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    Radwanska advances at Indian Wells
    Mar14

    Radwanska advances at Indian Wells

    Saturday, March 14 , 2015 - 1:17 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    Indian Wells (United States) (AFP) – Agnieszka Radwanska, who lost in last year’s Indian Wells final, easily defeated Alison Riske 6-3, 6-1 to reach the third round of the joint WTA/ATP tournament on Friday.Radwanska, who turned 26 a week ago, needed just 66 minutes to dispatch Riske on centre court at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden...

    AP Exclusive: Children in Ukraine’s war zone
    Mar14

    AP Exclusive: Children in Ukraine’s war zone

    Saturday, March 14 , 2015 - 0:47 (EEST) Section: USA TODAY (USA)

    AP looks at the war zone of Ukraine’s recent fight against Russian-backed separatists, where the UN estimates some 1.7 million children have suffered through lack of proper shelter, nutrition, medicine or schooling. (March 13) …read more Source: USA...

    Putin’s Absence Inspires Online Satire and Rumors of Death
    Mar14

    Putin’s Absence Inspires Online Satire and Rumors of Death

    Saturday, March 14 , 2015 - 0:32 (EEST) Section: Newsweek (USA)

    MOSCOW (Reuters) – A wave of savage mockery broke over President Vladimir Putin across the Internet on Friday, sparked by days of absence from public view, despite official insistence it was business as usual in the Kremlin. State television footage of Putin working at his residence failed to quell the tide of fantastical theories...

    There’s No Such Thing as Peacetime
    Mar13

    There’s No Such Thing as Peacetime

    Friday, March 13 , 2015 - 23:47 (EEST) Section: Foreign Policy (USA)

    Most of us view perpetual war as deeply inimical to human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. We’re not wrong: Since the 9/11 attacks, two successive U.S. presidential administrations have embraced indefinite detention, massive secret surveillance programs, covert cross-border targeted killings, and a host of other troubling practices....

    Ukraine’s grinding war stains innocence of childhood
    Mar13

    Ukraine’s grinding war stains innocence of childhood

    Friday, March 13 , 2015 - 23:33 (EEST) Section: San Francisco Chronicle (USA)

    Yelena Nikulenko, the director of the children’s home in the rebel-held town of Khartsyzk, says kids like Seryozha have been let down twice. First orphaned or abandoned by their parents, they were then dumped by their new families when the Ukrainian government stopped paying benefits to foster families in separatist-controlled areas. The...

    How Britain Is Becoming an Isolated Island
    Mar13

    How Britain Is Becoming an Isolated Island

    Friday, March 13 , 2015 - 22:03 (EEST) Section: The Huffington Post (USA)

    LONDON — Europe is once again divided between East and West — only this time the fault line runs through the European Union. The eastern members — most notably Poland and the Baltic states — are clinging fast to the EU in the face of Russian aggression. At the other geographic and political extreme, the United Kingdom is...

    Putin biographer: He’s not dead — but chaos is brewing in the Kremlin
    Mar13

    Putin biographer: He’s not dead — but chaos is brewing in the Kremlin

    Friday, March 13 , 2015 - 21:47 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    There’s something going on behind the scenes in the Kremlin. Russian president Vladimir Putin hasn’t been seen in public since March 5. (Video featuring Putin on March 13 was not live.) Analysts are speculating that his absence suggests there may be a power struggle behind it all. And it appears as though Boris Nemtsov’s murder...

    Walker Comes Out in Support of Arming Ukraine
    Mar13

    Walker Comes Out in Support of Arming Ukraine

    Friday, March 13 , 2015 - 21:47 (EEST) Section: The Washington Free Beacon (USA)

    Gov. Scott Walker (R., Wis.) has joined most other potential Republican presidential candidates in 2016 by expressing his support for arming Ukrainian forces, the Weekly Standard reported. Walker is still developing foreign policy acumen after having spent most of his time as governor embroiled in domestic policy fights in Wisconsin. He told the...

    Poroshenko Confirms Deescalation In Progress
    Mar13

    Poroshenko Confirms Deescalation In Progress

    Friday, March 13 , 2015 - 21:17 (EEST) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said in a television interview that the deescalation process in the eastern part of his country is taking hold. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    CIA Director Paints a Gloomy Picture of the World, But a Rosy One of His Spy Agency
    Mar13

    CIA Director Paints a Gloomy Picture of the World, But a Rosy One of His Spy Agency

    Friday, March 13 , 2015 - 21:17 (EEST) Section: Foreign Policy (USA)

    Torturing prisoners. Misleading Congress. Spying on close allies. Failing to predict Vladimir Putin’s shadow invasion of Ukraine. The CIA’s reputation at home and abroad has suffered enormous blows over the last several years, but on Friday its director, John Brennan, tried to put a positive spin on where the agency is today. Brennan...