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Reporters name exact missile launcher that brought down MH17
Investigative journalists on Wednesday said they have identified the exact number and unit of the Russian anti-aircraft missile launcher suspected of shooting down a Malaysian Airlines plane over eastern Ukraine in 2014. Moscow responded that it doesn’t have information on identification numbers of Russian weapons. Bellingcat, the...
World Press Freedom Day brings calls for journalist’s release from prison
The government of Azerbaijan was under growing international pressure to release the investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova from prison Tuesday, as she was honored with UNESCO’s annual World Press Freedom Prize. Ismayilova, a contributor to the Azerbaijani service of Radio Free Europe, was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in jail in...
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[Ticker] New commander takes charge of US forces in Europe
US general Curtis Scaparrotti has replaced Philip Breedlove as commander of the roughly 65,000-strong US military force in Europe, and will also succeed him on Wednesday as Nato military chief. Scaparrotti previously served in Afghanistan and Iraq. Breedlove was a leading critic of Russian aggression against Ukraine. …read more Source:...
MEPs clarify position on Magnitsky sanctions
Senior MEPs from the EU parliament’s main groups have urged diplomats to impose sanctions on Russian officials over the killing of anti-corruption activist Sergei Magnitsky. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] MEPs urge extra sanctions on Russian officials
Nine MEPs from the parliament’s largest groups, including Elmar Brok, the German head of the parliament’s foreign affairs committee, have urged the EU foreign service to propose travel bans on 32 Russian officials linked to the death of Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian anti-corruption activist. …read more Source:...
Eurovision flag ban angers Palestinians
A senior Palestinian leader has asked Eurovision organizers to reverse a ban on the Palestinian flag at this year’s edition of the song contest in Stockholm, which starts on May 10. Saeb Erakat, second-in-command of the Palestine Liberation Organization, called the decision “totally biased and unacceptable,” in a letter to Jean-Paul...
Germany to push for fresh Russia-Ukraine talks
The German government wants to “give new momentum” to peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, Foreign Affairs Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Sunday. “We have lost time. The cease-fire has become more fragile … I think it is necessary that we now give new momentum to overcoming the obstacles between Kiev and Moscow,” Steinmeier told German...
The selling of Obama
President Barack Obama insists he does not obsess about “the narrative,” the everyday media play-by-play of political Washington. He urges his team to tune out “the noise,” “the echo chamber,” the Beltway obsession with who’s up and who’s down. But in the fall of 2014, he got sick of the narrative of gloom hovering over his White...
Serbian opposition calls for post-election street protests
BELGRADE — Confusion and delays in counting votes after Serbia’s parliamentary election on Sunday prompted an increasingly disgruntled opposition to call for street protests. The opposition complained about the slow count, which took five days, encouraging people to demonstrate on Saturday. The ruling party responded Friday by threatening...
German officials slam Trump’s “America First”
Donald Trump’s “America First” foreign policy speech didn’t sit well with U.S. allies anywhere, but it’s drawing particularly pointed criticism from officials in Germany, just days after President Barack Obama visited Europe’s most influential country to extol transatlantic cooperation. The Republican front-runner’s...
