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    Baltics Boost Defense Spending as Russian Threat Looms
    Jul30

    Baltics Boost Defense Spending as Russian Threat Looms

    Thursday, July 30 , 2015 - 20:29 (EEST) Section: The American Interest (USA)

    Fearing Russia aggression, Latvia and Lithuania are boosting their defense spending after a meeting in Vilnius. Latvia, which shares a long border with Russia, is going up to 2 percent of GDP and Lithuania, which sits uncomfortably between Latvia, Ukraine, and Russia’s Baltic enclave (in which Moscow has been placing missiles lately), will...

    Russia vetoes U.N. tribunal to investigate MH17 crash
    Jul30

    Russia vetoes U.N. tribunal to investigate MH17 crash

    Thursday, July 30 , 2015 - 20:14 (EEST) Section: CNN (USA)

    Russia has blocked a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have created an international tribunal to prosecute those responsible for bringing down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine. …read more Source:...

    MH17 tragedy: One year on
    Jul30

    MH17 tragedy: One year on

    Thursday, July 30 , 2015 - 20:14 (EEST) Section: CNN (USA)

    One year after a Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 was shot down over eastern Ukraine, the investigation is still ongoing. CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh reports. …read more Source:...

    Memorials held to honor those who died
    Jul30

    Memorials held to honor those who died

    Thursday, July 30 , 2015 - 20:14 (EEST) Section: CNN (USA)

    CNN’s Kellie Morgan reports on events held around the world marking the 1st anniversary of the downing of an airliner over Ukraine. …read more Source:...

    Google is going to be able to tell you which roads are the most polluted using Street View cars
    Jul30

    Google is going to be able to tell you which roads are the most polluted using Street View cars

    Thursday, July 30 , 2015 - 20:14 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    Google Earth has given us tours of deserts, shipwrecks, fictional lands like Middle Earth, and even revealed to us lies about gunned down passenger planes. In its latest move, Google joined forces with Aclima, a startup that creates environmental sensors, to monitor air quality in urban environments using Google’s Street View vehicles on...

    R.I.P. Helsinki Accords
    Jul30

    R.I.P. Helsinki Accords

    Thursday, July 30 , 2015 - 19:29 (EEST) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    At 40, are the Helsinki Accords on life support? Or are they just experiencing a midlife crisis? …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Beijing, Almaty make final pitch for Winter Olympics 2022 votes
    Jul30

    Beijing, Almaty make final pitch for Winter Olympics 2022 votes

    Thursday, July 30 , 2015 - 17:14 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    Kuala Lumpur (AFP) – Beijing and Almaty made their final bids for the 2022 Winter Olympics with China’s basketball legend Yao Ming countering Kazakhstan’s prime minister in the battle to sway decision-makers ahead of Friday’s vote.China, because of its political and economic clout, is the strong favourite in the smallest...

    Putinology
    Jul30

    Putinology

    Thursday, July 30 , 2015 - 16:44 (EEST) Section: The American Interest (USA)

    Two schools have vied at center stage in recent years seeking to explain the foreign policy behavior of Putin’s Russia. One essentially places the blame almost entirely at the West’s door: The annexation of Crimea and the war on Ukraine were responses to the West’s insufficient sensitivity to Russian “national interests.”...

    Investigators say plane debris possibly from Flight MH370
    Jul30

    Investigators say plane debris possibly from Flight MH370

    Thursday, July 30 , 2015 - 16:14 (EEST) Section: KXAN (USA)

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Air safety investigators have a “high degree of confidence” that aircraft debris found in the Indian Ocean is of a wing component unique to the Boeing 777, the same model as the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared last year, a U.S. official said Wednesday. Air safety investigators — one of them a Boeing investigator —have...

    Ruble Extends Slide, Reviving Economic Concerns
    Jul30

    Ruble Extends Slide, Reviving Economic Concerns

    Thursday, July 30 , 2015 - 15:29 (EEST) Section: Voice of America (USA)

    The Russian ruble is falling under the pressure of cheaper oil, reviving concerns over the country’s economic outlook, particularly the perniciously high inflation rate. The ruble was down 0.9 percent in Moscow trading on Thursday, at 59.2 rubles against the dollar. The decline comes a day after the Russian central bank halted daily...