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Lava Eruption, Pakistan Protests And A Kite Surfing Record: Week In Photos, Aug. 31 – Sept. 7
Nothing quite compares to the power of a photograph to communicate the goings on in the world. Ranging from the serious to the silly, these photos offer peeks into what happened around the globe this week.1. Local fishermen collect ‘popocha’ fish that washed up dead in the Cajititlan lagoon in Jalisco State, Mexico on Sept. 1,...
Mayor of Latvian Capital: Putin Is ‘Best Thing Possible’ for Latvia
The mayor of the Latvian capital city Riga, Nil Ushakov, stated yesterday in Moscow that for Latvia, “the best thing possible right now is President Vladimir Putin.” Ushakov, a prominent ethnic Russian politician and the leader of Latvia’s powerful centrist Harmony Center Party, offered this surprising remark in a September 4...
Weekend Roundup: Putin Uses 21st Century Strategy to Restore Old Czarist Realm
As a fragile cease-fire takes hold in Ukraine after nearly five months of carnage, Vladimir Putin’s long-term strategy has become clear. This week in The WorldPost Robert Coalson, writing from Prague, translates a recent essay by General Valery Gerasimov, the Russian military’s chief of general staff, that lays out a new type of...
Ukraine Conflict Seals NATO Renewal, and Russia’s Dominance
As the Ukraine conflict inches toward a cease-fire, NATO leaders emerge from a historic summit with a renewed sense of purpose, and also an element of traditional mission of deterrence against aggression from its east. For now at least, it does not mark the start of a new cold war but more likely a new cold peace between East and West. After more...
Americans Are Not Totally Sure Which Countries We’re Bombing
Recent turmoil in the Middle East has left Americans confused as to where exactly the U.S. is conducting airstrikes and drone strikes. A YouGov poll released Thursday finds that just about a third of Americans knew for sure that the U.S. hasn’t conducted any recent strikes in Syria — a possibility that has been weighed, but remains a...
Global Surge: Leaders Announce Major Initiatives Against Russia And Islamic State
Western leaders announced two major initiatives at the NATO summit in Wales on Friday, in an effort to show decisive action in the face of growing global threats. NATO member states voted on Friday to form a “rapid response force” aimed at countering Russian aggression in Ukraine, while reassuring the organization’s eastern...
Why NATO Won’t Stop Russia In Ukraine
More than 60 leaders are attending a historical NATO summit in Wales this week. On the agenda are the political crisis in Afghanistan, the rise of the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq and most prominently, the pressing concern of the unabated tensions in Ukraine. Since the start of the conflict between the Ukrainian government and...
Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Through War or Peace
Armenia and Azerbaijan, who are in a state of war despite a ceasefire, have three options on how to approach the stalemated conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, a dispute that lasted more than two decades. Each option comes with a sour pill, as there is no magic solution. But such is the reality of trying to find a peaceful resolution to a bloody...
Ukraine, Separatists Back Peace Plan For Country’s East
By Adrian Croft and Gabriela Baczynska NEWPORT, Wales/DONETSK, Ukraine, Sept 4 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and the main pro-Russian rebel leader said they would both order ceasefires on Friday, provided that an agreement is signed on a new peace plan to end the five-month war in Ukraine’s east. The breakthrough...
Netanyahu’s Tactical Use of U.S. ‘Strategic’ Dialogue
This just in… Yuval Steinitz, Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs, will be leading what he calls a “very large” delegation to Washington next week, ostensibly to lobby against the nuclear deal being envisioned with Iran. As Laura Rozen pointed out to me — and as Haaretz explains — Steinitz’s mission is...
