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    Ukraine’s hryvnia hits new all-time low
    Nov12

    Ukraine’s hryvnia hits new all-time low

    Wednesday, November 12 , 2014 - 0:33 (EEST) Section: CNBC (USA)

    Ukraine’s central bank said the average rate set at a daily dollar auction was 15.8817 hryvnia per $1, a fresh all-time low. …read more Source:...

    Dutch investigators collect remains at MH17 crash site
    Nov11

    Dutch investigators collect remains at MH17 crash site

    Tuesday, November 11 , 2014 - 23:48 (EEST) Section: USA TODAY (USA)

    Dutch investigators collect remains at the site of the Malaysia Airlines crash in eastern Ukraine to send to the Netherlands. Nathan Frandino reports. Video provided by Reuters …read more Source: USA...

    Russia adding major firepower in Crimea, NATO chief says
    Nov11

    Russia adding major firepower in Crimea, NATO chief says

    Tuesday, November 11 , 2014 - 23:03 (EEST) Section: CBS (USA)

    Annexed Ukrainian territory seeing influx of Russian military personnel and hardware, according to NATO intel …read more Source:...

    The Sino-Russia Partnership Is Stronger Than the West Thinks
    Nov11

    The Sino-Russia Partnership Is Stronger Than the West Thinks

    Tuesday, November 11 , 2014 - 22:18 (EEST) Section: The Huffington Post (USA)

    WASHINGTON — Some American pundits are calling for new overtures by the West that would distance China from Russia. In Japan, voices are urging the government to step up diplomacy with Russia to draw it away from China. In these appeals we can discern an assumption that divergent national interests leave either Moscow or Beijing susceptible...

    Russians Brace For Thrifty Christmas As Sanctions Hit
    Nov11

    Russians Brace For Thrifty Christmas As Sanctions Hit

    Tuesday, November 11 , 2014 - 22:03 (EEST) Section: Time (USA)

    The Kanounnikova family had big plans this year for the holidays. They were going to gather in Florida, the adopted home of Natalia Kanounnikova, who’d become an ice skating celebrity since moving to the U.S. from Russia. In 2006, she even made it into the Guinness Book of World Records for the fastest spin on ice skates (topping 300...

    Why A Place 700 Miles North Of The Arctic Circle May Become One The US’s Most Important Air Bases
    Nov11

    Why A Place 700 Miles North Of The Arctic Circle May Become One The US’s Most Important Air Bases

    Tuesday, November 11 , 2014 - 21:48 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    Over 700 miles north of the Arctic Circle in Greenland sits one of the US’s most isolated military installations — a place that could potentially become one of the most important American air bases on earth. Situated close to the halfway point between Moscow and New York City, Thule Air Base is a remnant of the US’s drive to create...

    Unique memorial, ceramic poppies to mark end of devastating WWI
    Nov11

    Unique memorial, ceramic poppies to mark end of devastating WWI

    Tuesday, November 11 , 2014 - 21:48 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    Ablain-Saint-Nazaire (France) (AFP) – President Francois Hollande opened a huge, elliptical memorial Tuesday carrying the names of nearly 600,000 fallen soldiers of all nationalities in an emotional ceremony in northern France marking the end of the devastating First World War.Several hundred kilometres away across the Channel in London, a...

    Here’s John McCain’s Response To Critics Who Say He’s Too Eager To Go To War
    Nov11

    Here’s John McCain’s Response To Critics Who Say He’s Too Eager To Go To War

    Tuesday, November 11 , 2014 - 21:03 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) has a simple response to those who accuse him of always advocating for war: Tell me when I’ve been wrong. During a WNYC radio interview promoting his new book, “Thirteen Soldiers,” on Tuesday, McCain was pressed by a caller on his hawkish foreign policy views. “It seems to me whenever our...

    EU’s Hahn Warns Danger Of New Russia Sanctions
    Nov11

    EU’s Hahn Warns Danger Of New Russia Sanctions

    Tuesday, November 11 , 2014 - 21:03 (EEST) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn said on November 11 that the elections held in separatist-controlled areas of eastern Ukraine meant that some EU member states may come forward with proposals for additional sanctions on Russia. The elections, held on November 2, were widely condemned by Western governments. Russia said it would...

    The United States Should Give China Breathing Room to Rise Peacefully
    Nov11

    The United States Should Give China Breathing Room to Rise Peacefully

    Tuesday, November 11 , 2014 - 21:03 (EEST) Section: The Huffington Post (USA)

    As President Obama visited China, he insisted that the United States welcomed China’s rise and wanted that country to play a bigger role in regional and global affairs; but that rhetoric is largely hokum. The United States has been either the premier superpower or the only superpower in the world since World War II, exercising an outsize...