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    Reports: Snowden Granted 3 More Years in Russia
    Aug07

    Reports: Snowden Granted 3 More Years in Russia

    Thursday, August 7 , 2014 - 15:48 (EEST) Section: Time (USA)

    Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden received permission to stay in Russia for an additional three years, his lawyer told local media Thursday, amid the worst U.S.-Russian relations since the Cold War. Snowden revealed troves of classified information on the American government’s surveillance activities before fleeing...

    German Interest Rates Go Negative
    Aug07

    German Interest Rates Go Negative

    Thursday, August 7 , 2014 - 15:48 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    Investing.comThe German bond market is considered one of the safe havens for investors looking to get out of riskier asset classes like stocks. As tensions remain high on the Ukraine-Russia border, German bond prices have been rallying, pushing yields lower and lower. Earlier Thursday, the yield on Germany’s two-year bond actually went...

    Fighting, Fires On Kyiv’s Independence Square
    Aug07

    Fighting, Fires On Kyiv’s Independence Square

    Thursday, August 7 , 2014 - 15:48 (EEST) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    Demonstrators clashed with city employees and armed guards in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on August 7 as the workers tried to clear barricades and tents from Independence Square. Protesters set fire to piles of tires and threw bottles and bricks at the municipal workers, who eventually withdrew. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read...

    Russia Imposes One-Year Ban on Food Imports from West
    Aug07

    Russia Imposes One-Year Ban on Food Imports from West

    Thursday, August 7 , 2014 - 15:48 (EEST) Section: Voice of America (USA)

    The Russian government has imposed a ban on most food imports from the United States, the European Union and other Western nations in apparent retaliation for their sanctions against Moscow over the Ukraine conflict. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced the sanctions Thursday in Moscow. The import ban includes meat, fruit, vegetables and milk...

    Ex-leader’s estate embodies Ukraine’s past, present, hope for future
    Aug07

    Ex-leader’s estate embodies Ukraine’s past, present, hope for future

    Thursday, August 7 , 2014 - 15:48 (EEST) Section: Los Angeles Times (USA)

    On a summer’s day in the park, children gripped Frisbees and ice cream cones as they tottered next to distracted parents. A wedding party simulated a conga line for a patient cameraman. A trio of twentysomething men sipped kvass, a favorite only-looks-like-beer beverage. …read more Source: Los Angeles...

    Ukraine Crisis: 1 Killed At Donetsk Dental College In Attack Meant For Rebel Headquarters
    Aug07

    Ukraine Crisis: 1 Killed At Donetsk Dental College In Attack Meant For Rebel Headquarters

    Thursday, August 7 , 2014 - 15:48 (EEST) Section: International Business Times (USA)

    A Ukrainian military strike intended to hit the headquarters of pro-Russia separatists Thursday instead hit a dental college, killing one patient. The attack was the second unsuccessful attempt at blowing up the rebel headquarters in Donetsk. The strike inflicted massive damage on the dental college in Donetsk, including the college’s...

    Undeterred, Russia wades into war of sanctions
    Aug07

    Undeterred, Russia wades into war of sanctions

    Thursday, August 7 , 2014 - 14:27 (EEST) Section: CBS (USA)

    Moscow bans import of virtually all Western food in retaliation for U.S., EU sanctions, and threatens much harsher measures as Snowden reportedly granted residency …read more Source:...

    10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell (DIA, SPY, QQQ, FOXA, GMCR, SCTY, WEN, MYL, OWW, ZNGA, SSYS, MNST, LGF, DUK)
    Aug07

    10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell (DIA, SPY, QQQ, FOXA, GMCR, SCTY, WEN, MYL, OWW, ZNGA, SSYS, MNST, LGF, DUK)

    Thursday, August 7 , 2014 - 14:27 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    REUTERS/Kenneth Armstrong The hitchBOT is seen posed next to Highway 17 north of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and a portion of the Trans-Canada Highway August 5, 2014. The hitch-hiking robot is now at the halfway point in its journey across Canada. Picture taken August 5, 2014. 1. Russia Bans Food Imports From The West. Specifically from the U.S.,...

    Snowden Granted Asylum Extension— Here’s Why He’s Still ‘Very Useful’ To Russia
    Aug07

    Snowden Granted Asylum Extension— Here’s Why He’s Still ‘Very Useful’ To Russia

    Thursday, August 7 , 2014 - 14:27 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    AFP/Axel HeimkenA giant screen shows fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden (top) delivering a speech, on May 16, 2014 in the northern German city of Hamburg,As the world condemns Russia’s continued support for separatists in eastern Ukraine in the wake of MH17, Edward Snowden is asking Vladimir Putin for an extended asylum....

    As Ukraine Fighting Intensifies, Dental College Is Struck
    Aug07

    As Ukraine Fighting Intensifies, Dental College Is Struck

    Thursday, August 7 , 2014 - 14:27 (EEST) Section: The New York Times (USA)

    An artillery barrage, apparently by government forces, blew apart dental chairs, cracked walls adorned with charts of teeth and killed one patient. …read more Source: The New York...