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Why Merkel should win Nobel Peace Prize
Odds on who’s going to win the Nobel Peace Prize, to be awarded today, are so hard to make that one could easily arbitrage various bookmakers. I’m not a betting man, but I hope the prize goes to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. She’s the favourite now with average odds of about 6/1 and she deserves to win. The field is strong....
Managing Europe’s perfect storm
The Chinese often point out that in their language, the character for crisis and opportunity are one and the same. But, while it is indeed true that crisis and opportunity often go hand in hand, it is difficult to see much opportunity in Europe’s current circumstances. One reason the current situation facing Europe is so difficult is that...
Bouchard retires from opening match at China Open
Sports Desk A teary-eyed Eugenie Bouchard retired from her opening match against Andrea Petkovic at the China Open due to dizziness on Monday, her first match since falling at the U.S. Open last month and suffering a concussion, reports Yahoo. Bouchard slipped in the locker room after her third-round win against Dominika Cibulkova at the U.S....
World Bank sees Ukraine rebounding
KIEV: The World Bank on Monday said it expected crisis-torn Ukraine’s imploding economy to start recovering later this year and reach 1.0 percent growth in 2016, BSS/AFP reported. The bank maintained its earlier outlook of a 12 percent economic contraction across 2015. It also warned its projections depended on the government’s...
Europe’s reality check
Until a few weeks ago, Europeans believed they lived in a kind of sanctuary, insulated from the world’s current conflicts. Certainly, the news and images of drowned migrants were dreadful; but the tragedy occurring south of Italy, Greece, and Malta seemed a long way off. Syria’s brutal civil war, which has been raging for years,...
A record 522,000 migrants reach Europe this year
Paris: The latest developments as European governments struggle to cope with tens of thousands of people trekking across Europe to find safety, AP/UNB reported. The International Organization for Migration says a record number of people have crossed the Mediterranean into Europe this year, now topping a half a million. As of Tuesday, the group...
Canada’s Harper defends air strikes targeting IS group
OTTAWA : Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper in an election debate Monday defended Canadian air strikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, while his political rivals called for a pullback, BSS/AFP reported. The New Democrats, if elected, would end the military mission, while the Liberals said they would withdraw Canadian...
Abe meets Putin to discuss territorial dispute
UNITED NATIONS : Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had his first face-to-face meeting in nearly a year on Monday with Russian President Vladmir Putin, reports Japan Today. At their last meeting on the sidelines of an Asian summit in China last November, they agreed the Russian leader would come to Japan during 2015. But ties have been strained...
Ukraine leader expresses wish to join NATO
KIEV: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday told the country’s security council that staying out of the NATO alliance was a “criminal” policy that his government is ready to reverse, AP/UNB reported. More than 8,000 people have died in Ukraine’s fight against separatist rebels in the east since April 2014. Russia backed the...
Chelsea hammers Maccabi Tel Aviv 4-0 in UEFA Champions League
Sports Desk Chelsea eased to a 4-0 victory over Maccabi Tel Aviv in its opening Group G match in the Champions League on Wednesday, but the performance at Stamford Bridge was not as convincing as the scoreline, reports Yahoo. Willian and Oscar hit the back of the net in the first half, before a brilliant finish from Diego Costa and a late Cesc...
