Section: Africa&ME
Right way for refugees with Poland’s new Left
Anti-migrant feelings helped propel a sweeping win for Poland’s right-wing PiS in recent elections. Even so, activists are hopeful that a new, tolerant future lies ahead. Isabelle de Pommereau reports from Wroclaw. There’s a place in this young, dynamic southwest Polish metropolis called Kamienskiego Street that hardly anybody sets...
Five Soldiers Killed in Renewed East Ukraine Violence
Five Ukrainian soldiers were killed in clashes in the country’s separatist east over the past 24 hours …read more Source: Al-Manar...
Five soldiers killed in east, highest toll in two months: Ukraine military
Five Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in the past 24 hours during fighting in the east of Ukraine, the Ukrainian military said on Saturday, its highest death toll since a fragile ceasefire with pro-Russian separatists began two months ago. The guns have been mostly silent since early September, but there has been an increase in ceasefire...
Five soldiers killed in east, highest toll in two months: Ukraine military
Five Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in the past 24 hours during fighting in the east of Ukraine, the Ukrainian military said Saturday, its highest death toll since a fragile ceasefire with pro-Russian separatists began two months ago …read more Source: The Daily...
Seven killed in Slovakia helicopter crash
At least seven people have been killed in a helicopter crash in eastern Slovakia, with local authorities suspecting that the aircraft was smuggling refugees from neighboring Ukraine. …read more Source: Iran...
Egypt: Why Putin Needs the FBI by Amy Knight | NYR Daily
Alexey Druginyn/Ria Novosti/Kremlin Pool/epa/Corbis Russian President Vladimir Putin and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Sochi, Russia, August 12, 2014 The investigation of the crash of a Russian passenger plane over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on October 31 took an unexpected turn on Friday, when unnamed senior US officials told CBS...
Ukrainian civilian copter crashes in Slovakia, 6 dead
BRATISLAVA: A Ukrainian civilian helicopter has crashed in eastern Slovakia, killing six people, a Slovak interior ministry spokesman said on Friday. The Mi-2 turbine-powered transport helicopter crashed near Slovakia’s border with Ukraine, which is also the EU’s eastern border, ministry spokesman Ivan Netik told Reuters. An...
Carter should know the world is not a cowboy movie — RT Op-Edge
John Wight has written for newspapers and websites across the world, including the Independent, Morning Star, Huffington Post, Counterpunch, London Progressive Journal, and Foreign Policy Journal. He is also a regular commentator on RT and BBC Radio. He wrote a memoir of the five years he spent in Hollywood, where he worked in the movie industry...
News24.com | Six killed in Slovakia helicopter crash
Slovakia says a Ukrainian helicopter has crashed in eastern Slovakia, killing six people, but no other details are available. …read more Source:...
In Slovakia: Ukrainian civilian helicopter crashes, six people dead
A Slovak daily paper reported that the helicopter was detected on Wednesday as it entered Slovak airspace but authorities only discovered the crash site on Friday. A Ukrainian civilian helicopter has crashed in eastern Slovakia, killing six people, a Slovak interior ministry spokesman said on Friday.The helicopter crashed near Slovakia’s...
