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Juncker threatens to promote Ohio independence after Trump’s Brexit backing
Mar30

Juncker threatens to promote Ohio independence after Trump’s Brexit backing

VALLETTA, Malta — European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Thursday he would promote the independence of U.S. states if Donald Trump continues to encourage EU countries to follow the U.K.’s example and leave the bloc. At a meeting of leaders of the center-right European People’s Party in Malta, Juncker said...

David Cameron: Calling EU referendum ‘right thing to do’
Mar30

David Cameron: Calling EU referendum ‘right thing to do’

Former British Prime Minister David Cameron has defended his decision to hold a referendum on the U.K.’s membership of the EU, the Guardian reported Thursday. “I thought it right to hold the referendum because this issue had been poisoning British politics for years,” Cameron said in Kiev on Wednesday, the day the U.K. formally triggered...

[Focus] Nordic countries unite to reboot cooperation with Russia
Mar29

[Focus] Nordic countries unite to reboot cooperation with Russia

Disagreements between Nordic countries and Russia on Crimea and Ukraine are briefly set aside at a conference on Arctic development. …read more Source:...

Poll: 6 in 10 Americans think traditional news outlets report fake news
Mar29

Poll: 6 in 10 Americans think traditional news outlets report fake news

A majority of Americans believe traditional media outlets publish fake news reports, and Republicans are more likely to believe that fake news is being pushed to advance an agenda, according to a Monmouth University poll released Wednesday. The poll, which was conducted by phone during the first week of March, found that 80 percent of respondents...

Tillerson’s message to NATO: Show Trump the money
Mar29

Tillerson’s message to NATO: Show Trump the money

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, making his first visit to NATO headquarters in Brussels this week, will reiterate Donald Trump’s demand that allies ramp up their military spending, a senior State Department official said. Tillerson’s message will echo comments by U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis, who pressed the spending...

Polish consulate in Ukraine attacked with grenade launcher
Mar29

Polish consulate in Ukraine attacked with grenade launcher

Unidentified assailants attacked the Polish consulate in Lutsk, in western Ukraine on Wednesday, Radio Poland reported. “It was probably a grenade launcher,” Polish Consul Krzysztof Sawicki told local media. “The projectile hit the top floor, leaving a hole of about 70 centimeters.” No one was injured in the attack. The...

Ukraine law on NGOs is like ‘Putin’s Russia’
Mar29

Ukraine law on NGOs is like ‘Putin’s Russia’

Amendments to Ukraine anti-corruption law designed to intimidate civil society and journalists in echoes of “Putin’s Russia”, NGOs said. …read more Source:...

US Senate votes overwhelmingly to admit Montenegro to NATO
Mar29

US Senate votes overwhelmingly to admit Montenegro to NATO

The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to admit the small Balkan nation of Montenegro to the NATO military alliance, in what is seen as a crucial step in pushing back against Russian meddling in Eastern Europe. The vote, by 97-2, now sends the defense treaty to U.S. President Donald Trump, whose top aides have expressed strong support...

NATO Resilience Conference: Bucharest
Mar28

NATO Resilience Conference: Bucharest

Officials and experts from NATO Allies and partners will discuss improving national resilience against evolving security challenges at a seminar in Bucharest on 28 and 29 March 2017. NATO Heads of State and Government pledged to increase Allied resilience at the Warsaw Summit in July 2016. “We can only confront today’s security challenges...

Russian oil company loses challenge to UK sanctions measures
Mar28

Russian oil company loses challenge to UK sanctions measures

The European Court of Justice ruled against Russia’s Rosneft today, finding that U.K. measures aimed at implementing EU sanctions levied against Russia are valid. The state-run oil and gas company challenged the validity of the measures the U.K. adopted to implement the sanctions the European Council decided to impose in 2014 in the wake...