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    S&P 500 MAKES A NEW ALL-TIME HIGH: Here’s What You Need To Know (DIA, SPY, QQQ, TLT, IWM)
    Aug29

    S&P 500 MAKES A NEW ALL-TIME HIGH: Here’s What You Need To Know (DIA, SPY, QQQ, TLT, IWM)

    Friday, August 29 , 2014 - 23:22 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    Stocks went nowhere in a quiet trading session ahead of the Labor Day holiday weekend. As Rich Barry of NYSE put it in his mid-afternoon update on Friday: “Felt like I was the only knucklehead commuting to work this morning.” Despite the quiet trading session, the S&P 500 did manage to make a new all-time closing high for the...

    Only Gender Quotas Can Stop the E.U. from Being a Boys Club
    Aug29

    Only Gender Quotas Can Stop the E.U. from Being a Boys Club

    Friday, August 29 , 2014 - 23:22 (EEST) Section: Time (USA)

    Gender anxiety is enveloping the top levels of the European Union. By the end of this month, each of the bloc’s 28 countries is expected to put forward their candidate to sit on the European Commission, the powerful body that drives policy-making and enforces E.U. law. MoreThis 75-Year-Old Map Shows Europe ‘Ready for War’Civil War...

    EU Foreign Ministers Call For Tougher Sanctions On Russia
    Aug29

    EU Foreign Ministers Call For Tougher Sanctions On Russia

    Friday, August 29 , 2014 - 23:22 (EEST) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    Several European Union foreign ministers have accused Russia of invading eastern Ukraine, saying Moscow should be punished with harsh additional economic sanctions. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Russia’s Slow-Motion Invasion of Ukraine
    Aug29

    Russia’s Slow-Motion Invasion of Ukraine

    Friday, August 29 , 2014 - 23:22 (EEST) Section: The Atlantic (USA)

    Is Russia invading Ukraine? Ask Ukraine, and the answer is yes. Ask Russia, and the answer is no … ish. Ask the United States, and you’ll learn that Russia, since annexing Crimea from Ukraine in March, has been demonstrating a “pattern” of “escalation of aggression.” U.S. officials have avoided labeling...

    Families of Russian troops in Ukraine want answers
    Aug29

    Families of Russian troops in Ukraine want answers

    Friday, August 29 , 2014 - 23:22 (EEST) Section: Miami Herald (USA)

    The last time Valeria Sokolova saw her husband, the 25-year-old paratrooper told her that he and his fellow soldiers were heading for military exercises in southern Russia, near the Ukrainian border. …read more Source: Miami...

    Analysts: France, Germany at Forefront of EU Foreign Diplomacy
    Aug29

    Analysts: France, Germany at Forefront of EU Foreign Diplomacy

    Friday, August 29 , 2014 - 23:22 (EEST) Section: Voice of America (USA)

    As European leaders return from summer holiday to hold their first summit amid multiple international crises — in Africa, the Middle East and Ukraine — the bloc’s two economic heavyweights, France and Germany, are also emerging as the EU’s foreign policy leaders. Instead of competing for primacy, experts say Paris and Berlin are...

    Russian-backed rebels aim to push west along coast
    Aug29

    Russian-backed rebels aim to push west along coast

    Friday, August 29 , 2014 - 23:22 (EEST) Section: The Bismarck Tribune

    Captured Ukrainian border guards sit in a garage at the Novoazovsk border crossing point, in eastern Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. At Novoazovsk, rebel fighters looked to be in firm control,… …read more Source: The Bismarck...

    Podcast: What Does Putin Want?
    Aug29

    Podcast: What Does Putin Want?

    Friday, August 29 , 2014 - 23:22 (EEST) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    Does Vladimir Putin have a master plan in Ukraine? Or is he winging it? And is the elite behind him? Listen to the latest Power Vertical Podcast. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Russian-backed rebels aim to push west along coast
    Aug29

    Russian-backed rebels aim to push west along coast

    Friday, August 29 , 2014 - 23:22 (EEST) Section: Boston Herald (USA)

    NOVOAZOVSK, Ukraine — Their tanks bearing the flag of their would-be state, Russian-backed separatists held control Friday over this coastal town on the new front in the Ukraine conflict and announced their intention to keep pushing west toward a major port city.None of the half-dozen tanks seen by Associated Press reporters in the town of about...

    Pro-Russia Separatists in Control of Coastal Town
    Aug29

    Pro-Russia Separatists in Control of Coastal Town

    Friday, August 29 , 2014 - 23:22 (EEST) Section: The Epoch Times (USA)

    NOVOAZOVSK, Ukraine— Pro-Russia separatists, relaxed and well-equipped, held firm control on Friday of the strategic coastal town of Novoazovsk, a day after Ukraine claimed tanks and armored vehicles had invaded from Russia. Associated Press reporters saw at least a half-dozen tanks in the town of about 12,000 people, bearing the flags of...