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    In EU foreign policy, strength through unity hard to come by
    Mar07

    In EU foreign policy, strength through unity hard to come by

    Saturday, March 7 , 2015 - 10:08 (EEST) Section: San Francisco Chronicle (USA)

    For EU unity has been in short supply here on the shores of the Baltic Sea, where Europe’s top diplomats gathered this week to forge a common strategy on the Ukraine crisis. Several former Soviet bloc nations — including the three Baltic states and Tusk’s Poland — urge a tough line in the face of what they see as Russian aggression,...

    AP Essay: Of a plane still missing, and a planet still vast
    Mar07

    AP Essay: Of a plane still missing, and a planet still vast

    Saturday, March 7 , 2015 - 9:39 (EEST) Section: San Francisco Chronicle (USA)

    Searches of vast swaths of the Indian Ocean continue, pegged to a cocktail of science and optimism that we hope will provide some answers for those families left behind — and for the rest of us. With all that we’ve learned, it remains unique under the sun, enduring in the public consciousness, eating up millions of dollars in search efforts...

    Georgia’s Parliamentary Chief Says Relations With Russia Deteriorating
    Mar07

    Georgia’s Parliamentary Chief Says Relations With Russia Deteriorating

    Saturday, March 7 , 2015 - 8:39 (EEST) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    WASHINGTON – The chairman of Georgia’s parliament says Tbilisi’s relations with Russia have deteriorated since start of the war in eastern Ukraine between Ukrainian government forces and Russian-backed separatists. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Ukraine’s War Remains Focus Of EU Ministers Meeting In Riga
    Mar07

    Ukraine’s War Remains Focus Of EU Ministers Meeting In Riga

    Saturday, March 7 , 2015 - 8:24 (EEST) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    European Union foreign ministers are meeting for a second day in the Latvian capital, Riga, on March 7 for talks focusing on the war in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Welcome to Ukraine: Wild West of Populist Politics
    Mar07

    Welcome to Ukraine: Wild West of Populist Politics

    Saturday, March 7 , 2015 - 5:24 (EEST) Section: The Huffington Post (USA)

    In the wake of revolution and the midst of war, Ukrainian politics is becoming increasingly more volatile. Intent on proving their anti-establishment bona fides, public figures are turning to firebrand populism in an effort to bolster their own “authenticity” and folksiness. In a sense, the rise of populist politics and accompanying...

    Monitors Inspect Column of Heavy Weapons, as Ukraine Truce Holds
    Mar07

    Monitors Inspect Column of Heavy Weapons, as Ukraine Truce Holds

    Saturday, March 7 , 2015 - 4:23 (EEST) Section: The Boston Globe (USA)

    European monitors in east Ukraine inspect a column of multiple rocket launchers, in the town of Artevemisk. The Ukrainian military is withdrawing its rocket systems from the front-line, as required in a European-brokered ceasefire deal that seems to be finally working. The head of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe says the...

    The Ugly Fight to Be Our Man in Havana
    Mar07

    The Ugly Fight to Be Our Man in Havana

    Saturday, March 7 , 2015 - 2:08 (EEST) Section: Foreign Policy (USA)

    If anyone thinks Loretta Lynch, the nominee to replace Eric Holder as U.S. attorney general, is facing a bruising confirmation fight, spare a thought for the next ambassador to Cuba. Barack Obama’s administration says it wants to reopen the U.S. Embassy in Havana by early April — an ambitious launch date that has triggered a flurry of...

    Powerful Senate Democrat Faces Corruption Charges
    Mar07

    Powerful Senate Democrat Faces Corruption Charges

    Saturday, March 7 , 2015 - 1:23 (EEST) Section: Foreign Policy (USA)

    For two years, Robert Menendez, one of the most prominent foreign-policy hawks in the Senate, has angrily dismissed allegations of a quid pro quo deal with a longtime friend and political donor as baseless. His staff has criticized reporters for even raising the issue, despite the widely known existence of an FBI probe into his ties to Salomon...

    Italy Opens a Window for Russia
    Mar07

    Italy Opens a Window for Russia

    Saturday, March 7 , 2015 - 0:53 (EEST) Section: The American Interest (USA)

    Just how worried is Italy about ISIS in Libya? During a state visit to Moscow, Italian PM Matteo Renzi asked Vladimir Putin to help resolve the crisis in North Africa, raising alarming prospects of an intra-NATO and -EU split. The Financial Times reports: “We need an incisive international response and Russia’s role can be decisive given...

    Amal Clooney will teach at Columbia Law School this spring
    Mar07

    Amal Clooney will teach at Columbia Law School this spring

    Saturday, March 7 , 2015 - 0:38 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    Amal Clooney, the accomplished human rights lawyer married to some guy named George, may be teaching at Columbia Law School in the spring, according to Page Six. “She will lecture on human rights law at Columbia Law School this spring as a senior fellow with the Law School’s Human Rights Institute,” according to the Post....