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Ukraine Revolution Erupts in Fresh Violence
Despite Russian reassurances that Moscow’s troop buildup along Ukraine’s eastern frontier is for a military exercise, its growing scale is making U.S. officials nervous about its ultimate aim. President Barack Obama on Friday urged ...
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The Ukrainian Revolution's Neo-Fascist Problem
Pentagon officials say they believe there could be close to 50,000 Russian troops bordering the former Soviet republic and inside Crimea, recently seized and annexed by Moscow. That estimate is double earlier assessments, and ...
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Ukraine 2014 Parliamentary Election Results
Washington got those assurances that the Russian troop buildup was only an exercise from Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu a week ago. But no one in the U.S. government knows if Putin agrees — ...
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Ukraine Revolution Places Elites Back In Power
There is no plan to involve the U.S. military in what is happening in Ukraine, even if Russia takes more territory. Ukraine borders Russia, and Ukraine does not belong to NATO, where an attack ...
In late December 2016, Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei, the spokesman of the Iranian Guardian Council, declared that women would be allowed to run in the next presidential election, scheduled for May ...
On Jan. 12, Gazans protested over the electricity shortage and cast the blame on Hamas. The demonstrations were dispersed by force, but the movement’s leaders understood that their regime could be in ...
Western Powers’ appetite for the dispatch of armed forces into Africa has been increased greatly in the twenty-first century. The so-called protection of civilians and counter-terrorism was behind most of ...
When it comes to combating terrorism, Pakistan is an indispensable ally for the United States. But as the two countries’ checkered history shows, it is also an unreliable one. By ...
With the Iraqi Forces already in Eastern and Western Mosul neighborhoods , the YPG at the gates of Raqqa, and with the Fall of Al-Bab and Manbij , the Islamic ...
(Christine Bootes , plus55) Plus55 American English editor reflects on the last year of Brazilian news. 1. Brazil and the States have more in common than you might think Spanning roughly 8.5 million ...
Deir ez-Zor is the largest city in Eastern Syria, and with the imminent fall of Raqqa and Mosul, it will probably become Islamic State’s next stronghold. The city had a ...
” We must therefore act together as a united people, for national reconciliation, for nation building, for the birth of a new world.” This is part of Nelson Mandela’s speech ...