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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...

    German Economic Data Has Been Astonishingly Bad
    Aug07

    German Economic Data Has Been Astonishingly Bad

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

    REUTERS/Kai PfaffenbachTwo traders talk with each other on the floor of the German bourse in Frankfurt on July 21, 1997.German economic data has been unquestionably bad in recent days. Earlier today, we learned industrial production unexpectedly fell 0.5% year-over-year in June, missing expectations for a 0.3% gain. This was the first...

    Putin hits back with food import ban
    Aug07

    Putin hits back with food import ban

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

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has named a new target as global sparring over Ukraine grows: food. …read more Source:...

    Clashes In Kiev As Ukraine Moves To Dismantle ‘Euromaidan’ Protest Camp
    Aug07

    Clashes In Kiev As Ukraine Moves To Dismantle ‘Euromaidan’ Protest Camp

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

    KIEV (Reuters) – Tensions flared on Thursday on Kiev’s Independence Square, the scene of street protests that toppled a Moscow-backed president in February, when protesters still camped there clashed with city workers who tried to clear away their tents. The protesters set fire to heaps of tyres, sending clouds of black smoke...

    Where’s the U.S. Beef (and Fruit)? Not in Russia
    Aug07

    Where’s the U.S. Beef (and Fruit)? Not in Russia

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

    Vladimir Putin ordered a ban or limit on food imports from countries that imposed sanctions on Moscow for its support of rebels in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...