Section: Newsweek (USA)
Iran and Six Powers Continue Nuclear Deal Negotiations Past Deadline
VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran and six major powers will keep negotiating past Tuesday’s deadline for a long-term nuclear agreement as they tackle the most contentious issues, including the continuation of a U.N. arms embargo on Iran, the big powers said. “We are continuing to negotiate for the next couple of days. This does not mean...
Hillary Clinton Accuses China of Hacking U.S. Computers
GLEN, N.H. (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton accused China on Saturday of stealing commercial secrets and “huge amounts of government information,” and of trying to “hack into everything that doesn’t move in America.” Clinton’s language on China appeared to be far stronger...
Russia Furious After Poland Removes Soviet War Memorial
MOSCOW/WARSAW (Reuters) – Russia said on Saturday it was outraged by Poland’s destruction of a Soviet war monument, warning Warsaw of the “most negative consequences” after what it said was a flagrant violation of an agreement between the two countries on protecting memorial sites. Poland has been one of the most vocal...
Putin Tells Obama He Wants Dialogue Based on Equality and Respect
Russian President Vladimir Putin called for dialogue based on equal treatment and mutual respect with the United States on Saturday in a congratulatory message to President Barack Obama marking U.S. Independence Day. Putin said U.S.-Russian relations remained important for solving global crises. The two countries have disagreements over the...
Russia Reportedly Querying Recognition of Independent Baltic States
The Russian prosecutor general’s office is to review the legality of the recognition of the Baltic republics by the State Council of the USSR in 1991, according to the state news agency Interfax. A “source familiar with the situation” told the agency that two Russian parliamentary deputies had requested that the...
China Close to Completion of 10,000-Foot Runway in Disputed South China Sea
China has nearly completed the construction of an airstrip on one of its artificial islands in the hotly disputed South China Sea, according to new satellite photos released by Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI), part of the U.S.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). The island is one of a number of artificial...
Ukrainian Militia Claim to Discover of Russian Military Camp in Separatist-Controlled Area
A Ukrainian volunteer battalion claims to have spotted what they say is a Russian military camp housing Russian-made vehicles, tanks and equipment in a separatist-controlled area situated between Mariupol and Donetsk in the east of the country. Two drone surveillance missions conducted by the Dnipro-1 volunteer battalion, which was set up by the...
A Grim Meme Casts a Spotlight on Internet Censorship in Russia
On June 15, not long after Jeanna Friske, a prominent Russian singer, died of brain cancer at the age of 40, someone posted a grim meme about her on MDK, a popular group on the Russian social media site, VK. The meme consisted of a photo of Friske and a sentence playing on a line from one of her hit singles: Instead of “I have never been to...
Kasparov: ‘Putin Doesn’t Need Friends Any More. He Needs Enemies’
Adolf Hitler, I suggest to Garry Kasparov, undeniably had his faults. But is it wrong to imagine that even the führer—in common with Stalin, Robespierre and Pol Pot—initially entered political life with some notion of enhancing the public good? “Define good,” replies Kasparov. “Then examine the consequences. Stalin killed more...
Why Have Armenia’s Youth Spent a Week Protesting?
What’s happening in Armenia? Protests over planned hikes in electricity tariffs entered their seventh day on Thursday night in the Armenian capital of Yerevan. Police response to the protests, which began last Friday, has been violent: police batons and water cannons were used against peaceful protestors and more than 230 demonstrators and...
