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Car Bomb Blast Kills Prominent Journalist In Kiev
KIEV (Reuters) – A prominent journalist working for the online investigative newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda was killed by a car bomb in central Kiev early on Wednesday morning.Pavel Sheremet was driving to work in the car of the newspaper’s owner when it was blown up, an adviser to Interior Minister Anton Gerashchenko said.Two...
Don’t Buy The Hype About Turkey And NATO
WASHINGTON ― After news spread Friday of a coup attempt in Turkey, outside observers rushed to speculate about what the events meant for NATO: Were the Turks jeopardizing their status in the mutual defense alliance, and were fellow NATO members ready to respond to the overthrow of Turkey’s elected government?The answer was clear. Turkey has...
The Real Winner At The GOP Convention Is Vladimir Putin
CLEVELAND ― While the nation obsessed over Melania Trump’s plagiarism and other oddities during the first day of the Republican National Convention, something much wilder ― and more telling about the substance of a potential Trump presidency ― went down largely unnoticed.Team Trump proved that they now have such a tight grip on the...
How History Can Help Our Fight Against ISIS
Once again, the world is reeling at the news of yet another terror attack. A truck plowed it’s way through a crowded street, mowing people down, and when it was all said and done 84 people have been reported dead with dozens more injured. AP Photo/Luca BrunoAnd the world asks – When will it end? I don’t like seeing the images...
The ‘Dis-Integration’ Of The European Union: Is Romania Coming Into A New Era?
Romania is a relative newcomer to the European Union. A member of the EU since 2007, Romania is still often thought of as a country that is poor, corrupt, with dysfunctional public institutions and inefficient industry, a country that has yet to emerge from the shadows of its past. In reality, Romania is gradually conquering its longstanding...
The “Loser Terrorist”?
PHOTO Credit: www.mirror.co.uk Eye witness Michael Zarzycki: Aftermath of Nice Attack Recent terror in Europe and US has been ever more frequently committed by those who appear to have little motivation or connection to the “cause.” Rather, motivation, as much as any, may be a sense that the perpetrator’s life has been less...
France In Shock After Third Terror Attack In 18 Months
Mohamed Lahouajej Bouhlel, 31, a Tunisian citizen living in France, has been identified as the attacker. The death toll stands at 84, including 10 children. At least 202 people were injured, 52 of whom are in critical condition, and 25 of whom are on life support.Bouhlel was a licensed truck driver, and rented the truck used in the attack.A...
From the Baltic to the South China Sea, Russia and China See One Foe — the U.S.
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia — On July 8 and 9, at the NATO summit in Warsaw, leaders of the Western world met to “reinforce our collective defense … at a defining moment for the security of our nations and populations.” Just three days later in The Hague, an international tribunal on the law of the sea handed down a long-awaited...
The Spirit of the Cold War Is Back as NATO Confronts Russia
MOSCOW — The most important turn in new relations between Russia and NATO came exactly one week before the Warsaw summit of the alliance July 8-9. During his short visit to Finland, Russian President Vladimir Putin told the press that he accepted a proposal by his Finnish counterpart, Sauli Niinistö, to discuss the use of transponders by...
The Export Other Countries Would Rather Do Without: The Russian Mafia
Image: Armenian mafia graffiti in Hollywood. Although the Russian mafia is the biggest overseas crime network from the former Soviet Union, gangs from other countries have an overseas presence as well. Author: UltraNow. Flickr Russian officials began talking about diversifying the economy years before the price of oil began tanking in 2014. But...
