Section: US & Canada
Ukrainian party has buried idea of technocrat government: president’s party
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s reformist Samopomich party has effectively buried lawmakers’ plans to replace Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk’s… …read more Source:...
TV-radio listings: March 15
TV-radio listings: Col. basketball NCAA: Col. basketball NCAA: Pro basketball L.A. Clippers at San Antonio NBA 7:30 p.m. Soccer Dynamo Kyiv at Manchester City FS1 2:30 p.m. Soccer PSV Eindhoven at Atletico de Madrid FS2 2:30 p.m. Soccer Tigres UANL at Queretaro FS2 9 p.m. …read more Source: The Houston...
What’s at Stake in Morocco’s Royal Trip to Russia
Ahmed Charai Politics, Africa King Mohammed VI visits the Kremlin for the first time since 2002. On March 15, Morocco’s King Mohammed VI is slated to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow—his first visit to the country since 2002. The agenda will cover a variety of bilateral issues with bearing on the two countries’...
This Is The Mistake That’s Costing Marco Rubio The Election
WASHINGTON — Marco Rubio staked his presidential campaign on a prediction: Global unrest, he told the Associated Press a year ago, would cause voters to place higher-than-usual weight on the foreign policy positions of presidential candidates. Rubio would run on foreign policy, and Republican primary voters would choose him as their...
Don’t Trust Putin’s Syria Pullback
The Russian president made a similar announcement about Ukraine, but his military is still there. …read more Source:...
This Is The Mistake That’s Costing Marco Rubio The Election
WASHINGTON — Marco Rubio staked his presidential campaign on a prediction: Global unrest, he told the Associated Press a year ago, would cause voters to place higher-than-usual weight on the foreign policy positions of presidential candidates. Rubio would run on foreign policy, and Republican primary voters would choose him as their...
POLITICIANS DETERMINED TO KILL THE US-RUSSIAN SPACE JOINT VENTURE
Why replacing the Russian RD-180 engines is so difficult, and so senseless By Dimitri Elkin and Woodrow Clark The list of collateral damage from the geopolitical standoff between US-Russia continues to grow. The latest victim is the successful rocket engine joint venture that lifts most of the American commercial and military satellites into...
Putin Announces Withdrawal From Syria
Once more, Russia’s Vladimir Putin has surprised almost all observers by announcing that as of tomorrow, he is withdrawing most of his forces from Syria. Russia Today has the official English-language writeup: “I consider the objectives that have been set for the Defense Ministry to be generally accomplished. That is why I order to start...
Russia’s motives for getting involved in Syria in the first place
Thomson ReutersRussian President Vladimir Putin announced March 14 that Russia had sufficiently achieved its goals in Syria since beginning airstrikes in September, and that it will gradually withdraw the bulk of its forces from the country, starting March 15. According to Putin, the process could take as long as five months. However,...
EU Ministers Agree To Stand Firm Against Russia
EU foreign ministers have unanimously agreed on “five guiding principles” of the bloc’s policy toward Russia. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
