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The UN Says $16.4 Billion Is Needed To Aid The World’s Most Vulnerable
GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations appealed Monday for $16.4 billion to pay for global humanitarian needs in 2015, saying it needs that money to help 57.5 million of the world’s most vulnerable people. More than 40 percent of the appeal — $7.2 billion — would go to help 18.2 million people suffering from the war in Syria. The 2015 request on...
Fighting for Equal Opportunity in Germany
Revolutions elevate a new and unexpected group of people to power. In East-Central Europe in 1990, an electrician became the president of Poland, a playwright the president of Czechoslovakia, and a philosopher the president of Bulgaria. After this brief period of the world turned upside down, the professional politicians took over again (or in...
Weekend Roundup: One Country, Two Dreams
If the sharply contrasting views of students in Xian or Beijing and Hong Kong are any indication, Deng Xiaoping’s ideal formulation of “one country, two systems” has morphed into another reality: one country, two dreams.George Chen writes that President Xi Jinping’s “Chinese Dream” competes with other...
Economic Success of Ukraine: A Shared Responsibility
A number of “prophecies” made by the world’s leading analysts spelled doom for the Ukrainian economy, and today, indeed, it is teetering on the edge. While the IMF, the international donors, and investors alike recognize the risk of putting money in Ukraine, I wanted to highlight an opportunity. Not just market access and a...
Obama Nominates Ashton Carter For Defense Secretary
President Barack Obama on Friday nominated former Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter to replace outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. Obama said Carter is regarded “as one of our nation’s foremost national security leaders.” “He knows the Department of Defense inside and out,” Obama said. “On Day One,...
Artists Around The Country ‘Won’t Back Down’ For Ferguson
A few weeks after Michael Brown’s death rocked residents in and around Ferguson, Missouri, a small printshop in St. Louis took action. The graphic design studio, dubbed Firecracker Press, began hand printing posters emblazoned with the words “Promote peace in St. Louis.” Amidst protests and heightened police presence in the...
Three Ways America Should Respond to the Ukraine Crisis
With thousands of regular Russian troops in Ukraine and tens of thousands massed on the border, the danger of further Kremlin aggression in Ukraine is high. America must work urgently with its European allies to find a stronger and more effective response to deter this threat. Based on strategic analysis and long diplomatic experience, we offer...
Obama To Announce Defense Secretary Pick Friday
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama plans to announce his pick Friday to lead the Pentagon amid the threat from Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, the White House said. White House press secretary Josh Earnest would not say whom Obama has selected, but administration officials have said former Pentagon official Ashton Carter is...
President Vladimir Putin Defends Russia’s Aggressive Foreign Policy
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin in his annual speech on Thursday defended the Kremlin’s aggressive foreign policy, saying the actions are necessary for his country’s survival. Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in March and was later accused of supplying pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine with...
Accident Occurred At Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant, Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk Says
(Reuters) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Wednesday an accident had occurred at the Zaporizhye nuclear power plant (NPP) in south-east Ukraine and called on the energy minister to hold a news conference. “I know that an accident has occurred at the Zaporizhye NPP,” Yatseniuk said, asking new energy minister...
