Section: Newsweek (USA)
Rightist Party Wins Bulgaria Election as Vote Splinters
Bulgaria’s center-right GERB party won a snap national election on Sunday but fell short of a majority, a result that could mean another shaky coalition struggling to solve a bank crisis and revive economic growth. GERB leader Boiko Borisov, a former bodyguard and karate expert said his party would hold internal discussions on Monday on how...
Germany: Angst, Torture, and the Reluctant Leadership of Europe
Between the 75th anniversary of the start of the Second World War and the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we examine Germany’s profound lessons for the developed world in the second of our Newsweek Essays. The author, Stephen Green, was chairman of the world’s second largest bank, HSBC, and served as the UK’s...
George Clooney, South Sudan and How the World’s Newest Nation Imploded
March 2012, A Bar on the Nile It was mid-morning and the staff were still wiping down the bar and clearing away the empties when George Clooney ambled over to my table. Clooney had a couple of hours before he headed north to the fighting and we’d agreed to meet by the Nile, at the aid worker hotel where he stayed. The river was something to...
At Least 10 People Killed in Shelling on and Near School in East Ukraine
At least 10 people were killed on Wednesday when shells hit a school playground and a mini-van in a nearby street in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, city authorities and Reuters witnesses said. There were no children among those killed in the shelling at School No. 57 on the first day of the new school year, though witnesses said the dead included a...
New Polish PM Dashes Ukraine’s EU Hopes
Poland’s new Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz said on Wednesday she would largely stick to the policies of her predecessor Donald Tusk, including a cautious approach to the question of when eastern Europe’s biggest economy will join the euro. In her first major policy speech as prime minister, Kopacz tried to appeal to voters before a...
Meet ‘Hunter’, The American Fighting for the Ukrainian Separatists
With his face hidden behind a camouflage balaclava and an assault rifle slung over his shoulder, “Hunter” looks like other separatist fighters in eastern Ukraine. What distinguishes him from his brothers in arms in the Vostok (East) battalion, an irregular pro-Russian militia fighting government forces, is his American accent –...
Seven Ukrainian Soldiers Killed as Fighting Near Donetsk Airport Disrupts Ceasefire
Seven Ukrainian soldiers were killed when separatist shelling hit their armoured vehicle near Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine, a military spokesman said on Monday, putting a fragile ceasefire under further strain. It was the largest loss of life among Ukrainian soldiers in a single incident since the ceasefire came into force on Sept. 5 and...
Ukraine Leader Sees Country Applying for EU Membership ‘in 6 Years Time’
President Petro Poroshenko announces plans for reforms which would allow the former Soviet republic to apply for EU membership in six years IEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko said he would present a broad plan of social and economic reforms on Thursday which would allow the former Soviet republic to apply for...
At the UN, Obama Zaps Russia’s Sneak Invasion of Ukraine
Even after President Barack Obama launched an extraordinary verbal attack on Russia at the General Assembly Wednesday, Moscow is expected to vote for an American-proposed Security Council resolution to fight terrorism later this afternoon. At the opening of the United Nations General Assembly annual debate, where heads of state and foreign...
NATO Sees Significant Pullback of Russian Troops From Ukraine
NATO has observed a significant withdrawal of Russian forces from inside Ukraine, but many Russian troops remain stationed nearby, an alliance military spokesman said on Wednesday. “There has been a significant pullback of Russian conventional forces from inside Ukraine, but many thousands are still deployed in the vicinity of the...
