Section: Newsweek (USA)
Ukraine Prime Minister Yatseniuk Resigns After Surviving No-Confidence Vote
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk tendered his resignation in a televised broadcast on Sunday and signaled support for parliamentary speaker and presidential ally Volodymyr Groysman to take over his post. Yatseniuk has resisted pressure to resign since surviving a no-confidence motion against his government in February, but...
Why El Salvador Raided the Offices of Mossack Fonseca
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – Authorities in El Salvador on Friday raided the local offices of Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, seizing documents and equipment, the country’s attorney general’s office said. The Panama-based law firm is at the center of an international data leak scandal that has embarrassed several world leaders...
Estonia to Host Record Number of U.S. Troops in Allied Drill
Estonia will host a record number of U.S. troops during the allied Saber Strike exercise this summer, BBC’s Ukrainian service has reported. The Estonian Armed Forces did not confirm how many U.S. troops would take part; however, they did estimate that over 500 units of U.S. military kit would participate in the exercise. Saber Strike will...
Putin: Isolating Russia Has Failed, Especially After Syria
Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted on Thursday that the West has failed to isolate Russia, especially in light of the latter’s military intervention in Syria, independent news agency Interfax reported. “To begin with they were talking about the need to isolate Russia, ever since the now well-known events in Crimea,” Putin said at a...
Putin-Inspired Cafe With Obama Toilet Paper Opens in Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin has inspired a new cafe in Russia’s city of Krasnoyarsk, where his face is spread across the walls, besides a picture of him riding a bear adorning the menu and toilet paper embellished with U.S. President Barack Obama’s face. The new dining establishment, appropriately called “Cafe President”, is...
Ukraine and Turkey Launch Black Sea Naval Drill Amid Russia Tensions
Ukraine and Turkey have launched a joint naval exercise in the Black Sea, amid both countries’ deteriorating relationship with Russia, Ukraine’s armed forces reported on Thursday. Ukraine is currently fighting a separatist insurgency in its eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, that it maintains is backed by the Russian armed...
Voters in the Netherlands Reject EU-Ukraine Deal To Remove Trade Barriers
Dutch voters have rejected a suggested deal between the EU and Ukraine, which would see trade barriers dropped between the two. Though turnout was low, at 32.2 percent, an overwhelming 61.1 percent of voters were against the trade agreement. The country’s Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who was expecting to ratify the deal, cautioned that the...
Putin Ally Warns Open War With Ukraine Would Last Just Four Days
The speaker of Russia’s lower house of parliament has said Ukraine would last “a maximum of four days” in open conflict with Russia, state news agency RIA Novosti has reported. Sergey Naryshkin, speaker of the Duma and leading member of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party, spoke to Russian lawmakers and visiting...
Putin Heavy Heads Up New Anti-Activist Squad
Russian President Vladimir Putin has triggered concern from the opposition after announcing the formation of a new National Guard, headed by his ex-chief of security, answering to Putin himself. The Kremlin issued an official decree on Tuesday evening, signed by Putin, in which he ordered that Interior Ministry rapid response and riot police...
Panama Papers: Law Firm Mossack Fonseca Says It Was Hacked
PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – The Panamanian lawyer at the center of a data leak scandal that has embarrassed a clutch of world leaders said on Tuesday his firm was a victim of a hack from outside the company, and has filed a complaint with state prosecutors. Founding partner Ramon Fonseca said the firm, Mossack Fonseca, which specializes in...
