Section: Newsweek (USA)
Death and Recession in the City That Shrinks by 15,000 People a Year
Vitaly Ivanov’s feet feel so heavy he can barely get out of bed. But with difficulty, and some pain, he manages to leave his apartment just in time for the hospital appointment to find out the results of his liver biopsy. In the chilly autumn rain, Ivanov trudges through the streets around his home city of Nizhny Novgorod, a 57-year-old...
U.S and Russia Agree to Share Intelligence on Common Enemy: ISIS
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov agreed on Tuesday to increase intelligence sharing between Moscow and Washington on Islamic State militants, focusing on a common enemy even as deep divisions remained over the crisis in Ukraine. Speaking in Paris after talks with his Russian counterpart, Kerry said the...
The Jihadi Are Winning Their Online War on the West
The most sinister change in the way war is perceived through the media springs from what just a few years ago seemed to be a wholly positive development. Satellite television and the use of information supplied by YouTube, bloggers and social media were portrayed as liberating innovations at the beginning of the Arab Spring. The monopoly on...
Dutch Experts Help Recover MH17 Crash Items Despite Nearby Clashes
HRABOVE Ukraine (Reuters) – Four Dutch experts visited the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in east Ukraine on Monday to help recover personal belongings of victims despite fighting between government troops and separatist rebels nearby. The experts said they were on hand to advise a local Emergencies Ministry team combing the...
Australian PM Says He Will Confront Putin at G20 Summit Over MH17 ‘Murders’
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Monday that he would use an upcoming G20 leaders summit to confront Russian President Vladimir Putin over the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 and the “murder” of Australian citizens. Allegations that the jetliner was downed by pro-Russian separatists armed with surface-to-air...
Malaysia Flight 17 Victim Found With Oxygen Mask, Dutch Government Says
One of the passengers on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was found wearing an oxygen mask, suggesting not every passenger on board died instantly when the plane was shot down over Ukraine in July, according to a Dutch minister. Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans spoke about the oxygen mask during an interview on Dutch television program Pauw on...
How Obama Tried to Stay Out of Syria, and Still Failed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Throughout 2012, as signs mounted that militants in Syria were growing stronger, the debate in the White House followed a pattern. In meeting after meeting, as officials from agencies outside the executive residence advocated arming pro-Western rebels or other forms of action, President Barack Obama’s closest...
Women Join the Fight—on Both Sides—in East Ukraine
DONETSK/DNIPROPETROVSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Before fighting broke out in eastern Ukraine, Irina was a croupier in a casino who never dreamt of taking up arms. Now she is gambling with her life. Using the nom de guerre “Gaika”, a cartoon character that translates as Gadget, she has joined an artillery unit in a pro-Russian...
From the Baltics to the Arctic, the Russian Wolf Is at the Door
Twice in mid-September, Canadian and American fighter jets scrambled as a total of six Russian bombers flew near the North Pole, piercing in the process the jointly administered Canadian and American “air defense identification zone,” which rings North America and requires those who enter it to radio their destination. (The Russian aircraft did...
Fighting Rages On at Donetsk Airport, Symbol of Conflict in Eastern Ukraine
While fighting in much of eastern Ukraine has been calmed by a month-old truce, it rages unabated at the airport near Donetsk, turning a shiny symbol of the country’s Western integration into a shattered mirror of its future prospects. The new terminal European soccer fans used in 2012 to reach some of the matches hosted by Ukraine is now a...
