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    10 things you need to know before the opening bell (DIA, SPY, SPX, QQQ, NWL, JAH)
    Dec14

    10 things you need to know before the opening bell (DIA, SPY, SPX, QQQ, NWL, JAH)

    REUTERS/Valentyn OgirenkoHere is what you need to know. China admits to cooking the books. A report from China’s state-run news agency, Xinhua, says “several” officials in the country’s Northeast have admitted to fabricating economic data to show higher growth than obtained. In one instance, Liaoning gross domestic product...

    Russia is becoming an increasingly big player in the arms industry
    Dec14

    Russia is becoming an increasingly big player in the arms industry

    Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesStockholm (AFP) – Arms manufacturers in North America and Western Europe dominated international arms sales in 2014, but their market share dropped while Russian and Asian companies saw theirs rise, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) reported Monday. Total turnover for the 100 biggest arms...

    France Just Had a Political Earthquake, and It Looks Good for the Kremlin
    Dec13

    France Just Had a Political Earthquake, and It Looks Good for the Kremlin

    PARIS—The National Front, a far-right French political party with financial backing from Moscow, won the first round of France’s regional elections, taking the lead in six of France’s 13 regions and reaping 28 percent of the overall vote. The anti-EU, anti-immigration party’s electoral breakout upheaved France’s political...

    Miss Universe Contender Holds a National Title for a Sport She Says Has an Unfair ‘Stigma’
    Dec13

    Miss Universe Contender Holds a National Title for a Sport She Says Has an Unfair ‘Stigma’

    Israel’s contender for the Miss Universe pageant has won Israel’s national youth fencing championship and hopes to one day qualify for the Olympics. Avigail Alfatov, 19, who is serving in the Israeli Air Force, says she trains every day in the sport that she believes holds an unfair stigma. According to her Miss Universe contestant...

    Russia reportedly says it fired warning shots at a Turkish ship in the Aegean to avoid a collision
    Dec13

    Russia reportedly says it fired warning shots at a Turkish ship in the Aegean to avoid a collision

    Thomson ReutersMOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian Defence Ministry said on Sunday one of its warships, the destroyer Smetlivy, had been forced to fire warning shots at a Turkish vessel in the Aegean Sea to avoid a collision and that it had summoned the Turkish military attache over the incident. The Interfax news agency said that the Turkish...

    Kerry to Meet with Putin on Syria, Ukraine Next Week
    Dec13

    Kerry to Meet with Putin on Syria, Ukraine Next Week

    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Moscow next week for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on two of the most vexing crises in U.S.-Russian relations: Syria’s civil war and Ukraine’s ongoing instability.Kerry will travel to Moscow after attending a… …read more Source:...

    A Manufactured “Success” in Paris
    Dec13

    A Manufactured “Success” in Paris

    Is that green smoke we see above Notre Dame? That can only mean one thing . . . we have a climate deal! Climate delegates in Paris approved an agreement this afternoon to much cheering, back-patting, and triumphant quote-giving. The New York Times reports: After a day of stops and starts, Mr. Fabius, the president of the climate conference,...

    Al-Baghdadi Zeroes In On Libya: The Next Evolution of Islamic State
    Dec12

    Al-Baghdadi Zeroes In On Libya: The Next Evolution of Islamic State

    Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has recently been reported to be in Sirte, Libya On November 12, during a televised interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, President Barack Obama famously announced that, “ISIL had been contained.” Less than 24 hours later Islamic State (IS) militants from three separate cells in Paris staged a...

    Separatist Cossack Commander Reported Killed In Ukraine’s Luhansk
    Dec12

    Separatist Cossack Commander Reported Killed In Ukraine’s Luhansk

    Pavel Dryomov, a prominent separatist commander in Ukraine’s Luhansk region has reportedly been killed after his car exploded as he was on his way home from his own wedding. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Ukraine Says Its Ready to Help Search for Stolen Dutch Art
    Dec12

    Ukraine Says Its Ready to Help Search for Stolen Dutch Art

    Ukraine’s police chief has promised to work with Netherlands to help find a trove of Dutch Golden Age art that was stolen from a provincial Dutch museum.Khatia Denakoidze told reporters Thursday her office is waiting for an official request from Dutch prosecutors, adding… …read more Source:...