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    Here Are 5 Reasons the G7 Summit Was a Disappointment
    Jun12

    Here Are 5 Reasons the G7 Summit Was a Disappointment

    Friday, June 12 , 2015 - 19:00 (EEST) Section: Time (USA)

    Once upon a time the G7 countries ruled the world. Today, not so much. The leaders of Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Canada and the U.S. wrapped up their annual summit in Bavaria earlier this week. The results were disappointing to say the least. These five facts show why we no longer live in a G7 world—even if the G7 themselves...

    Podcast: The Long War
    Jun12

    Podcast: The Long War

    Friday, June 12 , 2015 - 19:00 (EEST) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    According to an influential new report by Chatham House, the West needs to settle in for a protracted conflict with a weakening, but still very dangerous, Russia. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Russian Youth Pays Price For Speaking Out Over Ukraine
    Jun12

    Russian Youth Pays Price For Speaking Out Over Ukraine

    Friday, June 12 , 2015 - 18:00 (EEST) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    A teenager from a Moscow suburb has alienated his family and schoolmates and attracted the attention of the police for his criticism of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. “You are my enemy,” his own grandfather told him. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Canadian Jewish leaders, East European officials talk restitution
    Jun12

    Canadian Jewish leaders, East European officials talk restitution

    Friday, June 12 , 2015 - 18:00 (EEST) Section: Jewish Telegraphic Agency (USA)

    TORONTO (JTA) — Holocaust survivors and Jewish community leaders from Canada met with representatives of central and eastern European countries in an effort to speed restitution of war-era property. Over two days in Ottawa earlier this week, meetings took place with ambassadors or delegates from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, Romania, Serbia,...

    Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis Won’t Get U.S. Money
    Jun12

    Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis Won’t Get U.S. Money

    Friday, June 12 , 2015 - 17:45 (EEST) Section: Bloomberg (USA)

    What happens to the far-right militia when this round of fighting ends? …read more Source:...

    Malaysia Airlines Plane Forced to Turn Around After Engine Fire Concern
    Jun12

    Malaysia Airlines Plane Forced to Turn Around After Engine Fire Concern

    Friday, June 12 , 2015 - 17:45 (EEST) Section: Newsweek (USA)

    As though Malaysia Airlines hasn’t had enough problems of late, there was an incident Thursday evening concerning Flight 148. The plane took off from Melbourne and was headed to Kuala Lumpur before being forced to return to Australia after an engine fire light came on in the cockpit. Though the light indicated an engine fire, the plane was...

    Ex-Pussy Riot member stages Moscow performance protest with a sewing machine
    Jun12

    Ex-Pussy Riot member stages Moscow performance protest with a sewing machine

    Friday, June 12 , 2015 - 16:45 (EEST) Section: Mashable (USA)

    MOSCOW — Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot fame, along with activist Katya Nenasheva, staged a brief performance in support of female prisoners at central Bolotnaya Square before being dragged away by police officers. See also: Ukraine’s children of war Donning drab makeshift prison garb with hand-scrawled serial numbers, the women laid out...

    Obama’s Grave Miscalculations
    Jun12

    Obama’s Grave Miscalculations

    Friday, June 12 , 2015 - 16:00 (EEST) Section: The American Interest (USA)

    Driving residents from their homes, imposing an iron-fisted dictatorship, looting and murder—no, this isn’t ISIS in Iraq. It’s the Shi’a militias backed by Iran and the government that President Obama has a kinda-sorta strategy for working with. The Times of London: The Iranian-backed Shia militias used by the embattled Iraqi...

    Ukraine’s Mariupol steel plants in critical state after gas cut-off
    Jun12

    Ukraine’s Mariupol steel plants in critical state after gas cut-off

    Friday, June 12 , 2015 - 14:45 (EEST) Section: Townhall (USA)

    KIEV (Reuters) – Two of Ukraine’s largest steel plants are in a critical situation and may have to cut production, owner Metinvest said on… …read more Source:...

    Children With Weapons Seen At Pro-Russian Roadblock Near Shyrokyne, Eastern Ukraine
    Jun12

    Children With Weapons Seen At Pro-Russian Roadblock Near Shyrokyne, Eastern Ukraine

    Friday, June 12 , 2015 - 14:30 (EEST) Section: International Business Times (USA)

    Children have been seen holding weapons at a pro-Russian rebel roadblock near the embattled village of Shyrokyne, according to independent monitors observing the war in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: International Business...