Section: Newsweek (USA)
NATO Will Send Tanks to Help Defend Eastern Europe Against Russia
NATO will shore up Eastern European defenses in the face of an “aggressive Russia” with thousands of troops and tanks, U.S. General Philip Breedlove said. The deployment of the new armored brigade comprising of an additional 4,200 troops and over 200 tanks will be rotational, as is the rest of NATO’s presence in the former Eastern Bloc, and...
Russia Claims to Have Detained Ukrainian Spy Trained by CIA
Russia’s Federal Security Services (FSB) claims to have arrested a Ukrainian intelligence agent who was trained by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In a statement released on Thursday, the FSB identified the man as Ukrainian Lieutenant Colonel Yuriy Ivanchenko, a counterintelligence officer for Ukraine’s Security Services...
Poland Plans to Remove 500 Soviet Monuments
Poland’s state Institute for National Remembrance (INR) has urged regional authorities to take down 500 Soviet monuments, the institute’s director told Polish news site Onet. Poland has a troubled history with the Soviet Union and its relationship with Moscow is linked to the debate over the 50 years of Soviet influence on the...
Pope Francis: Combat Terrorism With ‘Weapons of Love’
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis urged the world in his Easter message on Sunday to use the “weapons of love” to combat the evil of “blind and brutal violence”, following the attacks in Brussels. After a week of somber religious events commemorating Jesus’ death, Francis said an Easter Sunday Mass under...
Pope Francis: Combat Terrorism With ‘Weapons of Love’
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis urged the world in his Easter message on Sunday to use the “weapons of love” to combat the evil of “blind and brutal violence”, following the attacks in Brussels. After a week of somber religious events commemorating Jesus’ death, Francis said an Easter Sunday Mass under...
U.S. to Blame Iranian Hackers for Cyber Attacks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration is expected to blame Iranian hackers as soon as Thursday for a coordinated campaign of cyber attacks in 2012 and 2013 on several U.S. banks and a New York dam, sources familiar with the matter have told Reuters. The Justice Department has prepared an indictment against about a half-dozen...
Brussels Attacks: Kremlin Angered by Ukrainian ‘Russian Link’ Claims
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has led the fierce backlash against Ukrainian suggestions that Tuesday’s attacks in Brussels could have been planned by the Kremlin. Three blasts shook the Belgian capital on Tuesday morning, killing at least 34 people in two different locations. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President...
Putin Kissing Wilders Poster Banned by Dutch Rail
Posters showing Russian President Vladimir Putin and Dutch right-wing leader Geert Wilders kissing have been banned from railway stations and bus shelters in the Netherlands, Dutch public broadcaster NOS reports. According to NOS, the posters, designed by the youth wing of the Netherlands’ Labour Party and which show Wilders and Putin in a...
Putin is Less Likeable and Trustworthy Than a Year Ago: Poll
Russian President Vladimir Putin has become less likable and trustworthy in the eyes of the Russian people, according to a survey by independent pollster the Levada Center. The poll, conducted earlier in March, asked a sample of 1,600 Russians from across the country to answer a number of questions as to how they view Putin. The center has been...
Russia Plane Crash: Flight Recorder Found
All 62 people aboard a passenger jet flying from Dubai to southern Russia were killed when their plane crashed on its second attempt to land at Rostov-on-Don airport on Saturday, Russian officials said. Russia’s emergencies ministry said the aircraft, a Boeing 737-800 operated by Dubai-based budget carrier Flydubai, crashed at 0340 (0040...
