For a few weeks, I’ve been in Kiev, partly as a visiting fellow at leading Ukrainian think tank the TransatlanticDialogueCenter. Kiev is an astonishingly elegant and beautiful city; a premier league European capital... Cafes and restaurants are open and largely busy ... “We are losing this war.”. He is right ... While Ukraine is not winning, it is losing ... ....
There is a widespread perception that the history of the United States is best viewed in a linear context. That said, it could not be further from the truth ... This transition seemed seamless and continued until Americans were sent to fight wars in the GreatMiddle East ... It also exposes how US history is cyclical ... “We were poor before the takeover ... .
TOKYO (AP) — The assassination of former Prime MinisterShinzo Abe in broad daylight Friday shocked a world that has come to associate Japan with relatively low crime and strict gun control. Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Abe was shot in the back while campaigning in the city of Nara for parliamentary candidates ... ___ ... Source .
Former Japanese Prime MinisterShinzo Abe’s legacy on the economy is defined by his namesake strategy. Under “Abenomics”, Abe, who died on Friday after being shot during an election campaign event, sought to jolt Japan’s economy back to life after more than two decades of stagnation following the collapse of an asset bubble in the early 1990s... .
A Ukrainian regional official warned Friday of deteriorating living conditions in a city captured by Russian forces two weeks ago, saying Sievierodonetsk is without water, power or a working sewage system while the bodies of the dead decompose in hot apartment buildings. Gov ... “Fierce battles are going on in several villages on the region’s border.
ZÚRICH, SUIZA (Sputnik) — Dos casos de presunta infección con el virus de Marburgo, que provoca fiebre hemorrágica, se detectaron por primera vez en Ghana, comunicó la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) ....
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has used only a small portion of its potential in its “special military operation” in Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday ... (Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Kevin Liffey) ... ....
Former Japanese Prime MinisterShinzo Abe has died, state broadcaster NHK said on Friday. Abe, 67, had been delivering a stump speech near a train station in the western city of Nara when he was shot by an assailant ... Earlier, incumbent Prime MinisterFumio Kishida condemned the attack, terming it “absolutely unforgivable” ... 'A large bang' ... “ ... .
SLOVIANSK, Ukraine — Russian forces left a trail of destruction in their wake on Thursday as they grinded deeper into Donbas with their sights set on the industrial hub of Sloviansk in eastern Ukraine as their next target ... The explosion left a large crater in a courtyard between a hotel and residential buildings and several cars were on the fire.
photo: AP / Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo
The Associated Press. MOSCOW With Russia’s military action in Ukraine in its fifth month, Russian PresidentVladimir Putin on Thursday warned Kyiv that it should quickly accept Moscow’s terms or brace for the worst, adding ominously that Russia has barely started its action ... “We are hearing that they want to defeat us on the battlefield,” Putin said.
Amber Heard 'pleading' with Johnny Depp over $10 million debt?. Amber Heard has reportedly been ‘begging’ Johnny Depp to ‘scale back’ on the $10 million defamation case debt, in private meetings ... Heard has been going around trying to renegotiate her debt with Mr. Depp directly ... .