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Top Obama aide to take call for South China Sea calm to Beijing
WASHINGTON: US National Security Adviser Susan Rice will urge Beijing next week to avoid escalation in the South China Sea when she makes the highest-level US visit to China since an international court rejected its sweeping claims to the strategic waterway. Even as Washington has sought to keep a lid on the situation, Rice – in an interview with...
Hundreds come to bid farewell to slain journalist in Ukraine
Colleagues and others gather at the coffin of Pavel Sheremet to pay their respects at his memorial ceremony in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, July 22, 2016. Photo: AP/File MOSCOW: Hundreds of local residents and journalists on Friday came to pay their respects to a prominent journalist who died in a car bombing in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev earlier...
Day after shutdown, KickassTorrents up and running again
Not even 24 hours had passed since US authorities had shut down one of the largest torrent websites — Kickasstorrents or KAT — and arrested its owner Artem Vaulin from Poland, and KAT was already making a comeback. IsoHunt, another major torrent website, has restored a mirror of the original KAT website with identical design and a somewhat...
Russian and Ukraine Women Unite Online Against Sex Abuse
Hundreds of personal stories of sexual violence and harassment are appearing on social media in Russia and Ukraine . . MOSCOW – Women across Russia and Ukraine are uniting and speaking out – for once, not about the tensions between their two nations, nor the Russia-backed separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine – but about their experiences of...
Zurab Abashidze – Georgia joined the sanctions against Crimea and Sevastopol in 2014 and so, it is not a new decision
According to Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Relations with Russia Zurab Abashidze, Georgia joined the sanctions against Crimea and Sevastopol in 2014 and therefore, it is not a new decision. …read more Source:...
Owner of world’s biggest piracy site Kickass Torrents Artem Vaulin arrested in US
A Ukrainian alleged to be the ringleader of the world’s biggest online piracy site, Kickass Torrents, was hit with US criminal charges Wednesday, accused of distributing over $1 billion worth of illegally copied films, music and other content. The Justice Department unveiled a criminal complaint against Artem Vaulin, 30, of Kharkiv,...
Sanctions hinder Russian efforts to build power plant – sources
A state tender for a company to build and operate a power plant in southern Russia attracted no bids partly because firms feared falling foul of EU sanctions should any electricity be diverted to nearby Crimea, industry sources said. …read more Source: Channel...
Analyst: Chaos instigated in Middle East, Turkey and Caucasus aims at subordinating Europe and Russia
Chaos instigated in the Middle East, Turkey and Caucasus aims at subordinating Europe and Russia, member of the Karabakh Committee, the first Armenian president’s national security advisor Ashot Manucharyan has told ArmInfo. “Europe does not agree to fully involve into Transatlantic partnership headed by the USA, which would lead to...
Ukraine sees destabilisation motive after car bomb kills journalist who felt threatened when in Russia
An award-winning journalist working for the online investigative website Ukrayinska Pravda was killed by a car bomb in central Kiev early on Wednesday morning, in what President Petro Poroshenko said was an attempt to destabilise Ukraine. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Ukrainian journalist dies in car explosion in Kiev
A well-known Ukrainian journalist working for the online investigative newspaper Ukrainska Pravda was killed on Wednesday morning in a car explosion in central Kiev. …read more Source: China...
