Putin’s Gamble: An End to NATO and Restoration of Russian Might BY STEPHEN R. COVINGTON 9/6/15 AT 1:28 PM: "Away from public view, Putin constructs unchallengeable political control over Russia that is built on the narrow aims of a Kremlin leadership interested in obtaining more wealth and more power. Individually, these public and non-public lines of effort are single elements of Putin’s policy, each with their own appeal to their targeted audience. However, these three lines of Putin’s policy are mixed together into a single political and strategic military logic for breaking out of the perceived strategic encirclement of the European security system around Russia to establish a stronger, more globally competitive Russia."

"Away from public view, Putin constructs unchallengeable political control over Russia that is built on the narrow aims of a Kremlin leadership interested in obtaining more wealth and more power. Individually, these public and non-public lines of effort are single elements of Putin’s policy, each with their own appeal to their targeted audience.

However, these three lines of Putin’s policy are mixed together into a single political and strategic military logic for breaking out of the perceived strategic encirclement of the European security system around Russia to establish a stronger, more globally competitive Russia."

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An End to NATO and Restoration of Russian Might

Monday September 7th, 2015 at 11:16 AM

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This article first appeared on the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University site.

In 1985, a Soviet leader came to power, leading one of the two superpowers in a bi-polar world, commanding a powerful military and leading a party mandated with changing the world.

Mikhail Gorbachev was also equipped with something far more powerful than the weapons in the Soviet arsenal—forecasts of the USSR’s future inability to compete with the United States in economic, technological and military terms. Gorbachev was convinced that the Soviet war economy and its priorities would constrain and exhaust its national capacity to compete successfully at the end of the 20th century—and that the internal system needed change for the USSR to sustain itself as a competitive, global power.

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Gorbachev decisively chose economic reforms and disengagement from strategic confrontation with the West to address Soviet non-competitiveness. Internal political and economic changes to the Soviet system were intended to strengthen the USSR and renew its economic and technological base for sustained global competition in the 21st century.

He disengaged the Soviet Union from external strategic confrontation through conventional and nuclear arms reductions, changed Soviet security and defense policies and reduced arms expenditures. Gorbachev’s choice ended decades of direct military confrontation between the Soviet Union and NATO, and Eastern Europe’s political revolutions ultimately led to the geographic separation of Soviet and NATO military forces.

In 1991, Gorbachev was swept from power by the political and economic forces unleashed by his attempted internal reform of the USSR. 30 years later, another Russian leader driven by similar concerns about future strategic non-competitiveness has set this country on a path to address and reverse its non-competitive position in the world.

Vladimir Putin’s Russia today, however, is on a very different course from Gorbachev. After implementing liberal economic reforms aimed at strengthening Russia’s sovereignty in the early years of his rule, Putin has rejected structural, internal economic and political reforms, fearing that like Gorbachev he too could be swept from power.

Putin’s choice reflects a view that Russia can only address its non-competitiveness by changing the world around Russia, and most critically, by changing the European security system. In Putin’s view, any solution short of changing the European security system—including full integration, separation by erecting new walls, freezing the status quo around Russia, or partnering with other countries to counter-balance the powers in the European system—only means Russia’s inevitable loss of great power status and the loss of his personal power at home.

Consequently, Putin is rearming Russia, remilitarizing Russia’s overall approach to security, changing Russia’s defense concepts, adopting continuous destabilization strategies against neighboring states and returning to old policy formulas for internal and external security—all justified and rationalized by the perceived threat posed by the U.S./European security system around Russia.

His policy requires a changed Europe to enhance Russian strategic competitiveness and requires a changed Europe to avoid political change inside Russia. These two Russian campaigns—one external and one internal—are interfused. Success in one campaign is dependent on success in the other. More importantly, failure in one campaign is perceived as prompting failure in the other.

President Putin’s decision is influenced by Russia’s experiences since the end of the Cold War—internal coup attempts, terrorist attacks, “colored revolutions” around Russia, wars inside and outside of Russia, unfinished reforms and perceptions of Russia’s natural vulnerability to a fate similar to that of the USSR given its one-dimensional economic base and political superstructure.

However, Putin’s policy is driven mostly by concerns about Russia’s inability to compete on almost any level and in almost any sphere with the world’s greatest powers absent fundamental changes to the security, energy, economic and financial systems around Russia.

Russia does have long-standing critical views of the European security architecture. U.S. and NATO Ballistic Missile Defense programs, a variety of NATO and EU policies and actions and U.S. security and defense integration on the continent have been a few of the many points of criticism from Moscow over the years.

Dimitri Medvedev, then the President of Russia, proposed a new European security architecture shortly after the Russian conflict with Georgia in 2008 to change the European security system. While Putin’s policy is consistent with well-documented Russian criticisms of Europe’s security architecture, his actions differ substantially from previous Russian approaches.

Previous Russian approaches could be characterized as attempting to “break into” the European security system to politically divide and overrule. In contrast, Putin’s current approach attempts to “break out” of the European security system, divide Europe and establish new rules. This is a fundamental change of approach that reflects a fundamental change of policy.

Russian political and military experts also have long envied the Chinese security model. In many ways, Putin’s Russia seeks a security system in Europe that resembles the security environment China has in the Pacific.

For the Chinese, there is no real Asian-wide architecture of transpacific security akin to Europe’s transatlantic security that collectively counter-balances national power. China is able to use its economic and military strengths with a wider range of freedom, acting opportunistically, wielding its power to divide and overrule, protect territories and interests and navigate its strengths in a security environment with strategic but isolated pockets of U.S.-Pacific defense integration.

Simultaneously China has integrated economically, gained access to technology, modernized its economic system and maintained continuity in political control over the internal system.

Russian security experts also have admired the fact that China has evolved and grown into a great economic power without the political and economic turmoil Russia suffered in the 1990s—turmoil that has cost Russia time, money, energy and opportunity.

Russia’s leadership wants a Europe without strategic Alliances, without multi-national organizations and without a U.S.-Europe Transatlantic link that can through collective policies and action offset the national strengths Russia would hold over any one European nation. It would be a European security environment that would allow Russia to apply its national strengths to great effect without challenge and competition—enhancing its power abroad and at home.

This is the end-state of Putin’s strategy, and it requires changing the European security system—the rules of the game—to sustain Russia’s capability to compete with Europe and other regional powers poles outside Europe. Conversely, the policy strictly seeks to freeze the political rules of the game inside Russia, and end meaningful political competition at home. Russia’s leaders have concluded that the European system is both vulnerable and unjust.

In the Russian view, the European security system is vulnerable because it is weakened by a diffusion of global power, political devolution, sapped of economic wealth and attacked by forces of disorder in other parts of the world. Putin also has concluded that the current European security system is unjust because it confines and restricts Russia’s ability to exercise her inherent national strengths, inflicting a modern form of multi-dimensional, multi-level strategic encirclement of Russia.

Russia’s leaders claim the European security system is part of a global system whose purpose is to advance a unipolar, U.S.-dominated global order. Moreover, Russia’s leaders assert that preventing Russia from attaining its proper place in a just global order is a prerequisite to sustain the current unjust global order.

Russia’s policy seeks to change first the principles and rules upon which Europe and other countries have prospered and grounded their economic and military security, then replace them with new principles and new rules that would enhance the strengths of an unreformed, Putin-led Russia and compensate for its weaknesses.

As Russia’s campaign against Ukraine has demonstrated, this is a “rule breaker to be rule maker” strategy, and the strategy relies on a variety of internal and external means to achieve its ends. Internally, the strategy feeds nationalism, familiarity and orientation to the disempowered Russian people, offers the prospect for greater profit to the powerful rich and promises purpose, identity and resources to the power ministries (e.g., Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Interior).

Externally, the strategy relies on the use of all elements of power—including military—to discredit, devalue and delegitimize the current European security system. The roots of this strategy have many antecedents in Soviet policy, yet his policy is not that of the Soviet Union. Nor is it a policy that strictly and narrowly follows nationalist aims for redrawing borders to revive a Novorossiya or rebuild the Soviet empire.

His policy is a mixture of the very old, old and new in a completely different global strategic context. Putin needs the Russian people, the country’s powerful rich and the power ministries to support his policy. The Soviet-inspired symbols, messaging and parades, the nationalism associated with a Great Russia, the rearmament, increased defense budgets, the declarations of an unjust peace at the end of the Cold War and the accommodation of the narrow financial interests through new energy contracts with China and others are used to fuel support for his policy at home and attempt to legitimize it abroad.

President Putin has merged these three lines of ideas, ideals and vision for Russia into a single system of thought, policy and action to drive his strategy and build support internally for his agenda. Righting the perceived wrongs inflicted on Russia and rebuilding Russia’s power, prestige and place in the former Soviet space after its perceived humiliation at the end of the Cold War are the public lines of Russian policy.

Away from public view, Putin constructs unchallengeable political control over Russia that is built on the narrow aims of a Kremlin leadership interested in obtaining more wealth and more power. Individually, these public and non-public lines of effort are single elements of Putin’s policy, each with their own appeal to their targeted audience.

However, these three lines of Putin’s policy are mixed together into a single political and strategic military logic for breaking out of the perceived strategic encirclement of the European security system around Russia to establish a stronger, more globally competitive Russia.

Stephen R. Covington serves as International Affairs Advisor to the Supreme Allied Commander  Europe (SACEUR), Deputy Supreme Allied Commander and Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE). The above extract is from his Putin’s Choice for Russia, published by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

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Putin Orders Snap Combat Drills In Central Military District

Monday September 7th, 2015 at 11:16 AM

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President Vladimir Putin has ordered snap combat-readiness drills in Russia's central military district.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on September 7 that the exercises involve paratroopers and military transport aviation as well as some aircraft from other military districts.

"We have to check the capabilities of paratroopers when they are deployed over large distances and their readiness to make landings on unknown aerodromes," he said.

The minister added that the war games, which run to September 12, are also designed to test the Health and Agriculture ministries' "readiness to carry out their tasks in wartime conditions."

The central military district ranges from the regions around the Volga River to the Ural mountains and Siberia, while also including far northern Russia.

Russia has intensified snap checks of its military might, as the crisis in Ukraine sent relations between the West and Moscow to lows not seen since the Cold War.

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France proposes leaders' summit on Ukraine to push peace process

Monday September 7th, 2015 at 11:15 AM

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PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande on Monday proposed a meeting of the leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine in Paris later this month to push ahead with peace talks after recent ceasefire progress.

"The process has moved forward. There has been progress in the last few weeks. The ceasefire has almost been respected," Hollande told a news conference.

"The foreign ministers will speak in the coming days, and I propose a meeting (of leaders) in Paris before the U.N. General Assembly (on Sept. 28) so that we can evaluate the process and lead it to its end."

Hollande added: "If the process succeeds I will support the lifting of sanctions."

(Reporting by John Irish and Elizabeth Pineau; Editing by James Regan)

Russia’s opposition faces an uphill struggle against Kremlin and Vladimir Putin

Monday September 7th, 2015 at 11:15 AM

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In late 2011, he was one of several leaders of a surge of anti-Kremlin protests - and endured the subsequent crackdown, which saw arrests, apartment searches, and several allies sent to prison.

Since the annexation of Crimea in February 2014 and the subsequent eruption of war in eastern Ukraine, Russia’s opposition leaders have endured ever-growing public vilification as ‘fifth columnists” and traitors.

In February this year came a blow that sent the entire anti-Kremlin movement – and much of Russia – into shock: the murder of the veteran opposition leader Boris Nemtsov.

Mr Nemtsov’s murder was a watershed moment for both the opposition and the Kremlin. It signalled that the era of tolerance was over – in the post-Crimea era, dissenters in the most brutal way.

It also deprived the movement of one of its few elected officials. Mr Netmsov held a council seat in Yaroslavl, a provincial medieval town north-east of Moscow.

Six months on, his old allies are regrouping and trying to regain office in the neighbouring region. But it is an uphill struggle.

One of the ancient river towns on which ancient Russia was founded, Kostroma is today a sleepy provincial capital, remarkable mostly for its neoclassical eighteenth century centre, reputedly laid out according to the pattern of Catherine the Great’s fan.

It has been hit by Russia’s economic downturn, though not catastrophically. Factories have closed to be replaced by shopping centres. Two mills producing linen – a traditional Volga export – still stagger along at reduced capacity. Many young people have left to find work in Moscow or Yaroslavl, the bigger, wealthier capital of the neighbouring region.

“It’s always been the definition of the sleepy provinces,” said Olga Dorozhkina, a local activist on the RPR Parnas, Mr Yashin’s party. “You can’t call it a politically active place.”

It is, in short, an unlikely place for an anti-Kremlin insurgency. And it is not where the opposition would have chosen to fight.

The opposition alliance of which Mr Yashin is a member had wanted to field candidates in four regions for the September 13 elections, including Novosibirsk, the booming scientific capital of Siberia.

One by one, however, they were denied registration on one technicality or another.

By mid-August, only Kostroma’s regional election commission had granted the opposition a place on the ballot. It is a decision that Mr Yashin and his campaign manager, Leonid Volkov, believe goes right up to the Kremlin.

“Why were we allowed to run here? It’s simple. In Novosibirsk, 70 per cent of the population live in the regional capital, so we don’t have to go too far to reach most voters. Here, sixty per cent of the population live in the countryside.” said Mr. Volkov, the campaign manager running the Parnas effort.

The population map is not the only difficulty. Novobirisk, with its strong artistic tradition and a reputation has a capital of science, is the kind of environment when Russian opposition politics thrives: big, wealthy, educated and middle class.

Largely rural and far from wealthy Kostroma is quite a different story.

“It is the toughest region for us. The Kremlin are counting on us demonstrably failing here so they can say ‘look, you can’t even get elected. You’re not popular,” he said.

The group need five per cent of the vote to get a deputy into the regional parliament, and the logistical nightmare is real.

Kostroma’s billboards, bus stops, and lampposts are peppered with campaign posters for United Russia, Vladimir Putin’s ruling party, and the parties of the so-called “systemic opposition” – the Communists, hard-nationalist Liberal Democrats, and centre-Left Just Russia, who sit in parliament but seldom, if ever, criticise Kremlin polices.

But the green and white of Parnas is nowhere to be seen – something Mr Volkov blames on the local authority’s firm grip on the local outdoor advertising market. Similarly, the party is largely ignored in television coverage.

“That means there is no room for subtlety in our campaign: first we need to inform people that we exist; and only then can we motivate them to vote for us,” said Mr Volkov. “The first ten days were taken up solely with the first task, so we’ve got a week to reach out and persuade people to vote for us.”

Mr Volkov is targeting not city squares and high streets, but the courtyards around which Russian residential areas are invariably built. The idea is “to go to the people, not to expect them to come to us.”

It is an exhausting schedule. The two lead candidates, Mr Yashin and Vladimir Andreichenko, a former regional governor, host a minimum of five public meetings each per day, relocating every 90 minutes from midday.

And it could easily be demoralising. During a day on the campaign trail with Mr Yashin last week, his best attended meeting attracted 14 voters. They were overwhelmingly elderly.

But if it gets to him, he does a good job of hiding it.

“My name is Ilya Yashin and I want to be your deputy in the regional assembly,” he began at his first meeting, addressing a total of three voters with a spring in his step and an engaging, breezy style.

The message is simple. “There is no one in the assembly who represents your interests. I want to be that person.”

It is old-fashioned, soapbox politics in a country where soap box politics is now a rarity.

And it quickly became apparent that the activists are not just up against impossible logistical challenges, the sullen activists of Patriots of Russia, or the threat of arrest Mr Yashin was detained early in the campaign for using a megaphone.

“It’s difficult to believe any facts anyone repeats,” shrugged Roma, a 27 year old soldier who, with his wife and child, sat through Mr Yashin’s speech in their apartment block courtyard. He was most worried about growing violence in the town. A couple of soldiers from his base had recently been stabbed during an altercation with drunks in a restaurant. “I’ll think about it before I vote.”

But that doesn’t mean his message is not hitting home, but that politicians are regarded with an almost universal disgust.

“Every month prices go up for food, essentials. Wages don’t,” said Natalya, Roma’s 25 year old wife. “Lots of people say they’re going to fight against it. Lots of people say they will fight corruption. Everyone speaks beautifully when they want your vote, and they never do anything afterwards.”

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Turkish jets strike PKK targets after deadly militant attack

Monday September 7th, 2015 at 11:14 AM

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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish insurgent targets overnight after the militants staged what appeared to be their deadliest attack since the collapse of a two-year-old ceasefire in July and killed 16 government soldiers.

The military said its aircraft bombed 23 Kurdish insurgent targets in a mountainous area near the Iraqi frontier on Monday. The statement from the army also said that another six soldiers had been wounded, but that none were in critical condition.

The clashes, weeks before polls the ruling AK Party hopes will restore its majority, threaten to sink a peace process President Tayyip Erdogan launched in 2012 in an attempt to end an insurgency that has killed more than 40,000 people.

Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels said they had killed 31 members of the armed forces in an attack on a convoy and clashes on Sunday in the mountainous Daglica area of Hakkari province, near the Iraqi border. The army statement said 16 had died making this the highest military death toll in a single attack for years.

The PKK is designated a terrorist organization by Turkey, the European Union and United States.

Erdogan said in an interview late on Sunday on the A Haber TV channel that the fight against the PKK would now become more determined. He said 2,000 PKK militants had been killed since the conflict resumed in July.

Uncertainty arising from the conflict, coinciding with a campaign against Islamic State militants based in Syria, has unnerved investors, with the lira dropping to record lows against the dollar.

The unrest has raised questions over how security can be guaranteed for the Nov. 1 vote. But Erdogan, who has dominated Turkish politics for over a decade and now seeks a parliamentary mandate to extend his executive powers, said the election would go ahead.

The pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), accused by the government of being bound to the PKK, called for a renewed ceasefire and an extraordinary parliamentary meeting. Leader Selahattin Demirtas cut short a European visit, saying there could be no justification for killing.

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"We will not surrender to war policies which only deem death proper for the people's poor children and splatter blood on the mothers' dreams of peace," he wrote on Twitter, referring to the Daglica attack and conflict in the southeastern town of Cizre.

Local media reports said a lieutenant colonel in command of the Daglica battalion was among those killed.

"Two of our armored vehicles suffered heavy damage after the detonation of hand-made explosives on the road. As a result of the blast, there were martyrs and wounded among our heroic armed comrades," the military said in a statement.

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The military said two F-16 and two F-14 jets struck 13 PKK targets and operations were continuing despite very poor weather after the attack, which occurred as security forces were clearing roadside bombs planted by the PKK.

The security source said that after the militants detonated explosives along the road, a clash broke out between the soldiers and fighters from the PKK.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu chaired an emergency meeting with military and intelligence chiefs and ministers on Sunday night in Ankara following the attack, cutting short a visit to the city of Konya.

"The pain of our security forces who were martyred in the treacherous attack by the separatist terrorist organization sears our hearts," Erdogan said in a statement, adding he believed the Turkish people would unify and take a "decisive stance" against threats to national security.

After he spoke, some 200 people chanting pro-Erdogan slogans attacked the Hurriyet newspaper's offices in Istanbul, accusing it of misquoting him and implying that the president was trying to gain political capital from the Daglica attack.

Protesters with sticks and stones smashed windows, according to the Dogan news agency, part of the same group as Hurriyet, which has attracted criticism from pro-government circles over its coverage of the conflict.

The PKK launched its insurgency in 1984 with the aim of carving out a state in the mainly Kurdish southeast. It later moderated its goal to strengthening Kurdish political rights.

Some Turks fear Kurds in Syria, backed by the United States in their fight against Islamic state, and Kurds in Iraq, as well as the PKK, harbor ambitions of an independent contiguous Kurdish state.

(Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by Nick Tattersall, Ralph Boulton and Hugh Lawson)

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Turkey, Responding to Attack, Launches Airstrikes on Kurdish Rebels

Monday September 7th, 2015 at 11:14 AM

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ISTANBUL — The Turkish military carried out airstrikes on Monday against Kurdish insurgents, a day after what appeared to be the deadliest assault since the breakdown in July of a fragile peace process with the Turkish state.

The death toll from Sunday’s attack was not immediately clear. The military put the figure at 16, with six more wounded, but a website close to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K., said that 31 soldiers had been killed. Turkish fighter jets struck 13 targets in retaliation, the military said.

The clashes signaled an escalation in violence in Turkey’s southeast, where Kurdish militants have resumed an insurgency against the Turkish state that has claimed nearly 40,000 lives over three decades.

On Monday, the military said it had launched airstrikes on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party in response to the ambush by militants in the Daglica area of Hakkari Province, close to the border with Iraq. There were no immediate reports of deaths.

The airstrikes came after two armored vehicles suffered heavy damage on Sunday from handmade explosives, the military said in a statement, which noted “martyrs and wounded among our heroic armed comrades.”

Government officials said that more than 70 members of the Turkish security forces had been killed since the end of a cease-fire in July. In response to the daily attacks by the Kurdish militants, Turkish officials have called on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party leadership to reinstate the cease-fire and withdraw from Turkey as a first step toward disarmament.

In 2013, Turkey reached a historic settlement with the Kurdish militias, vowing to grant the Kurdish minority greater rights and autonomy in exchange for the cease-fire, which brought peace and stability to the volatile southeast.

Elections are scheduled for Nov. 1, with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s Justice and Development Party hoping to regain the majority it lost in the June 7 vote. Opponents say that the government’s decision to resume extensive military operations against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party is driven at least in part by a calculated strategy by the Justice and Development Party to recapture the nationalist vote.

Commenting on the unrest in a television interview on Sunday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the situation would be different if Turks had voted for 400 lawmakers from a single party in the June election, referring to the number of seats the Justice and Development Party would need to secure an absolute majority to change the Constitution.

He vowed that Turkey would continue its military operations against the Kurdish militants “until the end.” He said 2,000 militants had been killed so far.

After the attack on Sunday, Mr. Davutoglu left early from a soccer match between Turkey and the Netherlands in the city of Konya and returned to Ankara to convene an emergency security meeting. No statements were made.

On Monday, Mr. Erdogan said the attack had been aimed at breaking up the country’s unity.

“I believe that the Turkish nation will maintain a united and determined stance against attacks that aim to damage peace, security and stability of the country,” he said in a written statement. “The pain of our security forces who were martyred in the treacherous attack by the separatist terrorist organization sears our hearts.”

Selahattin Demirtas, the co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish Democratic People’s Party, whose success in the June election stripped the Justice and Development Party of its majority, condemned the attack and the government’s policy toward the Kurds.

“As killing has no justification; leading our people to death has no justification either,” he said on Twitter. “Death knells that upset us cannot be our destiny.”

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Palestinian Toddler Killed in Suspected Jewish Extremist Attack: Police

Monday September 7th, 2015 at 11:13 AM

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DUMA, West Bank — Israel's prime minister made a rare call to the Palestinian Authority's chairman on Friday following the death of an 18-month-old Palestinian boy who was killed in a house fire suspected to have been set by Jewish extremists.

Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to Mahmoud Abbas to say "everyone in Israel was shocked by the reprehensible terrorism," according to a statement issued by his office.

"We must fight terrorism together regardless of which side it comes from," Netanyahu said, according to the statement. Israeli security forces had been ordered to use "all measures to locate the murderers," it added.

The mother of the slain child was being treated for burns on 90 percent of her body, hospital officials told NBC News earlier. Israeli officials named the slain child as Ali Dawabsheh and said his four-year-old brother was in intensive care. His father was also reported to have been injured.

Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the "Price Tag" slogan used in the past by extremist Israelis was daubed on the walls of the family home that had been torched in the village of Duma, which is located near the West Bank city of Nablus.

"This is a suspected attack with nationalist motives," Samri said. It was the worst attack by Israeli extremists since a Palestinian teen was burned to death in a retribution slaying for three Israelis killedby abductors a year ago.

Speaking on Army Radio, Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan said: "A nation who had children burned in the Holocaust should do soul-searching if from the same nation people come out and burn other people."

Dan Shapiro, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, also highlighted Thursday's knife attack at a gay pride parade in Jerusalem.

"Two days, two terrible acts of violence and hate," he wrote on his Facebook page. "I join with so many Israeli leaders and citizens who have condemned the hateful stabbing attacks at the Jerusalem Pride March and the murderous terrorist arson in Duma."

An investigation was underway to bring the "terrorists" to justice, Israel Defense Forces spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said in a statement.

The "Price Tag" group has been blamed for a string of mosque torchings in the West Bank in the past few years, often in retribution for Israeli actions against illegally built settlements.

Israel tore down two illegal structures in the Beit El settlement earlier this week.

Palestinian Prime Minister Romi Hamdallah accused Israeli politicians of "incitement," adding: "We hold the Israeli government responsible for the attack."

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Police: American woman - CNN.com

Monday September 7th, 2015 at 11:13 AM

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• A man confessed to killing an American woman, police in Nepal say
• Her body has not been found

(CNN)An American woman who went to Nepal to help in the aftermath of April's devastating earthquake has been beaten to death, police said.

Dahlia Yehia, 25, arrived in Nepal on July 20 to serve in Pokhara, where she was killed by a teacher named Narayan Paudel, according to Hari Bahadur Pal, the Kaski District Police superintendent:.

Police said Paudel confessed to beating Yehia to death, putting her body in a sack and dumping it in the river.

Yehia's body has not been recovered, Pal said.

She met Paudel through the Couchsurfing website, which connects travelers with local hosts for accommodations.

According to police, Paudel confessed last week to killing her on August 4.

Her friends and family, concerned about her whereabouts, contacted the U.S. Embassy in Nepal. Local authorities launched an investigation.

More than 8,000 people were killed in the April 25 quake. Hundreds of thousands were left homeless.

Greece considers U.S. request to close airspace to Russian aid flights

Monday September 7th, 2015 at 11:13 AM

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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece received a request from the United States to deny Russia the use of Greek airspace for aid flights to Syria, a spokesman for the foreign ministry in Athens said on Monday.

The spokesman said the request was being examined.

Russian newswire RIA Novosti earlier said Greece had refused the U.S. request, citing a diplomatic source, adding that Russia was seeking permission to run the flights up to Sept. 24.

Greece has sought to foster closer ties with Russia during the economic crisis that nearly forced it out of the euro zone.

The Russian foreign ministry was not immediately available for comment.

Russia is a long-time ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose rule the United States and other western powers favor ending via a political transition.

The request from Washington comes after it expressed concerns to Moscow on Saturday about reports that Russia was moving toward a major military build-up in Syria widely seen as aimed at bolstering Assad.

(Reporting by Renee Maltezou; additional reporting by Lidia Kelly in Moscow; Writing by John Stonestreet; Editing by Catherine Evans)

Islamic State takes Syrian state's last oilfield: monitor

Monday September 7th, 2015 at 11:12 AM

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AMMAN (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters have seized the last major oilfield under Syrian government control during battles over a vast central desert zone, a group monitoring the conflict said on Monday.

The Jazal field was now shut down and clashes were ongoing east of Homs, with casualties reported on both sides, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, without giving dates or more details.

Syria's army said it had repulsed an attack in the same area but did not mention Jazal or comment on how much of the country's battered energy infrastructure remained under its sway. It said it killed 25 fighters, including non-Syrian jihadists.

"The regime has lost the last oilfield in Syria," said the Observatory, which tracks violence through a network of sources on the ground.

Commentators on social media said fighting had surged in the last two to three days and the rebels had taken the oilfield on Sunday.

Jazal is a medium-sized field that lies to the north west of the rebel-held ancient city of Palmyra, close to a region that holds Syria's main natural gas fields and multi-million-dollar extraction facilities.

The army, which has been fighting to retake the city and surrounding areas since they fell in May, had managed to secure the oil field's perimeter in June.

The Observatory also said U.S.-led coalition bombing raids in areas in the militant's de facto capital of Raqqa had killed at least 16 militants, including five foreign jihadists.

Islamist insurgents bombarded the heart of the Syrian capital Damascus and mortars killed at least one civilian and wounded scores, state television said.

(Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi; Editing by Catherine Evans and Andrew Heavens)

Ousted as Gay, Aging Veterans Are Battling Again for Honorable Discharges

Monday September 7th, 2015 at 11:12 AM

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — When the Army discharged Pvt. Donald Hallman in 1955 for being what it called a “Class II homosexual,” the 21-year-old was so scared of being an outcast that he burned all his military records, save for a single dog tag he hid away.

Mr. Hallman, a coal miner’s son who sang in a church choir in rural Alabama, says he never mentioned his military service again. He married a woman he had met at work, had children and wore a suit and tie to work each day.

“I hid it because it would have ruined my life,” Mr. Hallman said in an interview at his home here.

But this summer, Mr. Hallman, now 82, retrieved the dog tag from a keepsake box and began working through an application to the Department of Defense, asking that his decades-old discharge be upgraded from “undesirable” to “honorable.”

Mr. Hallman put the circumstances of his discharge out of his mind for decades, and though he kept his dog tag, it was hidden away.

Andrew Spear for The New York Times

“I’ve gotten to a point in my life where no one can hurt me now,” he said. “I don’t care who knows, and I want to show I was an honorable person.”

He is one of a steady march of older veterans who were kicked out of the military decades ago for being gay, and who are now asking that their less-than-honorable discharges be upgraded.

By some estimates, as many as 100,000 service members were discharged for being gay between World War II and the 2011 repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Many were given less-than-honorable discharges that became official scarlet letters — barring them from veterans’ benefits, costing them government jobs and other employment, and leaving many grappling with shame for decades.

Now, emboldened by the gay soldiers serving openly in the military and the same-sex couples finding broad acceptance in civilian life, they are increasingly seeking amends.

Reissued copies of Mr. Hallman's discharge papers refer to him as a Class II homosexual, the reason the Army gave for his discharge from its ranks.

Andrew Spear for The New York Times

“After all these years, I want to tie up loose ends,” said Jim Estep, 80, a retired professor in Buffalo, who was given a less-than-honorable discharge in 1964. “It’s a way of getting the government — that faceless entity — in some way to acknowledge the authenticity of my life and my contribution to the country.”

A 2011 Obama administration policy generally grants an honorable discharge to any veteran who was kicked out for homosexuality unless there were “aggravating” factors, such as misconduct. Records from the Department of Defense show 80 percent of the nearly 500 requests submitted since 2011 received an upgrade.

But for many it is far from an easy fix. Tracking down decades-old records and getting an upgrade can take years. Many veterans hire lawyers, and some veterans groups have asked for the process to be streamlined.

“It’s really frustrating,” said Becca von Behren, a staff attorney for the San Francisco organization Swords to Plowshares, which provides legal assistance to veterans. “If a veteran needs health care from the V.A. and it takes so long to get an upgrade, the veteran can really spiral down.”

Nearly 30 years ago, Joshua Hoffman was given an other-than-honorable discharge from the Air Force  over suspicions that he was gay.

Andrew Spear for The New York Times

A bill in Congress, known as the Restore Honor to Service Members Act, would grant blanket upgrades to nearly all veteran discharged for being gay, but it has been stalled in Congress since 2013, and backers say it has little chance of moving forward this year.

In the 1970s and 1980s, upgrading service records was the battleground of gay activists. Today the requests are coming from everyday citizens.

“These stories are buried deep; it can be traumatic to dredge it up again,” said Lori Gum, an organizer at Stonewall Columbus, a gay community center in Ohio. She has helped six veterans start the upgrade process in the past year, including Mr. Hallman, but said three were too troubled by the past to finish the application.

The United States military’s punishment of homosexuality dates back to the Revolutionary War. Historians say Gen. George Washington personally ordered that a young officer be “dismiss’d with Infamy” and literally drummed out of Valley Forge, pursued by a fife and drum troop.

Starting in World War II, the military treated homosexuality as a mental defect rather than a crime, but still purged gays with quick discharges.

Through the 1980s, military investigators, usually working in pairs, employed long interrogations and threats of public humiliation to coerce the service members to confess and name names.

“They put me in a hospital room for three or four days, no contact with anyone before questioning me,” Mr. Estep said in a phone interview.

He had graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a future senator, John McCain, and was flying fighters off a carrier in the Pacific in 1964 when the Navy discovered a letter he had written to a gay friend. He soon found himself seated in a small room facing a pair of agents who thumbed through folders of documents.

“They said they knew everything about me, which now I suspect was a lie,” Mr. Estep said. “They had rifled through my room and gotten my address book, and told me they would call everyone in there and their employers and tell them what was going on.”

Mr. Estep, who was slated to join the astronaut program, signed a confession that ended his career.

Mr. Estep applied for an honorable discharge twice in the 1960s and was denied.

Even as attitudes in the United States started to change in the 1980s, military practices lagged.

Joshua Hoffman enlisted in the Air Force in 1984 after two years as a Mormon missionary. After an anonymous tip, two agents interrogated him in 1986. He had some sense he was gay at the time, but was still a virgin, he said in an interview at his house in Columbus.

“They kept saying, ‘Tell us who you’ve done it with,’ ” he recalled. “I kept telling them, ‘I haven’t done anything with anyone.’ ” Nevertheless, he was discharged a few weeks later.

Mr. Hoffman, now 52 and living with his partner and four adopted children, began to cry as he described being thrown out of the military.

“I was kicked out of my job, my church, my housing: I had nothing,” he said. “It took a long time to realize I deserved respect.”

A year ago, at the urging of his partner, he applied for an upgrade. He got a letter back from the Air Force in June saying his discharge had been reclassified as honorable. He proudly posted it on Facebook.

Mr. Hallman put what happened in 1955 out of his mind for decades until this spring, when his daughter Deirdre asked why he was not eligible for veterans benefits.

“He just opened up and told me everything,” his daughter said.

After joining the Army, he became a clerk for Army intelligence in Frankfurt, West Germany. He had been rated excellent in reviews and recommended for a good-conduct medal, he said, but one day on the street he was propositioned by a young man and caught in a military sting. A few weeks later he was thrown out of the Army.

He never told a soul, living a straight life with a house full of children. He became president of a trucking company, then a human resources company.

Over the years, Mr. Hallman, who describes himself as bisexual, had a few casual encounters with men, but kept that part of his life hidden, he said. He later divorced, but said he had a good relationship with his ex-wife.

“I’m kind of proud of the life I’ve lived. I worked hard, was a success, owned two businesses and have a beautiful family, 12 grandchildren,” Mr. Hallman said. “But I feel like there is a stain on it, and I’d like to get it off there.”

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Migrants Continue to Pour Into Austria, Germany

Sunday September 6th, 2015 at 11:32 AM

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Thousands of migrants were still streaming across Hungary’s border with Austria on Sunday morning, more than 24 hours after German and Austrian authorities accepted one of the largest waves of displaced people since World War II.

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» Hidden prehistoric monument discovered near Stonehenge
07/09/15 10:30 from stories: World
LONDON (AP) — Researchers have discovered evidence of standing stones believed to be the remnants of a major prehistoric stone monument near the Stonehenge ruins. University of Bradford researchers said Monday the monument is thoug...

» Europe Migrant Crisis - Sept. 7, 2015
07/09/15 10:30 from Voice of America
A look at the best news photos of Europe migrant crisis.

» American police chief responded to racism complaint 'by comparing black people to monkeys'
07/09/15 10:29 from The Independent - World RSS Feed
An American police chief is under fire after he was alleged to have made offensive remarks comparing black people to monkeys.

» Illinois town mourns officer as manhunt for killers continues - USA TODAY
07/09/15 10:29 from Google News - Top Stories
USA TODAY Illinois town mourns officer as manhunt for killers continues USA TODAY Hundreds of mourners lined up at an Illinois high school Monday to pay their respects to a police officer whose mysterious shooting death shocked a quiet C...

» Merkel sharpens tone towards migrants
07/09/15 10:29 from FT.com - World
Social benefits for people likely to be deported would be reduced, says chancellor

» France tells Cameron: If you want EU reform, don't shirk duties in taking share of refugees - live
07/09/15 10:28 from World news breaking world news latest world news from the US Europe Asia Australia Africa
President Francois Hollande says France will take more than 24,000 over two years as he warns UK PM that solidarity with EU reform depends on British action on refugees. Follow the latest developments here

» France to take in 24,000 refugees, fly over Syria
07/09/15 10:26 from Top Stories
Hollande calls for ‘European and global’ response to the migration crisis.

» New 'Superhenge'? Remains found near Stonehenge - CNN
07/09/15 10:26 from Google News - Top Stories
BBC News New 'Superhenge'? Remains found near Stonehenge CNN (CNN) — Stonehenge, the world-renowned circle of bluestone columns in an isolated field in southwest England, has been shrouded in mystery for centuries. But it seems t...

» Firefighters save Marine's homecoming
07/09/15 10:26 from CNN.com
In Pennsylvania, see how the Warwick Fire Company brings good stuff to one Marine.

» Guatemala's presidential election appears headed to runoff
07/09/15 10:25 from AP Top Headlines At 7:05 a.m. EDT
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- A former television comic was heading for a runoff with either a wealthy businessman or a former first lady in voting for Guatemala's next president, days after the Central American nation's leader resigned over a ...

» Funeral Being Held for Illinois Officer Killed Last Week - ABC News
07/09/15 10:25 from Google News - Top Stories
ABC News Funeral Being Held for Illinois Officer Killed Last Week ABC News Law enforcement officers from around the country are expected to attend the funeral for a longtime Illinois police officer who was fatally shot last week, as the ...

» IS captures oil field in central Syria - Times of India
07/09/15 10:23 from Google News - Top Stories
Times of India IS captures oil field in central Syria Times of India BEIRUT: Activists say members of the Islamic State group have captured an oil field in central Syria. The activists say the extremists captured the Jazal oil field late...

» Vegas cops ambushed at traffic light
07/09/15 10:23 from CNN.com
A man with a semiautomatic handgun ambushed two officers who'd stopped their patrol car at a traffic light in Las Vegas on Sunday, police said.

» Chad's ex-leader carried into court
07/09/15 10:23 from BBC News - World
Chad's ex-leader Hissene Habre is carried into court and held down by masked security officers at the resumption of his war crimes trial.

» West Indian Day Parade Set to Kick off in NYC Amid Violence
07/09/15 10:22 from ABC News: ABCNews
New York City's West Indian Day Parade set to kick off but already has been marred by violence

» Turkish jets strike PKK targets after deadly militant attack
07/09/15 10:22 from Reuters: International
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish insurgent targets overnight after the militants staged what appeared to be their deadliest attack since the collapse of a two-year-old ceasefire in July and claimed to have ...

» ISIS Seizes Oil Field in Central Syria: Monitor
07/09/15 10:22 from International News, Opinion and Analysis - Newsweek World
ISIS Seizes Oil Field in Central Syria: Monitor The field lies to the north west of the Roman ruin city of Palmyra. Explosion Shakes Chemical Plant in Eastern China There were no immediate reports of casualties in a country on edge after...

» Watch live: David Cameron outlines UK response to the migrant crisis in Commons - Telegraph.co.uk
07/09/15 10:21 from Google News - World
Telegraph.co.uk Watch live: David Cameron outlines UK response to the migrant crisis in Commons Telegraph.co.uk As Europe faces the greatest migration crisis since the Second World War, British PM David Cameron will outline the governmen...

» Former PM of Greece seeks absolute majority for lefist Syriza party - CTV News
07/09/15 10:21 from Google News - World
CTV News Former PM of Greece seeks absolute majority for lefist Syriza party CTV News ATHENS, Greece -- Greece's former prime minister said Monday he was seeking an absolute majority for his radical left Syriza party in upcoming earl...

» US Court Clerk Still Jailed in Gay Marriage Rights Case
07/09/15 10:20 from Voice of America
The Kentucky court clerk who is defying a U.S. federal judge's order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples remained in jail Monday even as her lawyer appeals the ruling that landed her behind bars. Kim Davis, a born-again Christ...

» Much work remains to detail past Iranian nuclear program: U.N. watchdog
07/09/15 10:20 from Reuters: International
VIENNA (Reuters) - It will take a lot of work to determine by the end of the year whether Iran was previously developing nuclear weapons, the head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog said on Monday.

» Former Chadian President Habre again disrupts trial for war crimes
07/09/15 10:20 from Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE - Top Stories
The war crimes trial of Chad’s former President Hissene Habre in Senegal's capital, Dakar, was delayed today when he refused to appear in court. Habre was brought in by force.

» Indiana Fever Thriving Behind Rookie Coach Stephanie White
07/09/15 10:18 from ABC News: ABCNews
Stephanie White's seamless transition has Fever thriving, not rebuilding, behind rookie coach

» 'We Are Dying By The Politics Of The EU'
07/09/15 10:17 from Sky News | World News | First For Breaking News
Streams of refugees continue to arrive in Hungary - where they find no support from the EU or government.

» Can Carly turn the summer of Trump to the fall of Fiorina?
07/09/15 10:17 from Latest News
Republican candidate on 'Fox & Friends'

» Down the Drain: Canadian Candidate out After Urinating Video
07/09/15 10:17 from ABC News: ABCNews
Down the drain: Canadian candidate for Parliament out after video shows him urinating in cup

» Sea Turtles Set New Nesting Records in Georgia, Florida
07/09/15 10:17 from ABC News: ABCNews
Sea turtle nesting rebounds to new record levels on beaches of Georgia and Florida

» Catalan separatists set for majority of seats in regional parliament: poll
07/09/15 10:15 from Reuters: International
MADRID (Reuters) - Catalan separatists are set to win a majority of seats in the regional parliament in an election this month, potentially putting them on a path to a unilateral declaration of independence and a clash with Madrid, a pol...

» Turkey's Military: 16 Troops Killed, 6 Wounded in PKK Attack - New York Times
07/09/15 10:15 from Google News - World
The Guardian Nigeria Turkey's Military: 16 Troops Killed, 6 Wounded in PKK Attack New York Times ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's military says 16 soldiers were killed in a Kurdish rebel attack against troops in southeast Turkey on Sund...

» Spanish firefighters protest for better working conditions
07/09/15 10:15 from The Independent - World RSS Feed
Over 500 fire-fighters took to the streets of Madrid calling for better work conditions, fair pay and professional recognition. The protesters made their point by smacking firewall spades on the road and carrying chainsaws.

» Down the drain: Canadian candidate out after urinating video - Washington Post
07/09/15 10:15 from World - Google News
Macleans.ca Down the drain: Canadian candidate out after urinating video Washington Post TORONTO — A Toronto businessman who had been running for Parliament with Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper's party made the wrong kind ...

» India hits back after Pak Army Chief's Kashmir remark - The Indian Express
07/09/15 10:14 from World - Google News
The Indian Express India hits back after Pak Army Chief's Kashmir remark The Indian Express The only issue with Pakistan is to get back parts of Jammu and Kashmir under its illegal occupation, Minister of State in PMO Jitendra Singh ...

» Image of Asia: Singing on a Jet Plane
07/09/15 10:14 from ABC News: ABCNews
Image of Asia: Singing on a jet plane

» European Leaders Pledge to Take In More Migrants
07/09/15 10:13 from NYT > International
France said it would accept 24,000 asylum seekers over two years, Britain plans to accept thousands from Syria and Germany set aside $6.7 billion to help new arrivals.

» Greek Former PM Tsipras Seeks Absolute Majority in Election
07/09/15 10:12 from ABC News: ABCNews
Greece: Former PM Tsipras seeks absolute majority for left-wing Syriza party in early election

» Sarah Palin: 'Speak American'
07/09/15 10:11 from CNN.com

» No Sign When Afghan-Taliban Peace Talks Might Resume
07/09/15 10:11 from Voice of America
Afghanistan's suspended Taliban peace talks appear no closer to resuming following recent meetings between senior Afghan and Pakistani officials in Kabul. In interviews and speeches recently, leaders on both sides insisted their counterp...

» Turkey Presses Ahead With Operation After Deadly PKK Attack
07/09/15 10:11 from ABC News: ABCNews
Turkey's military presses ahead with operations against PKK a day after deadly attack

» US Hunter Tied to Cecil the Lion Killing Speaks Out
07/09/15 10:07 from ABC News: ABCNews
Walter Palmer has spent more than a month out of sight following lion's death.

» Labor Day: Obama in Boston to announce paid sick leave for government contractors
07/09/15 10:06 from The Independent - World RSS Feed
President Barack Obama is marking America’s Labor Day holiday in Boston by signing an executive order requiring government contractors to offer seven days of paid sick leave a year to their workers.

» Hidden prehistoric monument discovered near Stonehenge; believed to be 4500 ... - Fox News
07/09/15 10:05 from Google News - World
Fox News Hidden prehistoric monument discovered near Stonehenge; believed to be 4500 ... Fox News FILE - In this Tuesday Dec. 17, 2013 file photo, visitors take photographs of the world heritage site of Stonehenge, England. Researchers h...

» U.S. asks Greece to deny Russian flights to Syria
07/09/15 10:02 from Reuters: Top News
ATHENS/BEIRUT/MOSCOW (Reuters) - The United States has asked Greece to deny Russia the use of its airspace for supply flights to Syria, a Greek official said on Monday, after Washington told Moscow it was deeply concerned by reports of a...

» Hidden prehistoric monument discovered near Stonehenge - Washington Post
07/09/15 10:01 from Top Stories - Google News
Fox News Hidden prehistoric monument discovered near Stonehenge Washington Post LONDON — Researchers have discovered evidence of standing stones believed to be the remnants of a major prehistoric stone monument near the Stonehenge ruins....

» 'Disturbing' Video Shows HS Football Players Colliding With Ref
07/09/15 10:00 from ABC News: ABCNews
"It is not the good sportsmanlike behavior that we teach," the district said.

» Wing-walkers wanted: Must be 5'5" and 'be able to dance in a hurricane'
07/09/15 10:00 from World news breaking world news latest world news from the US Europe Asia Australia Africa
The world's only stunt acrobatic wing walking team are looking to recruit a new full time member of their team and have released an interactive 360-panorama of the view from atop a biplane wing

» Hidden heroin may have been behind Iguala student massacre
07/09/15 09:59 from In English Section | EL PAÍS
New report from Organization of American States believes the drugs were, unbeknown to the 43 victims, concealed on bus they used to travel

» Why Mike Huckabee is standing with Kentucky clerk Kim Davis
07/09/15 09:59 from Latest News
GOP candidate on 'Fox & Friends'

» BBC 'will be hub for UK creativity'
07/09/15 09:59 from BBC News - World
The BBC pledges to work with the UK's arts and science institutions to "make Britain the greatest cultural force in the world" as it lays out its plans ahead of 2016's charter renewal.

» France tells Cameron: If you want EU reform, don't shirk duties in taking ... - Telegraph.co.uk
07/09/15 09:57 from Google News - World
Telegraph.co.uk France tells Cameron: If you want EU reform, don't shirk duties in taking ... Telegraph.co.uk ... • UK must do its fair share on refugees for EU reform, says Hollande • Yvette Cooper: UK should take up to 50,000 refug...

» Replanting Project Focuses on Repairing Sandy-Damaged Coast
07/09/15 09:57 from ABC News: ABCNews
Seed collection, replanting project focuses on repairing coastal areas damaged in superstorm

» Sanders Surges Ahead Of Clinton In New Poll - CBS Local
07/09/15 09:57 from Google News - Top Stories
CBS Local Sanders Surges Ahead Of Clinton In New Poll CBS Local NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A new poll shows Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is now leading Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire in the Democractic presidential race. The Marist Poll pu...

» EU promises 'decisive' response to farmers' woes
07/09/15 09:56 from Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE - Europe
EU officials have said they will have a robust response ready for farmers who have been complaining about sinking prices for their goods. Some 6000 growers have laid siege on roads on streets in and around Brussels.

» POLITICO Playbook, presented by Comcast – SABATO at Labor Day: Trump ‘has all the markings of an early bubble’; Hillary-Jeb is still the most likely matchup – JUICY READ ON VATICAN INTRIGUE -- B’DAY: Maralee Schwartz, Peggy Noonan, Joe Klein, Jim Mahoney
07/09/15 09:55 from Top Stories
Trump ‘has all the markings of an early bubble’

» Qatar sends 1,000 ground troops to Yemen conflict: al Jazeera
07/09/15 09:55 from Reuters: International
SANAA (Reuters) - Qatar has sent 1,000 ground troops to Yemen, Doha-based Al Jazeera television said, escalating Gulf Arab intervention in Yemen's war ahead of a planned offensive against Iranian-backed Houthis holding the capital Sanaa.

» UK must not 'shirk duties' on refugees if it wants EU reform support from France, warns Hollande
07/09/15 09:55 from World news breaking world news latest world news from the US Europe Asia Australia Africa
France takes swipe at British stance on refugees as it pledges to take in 24,000 in two years and announces sending warplanes over Isil-held Syrian territory

» Deadly violence ahead of Brooklyn's West Indian Day parade - CBS News
07/09/15 09:55 from Google News - Top Stories
CBS News Deadly violence ahead of Brooklyn's West Indian Day parade CBS News NEW YORK --Authorities say one person has died and another is injured after violence broke out in the run-up to New York City's West Indian Day Parade. ...

» Officials: Iraqi Defense Minister Unharmed in Sniper Attack
07/09/15 09:54 from ABC News: ABCNews
Officials say Iraqi defense minister unharmed in sniper attack north of Baghdad; guard wounded

» Sanders surges in N.H., Trump's polls strong as ever
07/09/15 09:53 from Home - CBSNews.com
At campaign season's unofficial start, Bernie Sanders pulling away from Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire and Donald Trump's standing best yet in Iowa and N.H.

» New security program alerts traveling homeowner of break-in
07/09/15 09:53 from Latest News
Armed intruder was caught

» Sanders surges in N.H., Trump's numbers strong
07/09/15 09:53 from Home - CBSNews.com
At campaign season's unofficial start, Bernie Sanders pulling away from Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire and Donald Trump's standing best yet in Iowa and N.H.

» Fiorina blasts Clinton, asks why Trump is MIA
07/09/15 09:52 from CNN.com
Republican hopeful Carly Fiorina said Monday that she feels like the only candidate going after Hillary Clinton and asked why Donald Trump is not training more of his attacks on the Democratic front-runner.

» Harvard prof to launch long-shot 2016 bid
07/09/15 09:52 from CNN.com
Campaign finance reform crusader Lawrence Lessig is set to announce his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination Wednesday, just a few days after he reached the $1 million fundraising goal he set for himself to launch a bid.

» Huckabee compares jailing to Dred Scott ruling
07/09/15 09:52 from CNN.com
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee compared Rowan County clerk Kim Davis' refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples to conscientious objections to slavery Sunday.

» Wasserman Schultz backs Iran deal
07/09/15 09:52 from CNN.com
Democratic Party Chairwoman and Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Sunday she will vote in favor of President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran.

» Poll: Sanders builds on N.H. lead over Clinton
07/09/15 09:52 from CNN.com

» Germany's Merkel Demands EU Partners Help With Refugees 
07/09/15 09:51 from ABC News: ABCNews
Germany's Merkel demands EU partners share in burden of human tide from troubled nations

» Iraqi defense minister unharmed after sniper hits convoy: spokesman
07/09/15 09:51 from Reuters: International
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi's convoy came under sniper fire on Monday but he was unharmed, a ministry spokesman said.

» Angry Farmers Block Brussels Streets Over Falling Produce Prices
07/09/15 09:50 from WSJ.com: World News
Thousands of farmers blocked roads into central Brussels with tractors to protest plummeting milk and meat prices, which have fallen since Russia’s move to ban some European agricultural imports.

» Germany calls on neighbors to share burden as more migrants arrive - Los Angeles Times
07/09/15 09:50 from Top Stories - Google News
Los Angeles Times Germany calls on neighbors to share burden as more migrants arrive Los Angeles Times As more migrants continue to arrive, Germany called on its neighbors Monday to share the burden of accepting refugees fleeing war and ...

» Refugee crisis: The latest, in pictures
07/09/15 09:49 from World news breaking world news latest world news from the US Europe Asia Australia Africa
The latest photographs documenting the refugee crisis

» Sechin damps Russia-Saudi oil deal talk
07/09/15 09:49 from FT.com - World
‘Golden age’ of Opec has passed and Russia will not join cartel, says energy boss

» comments - 15 hours ago
07/09/15 09:49 from Breitbart News Network
comments - 15 hours ago comments - 13 hours ago comments - 14 hours ago comments - 21 hours ago comments - 12 hours ago Now Cameron Wants 10,000 Refugees, Will Spend International Aid Money on Them comments - 5 hours ago 'Yes means yes' ...

» 'Most peaceful country' in Middle East sends 1,000 ground troops to fight rebels in Yemen
07/09/15 09:48 from The Independent - World RSS Feed
Qatar has sent around 1,000 ground troops across the border into Yemen to join the Saudi-backed offensive against Houthi rebels, it has been reported.

» Failed US policy against ISIS to blame for refugee crisis?
07/09/15 09:47 from Latest News
Insight from Scott Mann

» Poll: Have social media campaigns motivated you to help refugees?
07/09/15 09:46 from Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE - Europe
Many social media initiatives have emerged recently, trying to convince more Europeans to take action and help refugees with their arrival, acclimatization and basic needs. Were you affected by these campaigns too?

» Marking Labor Day, Obama Extends Contractors Paid Sick Leave
07/09/15 09:43 from ABC News: ABCNews
Obama to sign executive order on Labor Day ensuring paid sick leave for federal contractors

» Mystery fireball lights up Bangkok skies: Viral video - Hindustan Times
07/09/15 09:42 from World - Google News
Hindustan Times Mystery fireball lights up Bangkok skies: Viral video Hindustan Times A screengrab of a video recorded on a dashboard car camera in Bangkok shows a fireball followed by a brilliant white flash. Share. Thais were left stun...

» AP NewsAlert
07/09/15 09:42 from ABC News: ABCNews
Officials say Iraqi defense minister unharmed in sniper attack north of Baghdad; guard wounded

» Germany to Spend €6 Billion On Migrant Crisis - Wall Street Journal
07/09/15 09:42 from Google News - World
Wall Street Journal Germany to Spend €6 Billion On Migrant Crisis Wall Street Journal German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that Germany would ensure that migrants who need protection receive it, but those from countries where t...

» IRC Presses US to Accept More Syrian Refugees
07/09/15 09:40 from Voice of America
The head of the International Rescue Committee is pressuring the United States to do more to ease the plight of Syrians refugees fleeing conflict and streaming into the European Union, whose overall response he criticized as "fumbling, f...

» US asks Greece to deny Russian flights to Syria - Reuters
07/09/15 09:39 from Google News - World
Reuters US asks Greece to deny Russian flights to Syria Reuters ATHENS/BEIRUT/MOSCOW The United States has asked Greece to deny Russia the use of its airspace for supply flights to Syria, a Greek official said on Monday, after Washington...

» Muslim flight attendant: No alcohol
07/09/15 09:37 from CNN.com
A Muslim flight attendant says she was suspended for refusing to serve alcohol in accordance with her Islamic faith.

» Op-Ed Contributor: Russian Thugs vs. The Avant-Garde
07/09/15 09:37 from NYT > International
The Kremlin is playing a dangerous game by manipulating violent, ultraconservative groups.

» Executive Order Will Give 300,000 Workers Paid Sick Leave
07/09/15 09:37 from ABC News: ABCNews
President again goes around Congress to advance his agenda.

» A bigger version of Stonehenge?
07/09/15 09:36 from CNN.com

» The empty citadel of Vietnam
07/09/15 09:35 from CNN.com
You might expect a communist government to distance itself from its imperial past, but the Vietnamese regime has seen the value in celebrating the country's bygone emperors and promoting its ancient citadels as tourist destinations.

» Explore the other 'great wall' of China
07/09/15 09:35 from CNN.com
The ancient Chinese were stonewall masters.

» Islamic State seizes last Syrian oilfield under government control, monitor says - ABC Online
07/09/15 09:35 from Google News - Top Stories
ABC Online Islamic State seizes last Syrian oilfield under government control, monitor says ABC Online Islamic State (IS) fighters have seized the last major oilfield under Syrian government control during battles over a vast central des...

» Huge Ritual Monument Found Near Stonehenge: Scientists
07/09/15 09:34 from World news
"It's truly remarkable," said Prof. Vince Gaffney, one of the archaeologists leading the project.

» Hidden prehistoric monument discovered near Stonehenge - CBS News
07/09/15 09:32 from Google News - Top Stories
CBS News Hidden prehistoric monument discovered near Stonehenge CBS News LONDON -- Researchers have discovered evidence of standing stones believed to be the remnants of a major prehistoric stone monument near the Stonehenge ruins. Unive...

» North and South Korea start preparing to reunite families separated by war 60 ... - Mashable
07/09/15 09:32 from Google News - World
Mashable North and South Korea start preparing to reunite families separated by war 60 ... Mashable South Korea's chief delegate Lee Deok-haeng (second from R) shakes hands with North Korean counterpart Pak Yong Il (second from L) be...

» Sex Talk Part of Curriculum Under New York Campus Safety Law
07/09/15 09:31 from ABC News: ABCNews
'Yes means yes' training part of college curriculum under New York law to combat sex assaults

» Kurdish militant group says 31 Turkish soldiers killed in attack: website - Reuters
07/09/15 09:31 from Google News - World
Wall Street Journal Kurdish militant group says 31 Turkish soldiers killed in attack: website Reuters ISTANBUL The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group said on Monday it had killed 31 Turkish soldiers in an attack and subsequent ...

» Mozart's sister 'composed works used by younger brother'
07/09/15 09:31 from World news breaking world news latest world news from the US Europe Asia Australia Africa
Australian researcher claims to have discovered the "musical handwriting" of Mozart's sister Marie Anna in works used by her younger brother to learn piano

» Button wants quick decision on 2016
07/09/15 09:31 from BBC News - World
McLaren driver Jenson Button says he wants his Formula 1 future to be decided "in the next few weeks".

» Farmers hose police with straw in EU protest over milk and meat prices
07/09/15 09:31 from World news breaking world news latest world news from the US Europe Asia Australia Africa
Farmers use unusual tactics in their Brussels protest...they get the straw spreader involved

» What happens when migrants get to Germany? - BBC News
07/09/15 09:30 from Google News - Top Stories
BBC News What happens when migrants get to Germany? BBC News Germany has pledged to resettle thousands of refugees arriving in Munich, at a cost of 6bn euros (£4.4bn). But German Chancellor Angela Merkel has stated that the country canno...

» Suspect in Bangkok Bombing Tells Police He's 'Guilty'
07/09/15 09:30 from ABC News: ABCNews
Suspect in Bangkok bombing tells police he's 'guilty' after being paraded before media

» Republicans plan attack on climate pact
07/09/15 09:30 from Top Stories
GOP aides have been holding meetings and strategy sessions behind the scenes for months to solidify the strategy, and its contours are beginning to emerge — with just a few months to go before diplomats meet in Paris in hopes of clinchin...

» GOP to attack climate pact at home and abroad
07/09/15 09:30 from Top Stories
An aide to Mitch McConnell has been informing foreign embassies about GOP plans to oppose Obama's strategy on global warming.

» Ancient Monument Appears to Have Been Realigned 4,500 Years Ago
07/09/15 09:29 from World news
Prof. Vincent Gaffney of the University of Bradford, England, explained the significance of the 'superhenge' near Stonehenge.

» 2015-09-06Jim Hall - Concierto (Full Album)
07/09/15 09:29 from Mike Nova - Google+
2015-09-06 Jim Hall - Concierto (Full Album) Jim Hall - Concierto (Full Album)  |  jim hall  ·  Translate Jim Hall - Concierto (Full Album) mn-3.blogspot.com Jim Hall - Concierto (Full Album) | jim hall Have him in circles 11 people 1 c...

» Tesco sells South Korea stores for £4bn
07/09/15 09:28 from BBC News - World
Tesco sells Homeplus, its South Korean business, for £4.2bn as the troubled supermarket chain seeks to shore up its balance sheet.

» Cecil the Lion's Killer Speaks Out - ABC News
07/09/15 09:27 from Google News - Top Stories
ABC News Cecil the Lion's Killer Speaks Out ABC News The Minnesota dentist, Dr. Walter Palmer, insists he did nothing wrong and explains why he is returning to work. 2:15 | 09/07/15. ABC Breaking News | Latest News Videos. Coming up ...

» Australian court hearing over Johnny Depp's dogs adjourned
07/09/15 09:26 from World news breaking world news latest world news from the US Europe Asia Australia Africa
Court hearing dealing with allegations that Johnny Depp's wife, Amber Heard, illegally brought the couple's dogs to Australia adjourned until November

» France Weighs Airstrikes on ISIS in Syria, Hollande Says - New York Times
07/09/15 09:26 from Top Stories - Google News
New York Times France Weighs Airstrikes on ISIS in Syria, Hollande Says New York Times PARIS — France will start sending reconnaissance flights over Syria and is considering airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syrian territory, Presi...

» France Is Weighing Airstrikes on ISIS in Syria, François Hollande Says - New York Times
07/09/15 09:26 from Google News - World
New York Times France Is Weighing Airstrikes on ISIS in Syria, François Hollande Says New York Times PARIS — France will start sending reconnaissance flights over Syria and is considering airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syrian te...

» Death toll widens from PKK ambush, warplanes retaliate against militants
07/09/15 09:26 from Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE - Top Stories
Overnight airstrikes launched by the Turkish military have struck Kurdish insurgents. Attacks follow Sunday's ambush attack that killed dozens of Turkish soldiers.

» France Is Weighing Airstrikes on ISIS in Syria, François Hollande Says
07/09/15 09:25 from NYT > International
The French president linked the move to the threat from attackers radicalized by Syrian militants and to the Islamic State’s role in the migrant crisis.

» France Weighs Airstrikes on ISIS in Syria, Hollande Says
07/09/15 09:25 from NYT > International
The French president linked the move to the threat from attackers radicalized by Syrian militants and to the Islamic State’s role in the migrant crisis.

» France agrees to take 24,000 migrants
07/09/15 09:25 from FT.com - World
François Hollande also mulling air strikes against Isis in Syria

» Iraqi defense minister unharmed after convoy hit by sniper: spokesman
07/09/15 09:24 from Reuters: International
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi was unharmed after his convoy came under sniper fire near the town of Baiji, 190 kilometers (120 miles) north of Baghdad, during a field visit, a ministry spokesman said on Monday.

» Hungary Tells Germany To Stop Taking Refugees
07/09/15 09:23 from Sky News | World News | First For Breaking News
The country's PM criticises Berlin for encouraging "millions" more to descend on Europe - and claims many have no case for asylum.

» Visit the Top Spots Seen in ???Sleepless in Seattle???
07/09/15 09:23 from ABC News: ABCNews
???Good Morning America??? is counting down the top five filming locations in the movie.

» Turkey Launches Airstrikes Against Kurdish Insurgents
07/09/15 09:22 from WSJ.com: World News
Turkey launched airstrikes against Kurdish insurgents in the country’s southeast as the deadliest terrorist attack on Turkish troops in recent months triggered nationwide protests.

» Obama to order government contractors to offer workers paid sick leave
07/09/15 09:22 from Reuters: Top News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will sign an executive order on Monday in Boston requiring U.S. government contractors to offer seven days of paid sick leave a year to their workers, the White House said.

» New Medical Coding System Aims to Help Track Quality of Care
07/09/15 09:22 from ABC News: ABCNews
HEALTHBEAT: Doctors face deadline for adopting more precise medical coding system for billing

» Obama to order government contractors to offer workers paid sick leave - Reuters
07/09/15 09:22 from Google News - Top Stories
Reuters Obama to order government contractors to offer workers paid sick leave Reuters WASHINGTON President Barack Obama will sign an executive order on Monday in Boston requiring U.S. government contractors to offer seven days of paid s...

» Pope to Release New Annulment Procedures Tuesday
07/09/15 09:20 from ABC News: ABCNews
Pope to release new annulment procedure Tuesday after lamenting cost, complications

» Celebrities battle over fat shaming
07/09/15 09:20 from CNN.com
Who's winning the battle over fat shaming?

» Stokes 'did not wilfully stop ball'
07/09/15 09:17 from BBC News - World
England's Ben Stokes insists he did not "wilfully" handle the ball in his controversial dismissal against Australia at Lord's.

» Op-Ed Contributor: Israel in a Post-Deal World
07/09/15 09:17 from NYT > International
Mending relations with the White House is a necessary first step to ensuring that the West keeps Iran in check.

» Mother's 911 call: My sons are trying to kill me - KMOV.com
07/09/15 09:17 from Google News - Top Stories
KMOV.com Mother's 911 call: My sons are trying to kill me KMOV.com A Georgia mother and father were hospitalized early Saturday morning, September 6, 2015, after allegedly being severely beaten by their two sons, Christopher and Came...

» Toddler dies after being accidentally left in hot car by grandparents
07/09/15 09:17 from The Independent - World RSS Feed
A family in Georgia has been plunged into tragedy after an 11-month boy died after being left in a hot car by his grandparents.

» Convicted Killer Adjusts to Society After 27 Years in Prison
07/09/15 09:16 from ABC News: ABCNews
Connecticut woman adjusting to modern society after 27 years in prison on murder conviction

» Canadian candidate sorry for peeing in coffee cup - CBS News
07/09/15 09:16 from Google News - Top Stories
CBS News Canadian candidate sorry for peeing in coffee cup CBS News TORONTO -- A candidate running for Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper's party capped off a bad week for the party by apologizing for being caught on video ur...

» A guy went hiking with his girlfriend ... and made terrible puns the whole time
07/09/15 09:14 from The Independent - World RSS Feed
It was a whole lot of pun. For one of them, at least.

» France's Hollande Sees Stronger Economic Growth in 2016 - New York Times
07/09/15 09:14 from Google News - World
The Express Tribune France's Hollande Sees Stronger Economic Growth in 2016 New York Times PARIS — French President Francois Hollande says he's confident the country's long-stagnant economy has turned a corner and will post s...

» Police find toddler's head in Chicago park lagoon - Fox News
07/09/15 09:14 from Top Stories - Google News
Fox News Police find toddler's head in Chicago park lagoon Fox News Sept. 6, 2015: Chicago Police Marine Unit divers search a lagoon at Garfield Park, in Chicago, where a toddler's decomposed head, feet and hand were found. (AP)....

» A Guide to Congress' Upside-Down Vote on Iran
07/09/15 09:13 from ABC News: ABCNews
Minority rules, winners are losers: A guide to Congress' only-in-Washington vote on Iran

» Much work remains on past Iranian work, U.N. nuclear agency says
07/09/15 09:13 from Reuters: International
VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog has much work to do in order to assess by a year-end deadline whether there was a military aspect to Iran's past nuclear activities, the agency's chief said on Monday.

» Issue with Pakistan is how to get back PoK: MoS PMO Jitendra Singh - Economic Times
07/09/15 09:12 from Google News - World
Firstpost Issue with Pakistan is how to get back PoK: MoS PMO Jitendra Singh Economic Times NEW DELHI: The only issue with Pakistan is to get back parts of Jammu and Kashmir under its illegal occupation, Minister of State in PMO Jitendra...

» 'Hipster Barbie' is secretly like your friends
07/09/15 09:12 from CNN.com

» Obama to announce executive order on paid sick leave - The Week Magazine
07/09/15 09:12 from Google News - Top Stories
The Week Magazine Obama to announce executive order on paid sick leave The Week Magazine This Labor Day, President Obama will announce during a speech in Boston a new plan requiring federal contractors offer employees up to seven paid si...

» Cambodia War Crimes Court Hears Evidence in Genocide Case
07/09/15 09:11 from Voice of America
The U.N.-backed war crimes court trying the two surviving leaders of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime heard its first day of evidence on Monday on the charge of genocide. The tribunal last year found Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea, the two for...

» France's Hollande Sees Stronger Economic Growth in 2016
07/09/15 09:11 from ABC News: ABCNews
France's Hollande sees economic growth rate picking up slightly next year from 1 pct in 2015

» Gulf states send more troops to Yemen to fight rebels
07/09/15 09:11 from Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE - Top Stories
Several Gulf states have sent thousands of heavily armed troops to reinforce loyalists in Yemen in the battle against Houthi rebels. The reinforcements followed a missile attack by insurgents killing 60 soldiers Friday.

» Greek former PM Tsipras seeks absolute majority in election - Chron.com
07/09/15 09:09 from World - Google News
Chron.com Greek former PM Tsipras seeks absolute majority in election Chron.com ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's former prime minister says he is seeking an absolute majority for his radical left Syriza party in upcoming early election...

» Tropical Storm Grace moving across eastern Atlantic - CBS News
07/09/15 09:09 from Top Stories - Google News
CBS News Tropical Storm Grace moving across eastern Atlantic CBS News MIAMI -- Tropical Storm Grace is moving westward across the far eastern Atlantic where it poses no immediate threat to land. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miam...

» Football players suspended after this tackle
07/09/15 09:08 from CNN.com
Video appears to show two high school football players attacking a referee during a game.

» Exclusive: Apple ups hiring, but faces obstacles to making phones smarter
07/09/15 09:07 from Reuters: Top News
(Reuters) - Apple has ramped up its hiring of artificial intelligence experts, recruiting from PhD programs, posting dozens of job listings and greatly increasing the size of its AI staff, a review of hiring sites suggests and numerous s...

» Furious farmers block Brussels streets
07/09/15 09:06 from BBC News - World
Thousands of European farmers take to the streets of Brussels to protest against plummeting prices for their produce.

» More child's body parts found in Chicago park - USA TODAY
07/09/15 09:06 from Google News - Top Stories
USA TODAY More child's body parts found in Chicago park USA TODAY Chicago police late Sunday said that officers had recovered additional body parts after the remains of a dismembered child were found in a park earlier in the weekend....

» European Markets Soothed by Chinese Assurances
07/09/15 09:05 from ABC News: ABCNews
Despite earlier Asian weakness, European markets soothed by China assurances

» Thai authorities question Indian nationals as bomb probe expands
07/09/15 09:05 from Reuters: International
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai authorities issued more arrest warrants on Monday and questioned two Indian men seen at an apartment block where explosives were seized, expanding a complex investigation into a deadly Bangkok bombing that remain...

» Mystery fireball lights up the sky
07/09/15 09:04 from CNN.com
Asteroid? Balloon? Space junk?

» Greek Former PM Tsipras Seeks Absolute Majority in Election - ABC News
07/09/15 09:04 from Google News - World
CTV News Greek Former PM Tsipras Seeks Absolute Majority in Election ABC News Greece's former prime minister says he is seeking an absolute majority for his radical left Syriza party in upcoming early elections, but indicated a coali...

» Brothers accused of trying to kill parents, burn house - USA TODAY
07/09/15 09:04 from Google News - Top Stories
USA TODAY Brothers accused of trying to kill parents, burn house USA TODAY A pair of Georgia brothers are accused of trying to kill their parents. Police say the duo tried to cut a gas line in an attempt to burn the house down. Shocked n...

» IS Captures Oil Field in Central Syria - New York Times
07/09/15 09:03 from Google News - Top Stories
The Globe and Mail IS Captures Oil Field in Central Syria New York Times BEIRUT — Activists say members of the Islamic State group have captured an oil field in central Syria. The activists say the extremists captured the Jazal oil field...

» Greece: Former PM Tsipras seeks absolute majority for left-wing Syriza party ... - Fox News
07/09/15 09:03 from Google News - World
Business Recorder Greece: Former PM Tsipras seeks absolute majority for left-wing Syriza party ... Fox News ATHENS, Greece – Greece's former prime minister says he is seeking an absolute majority for his radical left Syriza party in ...

» Moldovans set up camp over $1bn fraud
07/09/15 09:02 from BBC News - World
Protesters set up a camp in the capital of Moldova as they demand the resignation of the president and early elections following a $1bn bank fraud.

» The Trump market
07/09/15 09:00 from AEI » Latest Content
This article appears in the September 7, 2015 issue of National Review. Financial market prices should, according to efficient market theory, be as good a signal of the underlying value of an asset as anything else. Prices are not perfec...

» Iraqi Shi'ite Pilgrims Killed In Iran Road Accident
07/09/15 09:00 from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Iranian media are reporting that 11 Iraqi Shi'ite pilgrims have been killed after a bus overturned in western Iran.

» 'No evidence' for Mexico's claim missing students were burned, report says
07/09/15 09:00 from CNN.com - World
There's no evidence to support the Mexican government's claim that 43 students who went missing last year were burned at a landfill, a group of international experts said in a report released Sunday.

» And the world's greatest food city is ...
07/09/15 08:59 from CNN.com - World
According to New York-based Saveur magazine's latest Good Taste Awards, you're doing the right thing if you 1. eat vegetarian food in Berlin, 2. know za'atar is a Middle Eastern spice mix and 3. understand that the "zero-kilometer moveme...

» Car plows into crowd at Spanish rally, killing 6
07/09/15 08:59 from CNN.com - World

» Turkey, Responding to Attack, Launches Airstrikes on Kurdish Rebels - New York Times
07/09/15 08:59 from Google News - World
The Guardian Turkey, Responding to Attack, Launches Airstrikes on Kurdish Rebels New York Times ISTANBUL — The Turkish military carried out airstrikes on Monday against Kurdish insurgents, a day after what appeared to be the deadliest as...

» Koreas begin talks to reunite families separated since 1950s - New York Daily News
07/09/15 08:59 from Google News - World
New York Daily News Koreas begin talks to reunite families separated since 1950s New York Daily News SEOUL — North and South Korea started talks at a border village Monday on resuming the reunions of families separated by the Korean War ...

» Turkey, Responding to Deadly Attack, Launches Airstrikes on Kurdish Rebels
07/09/15 08:58 from NYT > International
The death toll from Sunday’s assault was not immediately clear, but a website close to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party said 31 soldiers had been killed.

» Turkey, Responding to Attack, Launches Airstrikes on Kurdish Rebels
07/09/15 08:58 from NYT > International
The clashes signaled an escalation in violence in the southeast, where Kurdish militants have resumed an insurgency against the Turkish state.

» Boat sinks off Malaysia, at least 61 dead
07/09/15 08:58 from CNN.com - World

» Merkel Expresses Pride, Calls for More Help in Migrant Crisis
07/09/15 08:58 from WSJ.com: World News
Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany should be proud of itself after welcoming a historic flow of refugees over the weekend, as France promised to take in thousands of people who have fled conflict zones.

» Key and Peele parody Neil deGrasse Tyson
07/09/15 08:58 from CNN.com
The comedy duo Key and Peele imagine the domestic life of scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson.

» Guatemala election: Millions vote, but runoff widely expected
07/09/15 08:58 from CNN.com - World

» Ice cold in Africa: What to drink in Namibia's beer town
07/09/15 08:57 from CNN.com - World
After clocking off, office workers meander through Windhoek, Namibia's well-kept streets toward an old warehouse.

» What are the dirtiest things on an airplane?
07/09/15 08:56 from CNN.com - World
There's no better way to test your body's immune system than by subjecting it to air travel.

» I'm not offering my home to a Syrian refugee. That doesn't make me evil - Telegraph.co.uk
07/09/15 08:56 from Google News - World
Telegraph.co.uk I'm not offering my home to a Syrian refugee. That doesn't make me evil Telegraph.co.uk I will not be offering my home to a Syrian refugee family. You probably think that makes me a terrible person. Indeed the man...

» Mystery fireball lights up sky over Bangkok
07/09/15 08:55 from CNN.com - World
Asteroid? Balloon? Space junk?

» VIDEO: Greek island becomes giant campsite
07/09/15 08:55 from BBC News - World
Thousands of migrants and refugees have gathered in tents on Lesbos, Greece, in the hope of travelling on to Athens and northern and western Europe.

» Netanyahu: Israel starts building fence along border with Jordan
07/09/15 08:54 from CNN.com - World
Israel began construction of a fence along its border with Jordan on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced at a weekly cabinet meeting.

» Landowners Managing Habitat to Help Canada Lynx in Maine
07/09/15 08:54 from ABC News: ABCNews
Government, landowners work to manage habitat to help avoid decline of Canada lynx in Maine

» Palestinian mother dies after attack that claimed husband, baby
07/09/15 08:54 from CNN.com - World

» Lightning Kills at Least 28 as Storms Batter India
07/09/15 08:54 from NYT > International
Many of the dead were agricultural workers in fields, and the southern state of Andhra Pradesh reported 19 deaths across six districts.

» BBC Plans to Broadcast to North Korea - TIME
07/09/15 08:54 from World - Google News
TIME BBC Plans to Broadcast to North Korea TIME The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) unveiled proposals on Monday to expand its World Service operation, including broadcasting a daily news program in North Korea over shortwave radi...

» BBC Plans to Broadcast to North Korea
07/09/15 08:54 from TIME: Top World Stories
Radios in North Korea are preset to government-set frequencies and only receive official news

» French 2015 growth may top 1 percent, not strong enough: Hollande - Reuters
07/09/15 08:53 from Google News - World
Reuters French 2015 growth may top 1 percent, not strong enough: Hollande Reuters PARIS French economic growth is recovering and may top the 1.0 percent gross domestic product (GDP) rise officially forecast for 2015 but is not sufficient...

» Islamic state seizes oil field in central Syria -monitor - Reuters
07/09/15 08:53 from Google News - Top Stories
The Globe and Mail Islamic state seizes oil field in central Syria -monitor Reuters AMMAN, Sept 7 Islamic State fighters have seized an oil field in a vast desert area of central Syria where the army has been battling to regain ground fr...

» Anger over 'fraud of the century' in Moldova
07/09/15 08:53 from Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE - Top Stories
Opposition protesters have pitched around 100 tents in the capital Chisinau, demanding the resignation of the president and snap elections. The scandal over $1 Billion missing from state banks sparks a political crisis.

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» France Is Weighing Airstrikes on ISIS in Syria, François Hollande Says
08/09/15 00:00 from NYT > Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
The French president linked the move to the threat from attackers radicalized by Syrian militants and to the Islamic State’s role in the migrant crisis.

» France Weighs Airstrikes on ISIS in Syria, Hollande Says
08/09/15 00:00 from NYT > Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
The French president linked the move to the threat from attackers radicalized by Syrian militants and to the Islamic State’s role in the migrant crisis.

» U.S. Denies an Airstrike Killed 11 Afghan Narcotics Officers
08/09/15 00:00 from NYT > United States Defense and Military Forces
An Afghan official said that the strike came during an operation to arrest drug smugglers in Helmand Province on Sunday, and that four officers were also wounded.

» The Rise of the Rural Hacker - Hackaday
07/09/15 10:08 from Cyberwar - Google News
Hackaday The Rise of the Rural Hacker Hackaday On the far side of the Boso peninsula lies Kamogawa. This isn't the Japan of LEDs, Otaku and maid cafes, or that of wage slave salarymen collapsing from exhaustion. This is the Japan of ...

» The Refugee Crisis and the Genocidal Nature of US-NATO Interventions - Center for Research on Globalization
07/09/15 09:53 from nato - Google News
Center for Research on Globalization The Refugee Crisis and the Genocidal Nature of US- NATO Interventions Center for Research on Globalization Westerners don't want to face the truth of what their governments are doing – particularl...

» Germany's love-hate relationship with the US - Stars and Stripes
07/09/15 09:53 from anti-Americanism - Google News
Germany's love-hate relationship with the US Stars and Stripes “There is a deep-rooted anti-Americanism in Germany that partially comes out of an inferiority complex. In a certain sense some Germans will never 'forgive' the A...

» NATO Chief to Make First Visit to Ukraine Despite Strains with Russia - The Moscow Times (registration)
07/09/15 09:32 from Nato Russia - Google News
The Moscow Times (registration) NATO Chief to Make First Visit to Ukraine Despite Strains with Russia The Moscow Times (registration) NATO's secretary general will make his first visit to Ukraine this month, Ukraine's foreign min...

» CIA veteran will sign books, give lecture - Dallas Morning News
07/09/15 09:31 from cia - Google News
Wichita Eagle CIA veteran will sign books, give lecture Dallas Morning News Jason Matthews, a 33-year veteran of the CIA who wrote Palace of Treason and Red Sparrow, will speak at a World Affairs Council of Dallas-Fort Worth on Thursday....

» Security Think Tank: Three key cyber resilience goals - ComputerWeekly.com
07/09/15 09:30 from Cyberwarfare - Google News
Security Think Tank: Three key cyber resilience goals ComputerWeekly.com Cyber resilience is an organisation's capability to withstand the effects of unexpected threats from activities in cyber space. While technically distinct from ...

» Maxine Peake and Russell Tovey to star in Comic Strip's phone-hacking comedy - The Guardian
07/09/15 09:30 from Cyberwar - Google News
The Guardian Maxine Peake and Russell Tovey to star in Comic Strip's phone- hacking comedy The Guardian Peter Richardson said: “Like our previous Comic Strip satire – The Hunt For Tony Blair – which was set in the 60s, The Red Top! l...

» Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: NATO chief to visit Ukraine in September - Kyiv Post
07/09/15 09:25 from nato - Google News
Kyiv Post Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: NATO chief to visit Ukraine in September Kyiv Post Chairman of the NATO Military Committee General Petr Pavel (L-R), The North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) General Secretary Jens Stolte...

» Merkel demands EU partners share burden of migrant influx
07/09/15 09:22 from News - Stripes
Merkel demands EU partners share burden of migrant influx German Chancellor Angela Merkel, reflecting on "a moving, in some parts breathtaking weekend behind us," said Monday that all European Union countries could help to accommodate th...

» FBI Poring Through Large Amount Of Data Found On Computer Of Signal Mountain ... - The Chattanoogan
07/09/15 09:11 from fbi - Google News
FBI Poring Through Large Amount Of Data Found On Computer Of Signal Mountain ... The Chattanoogan The FBI is poring through a large amount of material found on the computer of a Signal Mountain man charged with planning an attack on a Mu...

» Russian submarine with 20 ICBMs and 200 nuclear warheads is sailing to Syria
07/09/15 09:08 from DEBKAFile
September 7, 2015, 4:08 PM (IDT) The world’s largest submarine, the Dmitri Donskoy (TK-208), Nato-coded Typhoon, is sailing towards Syria, debka file reports exclusively. Aboard are 20 Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile...

» Qatar sends first 1,000 ground troops to Yemen war
07/09/15 08:53 from DEBKAFile
September 7, 2015, 3:53 PM (IDT) Qatar has sent around 1,000 ground troops to Yemen, Doha-based Al Jazeera television said on Monday, to join the Saudi-backed offensive against the Houthi insurgents. They are backed by 200 armored vehicl...

» Four Jewish teens beaten in anti-Semitic attack in Manchester
07/09/15 08:48 from DEBKAFile
September 7, 2015, 3:48 PM (IDT) A 17-year old Jewish youngster was beaten unconscious Saturday at a train stop in the northern British town of Manchester and three other teens hurt in an incident treated by police as an anti-Semitic att...

» Raytheon Company Downgraded by Zacks to Sell (RTN) - Financial Wisdom Works
07/09/15 08:46 from CyberWar - Google News
Raytheon Company Downgraded by Zacks to Sell (RTN) Financial Wisdom Works The Business develops products, services and options in markets: feeling; effects; command, control, communications and intelligence (NYSE:RTN); and mission suppor...

» America's laws hinder our cyber war against ISIL - The National
07/09/15 08:45 from cyber warfare - Google News
The National America's laws hinder our cyber war against ISIL The National To win the cyber war against ISIL, the US must soften the internet and surveillance laws that have made the internet a haven for the jihadist group. There is ...

» Microsoft poised to buy Israeli cybersecurity firm - CNBC
07/09/15 08:35 from cybersecurity - Google News
CNBC Microsoft poised to buy Israeli cybersecurity firm CNBC Microsoft is set to buy Israeli cloud cybersecurity start-up Adallom in "one of the largest" of the group's recent acquisitions, a source close to the situation h...

» NATO chief to make first visit to Ukraine amid strains with Moscow - Reuters
07/09/15 08:34 from nato - Google News
Reuters NATO chief to make first visit to Ukraine amid strains with Moscow Reuters After a meeting with NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg, Pavlo Klimkin said the visit, which he called symbolic as his ex-Soviet nation seeks to integrate with t...

» Afghan police killed in alleged NATO airstrike - CBS News
07/09/15 08:27 from nato - Google News
CBS News Afghan police killed in alleged NATO airstrike CBS News KABUL, Afghanistan -- An Afghan official says a NATO airstrike in southern Helmand province has killed at least 11 police officers and employees of the Interior Ministry ...

» Labor Day at Just Security
07/09/15 08:21 from Just Security
Just Security In observance of Labor Day, Just Security will be on an abbreviated schedule with a lower volume of posts than normal. If any major, time-sensitive developments occur, we will aim to address those issues. The Daily News Rou...

» NATO to give insights on latest Defence technologies at conference in Ankara - Benzinga
07/09/15 08:14 from CyberWar - Google News
NATO to give insights on latest Defence technologies at conference in Ankara Benzinga There will be technical presentations and extensive discussions on the latest technologies with CBRN, attack helicopters, naval mine warfare and cyber ...

» Where the Real Cybersecurity Risk Comes From - ThinkAdvisor
07/09/15 08:05 from cybersecurity - Google News
ThinkAdvisor Where the Real Cybersecurity Risk Comes From ThinkAdvisor Scenario 2: One of your vendors discloses they've suffered a data breach, potentially exposing your clients to losses. How do you respond with your vendors, reps ...

» Hacking Team Tried to Sell Smartphone Viruses to South Florida Cops - Miami New Times
07/09/15 08:02 from Cyberwar - Google News
Miami New Times Hacking Team Tried to Sell Smartphone Viruses to South Florida Cops Miami New Times Back in early July, an Italian-based company called Hacking Team — which had been criticized for profiting by selling malware to regimes ...

» Ukraine says NATO head to make first visit - The Daily Star
07/09/15 07:54 from nato - Google News
Ukraine Today Ukraine says NATO head to make first visit The Daily Star BRUSSELS: NATO head Jens Stoltenberg will make his first visit to Ukraine later this month, Kiev's foreign minister said Monday, as efforts to solve the conflict...

» Pardon the “intrusion” – cybersecurity worries scuttle Wassenaar changes - Lexology (registration)
07/09/15 07:54 from cybersecurity - Google News
Pardon the “intrusion” – cybersecurity worries scuttle Wassenaar changes Lexology (registration) Companies concerned about their cybersecurity posture can breathe a small sigh of relief, as the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of...

» Why cyber security is important for Digital India? - Firstpost
07/09/15 07:51 from Cyberwar - Google News
Firstpost Why cyber security is important for Digital India? Firstpost 'Digital India and 'Make in India' are two initiatives launched by the Government of India. 'Digital India' aims to tranform India into a 'dig...

» One password gifts hacker with hundreds of Firefox bugs, vulnerabilities - ZDNet
07/09/15 07:32 from Cyberwar - Google News
One password gifts hacker with hundreds of Firefox bugs, vulnerabilities ZDNet Mozilla has admitted an attacker was able to access a treasure trove of Firefox bugs and used at least one security vulnerability against users as a result. T...

» Five Places Where Cybersecurity Has Its Own Hub - PYMNTS.com
07/09/15 07:25 from cybersecurity - Google News
PYMNTS.com Five Places Where Cybersecurity Has Its Own Hub PYMNTS.com In the wake of the exploding cybersecurity industry, select digital security-focused ecosystems have developed around the world. According to Entrepreneur, these areas...

» Why Does NATO Need New Command Centers on Russia's Doorstep? - Sputnik International
07/09/15 07:19 from nato - Google News
Sputnik International Why Does NATO Need New Command Centers on Russia's Doorstep? Sputnik International " NATO was supposed to 'defend' Europe against the Soviet Union. A whole lot of people believed that, at least unti...

» Afghan official says NATO airstrike in south has killed at least 11 police ... - Fox News
07/09/15 07:16 from nato - Google News
RT Afghan official says NATO airstrike in south has killed at least 11 police ... Fox News KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan official says a NATO airstrike in southern Helmand province has killed at least 11 police officers and employees of...

» European shares rebound but China weighs on Asia
07/09/15 07:15 from Search Results
European shares rebound but China weighs on Asia GM's sales drop in August highlights automaker divide in China China stocks slide despite calming words from policymakers Dollar rises vs yen and Swiss franc as stocks stabilize Qatar send...

» As the U.S. government faces cyber attack, 'there's no playbook' for fighting back - PCWorld
07/09/15 07:00 from CyberWar - Google News
PCWorld As the U.S. government faces cyber attack, 'there's no playbook' for fighting back PCWorld Robert Knake, former head of cybersecurity policy at the National Security Council, said those advocating for hacking back are...

» NATO overcharged by £460m for fuel during Afghan war, MoD investigates - RT
07/09/15 06:42 from nato - Google News
RT NATO overcharged by £460m for fuel during Afghan war, MoD investigates RT An audit by NATO , which ran the operations in Afghanistan, suggests the alliance was overcharged by £460 million (US$700 million) by contractor Supreme Group. ...

» September 2015
07/09/15 06:28 from Drones | World news | The Guardian 
September 2015 Pakistani army claims it has killed three militants using its Burraq drone Army spokesman Asim Bajwa announces death of three ‘high-profile terrorists’ in bombing of compound in Shawal valley 7 Sep 2015 Pakistani army clai...

» Cyber-Security Stocks: Getting In Early – Everything You Need To Know - ValueWalk
07/09/15 06:00 from Cyberwar - Google News
ValueWalk Cyber-Security Stocks: Getting In Early – Everything You Need To Know ValueWalk Cyber-security is one of the fastest growing segments of technology, and companies which specialize in this area are starting to get more and more ...

» Coats plc beefs up cyber security with Zscaler - Computing
07/09/15 05:56 from Cyberwarfare - Google News
Computing Coats plc beefs up cyber security with Zscaler Computing The world's largest manufacturer of sewing thread and related supplies, Coats plc, has installed web-filtering tool Zscaler in a bid to beef up its IT security . Rich...

» Cyber War and the deficiences of cyber weapons - ITProPortal
07/09/15 05:51 from cyber warfare - Google News
ITProPortal Cyber War and the deficiences of cyber weapons ITProPortal Cyber war is often in the headlines. The hype centered on state sponsored malware means that the lines defining fact and fiction often become blurred leading to incre...

» US F-22 jets land in Estonia to bolster NATO - Reuters
07/09/15 05:24 from nato - Google News
Reuters US F-22 jets land in Estonia to bolster NATO Reuters US F-22 jets land in Estonia to bolster NATO . 5:03am EDT - 02:37. US F-22 jets land at a military base in in Estonia as a message of support for NATO presence. △ Hide Transcri...

» Iraq finally using the F-16 fighter jet in combat operations
07/09/15 05:17 from News - Stripes
Iraq finally using the F-16 fighter jet in combat operations The Iraqi military has used the F-16 fighter jet in combat operations for the first time, more than a year after Iraqi officials began pressing Washington to deliver them to as...

» Fiat Chrysler recalls 8000 more Jeeps over wireless hacking - The Guardian
07/09/15 05:15 from Cyberwar - Google News
The Guardian Fiat Chrysler recalls 8000 more Jeeps over wireless hacking The Guardian Fiat Chrysler recalls 8,000 more Jeeps over wireless hacking . Latest recall designed to protect connected vehicles from remote manipulation, says auto...

» The state of play of the EU – NATO partnership - European Leadership Network
07/09/15 05:12 from CyberWar - Google News
The state of play of the EU – NATO partnership European Leadership Network Due to the political constraints and sensitivities, the formal aspects such as gathering of all member states and allies around one table and exchanging classifie...

» Can the Ghostwriter Speak?
07/09/15 05:00 from Washington Free Beacon
What makes politicians tick? Barton Swaim has an answer. He had a front-row seat to the career of one of the more infamous examples of the species in recent years: Mark Sanford. As a speechwriter for the South Carolina governor, Swaim wa...

» Happy Labor Day
07/09/15 05:00 from Washington Free Beacon
Happy Labor Day from all of us at the Washington Free Beacon. The post Happy Labor Day appeared first on Washington Free Beacon .

» Frauds, intrusions, cyber harassment tops list of cyber security incidents in ... - Malay Mail Online
07/09/15 04:27 from Cyberwarfare - Google News
Malay Mail Online Frauds, intrusions, cyber harassment tops list of cyber security incidents in ... Malay Mail Online CyberSecurity Malaysia CEO Dr Amirudin Abdul Wahab said exposure to the risk of cyber threat was higher now as almost a...

» Latvia in Focus: National security options for the Baltic states - New Eastern Europe
07/09/15 03:39 from CyberWar - Google News
Latvia in Focus: National security options for the Baltic states New Eastern Europe First, integration should more effectively address the issues where national division has the most severe consequences – the existing heterogeneous educa...

» Asia subdued as China stocks see-saw after trading resumes
07/09/15 03:08 from Search Results
Asia subdued as China stocks see-saw after trading resumes Bad loans haunt Greek banks seeking new start Oil prices fall on global glut fears, slowing U.S. jobs growth Dollar takes back some ground vs. yen after drop on U.S. jobs data Tu...

» Time to Come to Senses? NATO Should Open Dialogue With Russia - Sputnik International
07/09/15 02:47 from nato - Google News
Sputnik International Time to Come to Senses? NATO Should Open Dialogue With Russia Sputnik International German politicians, political experts and journalists urged NATO and the US to abandon their aggressive policies toward Russia (as ...

» NATO Spy Plane Roamed Skies Over Siberia - Sputnik International
07/09/15 02:03 from nato - Google News
Sputnik International NATO Spy Plane Roamed Skies Over Siberia Sputnik International We had exactly the same thing happening here in 2013, but then there were no Ukrainians on board the NATO observation plane. This is the first time we s...

» NIGERIA: The New Guy Turns On The Lights
07/09/15 01:43 from StrategyPage.com

» WINNING: Islam And The Forever War
07/09/15 01:42 from StrategyPage.com

» SPACE: The Russian Aerospace Force
07/09/15 01:42 from StrategyPage.com

» FBI Admits Spying On Burning Man Festival To Collect Intelligence, Prevent ... - Tech Times
07/09/15 01:35 from fbi - Google News
Tech Times FBI Admits Spying On Burning Man Festival To Collect Intelligence, Prevent ... Tech Times The memos provided by the FBI appeared heavily redacted, but it's clear that the Bureau did some surveillance on Burning Man. The do...

» 68489Search 68,489 Articles:
07/09/15 01:26 from United States Defense and Military Forces - News - Times Topics - The New York Times
68489 Search 68,489 Articles: U.S. Revamping Rebel Force Fighting ISIS in Syria By ERIC SCHMITT and BEN HUBBARD The proposed changes come after a Syrian affiliate of Al Qaeda attacked the rebel group of the first 54 Syrian graduates of t...

» Obama observes Labor Day, extends contractors' paid leave
07/09/15 01:10 from News - Stripes
Obama observes Labor Day, extends contractors' paid leave Showing solidarity with workers on Labor Day, President Barack Obama will sign an executive order Monday requiring paid sick leave for employees of federal contractors, including ...

» Pakistani ex-troops speak about secret infiltration of Indian Kashmir
07/09/15 00:55 from intelNews.org
Fifty years after the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War, Pakistani former soldiers have spoken for the first time about their role in a secret effort by Pakistan to infiltrate India and incite a Muslim uprising.

» Coast Guard searches for 1 missing near Point Sal State Beach
07/09/15 00:40 from Recent Updates for U.S. Coast Guard Digital Newsroom

» UPDATE: Coast Guard suspends search for person in the water near Catalina Island
07/09/15 00:38 from Recent Updates for U.S. Coast Guard Digital Newsroom

» Ex-FBI agent appeals murder conviction - Boston Herald
07/09/15 00:10 from fbi - Google News
Boston Herald Ex- FBI agent appeals murder conviction Boston Herald The former top FBI Boston agent and his appellate lawyer Manuel Alvarez moved quickly to file the petition for discretionary review before the Florida Supreme Court late...

» CIA Cover-Up Thwarted FBI's Nuclear Diversion Investigations - Antiwar.com
07/09/15 00:01 from cia - Google News
CIA Cover-Up Thwarted FBI's Nuclear Diversion Investigations Antiwar.com In 1968 CIA Director Richard Helms sent an urgent request for an investigation to Attorney General Ramsey Clark (PDF) stating "You are well aware of the gr...

Putin and Putinism

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» Путин обсудил с Совбезом меры по снижению угроз для РФ от ситуации с мигрантами в Европе - Информационное агентство России ТАСС
07/09/15 10:48 from путин – Новости Google
РИА Новости Путин обсудил с Совбезом меры по снижению угроз для РФ от ситуации с мигрантами в Европе Информационное агентство России ТАСС МОСКВА, 7 сентября. /ТАСС/. Президент РФ Владимир Путин обсудил с постоянными членами Совета безопа...

» Путин обсудил миграцию в Европе с Совбезом - Газета.Ru
07/09/15 10:31 from путин – Новости Google
РИА Новости Путин обсудил миграцию в Европе с Совбезом Газета.Ru Президент России Владимир Путин провел совещание Совета безопасности и обсудил с его постоянными членами меры по минимизации последствий миграционной ситуации в Европе, пер...

» EU Lawmaker Praises Idea of Anti-Terrorism Coalition Proposed by Putin - Sputnik International
07/09/15 10:30 from Putin - Google News
Sputnik International EU Lawmaker Praises Idea of Anti-Terrorism Coalition Proposed by Putin Sputnik International MOSCOW (Sputnik), Daria Chernyshova — The international anti-terrorism coalition proposed by Russian President Vladimir Pu...

» How to Prevent Putin's Invasion of Ukraine Becoming a Frozen Conflict - Newsweek
07/09/15 09:53 from Putin - Google News
Newsweek How to Prevent Putin's Invasion of Ukraine Becoming a Frozen Conflict Newsweek A girl holds the Ukrainian national flag during a welcoming ceremony of paratroopers, who returned from the frontline in Eastern regions, in Kiev...

» The Red Web: In Putin's Russia, Internet watches you - Ars Technica
07/09/15 09:45 from Putin - Google News
The Red Web: In Putin's Russia, Internet watches you Ars Technica While the Soviet Union may be long gone, much of its mentality still lingers. A desire for control continues to motivate the Kremlin to impose an authoritarian regime ...

» Тульский врач попросил Путина проработать вопрос проверки страховых медицинских организаций - newstula.ru
07/09/15 09:39 from здоровье путина - Google News
newstula.ru Тульский врач попросил Путина проработать вопрос проверки страховых медицинских организаций newstula.ru Так, главврач поликлиники из Тульской области Елена Луцева попросила президента РФ Владимира Путина проработать вопрос пр...

» Совещание с постоянными членами Совета Безопасности
07/09/15 09:35 from Сайт Президента России: Все материалы
Владимир Путин провёл оперативное совещание с постоянными членами Совета Безопасности.

» Путин: при расчете зарплаты бюджетникам нужно найти золотую середину - Информационный портал Банки.ру
07/09/15 09:23 from путин – Новости Google
Путин : при расчете зарплаты бюджетникам нужно найти золотую середину Информационный портал Банки.ру Необходимо найти золотую середину при расчете средней заработной платы, от которой зависит достаток работников бюджетной сферы, а также ...

» Путин: при расчете зарплаты бюджетникам нужно найти золотую середину - РИА Новости
07/09/15 09:07 from путин – Новости Google
РИА Новости Путин : при расчете зарплаты бюджетникам нужно найти золотую середину РИА Новости МОСКВА, 7 сен — РИА Новости. Необходимо найти золотую середину при расчете средней заработной платы, от которой зависит достаток работников бюд...

» Путин: реформы в медицине проводились, чтобы исключить злоупотребления - РИА Новости
07/09/15 08:59 from путин – Новости Google
РИА Новости Путин : реформы в медицине проводились, чтобы исключить злоупотребления РИА Новости ... чтобы из одного окна деньги шли и чтобы легче все это было контролировать и проверять. В этом был в значительной степени смысл этих мероп...

» Путин назвал свою больницу - Lenta.ru
07/09/15 08:56 from путин – Новости Google
Lenta.ru Путин назвал свою больницу Lenta.ru Президент России Владимир Путин в случае проблем со здоровьем всегда обращается в Центральную клиническую больницу. Об этом глава государства заявил на пленарном заседании Форума Общероссийско...

» Путин пообещал не запрещать в России иностранные лекарства и медтехнику - НТВ.ru
07/09/15 08:37 from путин – Новости Google
НТВ.ru Путин пообещал не запрещать в России иностранные лекарства и медтехнику НТВ.ru Владимир Путин : «Не может быть ничего такого уничтожено в системе здравоохранения, что является обязательным для оказания бесплатной медицинской помощ...

» China Backs Putin's Idea of Developing Russia's Far East - The Moscow Times (registration)
07/09/15 08:32 from Putin - Google News
The Moscow Times (registration) China Backs Putin's Idea of Developing Russia's Far East The Moscow Times (registration) VLADIVOSTOK — Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang said on Saturday that Russia's push to revamp its run-down ...

» Путин устроил Силуанову и Голодец «допрос с пристрастием» - Телеканал "Звезда" (Регистрация)
07/09/15 08:31 from путин – Новости Google
НТВ.ru Путин устроил Силуанову и Голодец «допрос с пристрастием» Телеканал "Звезда" (Регистрация) Владимир Путин в ходе выступления на форуме ОНФ, посвященном медицине, рассказал, что он пользуется услугами исключительно российских враче...

» Путин устроил Силуанову и Голодец допрос с пристрастием - Телеканал "Звезда" (Регистрация)
07/09/15 08:24 from путин – Новости Google
Интерфакс Путин устроил Силуанову и Голодец допрос с пристрастием Телеканал "Звезда" (Регистрация) Владимир Путин в ходе выступления на форуме ОНФ, посвященном медицине, рассказал, что он пользуется услугами исключительно российских врач...

» Putin Puts Central Military District on Full Combat Alert - The Moscow Times (registration)
07/09/15 08:23 from putin's health - Google News
The Moscow Times (registration) Putin Puts Central Military District on Full Combat Alert The Moscow Times (registration) Shoigu said that the inspections, which will conclude on Saturday, will also be used to test the reactions to warti...

» Путин пообещал не вводить запрет на импортные лекарства и медтехнику - РБК
07/09/15 08:15 from путин – Новости Google
Интерфакс Путин пообещал не вводить запрет на импортные лекарства и медтехнику РБК Президент России Владимир Путин пообещал на вводить запрет на продажу в России импортных лекарственных средств и медицинской техники​. Об этом он заявил н...

» Путин: надо выполнять указы по зарплатам, не допуская перекоса - РИА Новости
07/09/15 08:15 from путин – Новости Google
РИА Новости Путин : надо выполнять указы по зарплатам, не допуская перекоса РИА Новости Однако, по его словам, увеличение зарплат нередко происходит за счет сокращения числа ставок и роста нагрузки на врачей. По словам Путина , оптимизац...

» Путин потребовал перестать «тырить» деньги в системе здравоохранения - РБК
07/09/15 08:13 from путин – Новости Google
РБК Путин потребовал перестать «тырить» деньги в системе здравоохранения РБК ​Действия по урезанию объема предусмотренной Конституцией бесплатной медицинской помощи незаконны и должны пресекаться, заявил в ходе посвященного здравоохранен...

» «Не тырьте деньги у народа»: чем Путина рассердили на форуме ОНФ - РБК
07/09/15 08:13 from путин – Новости Google
РБК «Не тырьте деньги у народа»: чем Путина рассердили на форуме ОНФ РБК ​Действия по урезанию объема предусмотренной Конституцией бесплатной медицинской помощи незаконны и должны пресекаться, заявил в ходе посвященного здравоохранению ф...

» Путин удивился ответу главы Росздравнадзора на жалобу о коррупции - РИА Новости
07/09/15 08:10 from путин – Новости Google
РИА Новости Путин удивился ответу главы Росздравнадзора на жалобу о коррупции РИА Новости В ответ на жалобу журналиста, одного из участников форума, что заместитель руководителя Росздравнадзора сказал ему, что для того чтобы не воровали ...

» Путин спросил медицинских чиновников, что нужно, «чтобы не тырили деньги» - Московский комсомолец
07/09/15 08:04 from путин – Новости Google
Московский комсомолец Путин спросил медицинских чиновников, что нужно, «чтобы не тырили деньги» Московский комсомолец Путин также особо подчеркнул, что финансирование программы ОМС идет в полном объеме. «Я хочу это подчеркнуть - в полном...

» Путин призвал направить реформу здравоохранения в нужное русло - РБК
07/09/15 07:52 from путин – Новости Google
НТВ.ru Путин призвал направить реформу здравоохранения в нужное русло РБК Президент России Владимир Путин призвал направить реформу здравоохранения в нужное русло. Об этом он заявил во во время форму Общероссийского народного фронта. «Мн...

» Форум Общероссийского народного фронта «За качественную и доступную медицину!»
07/09/15 07:46 from Сайт Президента России: Все материалы
Владимир Путин принял участие в пленарном заседании форума «За качественную и доступную медицину!», организованного Общероссийским общественным движением «Общероссийский народный фронт».

» Путин: Россия не будет отказываться от импортных лекарств и оборудования - Газета.Ru
07/09/15 07:46 from путин – Новости Google
Путин : Россия не будет отказываться от импортных лекарств и оборудования Газета.Ru Путин : Россия не будет отказываться от импортных лекарств и оборудования. Президент России Владимир Путин заявил, что власти не будут запрещать импорт л...

» Путин признал большое число проблем в здравоохранении - Информационное агентство России ТАСС
07/09/15 07:44 from путин – Новости Google
НТВ.ru Путин признал большое число проблем в здравоохранении Информационное агентство России ТАСС Президент России Владимир Путин признал, что в отечественной медицине очень много проблем и пообещал, что замечания и предложения Общеросси...

» Путин: в РФ не запретят ввоз лекарств и медоборудования из-за рубежа - РИА Новости
07/09/15 07:41 from путин – Новости Google
РИА Новости Путин : в РФ не запретят ввоз лекарств и медоборудования из-за рубежа РИА Новости МОСКВА, 7 сен — РИА Новости. Власти России не будут запрещать ввоз каких-либо лекарств и медоборудования из-за рубежа, но нужно разрабатывать о...

» Путин: оптимизация в здравоохранении - не признак беды - РИА Новости
07/09/15 07:41 from путин – Новости Google
РИА Новости Путин : оптимизация в здравоохранении - не признак беды РИА Новости МОСКВА, 7 сен — РИА Новости. России нужны высококлассные медицинские работники, которые соответствуют самым современным требованиям, сама оптимизация в этой ...

» Путин: нужно вовремя вносить коррективы цв реформы здравоохранения - РИА Новости
07/09/15 07:38 from путин – Новости Google
РИА Новости Путин : нужно вовремя вносить коррективы цв реформы здравоохранения РИА Новости МОСКВА, 7 сен — РИА Новости. Необходимо своевременно вносить изменения в реформы здравоохранения, а не останавливать их, сказал президент РФ Влад...

» Путин: сокращение бесплатных медицинских услуг незаконно :: Новости :: ТВ Центр - Официальный сайт телекомпании - ТВ Центр - Официальный сайт телеканала
07/09/15 07:35 from путин – Новости Google
ТВ Центр - Официальный сайт телеканала Путин : сокращение бесплатных медицинских услуг незаконно :: Новости :: ТВ Центр - Официальный сайт телекомпании ТВ Центр - Официальный сайт телеканала В системе здравоохранения чрезвычайно важна пр...

» Путин призвал оптимизировать систему здравоохранения «в нужном русле» - НТВ.ru
07/09/15 07:27 from путин – Новости Google
НТВ.ru Путин призвал оптимизировать систему здравоохранения «в нужном русле» НТВ.ru Владимир Путин , президент РФ: «Мне кажется, смысл всей работы, которую вы проделали в течение года, заключается не в том, чтобы прекратить любые изменен...

» Битва, которая ничего не решала, Мао на страже и проклятый вопрос войны - Украинское национальное информагентство
07/09/15 07:19 from Путин культ личности - Google News
Украинское национальное информагентство Битва, которая ничего не решала, Мао на страже и проклятый вопрос войны Украинское национальное информагентство Это он так ответил на разоблачение « культа личности » Сталина, сделанное Хрущевым. Т...

» Путин подчеркнул важность уровня зарплаты медработников - РИА Новости
07/09/15 07:15 from путин – Новости Google
РИА Новости Путин подчеркнул важность уровня зарплаты медработников РИА Новости МОСКВА, 7 сен — РИА Новости. Уровень зарплат медицинских работников должен быть связан с оказываемыми ими услугами, это одна из важнейших тем, заявил президе...

» Дмитрий Энтео допустил, что Путин может стать богом - Газета.Ru
07/09/15 06:49 from путин – Новости Google
Невские Новости Дмитрий Энтео допустил, что Путин может стать богом Газета.Ru «Да, у Владимира Путина есть шанс стать богом по благодати. То есть достичь высшей цели христианской жизни. В православной терминологии это называется «убожени...

» Путин привел в полную боевую готовность войска Центрального округа - РБК
07/09/15 06:47 from путин – Новости Google
РБК Путин привел в полную боевую готовность войска Центрального округа РБК О приказе Путина провести внезапную проверку Центрального военного округа в ходе совещания в руководстве Минобороны заявил глава ведомства Сергей Шойгу. Войска ок...

» Putin orders snap military exercise in central Russia - Yahoo News
07/09/15 06:47 from Putin - Google News
Yahoo News Putin orders snap military exercise in central Russia Yahoo News Moscow (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered snap checks on troop combat readiness in Russia's central military district, the defence mi...

» Франция: «Путин — суперцарь» - ИА REGNUM
07/09/15 06:34 from путин – Новости Google
ИА REGNUM Франция: « Путин — суперцарь» ИА REGNUM Париж, 7 Сентября 2015, 13:30 — REGNUM Одним из главных событий, попавших на первые полосы прессы Франции на этой неделе, ожидаемо стала совместная тренировка президента России Владимира ...

» Putin visit this year now seen as unlikely - The Japan Times
07/09/15 06:31 from putin's health - Google News
Putin visit this year now seen as unlikely The Japan Times But the official added that a Japan visit by Putin within the year appears difficult due to the lack of groundwork for a summit between Putin and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Since...

» Путин спас мир от вторжения НЛО (видео) - Дни.Ру
07/09/15 06:12 from путин – Новости Google
Дни.Ру Путин спас мир от вторжения НЛО (видео) Дни.Ру По мнению некоторых астрономов, это могли быть пришельцы, которые были атакованы с Земли. По данным издания, приказ об уничтожении НЛО отдал Владимир Путин . После того как космически...

» Comment: Putin in Syria - The War Just Got Worse - Forces TV
07/09/15 05:52 from Putin - Google News
Forces TV Comment: Putin in Syria - The War Just Got Worse Forces TV If you want to really get scared about Russian involvement then listen to what President Putin had to say on 4 September. It is "premature" to talk about Mosc...

» Laos' ASEAN presidency to help boost Russia-Asia ties- Putin - Russia Beyond the Headlines
07/09/15 05:29 from Putin - Google News
Laos' ASEAN presidency to help boost Russia-Asia ties- Putin Russia Beyond the Headlines “Laos will chair the ASEAN and it is very important for Russia for restoring and expanding our ties with Asia,” Putin said at a meeting with his...

» Central Military District army put on full combat alert by Putin's order - Pravda
07/09/15 05:19 from Putin - Google News
Pravda Central Military District army put on full combat alert by Putin's order Pravda Head of the Russian Federation ordered to conduct an unscheduled inspection of the Central Military District, Sergey Shoigu, Russian Defence Minis...

» Путин поручил провести оптимизацию контрольно-надзорных ведомств - РБК
07/09/15 04:55 from путин – Новости Google
Путин поручил провести оптимизацию контрольно-надзорных ведомств РБК Путин поручил провести оптимизацию контрольно-надзорных ведомств. Количество проверок растёт - бизнес страдает. Эксперты говорят: у некоторых контрольно-надзорных ведом...

» ОНФ предложит Путину приостановить реформу здравоохранения - klops.ru
07/09/15 04:36 from здоровье путина - Google News
klops.ru ОНФ предложит Путину приостановить реформу здравоохранения klops.ru На форуме Общероссийского народного фронта "За качественную и доступную медицину!" эксперты раскритиковали качество и доступность медицины в России, а...

» На открытие нового главного корпуса НГУ вместо Путина приехал Дарт Вейдер - Новости Академгородка
07/09/15 04:21 from здоровье путина - Google News
На открытие нового главного корпуса НГУ вместо Путина приехал Дарт Вейдер Новости Академгородка «Высокое напряжение не является определяющим для угрозы вашему здоровью , как склонны многие полагать, – пояснил студент 6 курса физического ...

» Путин второй раз за несколько месяцев отдохнул на Алтае - NEWSru.com
07/09/15 04:15 from путин – Новости Google
Lenta.ru Путин второй раз за несколько месяцев отдохнул на Алтае NEWSru.com Президент России Владимир Путин , недавно побывавший с двухдневным визитом в Китае, провел выходные на Алтае. Туда президент прибыл неофициально, посетив перед э...

» Putin is a Far Better Strategist than You Think - War on the Rocks
07/09/15 03:57 from Putin - Google News
War on the Rocks Putin is a Far Better Strategist than You Think War on the Rocks Is Vladimir Putin a strategic genius or not? In a recent War on the Rocks article, the scholar Joshua Rovner comes down hard in the “not” camp, arguing tha...

» Путин приказал провести внезапную проверку ЦВО - Газета.Ru
07/09/15 03:13 from путин – Новости Google
РБК Путин приказал провести внезапную проверку ЦВО Газета.Ru Кроме того, министр добавил, что Путин приказал Министерству обороны проверить Минздрав, Минсельхоз, Минпромторг, Федеральное медико-биологическое агентство, Росрыболовство и Р...

» Владимир Путин приказал провести внезапную проверку войск ЦВО - Коммерсантъ
07/09/15 03:05 from путин – Новости Google
Коммерсантъ Владимир Путин приказал провести внезапную проверку войск ЦВО Коммерсантъ Министр обороны России генерал армии Сергей Шойгу на совещании с руководящим составом Минобороны в Национальном центре управлении обороны государства с...

» Russia's opposition faces an uphill struggle against Kremlin and Vladimir Putin - Telegraph.co.uk
07/09/15 03:03 from Putin - Google News
Telegraph.co.uk Russia's opposition faces an uphill struggle against Kremlin and Vladimir Putin Telegraph.co.uk Boris Nemtsov (L), and Ilya Yashin take part in an anti- Putin protest in central in Moscow Photo: Getty Images. Since th...

» Беглец призадумался - Радио Свобода
07/09/15 03:03 from WikiLeaks Путин - Google News
Радио Свобода Беглец призадумался Радио Свобода Путин готов приютить Сноудена в России, но только если тот, понимаете ли, перестанет «наносить ущерб нашим американским партнерам». Сноудена приютили, он уже учит русский язык, причем начин...

» 12:00 Внимание! Путин распорядился срочно привести войска ЦВО в боевую готовность - Ura.ru
07/09/15 03:02 from путин – Новости Google
Ura.ru 12:00 Внимание! Путин распорядился срочно привести войска ЦВО в боевую готовность Ura.ru Президент России Владимир Путин приказал провести внезапную проверку Центрального военного округа. Об этом сообщил министр обороны Сергей Шой...

» Путин приказал провести внезапную проверку Центрального военного округа - Информационное агентство России ТАСС
07/09/15 02:54 from путин – Новости Google
НТВ.ru Путин приказал провести внезапную проверку Центрального военного округа Информационное агентство России ТАСС МОСКВА, 7 сентября. /ТАСС/. Верховный главнокомандующий Вооруженными силами РФ президент Владимир Путин приказал в понеде...

» Если будет широкомасштабное наступление, у нас достаточно сил, чтобы остановить агрессора, - Порошенко - Цензор.Нет (Сатира)
07/09/15 01:33 from путинизм - Google News
Цензор.Нет (Сатира) Если будет широкомасштабное наступление, у нас достаточно сил, чтобы остановить агрессора, - Порошенко Цензор.Нет (Сатира) Путинизм воспрял фениксом как одновременно движение русского национализма, гальванизированного...

» Путин встретится с президентом Армении Сержем Саргсяном - Правда.Ру
07/09/15 01:32 from путин – Новости Google
Правда.Ру Путин встретится с президентом Армении Сержем Саргсяном Правда.Ру При этом Владимир Путин примет участие в пленарном заседании Форума ОНФ «За качественную и доступную медицину!» В обсуждении ситуации в российском здравоохранени...

» Forget Greece and the Euro: Migration is the real challenge for Europe - The Interpreter
07/09/15 00:58 from putinism - Google News
The Interpreter Forget Greece and the Euro: Migration is the real challenge for Europe The Interpreter The new and rightist Polish president, Andrzej Duda, justified this policy somewhat brazenly by pointing to the country's frontlin...

» Владимир Путин открыл Дальний Восток для инвесторов - Новости Хабаровска на dvnovosti.ru
06/09/15 19:31 from путин – Новости Google
Новости Хабаровска на dvnovosti.ru Владимир Путин открыл Дальний Восток для инвесторов Новости Хабаровска на dvnovosti.ru "Инвесторы на Дальнем Востоке получат значительные преференции",— заявил Владимир Путин на первом Восточн...

» Desperate Putin Not Giving Up On Asia Just Yet - OilPrice.com
06/09/15 19:09 from Putin - Google News
Reuters Desperate Putin Not Giving Up On Asia Just Yet OilPrice.com As Russia reels from low oil prices and western sanctions, it continues to try to pivot to the east. Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to China last week to meet...

» Vladimir Putin Blames The US For The Refugee Crisis In Europe Despite His ... - The Inquisitr
06/09/15 18:56 from Putin - Google News
The Inquisitr Vladimir Putin Blames The US For The Refugee Crisis In Europe Despite His ... The Inquisitr Russian President Vladimir Putin has blamed the United States for the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe. Putin believes that the “in...

» СМИ: Путин провел выходные на Алтае - Газета.Ru
06/09/15 17:31 from путин – Новости Google
ПолитСибРу СМИ: Путин провел выходные на Алтае Газета.Ru Президент России Владимир Путин провел выходные на Алтае, сообщает FlashSiberia со ссылкой источник в правительстве Республики Алтай. По словам источника, президент находился на Ал...

» Путин обсудит с участниками форума ОНФ проблемы и пути развития отечественной медицины Политика 7 сентября, 0:13 - Информационное агентство России ТАСС
06/09/15 17:13 from путин – Новости Google
РИА Новости Путин обсудит с участниками форума ОНФ проблемы и пути развития отечественной медицины Политика 7 сентября, 0:13 Информационное агентство России ТАСС МОСКВА, 7 сентября. /ТАСС/. Президент России Владимир Путин в понедельник п...

» Путин примет участие в форуме ОНФ по вопросам здравоохранения - РИА Новости
06/09/15 17:09 from путин – Новости Google
РИА Новости Путин примет участие в форуме ОНФ по вопросам здравоохранения РИА Новости МОСКВА, 7 сен — РИА Новости. Президент РФ Владимир Путин в понедельник примет участие в форуме Общероссийского народного фронта (ОНФ) по вопросам здрав...

» Президент Владимир Путин выступил перед учениками образовательного центра "Сириус" в Сочи - Первый канал
06/09/15 15:16 from путин – Новости Google
Вести.Ru Президент Владимир Путин выступил перед учениками образовательного центра "Сириус" в Сочи Первый канал Любые расколы и смуты губительны для любого государства - это один из главных тезисов речи Президента Владимира Пут...

» Владимир Путин: политический кризис на Украине – это следующий виток борьбы за власть - Первый канал
06/09/15 15:16 from путин – Новости Google
Первый канал Владимир Путин : политический кризис на Украине – это следующий виток борьбы за власть Первый канал В Киеве на неделе принимали новую редакцию Конституции. Вылилось это не просто в беспорядки, а в настоящие боестолкновения у...