Section: Time (USA)
Ukrainian President Pleads for Western Aid at Davos
In the middle of his speech on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko left the podium, walked to the edge of the stage and took a large hunk of metal from a man in the audience. It was a shrapnel-scarred panel from a public bus, Poroshenko explained, that was hit by a rocket on Jan. 13 near the Ukrainian town...
Know Right Now: AK-47 Rifles to Be Manufactured in the U.S.
The official United States distributor of Kalashnikov AK-47 rifles has announced it will be producing them domestically after sanctions on Russia prevented them from being imported. Watch today’s Know Right Now to find out more about these (soon-to-be) American-born rifles. …read more Source:...
Fighting Has Flared Up in Ukraine, Raising Fears of All-Out War Once Again
Civilians came into the crossfire on Monday when pro-Russian fighters and Ukrainian forces battled in the rebel-controlled city center of Donetsk, critically undermining hopes that an already shaky four-month-old truce agreement can be implemented. Shells struck a hospital, wounding a doctor and five patients. A nearby university was also hit,...
Europe Mulls a Russian Language TV Channel to Counter Moscow Propaganda
Latvian government officials don’t mince words when expressing their views on Russian media. The state-backed television channels beaming into European homes amount to “Goebbels-style propaganda” and are “lying 24/7”, says Viktors Makarovs, an adviser to Latvia’s Foreign Minister, Edgars Rinkēvičs. Since the West and Russia reverted...
E.U. Ministers Discuss Jihadist Threat in Wake of Charlie Hebdo Terror Attacks
Twenty-eight foreign ministers are set to meet in Brussels on Monday to discuss persistent threats against the European Union from Islamic militants, as well as the renewed fighting between the Ukrainian military and separatist insurgents. However, the ministers are not scheduled to hammer out any decisions regarding how the bloc will respond to...
The Age of Miracles
This is how I spent a few days at the end of last summer. At a meeting in Europe, I heard colleagues who work on humanitarian relief tell heartbreaking stories of suffering in the refugee camps and rubbled cityscapes of the Middle East. Back in the U.S. for Labor Day, with Ukraine in the headlines, I was at a dinner at which well-informed...
Back and Forth in Central African Republic’s Unholy War
That Central African Republic even managed to squeeze into last year’s news cycle is a grim feat. After all, it was stacked against heavyweights like the July downing of a Malaysian jet over eastern Ukraine, protests across the U.S. over several police killings of unarmed black men, an unprecedented Ebola outbreak, as well as a summer war...
5 Global Risks You Should Care About Right Now
Ian Bremmer, the head of Eurasia Group, and Nouriel Roubini, the founder of Roubini Global Economics, are two of the world’s preeminent risk forecasters. They joined me Tuesday morning at the offices of Time Inc. for our yearly look ahead about what you should—and shouldn’t—worry about in the geopolitical and economic landscape for...
Beneath the Front Lines of the War in Eastern Ukraine
The miners didn’t hear the impact of the shell and kept extracting coal from the earth more than half a mile below the battlefield. They continued their work for several minutes, oblivious to the danger they were suddenly facing. The shell, said to have been fired on Nov. 22 by the Ukrainian army in its war against pro-Russian separatists,...
‘Je Suis Charlie’: Crowds in London Stand with Charlie Hebdo
Out of the horror came something beautiful. Not all of the people who traveled to London’s Trafalgar Square, or attended similar vigils in other cities and countries throughout Europe, could explain why they felt impelled to come. They just knew that they wanted to stand together, not only to protest the slaughter at the Paris headquarters...
