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Joe Biden In Ukraine To Push Reforms, Reaffirm US Support
US Vice President Joe Biden meets Ukrainian leaders today to kickstart their drive against corruption and reassure them of Western support in the face of the current focus on Syria. …read more Source:...
On security, Britain and France can be leaders of Europe
It’s no surprise that Britain’s decision to extend its military efforts against Daesh (the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) with airstrikes in Syria has been met with a sigh of relief in France. It was appreciated both as a vindication of Francois Hollande’s strategy of reaching out to allies after the Paris...
Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Dec. 7, 2015
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Times of Central Asia presents to its readers Stratfor’s Global Intelligence, a weekly review of the most important events that happened in the world — from Europe to Middle East to Russia to Central Asia to Afghanistan to China and the Americas. The Week That WasThe start of the week began with a much-anticipated shift...
San Bernardino shooting: Syed Farook’s father says son agreed with ISIS ideology
The father of Syed Farook, who with his wife shot dead 14 people in San Bernardino, California, says his son approved the ideas of the Islamic State group and was fixated with Israel, media reports said. “He said he agreed with (IS chief Abu Bakr) al-Baghdadi’s ideas for creating the Islamic State, and he was obsessed by...
The Syrian knot: Greatest challenge for EU
Like many young souls today I had been hooked to Nepali news channels. And similar to all inquisitive and hopeful minds, mine had adopted the daily routine of meticulously reading the newspaper headlines instead of skipping to the entertainment For four years, a bloody war has raged in Syria. What began as a democratic uprising against Bashar...
Biden visits war-scarred Ukraine to reaffirm US support
KIEV: US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Kiev late Sunday to reassure its pro-Western leaders that Washington remains committed to Ukraine despite stepped-up efforts to work with Russia against Islamic State jihadists. Biden’s three-day visit is his fourth to Kiev since Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula in March 2014 and...
Joe Biden Visits War-Scarred Ukraine to Reaffirm US Support
US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Kiev late Sunday to reassure its pro-Western leaders that Washington remains committed to Ukraine despite stepped-up efforts to work with Russia against Islamic … …read more Source:...
Orbital cargo ship blasts off toward space station
MIAMI (AFP) – Orbital ATK on Sunday launched its Cygnus cargo ship to resupply astronauts at the International Space Station, one year after a sudden rocket accident delivered a setback to commercial spaceflight.Liftoff, on the shoulders of Atlas, NASA spokesman Mike Curie said as the unmanned spacecraft blasted off from Cape Canaveral,...
International monitors threatened by gunmen in east Ukraine
International monitors in eastern Ukraine said that armed people fired into the air when they tried to approach a group of howitzers near a separatist-controlled village, in an area from which such weapons were supposed to be withdrawn under a ceasefire agreement. …read more Source: Channel...
International monitors threatened by gunmen in east Ukraine
KIEV (Reuters) – International monitors in eastern Ukraine said that armed people fired into the air when they tried to approach a group of howitzers near a separatist-controlled village, in an area from which such weapons were supposed to be withdrawn under a ceasefire agreement. …read more Source: The...
