Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Missouri Protests, India Independence Day And A Supermoon: Week In Photos, Aug. 10 – 17
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. A girl plays with a dog as a perigee moon, also known as a supermoon, rises in Madrid on August 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)2. A man...
Russian Convoy Waits At Ukraine Border, Kiev Delivers Its Own Aid To East
KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKY, Russia (AP) — Hundreds of trucks in a Russian aid convoy waited Saturday near the Ukrainian border as complicated procedures drag on for allowing them into eastern Ukraine to help civilians suffering amid fighting between Ukrainian forces and separatists. Ukrainian officials are concerned that the mission including around 200...
Weekend Roundup: Not Doing Stupid Sh*t in Iraq
Keeping to his credo of “don’t do stupid sh*t,” President Barack Obama sent in fighter planes to prevent ISIS from its genocidal assault on fleeing Yazidi refugees in northern Iraq, while also making it clear that the U.S. can just do so much. Only “inclusive” and “non-maximalist” governments in the...
Watch Ferguson Shooting Take Over Twitter In Mesmerizing Graphic
Facebook may have five times as many users, but Twitter now plays a vital role in how news spreads. You can see the scale of Twitter’s influence in a visualization showing tweets relating to the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri after Michael Brown was shot and killed by local police officer Darren Wilson. Twitter’s data team created the...
Ukraine Artillery Destroys Part Of Russian Armored Column: Poroshenko
KIEV, Aug 15 (Reuters) – Ukrainian artillery destroyed a “significant” part of a Russian armored column that crossed into Ukraine during the night, President Petro Poroshenko told British Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday, according to the presidential website. Separately, a Ukrainian military spokesman said Ukrainian...
Winter and Gazprom Won’t Wait: What The Geopolitics of LNG Will Mean for the People of the Ukraine and Europe
As the crisis in Ukraine is escalating with the prospect of Russian military intervention, there is every reason to believe that Vladimir Putin will use other weapons at his disposal. Thus European nations are increasingly – and justifiably – worried about the impending winter months when Russia could ratchet up the pressure on...
Russia Military Vehicles Mass Near Border With Ukraine As Aid Convoy Waits To Cross
KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKY, Russia, Aug 15 (Reuters) – Dozens of heavy Russian military vehicles massed on Friday near the border with Ukraine, where a huge Russian convoy with humanitarian aid came to a halt as Moscow and Kiev struggled to agree on border crossing procedures. Russia says it is carrying 2,000 tonnes of water, baby food and other...
Ferguson Police Look Like Forces In These Conflict-Filled Countries
One of the most striking realizations to come from the tense standoff in Ferguson, Missouri is just how closely the scene resembles images of crackdowns on protests in conflict-filled countries around the world. Seeing police officers in full military gear, firing teargas and rubber bullets at crowds of protesters, is something that western...
On Japan and China: Taking a Stand, Not Taking Sides
From Project Syndicate CANBERRA — With the world producing more history than most of us can consume right now, it is easy to lose sight of recent developments that could have even greater consequences for long-term peace and stability than recent alarming events in eastern Ukraine, Gaza, and Syria-Iraq. The outcome of the nuclear...
Being Pro-West Doesn’t Mean Being Anti-Russian
MOSCOW — The recent events in Ukraine and the resulting wave of sanctions, affecting all sides of the conflict, have once again intensified the long-running disagreement in Russia between pro-West and anti-West factions. Facebook is full of passionate arguments as yesterday’s friends disperse to different sides of the barricade....
