Jack DEgypt goes from bad to worse: Under President Sisi, the nation longs for the good old days of Mubarakverified_publisherSalon - By Steven A. CookEgyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is visiting Washington. Since being elected in 2014 after orchestrating a coup d’état in the summer of 2013, the Egyptian leader has sought a White House meeting. President Barack Obama resisted, given the iron fist Sisi has employed to establish control over …
Jack DOil drops to lowest since OPEC deal, U.S. crude below $50/bblverified_publisherReuters - Devika Krishna KumarNEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil fell about 2 percent on Thursday in heavy trade, extending the previous session's slump to prices not seen since an OPEC-led pact to cut production was agreed, as record U.S. crude inventories fed doubts about the effectiveness of the deal to curb a global glut. U.S. crude …
Jack DNetanyahu, Putin and radical Shiitesverified_publisherDW English - Kersten KnippIsraeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is due to meet Russian President Putin in Moscow. They're expected to discuss the growing Shiite influence in the …
Jack DVitaly Churkin, Russia’s U.N. Ambassador, Dies at 64 (Published 2017)verified_publisherThe New York Times - Somini SenguptaUNITED NATIONS — Vitaly I. Churkin, the Russian ambassador to the United Nations, who represented his country through times of domestic tumult and rising tensions with the West, died on Monday morning while at work in Manhattan. He would have turned 65 on Tuesday. The Russian government said he died …
Jack DThe Burning Problem Of China's Garbageverified_publisherNPR - Rob SchmitzSitting inside a glass-encased cockpit, two men fiddle with joysticks controlling giant claws outside. They look like they're playing at a vending machine at a mall, where you try to grasp a stuffed animal. But these are engineers. The claws they're manipulating are as big as houses, and they're …
Jack DWhitehall 'deeply disturbed' by Russia's role in Montenegro coup plotThe Telegraph - Ben Farmer,The British Government is “deeply disturbed” about Russian involvement in an assassination plot last year to overthrow a Balkan government and sabotage its plan to join Nato, sources said last night. The Foreign Office called for “a competent, transparent judicial process and trial” of coup plotters …