Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Obama Faces New Dynamic With Europe At G7 Summit
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON, June 6 (Reuters) – When President Barack Obama attends the Group of Seven summit in Germany on Sunday, he will join fellow leaders who are growing accustomed to a new dynamic in the transatlantic relationship: less direction from Washington, more demands on Europe. In responding to Russia’s intervention in...
Gay Pride March Attacked In Kiev
KIEV, June 6 (Reuters) – Several dozen unknown assailants attacked a gay pride march in Kiev on Saturday, throwing flares and wounding two policemen, a Reuters witness reported. On Friday the organizers for ‘KyivPride2015’ said the march along the Dnipro river would go ahead despite warnings from city mayor Vitaly Klitschko, who...
Ukraine’s President Tells Military To Prepare For ‘Full-Scale’ Russian Invasion
By Richard Balmforth and Pavel Polityuk KIEV, June 4 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s president told his military on Thursday to prepare for a possible “full-scale invasion” by Russia all along their joint border, a day after the worst fighting with Russian-backed separatists in months. His address in parliament was one of the first...
The Geopolitics of FIFA
Joseph “Sepp” Blatter announced his resignation on Tuesday amid the worst scandal in the history of the international organization and only four days after being elected FIFA president for the 5th time. The Guardian described him as “the most successful dictator in the world.” Blatter himself has a more modest...
The Voyage of the Hermione and 235 Years of Franco-American Friendship
Following a long winter and wet spring, summer has finally arrived in Washington, D.C., and with it come hundreds of thousands of tourists, drawn by the monuments and museums to the city designed by Frenchman Pierre l’Enfant. Many will no doubt stroll in Lafayette Park facing the front of the White House, a verdant square named for another...
Fighting Flares In East Ukraine
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Separatists in east Ukraine said 15 people in territory under their control were killed Wednesday during battles around the rebel stronghold of Donetsk that is threatening to tip the country back into full-blown war. Two other deaths were reported in a government-controlled area. Russian news agencies cited rebel armed forces...
9 Reasons No One Will Miss Sepp Blatter When He’s Gone
Longtime FIFA president Sepp Blatter voluntarily resigned on Tuesday after nearly two decades at the helm of perhaps the world’s most important sports organization. But while everyone is focusing on the overwhelming evidence of corruption within the organization, we just couldn’t let Blatter drift into obscurity without first...
See the World Through Migrants’ Eyes
For two weeks, four faces have been staring hard into our collective conscience. Christophe Archambault’s disturbing picture of four migrants adrift on the Indian Ocean has been unavoidable, gracing the cover of newspapers, magazines, websites and appearing on prime-time TV day after day. Three stare directly at us: they know we see them....
Signs of a Thaw in the “Cold War”?
Co-authored by William Witenberg a contemporary artist focused on abstract painting Russian President Putin’s response to the arrest by American and Swiss law enforcement authorities in Switzerland of members of world soccer federation FIFA, was to accuse the United States of trying to derail Russian’s hosting of the 2018 World Cup....
Toward a Migration Development Bank for Transition Economies
Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan and Otaviano Canuto Labor migration and remittances may bring positive economic effects to developing countries. This is the case particularly in countries like those in Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union members where remittances constitute high shares of foreign-currency revenues and GDP. There is nevertheless clear...
