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Has Russia’s War Against Ukraine Reached a Point of No Return?
Russia’s ongoing escalation of the war in eastern Ukraine may have crossed the point of no return. The world’s attention has been focused on the savage fighting at Donetsk Airport, but the real cause for concern lies elsewhere. The head of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic has officially stated that he intends to capture...
Pro-Russian Rebels Advance In Eastern Ukraine, Fighting Intensifies
By Natalia Zinets and Denis Dyomkin KIEV/ST PETERSBURG, Jan 26 (Reuters) – Russian-backed rebels pushed forward on Monday with a new offensive that has brought all-out war back to eastern Ukraine after a five-month ceasefire, bringing U.S. and European threats of tighter Western financial sanctions against Moscow. Washington and Brussels...
Miss Universe 2014 Winner Is Colombia’s Paulina Vega
MIAMI (AP) — Miss Colombia Paulina Vega has been crowned Miss Universe, beating out first runner-up Miss USA Nia Sanchez and contestants from more than 80 other countries at Sunday’s pageant in Miami. Vega, a 22-year-old student of business administration from Barranquilla, Colombia, said the contests leading up to Miss Universe were the...
Rocket Fire Kills 30 Civilians In Ukrainian City Of Mariupol
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Indiscriminate rocket fire slammed into a market, schools, homes and shops Saturday in Ukraine’s southeastern city of Mariupol, killing at least 30 people, authorities said. The Ukrainian president called the blitz a terrorist attack and NATO and the U.S. demanded that Russia stop supporting the rebels. Ukrainian...
Why Obama Is Going to India
NEW DELHI — When Barack Obama and Narendra Modi meet in New Delhi on Sunday for their second round of talks in less than four months, the biggest challenge they will face is to produce an outcome that is commensurate with the amount of quality time the two leaders are putting into the bilateral relationship. India and the United States were...
Fighting In Ukraine Surges To Worst Level In Months
KIEV, Jan 24 (Reuters) – Fifteen people were killed in shelling in the east Ukrainian port city of Mariupol on Saturday, Ukraine’s interior ministry said, an attack Kiev blamed on separatist rebels and the Russian military. A witness described the shelling to Reuters as enough to knock the paint off his house. The deaths follow the...
Note to Ukraine: Stop Whitewashing the Political Record
Listen too much to Kremlin pronouncements, and one might get the impression that the Ukrainian government in Kiev is comprised of nothing less than a malevolent and sinister fascist junta. In light of Putin’s own authoritarian tendencies, not to mention Russia’s support for Ukrainian separatists, such talk is highly ironic and that is...
Obama and India: Love in the Time of Cholera
President Obama will be in India for a three-day visit starting Sunday, searching for that elusive foreign policy triumph to consolidate his presidential legacy. This is not the first time that New Delhi has come to the rescue of a president who lost his sheen. In 2000, on the heels of the Monica Lewinsky scandal and impeachment ignominy,...
Ukraine Rebels Reject Peace Talks As Conflict Escalates
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Signs emerged Friday pointing to a major offensive in eastern Ukraine by rebels fighting to break off from the rest of the country. A rebel leader said they will continue to fight and won’t join further peace talks — but left unclear whether they would respect this week’s agreement to pull back heavy weapons...
What Greece’s Election Means For The Rest Of The World
Greece will vote in parliamentary elections on Sunday, nearly one month after Prime Minister Antonis Samaras was forced to call a snap vote after parliament failed to agree on a new president. Polls indicate that radical left-wing party Syriza is set to take the most votes. Whether Syriza gains an outright majority or forms a ruling coalition,...
