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— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Obama, rapping Putin, says US could strike back on cyber
President Barack Obama put Russia's Vladimir Putin on notice Friday that the U.S. could use offensive cyber muscle to retaliate for interference in the U.S. presidential election, his strongest suggestion to date that Putin had been well aware of campaign email hacking."Whatever they do to us, we can potentially do to them," Obama declared.Caught ...
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U.S. Faces Tall Hurdles in Detaining or Deterring Russian Hackers
Russia says American efforts to capture hackers may violate international law and has shown that it will not be easily influenced by public shaming.
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As Abe hosts Putin, Japanese companies look cautiously to Russia
The deepening of bilateral ties between Japan and Russia is expected to expand the list of Japanese companies looking for business opportunities in Russia, which despite being a neighbor, has not necessarily been an easy place to do business. Trading houses have been major players in resource-rich Russia, viewed as ...
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Less than 3 per cent of Syrian refugees resettled in rich countries: Oxfam
Source: Oxfam Country: Australia, Canada, Egypt, Germany, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, WorldOxfam reviewed the resettlement policies of eight countries – Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom and the ...
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More than 7,000 civilians evacuated from Aleppo: Turkish FM
More than 7,000 civilians have been evacuated from Syria’s besieged city of Aleppo in the first five convoys, as part of a ceasefire and evacuation deal reached by the efforts of Turkey and Russia, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Dec.16 on his official Twitter account.
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I leader europei decidono di estendere le sanzioni contro la Russia per altri sei mesi.
I leader europei decidono di estendere le sanzioni contro la Russia per altri sei mesi. Le sanzioni economiche contro Mosca approvate dall’Unione europea in seguito al conflitto in Ucraina sono state estese fino alla metà del 2017. Lo hanno deciso i capi di stato e di governo europei riuniti a ...
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Turkey, Russia, Iran to meet in trilateral Syria summit
Turkey, Iran and Russia will meet at a summit of foreign ministers in Moscow on Dec. 27 to discuss efforts to secure a ceasefire in Aleppo, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoülu has said.
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European clubs call on FIFA not to expand 32-team World Cup
FIFA has found a difficult opponent to President Gianni Infantino's plan to expand the World Cup to 48 teams.A group of 220 of Europe's top clubs called on Infantino on Thursday not to increase the tournament from its 32-team format.The European Club Association said the number of games played each ...
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Editorial: Humanitarian corridor - Aleppo’s civilians
The situation in Syria’s besieged city of Aleppo is now beyond desperate, and judging from eyewitness accounts and the frantic pleas from within what remains of the city that have inundated our social media accounts with increasing frequency over recent days, there is not much time left for the survivors ...
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EU leaders pledge €610 million to Niger to help stop flow of migrants into the Mediterranean
European leaders agreed this evening to provide Niger with €610 million for the country to try to prevent people from leaving Africa in search of better lives in Europe.During a European Council meeting in Brussels, leaders also agreed to replicate a migration agreement the EU has with Turkey for the ...
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Aleppo residents at risk as fighting resumes after short-lived ceasefire
Source: Human Rights Watch Country: Syrian Arab RepublicAs the ceasefire announced on 13 December broke down, HRW calls on the Syrian government authorities and armed opposition groups to immediately facilitate aid deliveries to opposition-controlled parts of Aleppo.Halt Unlawful Attacks; Allow Safe Evacuation of Civilians (New York) – Activists and residents from opposition-controlled ...
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Turkey calls on Russia to lift sanctions, ease visa liberalization to boost trade
Turkey has reiterated its call on Russia to remove all sanctions imposed on trade and to ease visa restrictions to further boost economic cooperation, suggesting the normalization process between the two countries was not progressing at the desired pace
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Russian FM says Moscow opts for Turkey over US for dialogue on Syria
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said cooperation with Turkey over Syria would be “more fruitful” than cooperation with the United States.
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Updated: Aleppo cease-fire founders, threatening evacuation plans
A cease-fire deal between rebels and the Syrian government in the city of Allepo foundered on Wednesday, threatening plans to evacuate the remaining rebels and tens of thousands of civilians out of harm's way in what would effectively seal the enclave's surrender.The withdrawal was supposed to start at dawn but ...
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Populism needs to be addressed – US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
2016 has seen the biggest political earthquake in recent years with Donald Trump's election, Brexit, and the rise of the European far right. Its reverberations are inescapable throughout the global political landscape and have revealed an out-of-touch establishment who is now under fire. The Malta Independent met with the United ...
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Donald Trump picks Rex Tillerson to lead State Department
President-elect Donald Trump has announced his choice of ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to be his secretary of state, hailing him as "among the most accomplished business leaders and international deal makers in the world."In a release from his transition headquarters in New York, Trump calls Tillerson's career "the embodiment of ...
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AP Interview: Gorbachev says US was short-sighted on Soviets
As the Soviet Union was breaking up 25 years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev expected the United States and its allies to provide vital aid. The former Soviet president thinks their failure to offer significant help wasted a chance to build a safer world and resulted from short-sighted gloating at a Cold ...
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Air Malta denies airline axed Frankfurt route to appease Alitalia
Air Malta’s Board of Directors today strongly and categorically denied a report on the Times of Malta that the airline has axed its Frankfurt route to appease Alitalia.The article quotes sources stating that through this decision Air Malta is diverting interconnecting traffic that used to go to Frankfurt to its ...
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Doping scheme may have touched all Russian athletes
A report that connected over 1,000 Russian athletes to a state-run doping system only scratched the surface of a drugs culture that may have touched all the country’s Olympians, WADA director general Olivier Niggli said. Olivier Niggli described the numbers in Canadian law professor Richard McLaren’s explosive report as “frightening” but ...
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New doping report details 'institutional conspiracy' in Russia
A new report into systematic Russian doping details a wide-ranging "institutional conspiracy" that involved more than 1,000 athletes across more than 30 sports, including evidence corroborating large-scale sample swapping at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren said Friday the conspiracy involved the Russian Sports Ministry, national ...
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Security Council fails to adopt resolution to end attacks on Aleppo
Source: UN Security Council Country: Syrian Arab RepublicThe text would have barred “any and all attacks,” while demanding a cessation of hostilities throughout Syria, except where operations were ongoing against groups it deemed terrorists.SC/12609 5 DECEMBER 2016 Negative Votes Block Action after 11 Vote in Favour, 3 against, with 1 Abstention Following ...