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    Can Pope Francis Help Avoid a ‘Third World War’?
    Apr28

    Can Pope Francis Help Avoid a ‘Third World War’?

    Tuesday, April 28 , 2015 - 22:16 (EEST) Section: The Huffington Post (USA)

    “Following Francis” is a monthly blog on the latest happenings of Pope Francis. It is prepared exclusively for The WorldPost by Sébastien Maillard, Vatican Correspondent for La Croix, Rome ROME — Up until now, news about Pope Francis — including on this blog — has been mostly on Church-related affairs: how he is...

    EU Calls for More Reforms in Ukraine
    Apr28

    EU Calls for More Reforms in Ukraine

    Tuesday, April 28 , 2015 - 21:46 (EEST) Section: Voice of America (USA)

    Ukraine’s military reported Tuesday pro-Russia separatist rebels fired rockets on a government-held town in eastern Ukraine, in what appeared to be the latest violation of a shaky ceasefire. The news came just hours after the Ukrainian government and the European Union held their first formal summit in almost a year. Speaking at an...

    Finland Goes After Russian Sub With Depth Charges
    Apr28

    Finland Goes After Russian Sub With Depth Charges

    Tuesday, April 28 , 2015 - 21:31 (EEST) Section: The American Interest (USA)

    Finnish forces dropped depth charges into Baltic waters as a warning after sighting a foreign submarine presumed to be Russian. The Financial Times has more: Commodore Olavi Jantunen, the navy’s chief of operations, told Finnish broadcaster YLE that he could not say for certain whether it was a submarine, and he did not want to speculate....

    Forest fire blazes in Chernobyl off-limits zone
    Apr28

    Forest fire blazes in Chernobyl off-limits zone

    Tuesday, April 28 , 2015 - 21:16 (EEST) Section: Townhall (USA)

    KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Fire has engulfed a large sector of woods in the exclusion zone around the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Ukrainian… …read more Source:...

    Pushing Back Against a Chinese Lake in the South China Sea
    Apr28

    Pushing Back Against a Chinese Lake in the South China Sea

    Tuesday, April 28 , 2015 - 21:01 (EEST) Section: Foreign Policy (USA)

    China’s aggressive actions in the South China Sea are prompting a soul-searching query from Hanoi to Washington: At what point does a sliced-up salami cease being a salami at all? In a short space of time, China’s unilateral and incremental efforts to carve out a greater presence in the South China Sea — by, for example, turning empty...

    Riga Summit Likely To Disappoint Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine
    Apr28

    Riga Summit Likely To Disappoint Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine

    Tuesday, April 28 , 2015 - 21:01 (EEST) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    The latest draft of the Eastern Partnership declaration prepared for the bloc’s Riga summit next month contains little good news for EU hopefuls Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine, and highlights the shrinking ambitions of the European Union in its eastern neighborhood. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    These Are the Most Influential World Leaders on Twitter (and Why That Doesn’t Matter)
    Apr28

    These Are the Most Influential World Leaders on Twitter (and Why That Doesn’t Matter)

    Tuesday, April 28 , 2015 - 20:31 (EEST) Section: Foreign Policy (USA)

    Because of its near total ubiquity, it’s easy to overlook just how crucial Twitter has become to the public work of international diplomacy, where its used for both public outreach and propaganda. Nine years after the service’s founding, the social media tool has been so widely adopted by world leaders and their governments that it...

    Ex-Boxer Fights to Save Kiev
    Apr28

    Ex-Boxer Fights to Save Kiev

    Tuesday, April 28 , 2015 - 19:46 (EEST) Section: The Daily Beast (USA)

    Vitali Klitschko hung up his gloves for politics, seeking Western investment for the capitol of a country that Russia wants back. …read more Source: The Daily...

    Ukrainian leader’s firm says assets seized in Russia
    Apr28

    Ukrainian leader’s firm says assets seized in Russia

    Tuesday, April 28 , 2015 - 19:31 (EEST) Section: Townhall (USA)

    KIEV (Reuters) – Russian authorities have seized the assets of a confectionery factory owned by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in the… …read more Source:...

    Finland dropped 6 depth charges on a suspected Russian submarine but says it doesn’t want to ‘create a farce’
    Apr28

    Finland dropped 6 depth charges on a suspected Russian submarine but says it doesn’t want to ‘create a farce’

    Tuesday, April 28 , 2015 - 19:16 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    The Finnish government is refusing to confirm whether it believes that a submarine — presumably from Russia — entered its territorial waters because it’s worried about a repeat of the “farce” that Swedish authorities got themselves into after submarine sightings there last October. Commodore Olavi Jantunen, chief of operations...