Section: Business Insider (USA)
Ledecky keeps US flag flying with Phelps on sidelines
Phoenix (AFP) – With Michael Phelps taking the night off, Katie Ledecky flew the US flag at the Mesa Pro Series swimming meeting with a sizzling 400m freestyle victory.In his first meet since serving the six-month suspension that followed his drunk-driving arrest in September, Phelps on Friday had the night off after failing to qualify for...
11 super successful tech leaders who overcame the handicap of being late arrivals to America
More than a third of the top tech companies in the US were founded by people born outside of the country. Their success stories drive many immigrants to come to the US in hopes of realizing the American Dream. But just looking at their success makes it easy to overlook the fact that a lot of the immigrant founders had to overcome other problems –...
300 US troops in Ukraine to train Ukrainian forces: US Army
Kiev (AFP) – About 300 US paratroopers have arrived in Ukraine to train the Ukrainian National Guard which is fighting pro-Russian rebels in the east, the US Army said in a statement.The troops from the 173rd Airborne Brigade arrived on Tuesday and Wednesday in Yavoriv, western Ukraine, to spend six months training three battalions of...
The 10 most important things in the world right now
Hello! Here’s what you need to know for Friday. 1. An estimated 1,500 people, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, will attend a state memorial service Friday for the victims of the Germanwings plane crash. 2. Russian President Vladimir Putin said the country is on the road to economic recovery and defended supplying Iran with...
Clinical Napoli destroy Wolfsburg in Europa League
Paris (AFP) – Rafa Benitez worked his European magic again on Thursday as a rampant Napoli produced a superb display to beat VfL Wolfsburg 4-1 in Germany in the first leg of their Europa League quarter-final.Captain Marek Hamsik scored twice in between strikes by Gonzalo Higuain and Manolo Gabbiadini for the visitors at the Volkswagen...
Pro-Russia journalist gunned down in Ukraine
Kiev (AFP) – A pro-Russian journalist was shot dead in Ukraine’s capital Thursday, leading Kiev to brand the latest murders of pro-Moscow figures an enemy “provocation”.Columnist Oles Buzyna, 45, a supporter of Ukraine’s ousted Kremlin-backed president Viktor Yanukovych, was gunned down in central Kiev by an unknown...
Bremmer: This is why Putin is one of the world’s most influential figures
Despite brokering a massive arms deal with Iran, illegally annexing the Crimean peninsula, engineering a civil war in Ukraine, and plunging his own nation into economic chaos, Russian president Vladimir Putin remains one of the world’s most powerful leaders and TIME 100’s most influential figure. Ian Bremmer, president of...
Putin: ‘I will say this clearly: There are no Russian troops in Ukraine’
Russian President Vladimir Putin is still denying that there are any Russian troops in Ukraine. During an hours-long question-and-answer show on Thursday, Putin said he wants a “stable, peaceful Ukraine” and that Ukrainians and Russians are one people. Im what seems to be imitating US President Barack Obama’s favorite phrase,...
Putin isn’t sure if the people who ordered the murder of an Kremlin critic Boris Nemstov ‘even exist’
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke for over three hours on a number of domestic and international issues, including the shocking murder of opposition leader Boris Nemstov in February. He said that though the government knew who actually killed Nemstov within a “matter of hours” who knows who gave the order, or if such people even...
The Russian banking sector is about to implode
Hundreds of Russian banks have no choice but to close down, merge or be acquired by larger rivals as a result of mismanagement, experts told Bloomberg. The country has more than 820 lenders, a staggering number of which have a high ratio of bad loans on their balance sheets. Many will soon disappear. “Russia has far too many licensed banks,”...
