Новости за 19.02.2020

Judah Grunstein, World Politics Review

Is Washington ready to embrace restraint as the guiding principle of U.S. foreign policy? Several recent developments suggest that at least when it comes to some prominent debates over national security, the answer is a guarded yes. Last week, the Senate passed a bipartisan war powers resolution prohibiting the White House from going to war with Iran without congressional approval. The White House also reportedly signed off on a tentative deal with the... Читать дальше...

Ashoka Mody, Spectator

Ursula von der Leyen was an unloved choice to replace Jean-Claude Juncker as the next president of the European Commission. She emerged from a ferociously contentious process as a last-minute compromise and she promptly fell into a storm of criticism. Even members of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) shellacked her. In the thankless role of German defence minister, she was unable to overcome the handicaps imposed by Germany’s postwar pacifism and mindless fiscal... Читать дальше...

Michael Shurkin, RealClearWorld

There is a very real possibility that the security crisis afflicting Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger will spread to the countries of the West African littoral. Talk of a U.S. drawdown from Africa, or of U.S. support for French military operations in Africa's Sahel region, must take the evidence of this looming crisis into consideration. It most notably concerns...

Thomas Joscelyn, The Dispatch

The question is less about when to leave and more about how to do so without further emboldening the Taliban.

Kareem Shaheen, The National

The Syrian President now controls the road linking Damascus and Aleppo for the first time in years.

For many young women in journalism, the world suddenly seems a dimmer place. But there is also a sense of gratitude, and an acknowledgment of the need to pay it forward

Rocketbook's Orbit combines the company’s reusable paper and cloud-sharing service. Read more...

The lawsuit's allegations also included assault and battery

The decision to get the retired UP cadre IAS officer — who worked closely with the PM through Modi 1.0 — to helm the temple building committee was taken at the first meeting of the newly constituted Ram Janmabhoomi Teertha Kshetra Trust.

PARIS — Switching in old age from a bland, unvaried diet to a Mediterranean mix of fresh veggies, fruits and fish restores a balance of intestinal bacteria linked to good health, researchers said on Tuesday.

Union alleges denial of benefits

Miraculously, Ryan Newman walked out of Halifax Medical Center on Wednesday. Newman was released from the hospital after being treated... Read More »

He’s dropping out of the race and right into the pundit’s chair.

Andrew Yang didn’t earn any delegates during his Quixotic run for president, but the wisecracking businessman might have nabbed the next best thing: a gig serving up takes on CNN.

The network’s communications team announced the addition...

After 47 years, a Maine woman has been reunited with her late husband’s high-school class ring, discovered across the Atlantic Ocean in the forests of Finland. Debra McKenna, 63, lost the Morse High School senior class ring in the fall of 1973. Her high-school sweetheart, Shawn McKenna, gave it to her just before he departed...

Last year, as part of Billboard's Black History Month celebration, we asked Black artists spanning all genres to compile unique playlists...

A newly released photo of Caroline Flack's boyfriend Lewis Burton's head, reportedly taken shortly after the alleged assault in December 2019, 'shows clearly there was no head injury', according to a source close to the star

Victim, a Zomato delivery executive, had an argument with a roadside vendor over not paying for fruits bought from him

A trip east by four Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs to meet and thank the Mohawks of Tyendinaga behind a rail blockade in Ontario has thrown into doubt the timing of proposed talks with Ottawa and Victoria to settle the rail crisis.

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Le guide intitulé Opération à venir a été publié par l’éditrice québécoise Annik De Celles. Ce guide est une boussole pour les jeunes qui achèvent leurs études secondaires et qui sont appelés à procéder à leurs choix de programmes au…»

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison unveiled a task force report Wednesday that makes 14 separate recommendations for lowering prescription drug prices ranging from new legislation to stronger enforcement action.

Their excuses for Hillary Clinton's loss are familiar and convenient - but don't pass the smell test.

It was the obvious question after news broke that a 50-year-old charged with forcing college students into prostitution met some of them while living with his daughter in campus housing. How could a father — an ex-convict, no less — live undetected or unchecked in his daughter’s dorm? Even the president of Sarah Lawrence College,

Fox News "Outnumbered" panelist Lisa Boothe on Wednesday blasted Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., for calling President Trump’s clemency moves a result of a “racist and broken criminal justice system.”