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    Congress Urges Obama To Sign Bill That Slaps New Sanctions On Russia, Gives Assistance To Ukraine
    Dec16

    Congress Urges Obama To Sign Bill That Slaps New Sanctions On Russia, Gives Assistance To Ukraine

    Tuesday, December 16 , 2014 - 6:10 (EEST) Section: The Huffington Post (USA)

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans and Democrats spoke with one voice on Monday in pressing President Barack Obama to sign legislation that would slap new sanctions on Russia while providing weapons and other assistance to Ukraine. The widely popular legislation cleared Congress late Saturday, but the White House has remained non-committal about...

    Ukraine PM: $10B Needed to Avoid Bankruptcy
    Dec16

    Ukraine PM: $10B Needed to Avoid Bankruptcy

    Tuesday, December 16 , 2014 - 3:11 (EEST) Section: Voice of America (USA)

    Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk says his country urgently needs $10 billion to avoid bankruptcy. After meeting with European Union ministers in Brussels Monday, reporters asked Yatsenyuk when he needs the money. He replied “yesterday.” Ukraine’s war with pro-Russian separatists has battered an already bad economy....

    News of the day from across the globe, Dec. 16
    Dec16

    News of the day from across the globe, Dec. 16

    Tuesday, December 16 , 2014 - 2:12 (EEST) Section: San Francisco Chronicle (USA)

    The Vatican on Monday asked the U.S. to find an “adequate humanitarian solution” for prisoners held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, a reflection of Pope Francis’ vocal concern that prisoners be treated with dignity and not be subject to inhumane treatment. Fighting in eastern Ukraine between government troops and pro-Russian rebels...

    Russia Raises Key Interest Rate to 17 Percent Overnight
    Dec16

    Russia Raises Key Interest Rate to 17 Percent Overnight

    Tuesday, December 16 , 2014 - 2:12 (EEST) Section: Newsweek (USA)

    (Reuters) – Russia’s central bank raised its key interest rate to 17 percent in the early hours of Tuesday morning in an emergency move to halt a collapse in the ruble as oil prices decline and the country’s sanctions-hit economy slides towards recession. The ruble RUB= RUB=EBS strengthened sharply after the decision, recouping...

    The Global Conflicts to Watch in 2015
    Dec16

    The Global Conflicts to Watch in 2015

    Tuesday, December 16 , 2014 - 1:40 (EEST) Section: The Atlantic (USA)

    Foreign policy often involves making difficult and debatable choices about which parts of the world matter more to a given country—and which, by extension, matter less. It’s about defining national interests and determining where those interests are most evident and endangered. This is why the United States has done far more to stop ISIS in...

    UN: Human Rights Abuses Rampant in Embattled Eastern Ukraine
    Dec16

    UN: Human Rights Abuses Rampant in Embattled Eastern Ukraine

    Tuesday, December 16 , 2014 - 1:40 (EEST) Section: Newsweek (USA)

    The coming winter is set to make life harder for the more than 5 million people living in eastern Ukraine’s conflict areas, many of whom are already struggling to survive, the office of the United Nations high commissioner for human rights wrote in a new report released Monday. “The conflict is in its ninth month, and the situation is...

    Bank Of Russia Hikes Rate To Aid Sinking Currency
    Dec16

    Bank Of Russia Hikes Rate To Aid Sinking Currency

    Tuesday, December 16 , 2014 - 1:25 (EEST) Section: The Huffington Post (USA)

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bank of Russia has drastically raised its key interest rate to 17 percent from 10.5 percent to try to boost its currency, which has been plunging along with oil prices. The moves comes after the ruble has shed roughly 50 percent of its value since January, battered by Western sanctions imposed over the conflict in Ukraine...

    Asia’s Pivot to Asia
    Dec15

    Asia’s Pivot to Asia

    Monday, December 15 , 2014 - 23:25 (EEST) Section: Foreign Policy (USA)

    Much has been made of the intensifying strategic competition between the United States and China, with Beijing working to edge America out of its Asian neighborhood even as Washington doubles down on its regional partnerships and presence. Less attention has been paid to regional dynamics underneath the umbrella of a U.S.-China relationship that...

    Russia says it has a right to put nuclear weapons in Crimea
    Dec15

    Russia says it has a right to put nuclear weapons in Crimea

    Monday, December 15 , 2014 - 23:25 (EEST) Section: Los Angeles Times (USA)

    Russia has the right to deploy nuclear weapons in the Crimean peninsula, which it seized from Ukraine in March, a top Russian official said Monday. …read more Source: Los Angeles...

    White House on the Fence on New Ukraine Sanctions
    Dec15

    White House on the Fence on New Ukraine Sanctions

    Monday, December 15 , 2014 - 23:11 (EEST) Section: Foreign Policy (USA)

    President Barack Obama has yet to decide whether he will sign legislation passed by Congress last week that would allow him to provide weapons to Ukraine’s ramshackle military and increase the penalties on Russia’s energy sector, setting up a confrontation with the GOP-held Congress in the new year. The Ukraine Freedom Support Act of...