Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Russian Reporter Starts Fire To Do Story On Wildfires
A Russian state television journalist started a small fire with a cigarette butt to report on a region’s devastating wildfires, the Moscow Times reported Thursday. Both the English-language Moscow Times and Ukraine Today reported that according to local news outlet Khakasia, Channel One reporter Mikhail Akinchenko wanted to set the scene...
Is Trouble Brewing for the 2015 NPT Review Conference?
Since its adoption in 1968, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has become a critical mechanism to achieve nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament goals. With only a week to go before state parties to the NPT gather at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York to review progress on the implementation of this landmark treaty, it is...
Why a Bipolar World Is More Likely Than a Unipolar or Multipolar One
BEIJING — In periods of the 19th and 20th centuries, the United Kingdom and United States maintained absolute dominance in a unipolar world, which was why they were called “British century” and “American century.” Based on this, predictions of a so-called “Chinese century” must meet two preconditions...
Jeb Bush To Visit Germany, Poland, Estonia
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON, April 20 (Reuters) – Republican Jeb Bush will visit three U.S. allies, Germany, Poland and Estonia, in early June to get a first-hand view of European economic and security challenges as he explores a run for his party’s presidential nomination in 2016, a Bush aide said on Monday. Foreign policy has been...
Cyprus: Russia’s Potemkin Village in the European Union?
Cyprus recently signed an agreement with Russia giving the Kremlin’s navy ships the right to access the island nation’s ports. Cypriot president Nicos Anastasiades quickly specified that this agreement, signed during his visit in Moscow in February, was merely the symbolic renewal of a former 1996 agreement that existed between the...
Ceremonies Mark The Liberation Of Two Nazi Camps 70 Years Ago
FUERSTENBERG, Germany (AP) — Officials in Germany solemnly commemorated the liberation of two Nazi concentration camps 70 years ago in the closing days of World War II. Poland’s first lady, Anna Komorowska, joined in remembrance activities Sunday at the site of the Ravensbrueck women’s camp in northern Germany. Many of the prisoners...
Historic German Church Finds New Life As A Synagogue
COTTBUS, Germany (RNS) For years, the Schlosskirche, or castle church, at the heart of Cottbus’ historic old city stood mostly empty. Like many other parishes in Germany, the Schlosskirche no longer had a congregation of its own. And recent efforts to breathe life back into the 300-year-old structure had come up short. There were...
Weekend Roundup: Work With Nature, Not Against It
Since Earth Day, which will be marked on April 22, was first commemorated 45 years ago, we have learned a lot about the planet’s ecology. Above all, we have begun to understand the biological intelligence of nature itself that, for millennia, has managed to continually regenerate and stabilize that narrow band of a livable climate that has...
Thieves Steal $5.4 Million In Jewels From Woman Stuck In Paris Traffic
You may not like traffic, but you probably don’t hate it as much as the Taiwanese art collector whose handbag containing $5.4 million worth of jewels was stolen Wednesday afternoon while she sat in a traffic jam in Paris. Robbers smashed the window of the woman’s taxi, snagged the bag, then disappeared. The smash-and-grab took place...
Five Bizarre Moments From Putin’s Marathon Call-In Show
If you had the chance, what would you ask Russian President Vladimir Putin? On Thursday, Putin spent four hours live on Russian state television answering questions ranging from the serious to decidedly absurd. Some 3 million questions were sent by phone and text to the annual call-in show, which has become a yearly PR highlight for the Kremlin....
