By Lincoln Pagman, New York Times, Aug 30, 2016 MOSCOW — Several dozen people in a Roma community in southern Ukraine were forced to flee their homes after a mob tore through their neighborhood [...]
By Natasha Doff, Bloomberg News, Aug 29, 2016 A year after Ukraine averted default by reaching an agreement with creditors to restructure $18 billion of debt, the country’s bond market is again [...]
By Jim Kavanagh, CounterPunch, August 31, 2016 So within the space of a few days, the United States has, first, commanded the government of Syria to keep its air force away from part of its own [...]
By Dave Lindorff, CounterPunch, August 31, 2016 I was reading the latest smug piece by New York Times columnist Timothy Egan when I came across the most amusing example of being what you are [...]
Al-Jazeera, Aug 31, 0100 ET U.S. officials said Turkish-backed Syrian rebels and Kurdish forces had agreed to a temporary pause in fighting in northern Syria, as Turkey insisted it planned to [...]
Aug 31, 2016 Videographer Patrick Lancaster has posted three videos, each three to four minutes in length, documenting the aftermath of shellings against homes in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine by the [...]
By Laura Rozen, Al-Monitor, August 30, 2016 It seems increasingly unlikely that the United States and Russia will conclude a deal on Syria before U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President [...]
New Cold War.org, August 31, 2016. Five news articles are enclosed documenting the rising militarism of the Japanese government. The United States and Japan are working hand-in-hand to increase [...]
New Cold War.org, Aug 31, 2016 Two news items and extensive related weblinks are enclosed. Ukraine ready for dialogue with Poland on historic Volyn Massacre Sputnik News, Wednesday, August 24, [...]
Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s telephone conversation with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Aug 31, 2016 At Turkey’s initiative, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a [...]
