Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Heaviest Shelling In A Month Hits Eastern Ukraine
DONETSK, Ukraine, Nov 9 (Reuters) – East Ukraine’s rebel stronghold Donetsk was pummel on Sunday by the heaviest shelling in a month, and the OSCE said it spotted an armored column of troops without insignia in rebel territory that Kiev said proved Moscow had sent reinforcements. A two-month-old ceasefire to end a war that has killed...
Fall Of The Berlin Wall 25 Years Ago Marked In Germany
By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN, Nov 8 (Reuters) – The fall of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago, heralding the end to the Cold War between East and West, showed the world “dreams can come true” and should inspire people trapped in tyranny everywhere, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday. Festivities to mark the anniversary have drawn...
25 Years After Berlin, Do We Still Need Walls?
The Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago this week. People on both sides filled the streets in celebration, cheered on by virtually everyone around the world. For all of us who were alive then, it remains one of the most hopeful historical moments we’ve ever experienced. For the previous two generations, people everywhere had lived in fear. In the...
Iran Supreme Leader Sending Top Aide To Nuclear Talks: Report
WASHINGTON — The prospects of striking a deal with Iran over its nuclear program appeared to brighten Saturday, with reports that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei may be sending a top foreign policy adviser to the latest round of talks. The adviser, Ali Akbar Velayati, may join talks in Oman between Secretary of State John...
My Appeal to Our Leaders and to All of Us: Let Us Think, Propose and Act Together
The following speech was delivered on November 8, 2014 at the New Policy Forum symposium in Berlin. I I am pleased to welcome all the participants and to see among them both the veterans of our Forum and some new faces. I expect all of them to make a contribution to serious and constructive dialogue which is so necessary now. Our conference is...
Gorbachev Warns World ‘On Brink Of New Cold War’
BERLIN (AP) — Tensions between the major powers have pushed the world closer to a new Cold War, former Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev said Saturday. The 83-year-old accused the West, particularly the United States, of giving in to “triumphalism” after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the communist bloc a...
Ukraine Rebels Seen Moving Large Military Convoys
SNIZHNE, Ukraine (AP) — Associated Press reporters saw more than 80 unmarked military vehicles on the move Saturday in rebel-controlled areas of eastern Ukraine, indicating that intensified hostilities may lie ahead. Three separate columns were seen — one near the main separatist stronghold of Donetsk and two outside the town of Snizhne, 80...
On Peacekeeping
Remarks by Ambassador Samantha Power, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, at the American Enterprise Institute on UN Peacekeeping Reform, November, 7, 2014Hello everybody. I have come here today to talk about UN peacekeeping. There is a lot going on in the world right now. Elie Wiesel once – quite recently – shared...
When the Wall Fell
I was a wide-eyed freshman in college sitting in an evening class in November 1989 when we heard the incredible news. The Berlin Wall had been breached! We sat glued to the TV for the rest of night, watching as jubilant Germans clambered up the wall and stood astride it, their euphoria infectious. As the wall fell, so did our notions of the...
US-Africa Relationship, Key Elements Following Historic US-Africa Summit
Today’s global landscape is much, much different than it was 5 years ago, or even earlier this year with the surge of the Islamic State, wrath of Nigeria’s Boko Haram, Crimea’s annexation, and continuing Syrian and Libyan conflicts. These are extraordinary times as world challenges are increasingly more daunting, but equally so...
