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      Obama’s Hanover talks unlikely to yield new line on vexed issues
      Apr25

      Obama’s Hanover talks unlikely to yield new line on vexed issues

      US president expected to discuss Syria, Isis, the refugee crisis and Libya with French, German, Italian and British leadersAfter two days spent wandering the Alice Through the Looking Glass land of Brexit, Shakespearean make-believe and magical Windsor Castle mystery tours, Barack Obama gets back to the real world on Monday at a summit in Hanover...

      Germany’s Merkel says truce in eastern Ukraine not being respected
      Apr24

      Germany’s Merkel says truce in eastern Ukraine not being respected

      HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday that a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine was not stable, adding that she and U.S. President Barack Obama had discussed ways to ensure the Minsk peace deal is implemented. …read more Source:...

      Obama’s next stop: Germany
      Apr24

      Obama’s next stop: Germany

      BERLIN — U.S. President Barack Obama arrived in Germany on Sunday on the last leg of his European tour, a trip he is using to bolster transatlantic ties and bid farewell as the end of his presidency nears. Obama will meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Hanover, where the two are scheduled take part in the Hanover Fair, the world’s...

      3 people killed in eastern Ukraine amid renewed fighting
      Apr24

      3 people killed in eastern Ukraine amid renewed fighting

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      Haunting photographs show the abandoned hospital beds and rotting gas marks in the town devastated by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 30 years ago 
      Apr24

      Haunting photographs show the abandoned hospital beds and rotting gas marks in the town devastated by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 30 years ago 

      Pripyat in Ukraine was once a thriving bustling city home to 50,000 workers and their families. But the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 26 April, 1986 changed all that forever. …read more Source: Daily...

      There’s no place like home, even in the Chernobyl disaster zone
      Apr24

      There’s no place like home, even in the Chernobyl disaster zone

      CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (Reuters) – Some people found life away from home so unbearable they decided to return, even when home was the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster. …read more Source:...

      Economy, crises in focus as Obama heads to Germany
      Apr24

      Economy, crises in focus as Obama heads to Germany

      LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama is set to visit Hanover, Germany on Sunday to hold talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, one of his closest allies in dealing with a shaky global economy and security crises in the Middle East and Ukraine. …read more Source:...

      Why Obama loves the queen more than her country
      Apr23

      Why Obama loves the queen more than her country

      LONDON – At their Friday press conference here, President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron together used the phrase “special relationship” more than a dozen times. At times they cast it in almost romantic terms: Obama professed his “love” for Winston Churchill. Cameron declared his “passion” for the Anglo-American...

      How Ukraine Is Dealing With the European Refugee Crisis
      Apr23

      How Ukraine Is Dealing With the European Refugee Crisis

      The refugee center in Yahotyn, a town not far from the Ukrainian capital, was built to house asylum seekers from all over the world. Image from YouTube. From “health hazards” to “an opportunity to boost the national economy”—this is the broad range of speculations Ukrainian politicians are using to explain what can happen when Ukraine opens its...

      Faster media, fractured government
      Apr23

      Faster media, fractured government

      Ever since Julius Reuter strapped his first market report to a carrier pigeon, reporters of every stripe have lived or died by being first with the facts. Yet in recent years, the news agenda has started to move even more rapidly, to the point where it is whirling faster than ever — part of a wider speeding up of society, driven by technology,...