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    Here’s how European countries are using refugees for political gain
    Feb26

    Here’s how European countries are using refugees for political gain

    Friday, February 26 , 2016 - 6:19 (EET) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    EPA/Georgi LicovskiAfter no fewer than five emergency summits, a solution to Europe’s refugee crisis remains elusive. The list of failures is long and growing including the failure to deliver “hotspots”, reception centres meant to process refugees who arrive in frontline states such as Italy and Greece, and to provide humanitarian...

    U.S. Says Cyber Attack Caused Ukraine Power Outage
    Feb26

    U.S. Says Cyber Attack Caused Ukraine Power Outage

    Friday, February 26 , 2016 - 4:34 (EET) Section: Newsweek (USA)

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A December power outage in Ukraine affecting 225,000 customers was the result of a cyber attack, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Thursday, marking the first time the U.S. government officially recognized the blackout as caused by a malicious hack. Security experts had already widely concluded that the...

    Iowa lawmakers are close to passing a law that would allow children to use handguns
    Feb26

    Iowa lawmakers are close to passing a law that would allow children to use handguns

    Friday, February 26 , 2016 - 3:34 (EET) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    Reuters/Pavel RebrovOne of Iowa’s legislative bodies has passed a bill to allow children to handle handguns. The state’s House of Representatives voted Tuesday to pass a bill that would permit children under age 14 to use “a pistol, revolver or the ammunition” while under direct parental supervision. The bill — which was...

    Two Years After Uprising, Ukraine Still Battling Corruption
    Feb26

    Two Years After Uprising, Ukraine Still Battling Corruption

    Friday, February 26 , 2016 - 3:04 (EET) Section: Voice of America (USA)

    Two years after the Ukraine’s Euromaidan, the mass uprising that toppled the Russia-backed regime in 2013 and brought a pro-Western government to power, the country is still battling the corruption that the Euromaidan sought to purge. Last week, Ukraine’s government barely survived a no-confidence vote in parliament, triggered by the...

    The Air Force could be costing the US jobs
    Feb26

    The Air Force could be costing the US jobs

    Friday, February 26 , 2016 - 3:04 (EET) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    via U.S. Air ForceUS Air Force personnel failed to comply with Depression Era congressional laws that require them to give preferential treatment to American-made products in one-third of contracts reviewed by the Defense Department’s top internal watchdog. The Pentagon’s inspector general appraised 54 contracts valued at over $19...

    Latvian FM: Substantial NATO Presence Needed in Baltics
    Feb26

    Latvian FM: Substantial NATO Presence Needed in Baltics

    Friday, February 26 , 2016 - 0:19 (EET) Section: Voice of America (USA)

    Latvia’s foreign minister says NATO needs to increase its presence in the Baltic region, given Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and continued support for separatists in eastern Ukraine. Edgars Rinkēvičs told VOA’s Russian service that the Western military alliance’s decisions and measures in support of collective...

    ‘I Can’t Believe I’m Free’: A Ukrainian POW Returns Home
    Feb25

    ‘I Can’t Believe I’m Free’: A Ukrainian POW Returns Home

    Thursday, February 25 , 2016 - 23:19 (EET) Section: The Daily Signal (USA)

    KYIV, Ukraine—Vadym Krypychenko was sure he was going to die. His vehicle had broken down along the front lines in eastern Ukraine near the village of Verkhniotroitske. It was Aug. 10, 2015, only four days before the end of his military service commitment and his scheduled return home. Krypychenko, a private in the Ukrainian army’s 53rd...

    Ukraine Deports Russian Journalist For ‘Damage To Ukraine’s Interests’
    Feb25

    Ukraine Deports Russian Journalist For ‘Damage To Ukraine’s Interests’

    Thursday, February 25 , 2016 - 23:04 (EET) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has announced the deportation of a Russian journalist for “committing acts that harm the interests of Ukraine.” …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    The Many Weaknesses of the Rubio Campaign
    Feb25

    The Many Weaknesses of the Rubio Campaign

    Thursday, February 25 , 2016 - 21:05 (EET) Section: The American Conservative (USA)

    Noah Millman sums up the weaknesses of the Rubio campaign in response to a recent Douthat column: But Rubio hasn’t been Kutuzov, retreating into Russia and waiting for winter, because he never held Russia. Lots of people bought into the idea that he was the “stealth” front-runner, but he was never anywhere near to having a commanding...

    The P-Word
    Feb25

    The P-Word

    Thursday, February 25 , 2016 - 18:50 (EET) Section: The American Interest (USA)

    Things are happening so fast in the armed diplomacy of the Levant that it is hard for codgers like me to keep up. No sooner do I finish responding to one major development than another laps at my closing period. And now again: I finish “Ceasefire or Bait-and-Switch” and the very next day John Kerry drops the “p” word on us: “partition.”...