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KYIV, Ukraine — More than a week after Russian opposition leader and former deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov was murdered just steps from the Kremlin, some officials in Russia are pointing their fingers at Islamists.
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Opera and tanks on eastern Ukraine's frontline
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Putin reveals secrets of Russia's Crimea takeover plot
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he ordered officials to start work on taking control of Crimea weeks before a referendum which, the Kremlin has asserted until now, prompted the region's annexation from Ukraine.
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Greece, Russia and the politics of humiliation
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The US military's top officer General Martin Dempsey landed in Baghdad on Monday and vowed that the Islamic State group will be defeated, as Iraqi forces pressed their largest operation yet...
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Kadyrov intervention could indicate regime infighting
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States on Monday called on Europe to contribute more troops to United Nations peacekeeping missions and announced that President Barack Obama would hold a summit of world leaders in New York in September to win new commitments.
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NY-bound Amtrak derails in eastern North Carolina
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BAGHDAD — The top U.S. military officer urged Iraqi leaders on Monday to take steps to ensure the effectiveness of U.S. and allied security aid, calling for additional reforms to military leadership, improvements to pay and equipping systems, and stepped-up recruitment of troops whose fighting power is desperately needed against the Islamic State.Read full article >>
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Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov received an award from Russian President Vladimir Putin, one day after the leader of the Caucasus region praised the accused killer of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov.
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ISIS is continuing to bulldoze its way through the cultural heritage of Iraq and Syria, with the ancient Assyrian capital of Khorsabad apparently the extremist group's latest archaeological victim.
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela has called in its top diplomat in the United States for consultations after Washington earlier on Monday declared the South American country a national security threat and ordered sanctions against seven officials.
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Despite the funding cuts, we are living through a rich time for theatrical experiment – as witnessed all over the country
What do we mean by “the nation’s theatre”? Think back just 30 or so years and the answer was probably fairly straightforward. It was Shakespeare on our main stages across the country, the big flagship companies such as the NT and the RSC, the state-of-the-nation plays by David Hare, new writing at the Royal Court or the Traverse, the loved but often ailing network of regional theatres across the country frequently reviving classic plays and modern classics.
Now the answer to the question is far more complex. It is still, at times, many of these things but it is much, much more. Richard Eyre and Nicholas Wright’s book Changing Stages, offering a view of British theatre in the 20th century, already reads like a dispatch from another planet.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund's bailout program for Ukraine assumes Kiev will be able to get $15.4 billion from talks with its creditors, according to four sources familiar with the IMF's documents.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - At least seven United Nations Security Council members, including Britain, France and the United States, delayed approval on Monday of a request by Libya to import weapons, tanks, jets and helicopters to take on Islamic State militants, diplomats said.
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Turkish police officers guarded the border near Suruc, Turkey, last fall. The authorities have cracked down on foreign fighters heading into Syria, but many still pass through.
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Suspected drug runners threw bales of marijuana from their vehicle during a high-speed police chase in Arizona on Wednesday, 4 March. The vehicle was forced to stop with front flat tires, and two suspects were arrested after they tried to flee on foot. Approximately 374 pounds of marijuana were retrieved following the chase and a stash house was discovered in the city of Mesa, the Pinal County sheriff's office said in a statement. The dashcam footage of the chase was uploaded on the web on Sunday by the Pinal County sheriff's office Continue reading...
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Monday pro-Russian rebels had withdrawn a significant amount of weaponry from the front-lines in eastern Ukraine in accordance with a three-week-old ceasefire deal.
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The Islamic State's destruction of cultural antiquities in Iraq has stepped up a notch recently, with members of the extremist group both bulldozing the 3,000-year-old Nimrud archaeological site near Mosul and ransacking the similarly ancient ruins of Hatra in the past few days.Read full article >>
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President Obama’s decision to reopen relations with Cuba is having an interesting side effect: It’s helping isolate Latin America’s other hardline leftist regime in Venezuela.
On Monday, Obama signed an executive order freezing the U.S. assets of seven mid-level Venezuelan officials over their handling of protests last year. In years past, many Latin American officials would have viewed it as more of the same from America, whose policy of punishing Cuba with sanctions was widely seen as anachronistic at best.
Now, thanks to the ongoing rapprochement between the U.S. and Cuba, Washington is less easy to ignore, especially on matters of morality and fair play. So it was that Monday’s executive order naming Venezuelan security officials turned out to be aiming what U.S. officials called “a spotlight” onto a government that other Latin American nations are also watching with concern.
“Until very recently, most countries in the region were reluctant to say anything about Venezuela,” says Daniel Wilkinson, managing director of the Americas division at Human Rights Watch. “If this is just U.S. sanctions, and the U.S. is doing it on its own, then it’s much easier for Venezuela to play the victim card. That’s why it’s really important for the U.S. government to be working with other democratic governments in the region to make this more of a collective.”
On Friday, the president of Colombia publicly despaired over Venezuela, even though he has staked his legacy on peace talks being hosted by Maduro’s strongest ally in the region, Havana. “It interests, hurts and worries us, all what’s going on in Venezuela,” President Manuel Santos said in a speech.
What’s going on in Venezuela is a mess. The collapse in oil prices last autumn sent the economy into free fall, 95 percent of its export revenue flowing from petroleum sales. President Nicolás Maduro, who was elected after his mentor Hugo Chavez died in office two years ago, is struggling to remain in control amid economic chaos and shortages of heavily subsidized staples. The cascade of indignities include a shortage of necessaries that led the government to take over a toilet paper factory — and the prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago to offer an oil-for-toilet-tissue deal.
Maduro, in what economists call a strategy of diversion, blames the United States for waging“economic war” on the country. He has ordered most U.S. diplomats out of the country — the ambassador was expelled five years ago — and abruptly required visiting Americans to obtain visas. None of which was lost on the White House, which took pains to emphasize that the new sanctions were aimed at individual officials, and not “the people or the economy of Venezuela.”
“The point of these sanctions or policies is really to shine a light,” a senior Obama administration official said Monday, speaking in a not-for-attribution conference call shortly after the executive orderwas released. Obama’s actions went beyond the law passed by Congress, the Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Act of 2014, to draw attention to the abuses of Venezuelan officialswho authorized surveillance of opposition leaders, “hundreds of forced entries and extrajudicial detentions,” and the use of excessive force, including sexual assault and using live ammunition, against protestors and journalists. Prosecutor Katherine Nayarith Haringhton Padron is named for charging a former lawmaker and the mayor of Caracas with conspiracy “based on implausible — and in some cases fabricated — information.”
“You go back a year ago, when there was this wave or protests that was met with very aggressive and violent response by the government,” says Wilkinson, who was expelled by Venezuelan authorities in 2008. “This was a sustained process over more than a month of nonviolent protesters being severely beaten, in some cases tortured, being short point-blank range with rubber pellets. … Protestors would be held for two days without access to a lawyer, then summoned to a hearing in the middle of the night, with a lawyer having 5 minutes to prepare.”
Whether the sanctions will work remains to be seen. Under the executive order, U.S. financial institutions have ten days to report any holdings controlled by the seven officials, and longer still to see if freezing them alters the behavior in what Transparency International calls the most corrupt country in the Western Hemisphere. But in diplomatic terms, the effects might be felt sooner. Before Obama and Cuba President Raul Castro announced their plans to reconcile, the Summit of the Americas, set to convene April 10 in Panama City, was sizing up as an awkward occasion for the U.S. leader. Instead, it may be Maduro who draws the sideways glances.
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US Places Sanctions on 7 Venezuelan Officialsby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered new sanctions against seven senior Venezuelan officials who the United States says violated human rights and engaged in public acts of corruption. Targets in the executive order, announced Monday, include the head of the country's intelligence service as well as the director of the national police. "We are deeply concerned by the Venezuelan government's efforts to escalate intimidation of its political opponents. Venezuela's problems cannot be solved by criminalizing dissent,'' the White House said in a statement. The statement called on the government to release all political prisoners, including dozens of students, opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez , and mayors Daniel Ceballos, of San Cristobal, and Antonio Ledezma, of Caracas. The executive order comes as tensions between the two nations intensify. Last week, Caracas ordered Washington to reduce the number of officials at the U.S. embassy from 100 to 17, and it imposed visa requirements for American tourists. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro often criticizes the United States for what he says is meddling in his country's affairs. The two countries have not exchanged ambassadors since 2010.
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Западные СМИ и политики об убийстве Немцова - кто и зачем подтягивает факты под теорию заговора
Первый канал Как заявляют в Следственном комитете, детали расследования обнародованы будут, но лишь тогда, когда это будет безопасным для самого расследования. Профессионалы ведут себя крайне осторожно, чего нельзя сказать о тех, кто к расследованию отношения не имеет. Яшин: Путина должны допросить в качестве свидетеля по делу об убийстве НемцоваДень Последние новости мира: Соратник Немцова не верит в версию "исламского следа" - свежие новости в миреСвежие новости сегодня. Последние новости интернет издания "Fresh-News" Яшин: Путин должен быть допрошен по делу об убийстве НемцоваУКРАИНСКАЯ ПРАВДА Главред -NewsEra.ru - ЭРА Новостей -NEWSru.com Все похожие статьи: 132 » |
In honor of International Women's Day on Sunday, radio station Ekho Moskvy published a ranking of the country's most influential women.
Claude Guéant, a top aide to former President Nicolas Sarkozy, was accused by a judge in Paris of forgery and laundering proceeds from tax fraud.
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Russian Syndicated Loan Guidelines Could Spur Crucial Central Bank Action
Forbes Amid continuing economic sanctions against Russia by the US and Europe, financiers and policy-watchers across the globe await President Vladimir Putin's next move. And while the fate of Russia's economy may hinge on chess moves by Putin and other ... |
The EU was founded to bring peace and prosperity to the peoples of western Europe after a century of catastrophic wars, by co-operation, pooling of sovereignty and free trade. Its first objective, as stated in the Lisbon treaty, is “to promote peace, its values and the well-being of its peoples”. On the global stage its role should be to promote those same principles, not revert to militaristic tub-thumping. Jean-Claude Juncker’s demand for a European army flies in the face of those principles (Report, 9 March). Tories, Labour, Lib Dems and Ukip are united in opposing this proposal, and I agree with them, though not for the same reasons. It really is time that the human race learned to settle its differences without periodically slaughtering one another and without wasting precious resources on the means to do so. Of course, that applies to Russia as well, but starting a new cold war is not likely to influence Putin in that direction.
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Former co-chair, World Disarmament Campaign
Frank Jackson
Former co-chair, World Disarmament Campaign
• The EU’s GDP is greater than that of the US or Russia, so a common military and foreign policy is obvious to free-thinking citizens. Defence spending would probably be much reduced for each country, since there could be one procurement programme, with the same ships, planes, tanks, guns and ammunition. All made within the EU. Jobs would be created to benefit all. But how do we persuade our political leaders to begin the process?
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Opinion: Rising Anti-Semitism in Europe Prompts Exodusby webdesk@voanews.com (Barbara Slavin)
Among those attending the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington last week was Roger Cukierman, president of an umbrella group of Jewish organizations in France. Anti-Semitic violence there has gotten global attention since the January attacks on a Jewish deli and the headquarters of a satirical magazine in Paris, but the trend began more than a decade ago, Cukierman says. “In 1991, there were 70-80” violent incidents directed against Jews for the whole year, Cukierman told reporters at a press conference at the Washington residence of the French ambassador. “Last year there were 850 violent acts” against Jews in France, he said. According to Cukierman, the numbers started rising exponentially after the year 2000. Asked whether the U.S. attacks on Muslim countries following 9/11 played some role, Cukierman said, “I never thought of any connection with U.S. responsibility.” Perhaps the collapse of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians in 2001 and the onset of the second intifada was a factor? “I believe anti-Zionism is only a pretext,” Cukierman said. Jews have lived in France for 2,000 years, he said, and endured far worse periods, including a World War II government that collaborated with the Nazis and let 25,000 French Jews be gassed at Auschwitz. But more and more French Jews are choosing to leave now because of hostility from the extreme right, the extreme left and elements in France’s growing Muslim population, he said. While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced criticism in January for suggesting that France’s half million Jews should move to Israel for their own safety, Cukierman said it was a reality that emigration is on the rise. Some 3,000 Jews left the country for good in 2013, 7,000 in 2014 and “I expect between 10,000-15,000” in 2015, he said. They are going not because of Netanyahu’s appeal, he added, which he said he has heard before from previous Israeli leaders. “A man who is considering leaving France does not do it because the prime minister of Israel has requested his presence,” Cukierman said. Instead, he blamed an “atmosphere” in which Jewish children must be protected by both police and the army and young men wearing skullcaps are accosted in the subway. Only a third of Jewish families now send their children to public school in France to avoid harassment, he said. Stuart Eizenstat, a former undersecretary of state, ambassador to the European Union and special adviser to Secretary of State John Kerry on Holocaust Issues, told a panel at the AIPAC conference that Belgian Jewish friends had told him recently that they were moving to Florida because as one put it, “there is no future for my children in Belgium.” Other friends in Britain recounted that one their daughters, a teacher, was advised by her principal not to let her students know she was Jewish, while another daughter was asked by her professor at Bristol University, “ ‘Isn’t it odd that no Jews were killed in the 9/11 attacks?’ ” While anti-Semitism has long plagued Europe, the current animosity suggests an increasing conflation of attitudes toward Jews and Israel. Eizenstat quoted the results of a 2012 survey by the Anti-Defamation League in 10 European countries in which more than half of those polled said Jews were more loyal to Israel than to their native countries and 65 percent said their opinion of Jews had gotten worse because of Israeli actions. Of European Jews polled in 2013 by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, almost 60 percent had been confronted by the claim that the Holocaust was a myth or exaggerated, a third said they had experienced harassment because of their religious or ethnic identity in the previous five years and nearly a third said they had considered emigration because they did “not feel safe” anymore, Eizenstat said. Over the past three years, besides this year’s attacks in Paris, there have been fatal assaults in Belgium, at a school in Toulouse, a synagogue in Denmark and a Jewish community center in Malmo, Sweden. Both Eizenstat and Cukierman noted that the situation in Europe today could not be compared to the 1930s and 40s, when governments actively colluded in anti-Semitic actions. European governments have vehemently condemned the recent attacks and taken immediate steps to increase protection for Jewish people and property. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls went so far as to say that France without Jews would not be France. But Cukierman said there was much more that could be done to block hate speech from the Internet and to inject accurate depictions of Jews into French public schools. His organization took out a full page ad in the New York Times recently to urge social media giants such as Google and Facebook to remove anti-Semitic content as soon as it is identified. “Help us defuse the hate where it moves most freely – on the Internet,” Cukierman wrote. Much more could be done to deal with the causes of anti-Semitism’s rise, particularly among Europe’s Muslim population. Kenan Malik, an Indian-born English author, wrote recently that both “multiculturalism” and “assimilationism” had failed to integrate the children of Muslim immigrants in Europe. This generation is “caught not between two cultures, as it is often claimed, but without one,” Malik wrote. “Moving forward Europe must rediscover a progressive sense of universal values [and] a renewal of civil society.” Renewed tolerance is sorely needed not just in Europe but in the Middle East, where minority populations are increasingly under threat from the group that calls itself the Islamic State. Unless these trends can be reversed, it will be harder and harder to find Christians in Arab countries and Jews will increasingly flee Europe, if not to Israel, than to the United States and Canada. As for French Jews, Cukierman said, whether they stay or go “is a very personal decision. It’s respectable if they decide to leave and respectable if they decide to stay.” The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position of Voice of America.
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A striking video shot earlier this year by a resident captured images of a huge sinkhole in Solikamsk, Russia.
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Russia Being 'Whipsawed' By Dollar, Politics
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Argentina Wants HSBC to Repatriate $3.5 Billion in Offshore Funds by webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)
Argentina wants HSBC Holdings Plc to repatriate $3.5 billion that it says the bank's Argentine branch moved offshore to help clients evade taxes and move capital abroad, the country's tax chief said on Monday. The South American country last November charged HSBC with helping more than 4,000 clients evade taxes by stashing their money in secret Swiss bank accounts. HSBC Argentina rejected the charge, saying it respected Argentine law. Europe's largest bank already faces probes in several countries into allegations it helped its clients evade taxes. “We would like to know, firstly if HSBC Holdings PLC supported the behavior of the authorities of the Argentine branch,” tax chief Ricardo Echegaray said on Monday, according to a copy of the speech he gave in Argentina's London embassy. “Secondly, we expect the repatriation of funds by HSBC Holdings PLC, that to our knowledge amount to 3.5 billion dollars.” HSBC said in a statement it was cooperating with Argentine authorities in their probe. “HSBC has been cooperating fully with Argentine regulators, including AFIP [the tax authority] and the judiciary, since allegations were first made public last year, and we will continue to do so,” the bank said in a statement. Britain has asked Argentina for information about its investigation into HSBC. HSBC last month admitted failings in compliance and controls in its Swiss private bank after media reports alleged it helped wealthy customers conceal millions of dollars of assets in a period up to 2007. It added its Swiss business had been transformed since 2008 and client accounts closed. Argentina also disclosed that on Sunday, it raided HSBC offices in Argentina and it has sent requests for information to tax authorities in “tax administrations in the Virgin Islands, Uruguay and Bermuda.” If HSBC clients were forced this year to cough up taxes they evaded by moving their funds offshore, the windfall would come at an opportune moment for Argentina's cash-strapped government. The bank also faces investigation by U.S. authorities who have stepped up efforts to establish whether it helped Americans evade taxes. In 2012, HSBC paid a record $1.9 billion fine after U.S. authorities said it had become the preferred financial institution for drug traffickers and money launderers between 2006 and 2010.
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A fund for subsidies, opened for corporate appeals last year, might not have enough to cover all the requests for aid it has received.
As Nemstov Suspects Nabbed, A Political Game Unfoldsby By Ivan Nechepurenko
As the man suspected of having gunned down opposition leader Boris Nemtsov steps from the Kremlin allegedly confessed on Sunday, pundits agreed that the truth is likely much more complex than it seems.
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