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    Eight killed in Ukraine as peace talk prospects dim
    Jan09

    Eight killed in Ukraine as peace talk prospects dim

    Friday, January 9 , 2015 - 22:38 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Four Ukrainian soldiers and at least as many civilians died Friday in an upsurge of rocket attacks that came just as prospects for international peace talks on the nine-month crisis dimmed.Local authorities in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk said another nine residents were injured in sporadic clashes that...

    Longform’s Picks of the Week
    Jan09

    Longform’s Picks of the Week

    Friday, January 9 , 2015 - 21:37 (EEST) Section: Foreign Policy (USA)

    Every weekend, Longform highlights its favorite international articles of the week. For daily picks of new and classic nonfiction, check out Longform or follow @longform on Twitter. Have an iPad? Download Longform’s new app and read all of the latest in-depth stories from dozens of magazines, including Foreign Policy. Scare Tactics: Michel...

    Treasury’s Cohen to Become CIA Deputy
    Jan09

    Treasury’s Cohen to Become CIA Deputy

    Friday, January 9 , 2015 - 21:22 (EEST) Section: Foreign Policy (USA)

    David Cohen, the driving force behind the U.S. Treasury Department’s increasingly sophisticated use of financial warfare, has been tapped as deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The White House said Friday that it was nominating Cohen, 52, to replace the current CIA number two, Avril Haines, who is moving to the White House...

    European Court of Human Rights Becomes UK Electoral Battleground
    Jan09

    European Court of Human Rights Becomes UK Electoral Battleground

    Friday, January 9 , 2015 - 20:08 (EEST) Section: Newsweek (USA)

    The building of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg shimmers in the winter sunshine. Its two asymmetrical steel cylinders and futuristic glass atrium are a beacon of hope for those in Europe who feel their human rights have been violated – but many miles away in London’s Downing Street the building represents something...

    Eastern Ukraine Shelling Kills Government Troops
    Jan09

    Eastern Ukraine Shelling Kills Government Troops

    Friday, January 9 , 2015 - 18:07 (EEST) Section: Voice of America (USA)

    Ukraine’s military says four its soldiers have been killed and eight wounded as a result of shelling by Russia-backed separatists over the past 24 hours. Military spokesman Andrei Lysenko said Friday that the rebels had fired rockets and mortars at government forces more than 30 times during that period. He linked the upsurge in shelling to...

    Poroshenko Says Ukraine Shares France’s Pain
    Jan09

    Poroshenko Says Ukraine Shares France’s Pain

    Friday, January 9 , 2015 - 17:37 (EEST) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says his country shares France’s pain following a deadly attack against the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo two days ago. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Putin Seeks to Influence Radical Parties in Bid to Destabilise Europe
    Jan09

    Putin Seeks to Influence Radical Parties in Bid to Destabilise Europe

    Friday, January 9 , 2015 - 15:37 (EEST) Section: Newsweek (USA)

    This past November, Russia’s Berlin ambassador, Vladimir Grinin, invited two representatives of the surging new party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) for a meeting. According to German news media, Grinin offered the party strategic advice. In an email to Newsweek, the embassy declined to comment on the meeting, but one of the guests was...

    Beneath the Front Lines of the War in Eastern Ukraine
    Jan09

    Beneath the Front Lines of the War in Eastern Ukraine

    Friday, January 9 , 2015 - 15:07 (EEST) Section: Time (USA)

    The miners didn’t hear the impact of the shell and kept extracting coal from the earth more than half a mile below the battlefield. They continued their work for several minutes, oblivious to the danger they were suddenly facing. The shell, said to have been fired on Nov. 22 by the Ukrainian army in its war against pro-Russian separatists,...

    Russia Puts Ukrainian Pilot Savchenko In Solitary Confinement
    Jan09

    Russia Puts Ukrainian Pilot Savchenko In Solitary Confinement

    Friday, January 9 , 2015 - 14:37 (EEST) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    Ukrainian military pilot Nadia Savchenko has been placed in solitary confinement at a pretrial detention center in Moscow. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    FP’s Situation Report: Western fears are realized in ‘Charlie Hebdo’ attack; Europe’s anti-Muslim sentiment could boil over; Paris gunmen are in a standoff with French police; and much more.
    Jan09

    FP’s Situation Report: Western fears are realized in ‘Charlie Hebdo’ attack; Europe’s anti-Muslim sentiment could boil over; Paris gunmen are in a standoff with French police; and much more.

    Friday, January 9 , 2015 - 14:22 (EEST) Section: Foreign Policy (USA)

    By David Francis with Sabine Muscat The West’s worst fears are realized in the Charlie Hebdo attack. The alleged masterminds, brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, have been advocating Islamic extremist causes since the Iraq war. Cherif was part of a Parisian jihadi outfit known as the 19th Arrondissement Network, which recruited French Muslims...