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March 20, 2015

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One thing has become clear over the past few weeks. Something is seriously wrong in Moscow.

Suicide Attacks at Mosques in Yemen Kill More Than 130
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:46 PM

SANA, Yemen — A previously unknown Yemeni affiliate of the Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for killing more than 130 people on Friday in coordinated suicide bomb attacks on two Shiite mosques in the capital, Sana, accelerating the sectarian violence in a country edging closer to civil war.

Hospitals in the capital made urgent appeals for blood to treat the hundreds of people injured in the explosions at the Badr and Hashoush mosques, both attended by Zaydi Shiites. Another suicide bomber was detected before he could reach a mosque in the northern province of Saada, a stronghold of the Houthi rebel movement, which controls Sana and since September has beenYemen’s most dominant force.

An Interior Ministry official said at least 60 people were killed at each mosque, but the death toll is expected to rise.

The most recent attack on civilians in the capital was in January, when a car bomb killed more than 30 people outside a police academy.

Sunni extremists, including the Islamic State fighters and militants linked to an affiliate of Al Qaeda in Yemen, have carried out a number of deadly attacks against supporters of the Houthis, whose leaders are members of the Zaydi branch of Shiite Islam and are considered heretics by the Sunni militants.

But bombings of mosques have been rare, and in a recent statement on “unlawful” killings, Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen condemned such attacks. Instead, a group calling itself Sana Province and claiming to be the Yemeni affiliate of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for Friday’s bombings, raising the specter of a deadly, destabilizing new force in Yemen’s conflict.

“This operation is but the tip of the iceberg,” the group said in an audio statement carried by the SITE Intelligence Group. “Let the polytheist Houthis know that the soldiers of the Islamic State will not rest and will not stay still until they extirpate them.”

The carnage on Friday came after days of fighting across Yemen, marking a violent new stage in a seven-month-old political crisis that is increasingly taking on the character of a civil war.

In early 2014, Shiite insurgents known as Houthis consolidated control over Yemen’s Saada Province. In recent months, they have expanded their influence.

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Yemen has been leaderless since January, when the Houthis tightened their grip on the capital andplaced the president, Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, along with his government, under house arrest.

Mr. Hadi later fled to the southern port city of Aden and declared that he was still the country’s leader, splitting the country between competing centers of power. Diplomats, including those at the United Nations, have been unable to broker a compromise, as many regional powers, including Iran and Saudi Arabia, seem to have abandoned the effort, throwing their support behind either Mr. Hadi or the Houthis and inflaming the conflict.

Earlier this week, unidentified assassins shot and killed one of Yemen’s most prominent dissident journalists and a supporter of the Houthis, Abdulkarim al-Khaiwani, outside his home in Sana. On Thursday, violence spread to Aden in a day of rare factional clashes over control of the international airport and a security base.

The fighting in Aden pitted tribesmen and military units loyal to Mr. Hadi against a security unit seen as close to Yemen’s former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has remained influential in the country and allied himself with the Houthis.

There were more reports of fighting in the south on Friday. Warplanes bombed Mr. Hadi’s presidential compound in Aden for a second day, but did not cause any casualties, according to witnesses and security officials in the city.

Blood could be seen on the street outside the Badr mosque, where the bombers maximized the number of casualties by detonating their explosives inside but also among the overflow of worshipers outside. Witnesses said 12 members of one family were killed.

Two suicide bombers also attacked the Hashoush mosque, with one hiding his explosives in a fake cast on his leg, which he detonated after he was stopped at a checkpoint about 65 feet from the mosque entrance. The other bomber made it inside as the prayers ended.

“Yemenis knew violence, but not this brutal,” said Farea al-Muslimi, a Sana-based political analyst, speaking about the assassinations, clashes and bombings over the last few days.

“There are no norms,” he said. “It’s a very scary moment.”

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U.S. Must Step Up Capacity for Cyberattacks, Chief Argues
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:46 PM

WASHINGTON — The admiral who directs American cyberforces told a Senate committee on Thursday that the United States was “at a tipping point” where it needed to increase its ability to conduct cyberattacks, to create a deterrent against other countries that are attacking it.

The growing American capabilities in cyberweapons are hardly a secret: They were critical to a yearslong American and Israeli cyberattack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, and descriptions of the placement of “implants” in foreign computer systems — for surveillance and potential offensive action — run through thousands of pages of documents released by Edward J. Snowden, the formerNational Security Agency contractor.

But the willingness of Adm. Michael S. Rogers to discuss purely offensive cyberweapons in his appearance before the Armed Services Committee comes at a moment when the Obama administration is reluctantly experimenting with how to discuss the subject in public, much as it gradually began to talk about drone strikes a few years ago.

Admiral Rogers, who heads both the National Security Agency and its military cousin, United States Cyber Command, was answering questions about how the United States could deter attacks like the kind that struck Sony Pictures Entertainment. President Obama has said publicly that the attack originated in North Korea.

When pressed, Admiral Rogers said that erecting ever-higher digital fences would never be enough, and that “we have got to broaden our capabilities to provide policy makers and operational commanders with a broader range of options. Because in the end, a purely defensive reactive strategy will be both late” and would become “incredibly resource-intense.”

“So, I have been an advocate of, we also need to think about how can we increase our capacity on the offensive side here, to get to that point of deterrence.”

In interviews as he came into office last year, Admiral Rogers identified creating some form of deterrence as his highest priority. At the time, he said, Chinese and other attackers who steal data from American companies “pay no price.”

In the case of North Korea, the United States imposed some modest economic sanctions, and it is unclear whether an attack that slowed the North’s Internet connections was the result of American action or some other kind of action. In any event, the response was weak enough that many in the Obama administration question whether the North paid a high enough price.

But as Admiral Rogers attempted to describe to the committee, deterrence in the digital realm is a complex business; most comparisons to the nuclear age fail. There are so many different kinds of cyberattackers — states, businesses, hackers, teenagers, angry ideologues — that it would be nearly impossible to deter them with traditional means, most experts say.

Admiral Rogers himself seemed to be struggling with the analogies at times, comparing the decisions that national leaders will have to make with those faced by the Bush administration on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. At that time the question was whether the United States would be willing to make “the decision that we were going to shoot down, potentially, a civilian airliner that we thought had potentially become a weapon.”

“I think we need to have that same discussion now,” Admiral Rogers said. “We’ve got to increase our decision makers’ comfort and level of knowledge with what capabilities we have and what we can do.”

The committee chairman, Senator John McCain of Arizona, who has argued for a robust offensive cybercapability, jumped in to say, “But right now, the level of deterrence is not deterring.

“That is true,” Admiral Rogers responded.

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U.S. Must Step Up Capacity for Cyberattacks, Chief Arguesby DAVID E. SANGER
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:46 PM

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Adm. Michael S. Rogers, the head of United States Cyber Command, said in Senate testimony that the country needed to increase its capacity for cyberattacks as a deterrent against hostile nations.

Pope Francis' drug war riffs keep offending the second biggest Catholic country by Ioan Grillo
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:44 PM

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MEXICO CITY — Many seemed to be loving what Pope Francis had to say, until he opened his mouth about Mexico. First he warned of Argentina's impending 'Mexicanization.' Then he said 'the devil is punishing Mexico.' ¿Qué pasa, Francisco?

Network Front | The Guardian

His public utterances on all manner of subject may seem scattergun or contradictory, but this pope is playing a long, tactical game

It’s a mistake to take too much notice of what the pope says. And funnily enough, he’d be the first to say so. By which I don’t mean that it won’t be worth listening when he makes the speech, announced this week, to the United Nations general assembly in September. Pope Francis is due to publish the Catholic church’s first encyclical on the environment in a couple of months, and he’ll draw on that to argue in New York for greater international commitments to curb greenhouse gases. He’ll probably call for the rich to do much more to help poor people around the world already blasted by the effects of climate change.

He had a feeling, he told Mexican television, that his pontificate would be brief, just two or three years more

It was conservatives who were first most disconcerted. They bemoaned the ‘lamentable fuzziness' in his extemporaneity

What Francis is trying to do is devalue the coinage of papal utterances. He is doing something similar with the synod

A look at the main focus of Iran nuke talks: enrichmentby By BRADLEY KLAPPER
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:42 PM

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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) -- Want to understand what nuclear talks with Iran are about but don't know uranium from plutonium, or a centrifuge from a fuel cycle?...

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WorldViews: Petraeus: The Islamic State isn’t our biggest problem in Iraq by Liz Sly
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:41 PM

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Gen. David H. Petraeus, who commanded U.S. troops
in Iraq during the 2007-2008 surge, was back in
that country last week for the first time in more than three years. He was attending the annual Sulaimani Forum, a get-together of Iraqi leaders, thinkers and academics, at the American University of
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WorldViews: Five thoughts Petraeus has about the future of the Middle East by Liz Sly
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:41 PM

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Gen. David Petraeus, who commanded U.S. troops during the 2007-2008 surge, was back in Iraq last week for the first time in more than three years. He was attending the annual Sulaimani Forum, a get-together of Iraqi leaders, thinkers and academics, at the American University of Sulaimaniya in northern Iraq’s Kurdistan region.Read full article >>

Israel unmasked - The News International
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:40 PM

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Tunis gunmen trained with Libyan militia, says security chiefby Eileen Byrne, Chris Stephen and Agence France-Presse in Tunis
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:39 PM

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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 an attack on foreign tourists at a Tunis museum had received training at a militia camp in Libya, Tunisia’s secretary of state for security has said.

“They left the country illegally last December for Libya and they were able to train with weapons there,” Rafik Chelly told the private
Al Hiwar Ettounsi television channel.

At least 16 people killed in Yemen's mosque bomb attacks: sources
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:39 PM

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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 Reuters.

India train derailment: 30 killed, 50 injured - CNN International
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:38 PM

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Germany condemns Russian deal with South Ossetia as threat to Georgia
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:38 PM

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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 would reinforce Tbilisi's fears that Moscow was intent on annexing the territory.

Vikings were more trade and bling than rape and pillage, museum shows by Steven Morris
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:37 PM

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, unkempt, bloodthirsty raiders who caused mayhem wherever they went. But in fact, the Vikings were also skilled traders who loved jewellery, personal grooming – and even had a soft spot for cuddly bears, a major exhibition argues.

Opening at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall on Saturday, Viking Voyagers has brought together artefacts from Denmark, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the British Museum to humanise a people most often associated with death and destruction.

Bibi Walks Back - The Atlantic
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:37 PM

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Just days after his electoral victory, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reversed his position on the two-state solution—again. Adam Chandler Mar 19 2015, 2:54 PM ET. Share on Facebook; Twitter; LinkedIn; InstaPaper; Pocket; Pinterest; Tumblr ...

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U.S., allies launch eight airstrikes against Islamic State: task force
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:36 PM

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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 Task Force overseeing the operations said in a statement.

Picasso Electrician Guilty Of Stealing 270 Works
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:36 PM

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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
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:36 PM

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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 also offer more economic assistance to the new Arab democracy.

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Obama: US to reassess ties with Israelby The European Union Times
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:35 PM

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US President Barack Obama with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

US President Barack Obama has told Benjamin Netanyahu that Washington will “reassess” its ties with Tel Aviv after the Israeli prime minister’s recent provocative statements.

Obama delivered the message in a phone call to Netanyahu on Thursday, days after Netanyahu rejected the idea of a Palestinian state during his election campaign.

“The President told the [Israeli] Prime Minister that we will need to re-assess our options following the Prime Minister’s new positions and comments regarding the two state solution,” according to a White House official.

Netanyahu’s rightwing Likud party won 30 of the 120 seats in parliament, against 24 for rivals in the center-left Zionist Union in Tuesday’s Israeli national election.

Netanyahu made opposition to nuclear negotiations with Iran a centerpiece of his reelection campaign. He also rejected the idea of a Palestinian state, which has been a key element of US foreign policy.

In his telephone conversation with Netanyahu, Obama also finally “congratulated” the Likud leader on his election win.

On Thursday, the White House raised the prospect of removing critical US diplomatic cover for Israel at the United Nations, following Netanyahu’s divisive victory.

“Steps that the United States has taken at the United Nations had been predicated on this idea that the two-state solution is the best outcome,” said White House spokesman Josh Earnest.

“What is apparent is that in the context of the campaign and while he was the sitting prime minister of Israel, he walked back from commitments Israel previously made to a two-state solution,” Earnest said.

“Now our ally in these talks has said that they are no longer committed to that solution. That means we need to reevaluate our position in this matter, and that is what we will do moving forward,” he added.

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Major US circus scraps elephant acts by AFP news agency
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:34 PM

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Dozens Killed in Suicide Attacks at Shiite Mosques in Yemenby KAREEM FAHIM
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:34 PM

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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 by Marta Bausells
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:33 PM

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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 your area here

What is a poem worth? As authors around the world despair of making a living, a company based in Vienna has finally come up with a definitive answer: one cup of coffee.

Julius Meinl, a coffee-roasting company founded in 1862, is marking Unesco’s World Poetry Day with a promotion in 1,100 cafes, bars and restaurants across 23 countries mostly in continental Europe but including the UK, the US and Australia, offering a dose of caffeine to any customer who hands over one of their own poems.

Jerusalem at boiling point of polarisation and violence – EU report by Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:32 PM

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Exclusive: Leaked report says city more divided than at any time since 1967 and calls for
consideration of tougher sanctions over settlement building

A hard-hitting EU report on Jerusalem warns that the city has reached a dangerous boiling point of “polarisation and violence” not seen since the end of the second intifada in 2005.

Calling for tougher European sanctions against Israel over its continued settlement construction in the city – which it blames for exacerbating recent conflict – the leaked document paints a devastating picture of a city more divided than at any time since 1967, when Israeli forces occupied the east of the city.

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Militants Attack Police Station in India by HARI KUMAR
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:32 PM

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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 by Chris Cole
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:32 PM

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 concerned about the use of drones, or remotely piloted aircraft as the industry insists on calling them, the nature of recent coverage has been somewhat perturbing. With the normalisation of the use of military drones, media interest has waned and they now seem far more interested in writing about toy drones landing on the White House lawn than the White House’s use of drones for targeted assassination. Just this week, much ink has been spilt covering the arrest of an amateur pilot for thoughtlessly flying a drone near parliament, while the use of armed British drones in Syria – breaching assurances by the defence secretary, Michael Fallon, against mission creep – received far less attention.

Despite widespread ethical, political and legal misgivings, US, British and Israeli forces have carried out numerous drone strikes this year. And as military spokespeople repeat bland assurances about the precise nature of such operations, civilians continue to die.

Indian train accident kills at least 30, leaves 50 injured
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:31 PM

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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 state on Friday, officials said.

U.S. air power in Afghanistan at five-year low as aid to Afghan forces wanes
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:31 PM

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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 sharply cut battlefield aid to Afghan security forces.

Rapper Azealia Banks: I Hate White Americansby The European Union Times
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:31 PM

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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 wanted to leave the U.S. because America is blatantly racist.

“I hate everything about this country,” she said. “Like, I hate fat, white Americans.”

“All the people who are crunched into the middle of America, the real fat and meat of America, are these racist conservative white people who live on their farms.”

“Those little teenage girls who work at Kmart and have a racist grandma — that’s really America,” she added.

But isn’t it blatantly racist to say you hate white people?

Banks also claimed that racism motivates her critics and that she’s owed “reparations.”

“It’s always about race,” she said. “[New Zealand singer] Lorde can run her mouth and talk shit about all these other b*tches, but y’all aren’t saying she’s angry.”

“If I have something to say, I get pushed into the corner.”

“Really, the generational effects of Jim Crow and poverty linger on,” Banks continued. “As long as I have my money, I’m getting the f*ck out of here and I’m gonna leave y’all to your own devices.”

She previously joked about “killing crackers” in their sleep after a jury decided not to indict Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson for shooting resident Mike Brown.

Banks’ views are testament to how “social justice warriors” and the Obama administration are increasingly pushing racial conflict.

Earlier this month we reported on a school textbook that claimed only white people could be racist.

“There is no such thing as reverse racism or reverse sexism (or the reverse of any form of oppression,)” the textbook claimed. “While women can be just as prejudiced as men, women cannot be ‘just as sexist as men’ because they do not hold political, economic and institutional power.”

And it was only a few months ago that First Lady Michelle Obama claimed that a shopper at Target was being racist for mistaking her for a Target employee.

“She said, ‘Can you reach on that shelf and hand me the detergent?’ I kid you not,” Obama said. “And the only thing she said — I reached up, because she was short, and I reached up, pulled it down – she said, ‘Well, you didn’t have to make it look so easy.’”

“That was my interaction. I felt so good.”

The Obama administration is pushing racial conflict to further divide the country, according to Ben Stein, the famous actor and political commentator.

“This president is the most racist president there has ever been in America,” Stein said. “He is purposely trying to use race to divide Americans.”

“They’re handing out pamphlets about this – and it’s been described a lot in the Wall Street Journal – [that say] ‘look, the Republican candidates are targeting President Obama because he’s black and you’re black, so you gotta go out and support him,” he added. “That’s just nonsense.”

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World Health Organisation 'intentionally delayed declaring Ebola emergency' by Sarah Boseley Health editor
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:30 PM

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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 two months over declaring the Ebola outbreak a global emergency for fear of damaging the economy of Guinea and other afflicted countries, leaked documents show.

The internal documents obtained by the Associated Press in Geneva reveal that WHO’s Geneva headquarters was receiving emails by mid-April 2014 from staffers on the ground in Guinea calling for help with an epidemic that had already killed 100 people but was recognised to be largely hidden and spreading.

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India derailment: 30 killed
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:29 PM

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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
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:29 PM

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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.

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1 off-duty New Jersey cop dead, 2 critical after NYC crash - WRBL
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Passenger train derails in north India, killing 31 people - Boston.com
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Italy's Renzi seeks replacement for minister caught in scandal
Friday March 20th, 2015 at 4:28 PM

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said on Friday he would replace within a few days a top minister who is quitting after being embroiled in a corruption scandal.

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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
20/03/15 12:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
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
20/03/15 12:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
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
20/03/15 12:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
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.
20/03/15 12:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
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
20/03/15 12:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
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
20/03/15 12:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
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
20/03/15 12:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
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
20/03/15 12:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
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
20/03/15 12:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
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
20/03/15 12:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
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
20/03/15 12:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
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
20/03/15 12:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
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
20/03/15 12:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
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
20/03/15 12:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
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'
20/03/15 12:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
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
20/03/15 11:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
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
19/03/15 19:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
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
19/03/15 16:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
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
19/03/15 16:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
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...

» Yellow cabs now outnumbered by Uber cars on NYC streets
19/03/15 16:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 3:29 p.m. EDT. NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City's storied yellow cabs are taking a back seat to black cars....

» Rights Group Criticizes Use of Cluster Bombs in Ukraine
19/03/15 16:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. A U.S.-based rights group says both government and rebel forces used cluster bombs in eastern Ukraine in January and February, killing at least 13 civilians including two children. Human ...

» EU won't lift sanctions on Russia until Minsk conditions met - Merkel - Reuters UK
19/03/15 16:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Reuters UK EU won't lift sanctions on Russia until Minsk conditions met - Merkel Reuters UK Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and German Chancellor Angela Merkel address a news conf...

» Two Killed As Gunmen Spray Bar With Bullets
19/03/15 16:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky News. Gunmen with Kalashnikovs attack a pub in an area of Sweden plagued by violence between rival criminal gangs.

» No Links Seen Between Terrorists and Gunmen in Tunisia Museum Attack, Premier Says
19/03/15 16:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Officials have identified the attackers, who killed 19 people at the National Bardo Museum, as Yassine Laabidi and Hatem Khachnaoui.

» Here are the salaries of 13 major world leaders - Business Insider
19/03/15 16:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from world - Google News. Here are the salaries of 13 major world leaders Business Insider Earlier this month Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he and almost everyone working for him would take a ...

» Putin Urges Russian Business Leaders to Return Capital - New York Times
19/03/15 16:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. NDTV The Moscow Times Putin Urges Russian Business Leaders to Return Capital New York Times MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged a gathering of Russia's billionaires and...

» 'They shot anything that moved': Tourists caught up in Tunisian museum massacre reveal how gunmen slaughtered indiscriminately, with a father forced to watch his wife and child killed
19/03/15 16:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Survivors of the Tunisia massacre have described how the two militants gunned down 'anything that moved' on a busy museum plaza before taking more than 100 tourists hostage.

» Chechen Man Faces Trial For Feeding Alleged Militant
19/03/15 16:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. A man accused of buying food for a militant in Russia's Chechnya region faces trial on charges of acting as an accomplice to armed outlaws.

» Ex-convict arrested in Phoenix-area shootings that killed 1 - Atlanta Journal Constitution
19/03/15 16:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Ex-convict arrested in Phoenix-area shootings that killed 1 Atlanta Journal Constitution MESA, Ariz. — A gunman killed one person and wounded five others ...

» Islamic State claims Tunisia attack
19/03/15 16:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia said it would deploy the army to major cities and arrested nine people on Thursday after 20 foreign tourists were shot dead at a museum in the capital in an a...

» EU gears up for propaganda war with Russia
19/03/15 16:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. BRUSSELS (Reuters) - 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 sum...

» ISIS destroy 4th Century Mar Benham monastery in Iraq
19/03/15 16:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. The ancient building, built by Assyrian king Senchareb 1,600 years ago, stood in the Christian-dominated town of Bakhdida, just 20 miles south east of oil rich ISIS stronghold Mosul.

» Tunisia Reels From a Terror Attack Possibly Linked to ISIS
19/03/15 16:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TIME. With Tunisians reeling from the terror attack that killed 18 foreign tourists on Wednesday in the heart of their capital, the government scrambled to try avert any further attacks, while accounting f...

» Lord Green: I was not 'asleep at wheel' at HSBC
19/03/15 16:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Excerpt of interview shows former bank head denying Margaret Hodge’s accusation and insisting that it was a ‘tower of strength’ during the financial crisis Lord Green, the man...

» Shocked Survivors Recount Tunisia Horror
19/03/15 16:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky News. An Italian woman shot in the attack tells how she and other tourists hid behind exhibits as gunmen sprayed bullets in the museum.

» The Warlord Checkmates The Tsar
19/03/15 16:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Vladimir Putin essentially had to choose between his handpicked Chechen leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, and his beloved FSB/KGB. Neither choice is great for the regime.

» What's behind Russia's massive muscle-flexing? - Christian Science Monitor
19/03/15 16:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Christian Science Monitor What's behind Russia's massive muscle-flexing? Christian Science Monitor Moscow — Strategic bombers to Crimea, nuclear-capable Iskander ballistic missiles to...

» Study Reveals Genetic Path of Modern Britons
19/03/15 16:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. Researchers found that the modern British population falls into 17 clusters that are all very similar but genetically distinguishable.

» U.S. Destroys Islamic State Drone In Iraq
19/03/15 16:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The U.S. military says it has destroyed a drone being used by Islamic State militants to scout the positions of their battlefield opponents

» Valentin Rasputin, Russian Writer Who Led ‘Village Prose’ Movement, Dies at 77
19/03/15 16:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. Conservatives praised Mr. Rasputin as a keeper of the Russian soul, while liberals expressed concern about his nationalist views.

» Study: Bilinguals Negotiate Between Two Views
19/03/15 16:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. According to a new study, speaking two languages may influence how people perceive the world around them by putting a different emphasis on certain reactions. Psycholinguists from Britain...

» Health of Jailed Russian Tycoon Failing as Trial Approaches
19/03/15 16:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Moscow Times Top Stories. The health of billionaire and political activist Gleb Fetisov, the wealthiest man behind bars in Russia, is deteriorating as he enters his second year in pretrial detention.

» G.M. Exiting Russia, for the Most Part
19/03/15 16:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. The automaker will shutter its main factory and wind down sales of the Opel, but it will continue to market the Cadillac and other expensive cars.

» GM Exiting Russia, for the Most Part - New York Times
19/03/15 16:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. New York Times GM Exiting Russia , for the Most Part New York Times The move reverses years of G.M. investments in Russia , where car sales had boomed. Now, however, the country is st...

» Vladimir Putin's Russia is treading water in a sea of red ink - Reuters Blogs (blog)
19/03/15 16:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Reuters Blogs (blog) Vladimir Putin's Russia is treading water in a sea of red ink Reuters Blogs (blog) As President Vladimir Putin looks out on to the world stage, he should be relis...

» Arthur A. Hartman, U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union, Dies at 89
19/03/15 16:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. Mr. Hartman, who was appointed envoy to the Soviet Union by Ronald Reagan, filled a dozen or so economic and diplomatic Foreign Service posts over four decades.

» Sergei Diaghilev: ballet, beauty and the beast
19/03/15 16:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russian news, all the latest and breaking Russia news. Sjeng Scheijen on the life of the Ballet Russes founder, For all his genius, Ballet Russes founder Sergei Diaghilev, born on March 19 1872 1872, was f...

A part of Leon Baksts Portrait of Sergei Diaghilev with his nanny, 1906, which is housed in the State Russian Museum in St Petersburg and was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition: From Russia,: French and Russian Master Paintings 1870-1925