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Daily Journal
March 14, 2018
Nebenzia asked how the assassination attempt could benefit Russia on the eve of its presidential election and its hosting of soccer's World Cup. ... The White House says the U.S. “stands in solidarity” with Britain after it expelled 23 Russian diplomats in retaliation for Russia's alleged use of a nerve agentÃâà...
Eurasia Review
February 19, 2018
A visit to the only dry port of Nepal will immediately captivate busy scenes with hundreds of trucks, some railway carriages and huge Maersk containers at play. Trains from the Port of Kolkata in India carry tons of Nepal's exports every week. Every year, Nepal is fined millions of rupees for overstaying itsÃâà...
Dallas News (blog)
August 13, 2017
Removing any Confederate monuments in Texas dishonors the 1 million Anglo-Americans, 300,000 African-Americans, 70,000 American Indians, 60,000 Latin Americans, 12,000 Jewish Americans and 10,000 Asian-Americans who fought in the Confederate military, and dishonors their living descendants.
Voice of America
July 16, 2017
"I don't look at what Hans and George say,” Erdogan said to cheering crowds Sunday, Han's and George is the president's often used disparaging reference to European opinion. With Turkey's membership effort currently frozen and few expectations it has a chance of success, Brussels appears to have littleÃâà...
Fistful of Euros
March 7, 2017
Thinking about Brexit, the Donald, Austria having a presidential election replay, and other things, it struck me that in a sense I've lived through a Populist Era, a parallel history to the official narrative of ever-closer European union and what we might call ever-closer Western union. The starting point is hard toÃâà...
Eurasia Review
November 24, 2016
Guy Verhofstadt, an insightful European liberal Parlamentarian and lawmaker, former Belgian premier and chief Brexit negotiator, has already sounded the alarm: World War III may already be in the making and the election of a Donald Trump portents it. He is convinced that a “ring of autocrats” is presentlyÃâà...
Russia Direct
November 11, 2016
Russia, in my view, is today under strong pressure to realize its objectives in Syria and the humanitarian consequences of this are already inflaming European opinion against Russia. So if you factor this in with the other variables, it would be far too optimistic for the Russians to conclude that the sanctionsÃâà...
The National
June 22, 2016
Nearly a century ago, a well-travelled English writer with a somewhat weary view of Britain's far-flung empire described nationalism as one of England's “many spurious gifts to the world”. Patriotism, he said, can be defined as a lively sense of collective responsibility but nationalism is a silly cock crowing onÃâà...
Firstpost
October 18, 2014
Apart from the USA only seven countries voted against the move. ... that...it's apparently endless foot dragging on the question of equivalent Palestinian rights is no longer acceptable to a growing segment of British and European opinion ". ... That brings us back to the question: where is India in all this?
Fistful of Euros
February 8, 2012
Though I hope to the contrary, I believe the weeks following the US Presidential election will become a much bigger electoral and legal debacle than most commentators are willing to admit now. In the end, this election might well become a testament of the principal current American weakness – deepÃâà...
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