Section: The Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
‘Back in the game’ Putin marks birthday with eye on Syria, hockey
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) takes part in a hockey match in Sochi on Wednesday. (AFP/Alexei Nikolsky)Vladimir Putin marked his 63rd birthday Wednesday dividing his attention between hockey and Syria as supporters sang his praises, comparing him to a range of heroic figures from Buddha to Batman.The Russian president has been back in the...
Germany and France try to turn tide of European skepticism
President of European parliament Martin Schulz (left) German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Spain’s King Felipe VI (second right) and French President Francois Hollande (right) pose for photographers as they meet at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Wednesday. (AP/Michael Probst)German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French...
IMF downgrades forecast for world, emerging market economies
Christine Lagarde (AP/Evan Vucci)The International Monetary Fund is downgrading its forecast for global economic growth and says falling commodity prices and jumpy financial markets have raised global risks.In a report Tuesday in advance of the IMF-World Bank annual meetings this week in Lima, Peru, the fund says the world economy will grow 3.1...
Germany marks 25 years of unity, facing new challenges
In this Oct. 3, 1990, file photo, youth light flares in front of Berlin’s Reichstag to celebrate German unification. (AP/Diether Endlicher)Germany marks a quarter-century as a reunited nation on Saturday, with two leaders from the formerly communist east heading a country that increasingly asserts itself as Europe’s political...
Obama says Putin wrong on Syria but no ‘proxy war’
President Barack Obama speaks at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, Sept. 27, at the United Nations headquarters. (AP/Andrew Harnik)President Barack Obama on Friday vehemently rejected Russia’s military actions in Syria as self-defeating and dismissed the idea that Moscow was strengthening its hand in the region. He vowed...
France tells Putin to confine airstrikes to Islamic State
In this Thursday image taken from video provided by the Syrian activist-based media group Qasioun News, a man walks over the rubble of a destroyed building, in the aftermath of a Russian airstrike, in Dair al-Asafeer village, rural Damascus, Syria. (Qasioun News via AP Video) With Russian warplanes bombing Syria for a third day, French President...
Russian, Ukrainian leaders hold talks in Paris
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko waves to journalists as he leaves the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, Friday. (AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)A summit reviving a European push to bring peace to eastern Ukraine ended Friday with a call for the delay of contentious rebel plans to hold local elections this month and for both sides to begin a...
Syria: New Russian strikes, talks in Paris on Assad’s future
A man walks over the rubble of a destroyed building, in the aftermath of a Russian airstrike, in Dair al-Asafeer village, rural Damascus, Syria, on Thursday. (Qasioun News via AP Video)The presidents of Russia and France, which both started bombing Syria this week, held talks Friday about their military operations as they tried to overcome...
Russian lawmakers give Putin OK to use troops in Syria
Russian President Vladimir Putin (second left) flanked by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu (left) and Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov, watches military exercises at Donguz range in Orenburg region, Russia on Sept. 19, 2015. (Alexei Nikolsky/RIA-Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)Russian lawmakers voted...
Obama and Putin: Awkward moments, few breakthroughs
United States President Barack Obama (right) and Russia’s President President Vladimir Putin pose for members of the media before a bilateral meeting Monday at United Nations headquarters. (AP/Andrew Harnik)US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s first formal meeting in more than two years started with an...
