guardian The Dark Knight Published on Aug 25, 2012 From The 2007 Film, The Dark Knight Rises Mus...

» 2,483,1072,483,1072015-03-16#Assad
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mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2,483,107 2,483,107 2015-03-16 #Assad Kerry Suggests There Is a Place for Assad in Syria Talks - NYT | » Litvinenko murder suspect sent T-shirt with 'Polonium 210 - To Be Continued' to...

» 2,483,1132,483,1132015-03-17#Chechnya
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mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2,483,113 2,483,113 2015-03-17 #Chechnya The Chechen Link to Russian Activist's Death - Stratfor: There are countless explanations for what is taking place. Putin's honoring Kadyrov ju...

» 2,494,4072,494,4072015-03-19#LasVegas
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mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2,494,407 2,494,407 2015-03-19 #LasVegas #Brain » AP source: Secret Service knows suspect in cyanide probe - KVVU Las Vegas 19/03/15 16:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks The Brain’s...

» Russia To Scramble Bombers in Show of Might
20/03/15 12:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Defense News - Home. Russia will deploy Tupolev nuclear-capable bomber jets to Crimea in a snap drill, a defence ministry source said Tuesday, as the peninsula marks a year since its annexation by Moscow. ...

» NATO Allies Brace for Russia's 'Hybrid Warfare'
20/03/15 12:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Defense News - Home. NATO allies are scrambling to protect vulnerable Baltic partners from the threat of hybrid warfare, a Russian tactic that officials and experts say is based on deception rather than fo...

» Russia Expands Exercises To 80,000 Troops
20/03/15 12:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Defense News - Home. Russia said Thursday it had doubled the number of troops taking part in mass drills ordered by President Vladimir Putin this week to 80,000 in a major show of strength amid tensions wi...

» NSA Chief: Cyber Attackers Leave Warnings
20/03/15 12:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Defense News - Home. Attackers hacking into American computer networks appear to be leaving "cyber fingerprints" to send a message that critical systems are vulnerable, the top US cyber-warrior said Thursd...

» Germany To Boost Defense 6.2% Over 5 Years
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mikenova shared this story from Defense News - Home. The German government under Chancellor Angela Merkel has approved plans to increase defense spending by 6.2 percent over the next five years — an extra €8 billion (US $8.5 billion) by ...

» Netanyahu: 'No Amount of Pressure' on Israel Will Work
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mikenova shared this story from Comments on: Netanyahu: ‘No Amount of Pressure’ on Israel Will Work. by Ian Hanchett 19 Mar 2015 143 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that “no amount of pressure will cause me to aband...

» Obama Rolls Out Plan to Use UN to Circumvent Congress on Israel, Iran
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mikenova shared this story from Comments on: Obama Rolls Out Plan to Use UN to Circumvent Congress on Israel, Iran. According to Foreign Policy , the Obama administration may stop blocking United Nations efforts to “call for the re...

» Krauthammer: US Either Stabbing Israel in the Back or Distracting It
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mikenova shared this story from Comments on: Krauthammer: US Either Stabbing Israel in the Back or Distracting It. by Ian Hanchett 19 Mar 2015 76 Columnist Charles Krauthammer argued that the White House was either “trying to stab ...

» 'I Was Made to Look like an Idiot'
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mikenova shared this story from Comments on: Federal Judge Admonished DOJ Over Apparent Deception: ‘I Was Made to Look like an Idiot’. BROWNSVILLE, Texas — The U.S. Government lied to a federal judge, misrepresented facts and illeg...

» Obama Mulls Supporting UN Resolution That Pushes Israel Back to Pre-1967 Borders
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mikenova shared this story from Comments on: Obama Mulls Supporting UN Resolution That Pushes Israel Back to Pre-1967 Borders. by Jordan Schachtel 19 Mar 2015 Washington, D.C. 884 Security experts along with Israel’s Prime Minister...

» Britain retreats
20/03/15 11:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Anne Applebaum: Most Recent Articles and Archives. LONDONRed double-decker buses still cruise up and down the Strand, the guards stand up straight in front of Buckingham Palace and the queen rides her hors...

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» Obama welcomes Prince Charles and wife in Oval Office
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mikenova shared this story from Uploads by AFP news agency. Obama welcomes Prince Charles and wife in Oval Office Britain's Prince Charles and his wife were welcomed to the Oval Office by President Barack Obama on Thursday, with the US l...

» Oil Prices Will Recover: Market Fundamentals Are Working
19/03/15 19:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TIME. On St. Patrick’s Day the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported that oil production from three of America’s largest shale plays is in decline. The EIA is forecasting that t...

» New Moscow-Kyiv Dispute Strains Ukraine Peace Plan
19/03/15 16:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. A peace plan to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine came under renewed strain Wednesday, with Ukraine and Russia clashing publicly over the next steps and further Ukrainian military casua...

» Navy Seal Killed During Parachute Training Exercise In Perris - CBS Local
19/03/15 16:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. USA TODAY Navy Seal Killed During Parachute Training Exercise In Perris CBS Local PERRIS (CBSLA.com/AP) — A U.S. Navy Seal was killed Wednesday during a parachute training exerci...

» West's Mistrust of Russia Over Ukraine Imperils Global Security
19/03/15 16:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Deep mistrust between the West and Russia over Moscow's aggressive actions in Ukraine is threatening global security, top government officials say, and there is little sign of progress in...

» Tunisia Museum Attack Is Blow to Nation's Democratic Shift - New York Times
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mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. New York Times Tunisia Museum Attack Is Blow to Nation's Democratic Shift New York Times CAIRO — Gunmen in military uniforms killed 19 people on Wednesday in a midday attack on a museu...

» Swedish police: Several people shot, some dead, in Goteborg
19/03/15 16:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 3:29 p.m. EDT. STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Swedish police say several people have been shot inside a restaurant in the city of Goteborg and that some of have died....

» Edward VIII's letter to woman he had affair with reveals he was 'sick of my bloody job'
19/03/15 16:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Edward, who was known as the Prince of Wales at the time, wrote the letter to Freda Dudley Ward, a married mother-of-two, who had a five-year affair with him before he married Wallis Si...

» AP source: Secret Service knows suspect in cyanide probe - KVVU Las Vegas
19/03/15 16:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. AP source: Secret Service knows suspect in cyanide probe KVVU Las Vegas (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin). Uniformed Secret Service agents patrol the top of the White House as seen fro...

» Ukrainian's Poroshenko agrees on Russian sanctions with Joe Biden - Irish Independent
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mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Irish Independent Ukrainian's Poroshenko agrees on Russian sanctions with Joe Biden Irish Independent U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko agreed in a...

» Navy SEAL killed when parachute fails to open during training - AL.com
19/03/15 16:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. AL.com Navy SEAL killed when parachute fails to open during training AL.com Skydiver Death This image from video provided by KABC-TV Los Angeles shows first responders standing b...

» Tunisia terrorism attack: injured taken from Bardo museum - video
19/03/15 16:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news + Video | The Guardian. Ambulances take tourists and Tunisians from the scene of a deadly attack at the renowned Bardo national museum in Tunis. At least 20 people were killed when suspected Isl...

» Multiple deaths after restaurant shooting in Sweden
19/03/15 16:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Several people were killed in a restaurant shooting in the Swedish city of Gothenburg on Wednesday in what police say was likely to be a gang-related shooting.

» Biden, Poroshenko Agree On Russia Sanction Action
19/03/15 16:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko have agreed that sanctions against Russia must be linked to the full implementation of the February...

» Italian Politician Looks to Highlight Gay Rights by Getting Married in Canada
19/03/15 16:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TIME. Nicola Vendola, one of the first openly gay politicians in Italy, has announced his plan to marry his Canadian partner in Canada, as Italy has no current plan to legalize gay marriage. The 56-year-ol...