Section: Africa&ME
Holders Real draw Bayern, Liverpool face Roma
The 2018 final will be played in Kiev. …read more Source: Daily...
Ukrainian Oligarch Defends $150,000 Payment To Trump Foundation
FILE COPY Ukrainian businessman Victor Pinchuk poses after receiving the Chevalier des Arts et Lettres medal from the French Culture Minister in Paris. Jacques DEMARTHON / AFP Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk’s foundation on Thursday defended a $150,000 (120,000 euros) payment to Donald Trump’s foundation that is being investigated...
Trump To Take Decision On Syria ‘Soon’
FILE COPY United States’ President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with senior military leaders at the White House in Washington, DC. Photo Credit: NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP President Donald Trump huddled with top national security advisors Thursday to weigh his military options in Syria, as Moscow warned against any move that risks...
Israel Calls On Poland To Study Holocaust History
FILE PHOTO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office. PHOTO: ABIR SULTAN / POOL / AFP Israel’s president on Thursday said there was a “deep disagreement” between his country and Poland over the Holocaust and called on Warsaw to study its history — an allusion to the responsibility...
World ORT teaches kids robotics alongside Hebrew in Kiev school
The school collaborates with the Israeli Education Ministry and the Ukrainian government “to bring everyone together.” …read more Source: The Jerusalem...
Opinion: The dress doctor is in
Last February, Dawnn Karen, a brand consultant, therapist and instructor at the Fashion Institute of Technology, arrived at a Marcel Ostertag fashion show wearing 5-inch… A self-described “fashion psychologist,” Karen pays close attention to the relationship between attire and attitude: not just how clothes make you look, but how they make...
CIA Chief: No More ‘Soft Policy’ towards Russia
CIA director Mike Pompeo, who was picked by President Donald Trump to lead US foreign policy, has declared that the days of what he called a “soft policy” toward Russia are over. At the same time, he said dialogue must continue. “Russia continues to act aggressively, enabled by years of soft policy toward that aggression. That’s now over....
Nord Stream-2 Says Received 2nd Permit for Pipeline Construction from Finland
“Project developer Nord Stream 2 AG today received the second of two permits required to construct and operate the planned natural gas pipeline in the Finnish Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), completing the permitting procedure in Finland,” Wednesday’s statement read. READ MORE: Nord Stream 2 Going Full Throttle Despite Ukraine’s...
Album ‘Yiddish Glory’ gives voice to once-lost Soviet Jewish WWII songs
After decades in an unmarked box in Ukraine, the unlikely discovery and resurrection of wartime testimonial poems by Toronto prof leads to international recording project …read more Source: The Times of...
Politics: Russia’s newest anti-air defenses are in Syria — and the US should be worried
The Pantsir-S1's newest missile that can destroy low flying drones. That, combined with the S-400 makes Russia's anti-aircraft systems better than the US' Russia has a layered defense system protecting its bases in Syria that could prove difficult for American jets seeking to strike Syrian targets. The system is composed of...
