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Ukraine managed to wrangle some more favorable terms out of the United States before signing the long-awaited minerals deal on Wednesday. The agreement on natural resources was finally struck late on Wednesday, after weeks of tense bargaining that at times turned sour...
The Washington Post reported on a story that worries Turkey's NATO allies: "The leaders of Turkey and Russia pledged on Aug. 9 to restart key energy projects and roll back sanctions, seeking to rebuild ties as Turkey looks beyond its NATO partners for support...
In the resort of Yalta, in Crimea. In what mean more Russian military attacks against Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered naval war games in the Black Sea after he accused Ukraine of sending saboteurs into Crimea, which Russia seized from Ukraine in...
The Guardian and Reuters passed on not totally confirmed reports that Vietnam has fortified several islands it controls in the South China Sea with mobile rocket launchers so that it can strike Chinese military bases in the region. This would be one of the...
In the sort of mass public protest that is increasingly unusual under Russia's authoritarian government, hundreds of critics of the Russian government of President Vladimir Putin armed with a rare demonstration gathered in Moscow on Aug. 9 to protest a new set of...
Rodrigo Duterte, the new president of the Philippines, has called the U.S. ambassador to the country, Philip Goldberg, a ‘'gay son of a whore'’. He made the comments Aug. 5 during an address to Filipino military officials, sparking, of course, a diplomatic row. To...
Venezuela’s National Electoral Council has ruined hopes for a recall referendum on leftist President Nicolas Maduro this year. Electoral council chief Tibisay Lucena announced several procedural details that would clearly push the referendum into 2017. The...