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    A tough Christmas in Russia as currency slumps
    Dec20

    A tough Christmas in Russia as currency slumps

    The ruble has over 50 percent of its value since the beginning of the year because of EU and US sanctions on Russia over its actions in Ukraine, combined with falling oil prices. Video provided by AFP …read more Source: USA...

    Obama Orders Trade Ban on Crimea for Russian ‘Occupation’
    Dec20

    Obama Orders Trade Ban on Crimea for Russian ‘Occupation’

    President Barack Obama has imposed a wide-ranging trade ban on the Russian-annexed Crimea peninsula, with an executive order that bars exports of key U.S. goods and services and blocks Crimean imports. A White House statement Friday said the order is “intended to provide U.S. clarity to American corporations doing business in the...

    Weekend Roundup: New Code War Is Not Funny
    Dec20

    Weekend Roundup: New Code War Is Not Funny

    It took an insolent Hollywood comedy mocking the surreal character of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un to awaken us to the dangers of a new code war, a war in which geopolitical and geo-cultural battles will be duked out in cyberspace. As Alec Ross, America’s top digital diplomat when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, writes this week...

    Things Could Get Much Worse For Russia
    Dec20

    Things Could Get Much Worse For Russia

    In the world of central banking slow, steady and predictable decisions are the aim. So when bankers meet in the dead of night and raise interest rates by a massive 6.5 percentage points it suggests something is going very wrong. It is: the Russian currency crisis many feared is now a reality (see chart) and the mood in Moscow close to panic....

    Obama imposes sanctions on Crimea, echoes EU
    Dec19

    Obama imposes sanctions on Crimea, echoes EU

    President Barack Obama has banned new investments in Crimea, slapping sanctions on the peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine earlier this year. …read more Source: WAVE 3...

    Obama imposes sanctions on Crimea, echoes EU
    Dec19

    Obama imposes sanctions on Crimea, echoes EU

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has banned new investments in Crimea, slapping sanctions on the peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine earlier this year. …read more Source: U.S....

    Activating the Power of Ideas
    Dec19

    Activating the Power of Ideas

    Stephen Del Rosso,Program Director, International Peace & SecurityThis article is excerpted from The Carnegie ReporterFive bold initiatives bridge the gap between the academic and policy worlds From North Korea to South Sudan to East Ukraine, countless complex problems are cropping up all around the world today. So why aren’t...

    Pope Francis Went To Turkey To Meet Patriarch Bartholomew
    Dec19

    Pope Francis Went To Turkey To Meet Patriarch Bartholomew

    Hürriyet, one of Turkey’s flagship newspapers, recently interviewed the Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis, who served as Director of the Press Office during the recent visit of Pope Francis to the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Journalist Cansu Çamlibel, an articulate advocate for free speech and a well-known columnist, who features regular interviews...

    UN: Children Bearing Brunt of Ukraine War
    Dec19

    UN: Children Bearing Brunt of Ukraine War

    The U.N. Children’s Fund reports that the conflict in Ukraine is having a terrible impact on more than 1.7 million children. The United Nations estimated that more than 1 million people have fled their homes since March because of fighting between government forces and Russian-backed rebels. About half of them are displaced within Ukraine,...

    A Plus-Sized Woman Asked Designers Around The World To Make Her ‘Beautiful’ Using Photoshop
    Dec19

    A Plus-Sized Woman Asked Designers Around The World To Make Her ‘Beautiful’ Using Photoshop

    Last June, freelance journalist Esther Honig asked artists from 19 countries around the world to Photoshop her face to make her “beautiful.” Shortly afterwards, her close college friend Priscilla Yuki Wilson released her own experiment on biracial beauty. Inspired by the efforts of these two women, Marie Southard Ospina decided to do a similar...