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    NATO to hold an incredibly rare emergency meeting
    Jul27

    NATO to hold an incredibly rare emergency meeting

    Monday, July 27 , 2015 - 23:13 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    BRUSSELS (AP) — For just the fifth time in its 66-year history, NATO ambassadors will meet in emergency session Tuesday to gauge the threat the Islamic State extremist group poses to Turkey, and the debated actions Turkish authorities are taking in response. The extraordinary meeting at NATO headquarters was requested by Turkey under Article 4 of...

    NATO to hold an incredibly rare emergency meeting
    Jul27

    NATO to hold an incredibly rare emergency meeting

    Monday, July 27 , 2015 - 23:13 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    BRUSSELS (AP) — For just the fifth time in its 66-year history, NATO ambassadors will meet in emergency session Tuesday to gauge the threat the Islamic State extremist group poses to Turkey, and the debated actions Turkish authorities are taking in response. The extraordinary meeting at NATO headquarters was requested by Turkey under Article 4 of...

    Amid Decisive Talks With Creditors, Ukraine Tries to Secure Its Economic Future
    Jul27

    Amid Decisive Talks With Creditors, Ukraine Tries to Secure Its Economic Future

    Monday, July 27 , 2015 - 22:43 (EEST) Section: Foreign Policy (USA)

    To bring in investment, Kiev is opening up its state-owned companies to investors as part of a privatization push. But the investment pitch risks falling on deaf ears. …read more Source: Foreign...

    Russian Help on Iran Less Promising on Syria, Ukraine
    Jul27

    Russian Help on Iran Less Promising on Syria, Ukraine

    Monday, July 27 , 2015 - 22:13 (EEST) Section: Voice of America (USA)

    U.S.-Russian collaboration to secure a deal on Iran’s nuclear program has raised hopes of closer cooperation on other world issues, but analysts say any progress is likely to be slow in coming. A Kremlin statement issued shortly after the July 14 nuclear deal said Presidents Obama and Vladimir Putin had agreed in a telephone conversation to...

    Here’s what’s coming to Netflix in August
    Jul27

    Here’s what’s coming to Netflix in August

    Monday, July 27 , 2015 - 21:43 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    With summer winding down, spend August at home with the latest additions to Netflix streaming. For starters, dive into the newest Netflix original series “Narcos,” which looks at the reign of infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar. Then you can watch two very different perspectives on combat with “Lord of War” and “The Hurt Locker.” There’s also...

    Russia Prepared To Veto UN Resolution On MH17 Tribunal
    Jul27

    Russia Prepared To Veto UN Resolution On MH17 Tribunal

    Monday, July 27 , 2015 - 20:43 (EEST) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations says Moscow will veto a UN Security Council resolution aimed at creating a tribunal to prosecute those guilty of shooting down a Malaysian passenger airliner over eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    What Comes Next in Russia?
    Jul27

    What Comes Next in Russia?

    Monday, July 27 , 2015 - 20:14 (EEST) Section: The American Interest (USA)

    Even the most expert analysis is biased towards the rational extrapolation of known parameters. Gorbachev surprised the experts, and probably himself into the bargain: Both the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the peaceful way it came about remained at the outer edge of speculation for most of his time in the Kremlin. There is even today no...

    Watch: Two men walk around Ukraine’s capital holding hands, and get beat up by neo-Nazis

    Monday, July 27 , 2015 - 17:58 (EEST) Section: The Washington Post (USA)

    A recent video shot in Moscow showed what happened when two men walked around the city holding hands. The hidden camera captured the pair being insulted and threatened – and how they escaped violence only by admitting they were just doing a social experiment. [Watch: What happens when two men walk around Moscow holding hands] A […] …read...

    Putin fired more than 100,000 people
    Jul27

    Putin fired more than 100,000 people

    Monday, July 27 , 2015 - 16:43 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    Vladimir Putin has fired 110,000 people. The Russian president signed a decree two weeks ago that reduced the number of full-time staff in the interior ministry of Russia by about 10% — or 110,000 people. Most of the cuts will be administrative staff. It will bring the total number of employees in the agency down to just above 1 million,...

    Women in China have started wearing ‘Facekinis’ on the beach to keep their skin pale
    Jul27

    Women in China have started wearing ‘Facekinis’ on the beach to keep their skin pale

    Monday, July 27 , 2015 - 16:43 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    Qingdao (China) (AFP) – Ever more Chinese women are embracing the “facekini” to protect them from the sun and the threat of a tan on a trip to the beach. Pale white skin is highly-valued in China, where a darker complexion is associated more with poor rural women, who often labour for long hours in the sun. The nylon accessory...