This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Vladimir Putin causes scandal with shawl for Xi Jinping’s wife European high court clamps down on ‘benefit tourism’ African football (soccer) federation expels Morocco over Ebola fears Vladimir Putin causes scandal with shawl for
BEIJING (AP) — It was a warm gesture on a chilly night when Vladimir Putin wrapped a shawl around the wife of Xi Jinping while the Chinese president chatted with Barack Obama. The only problem: Putin came off looking gallant,
All Roman Catholic priests and nuns who are still in Crimea working with local religious communities have been told they must leave the region by the end of 2014, states a report at Forum 18 News Service. According to the report,
(AFP) — US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin met briefly Monday in Beijing on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific summit, a senior US official said. The two leaders, who have been engaged for months in a
Russian actor and President Vladimir Putin critic Alexei Devotchenko, 49, was found dead in his Moscow apartment. Police suspect foul play due to the crime scene but did not elaborate. “There is reason to suppose that the artist’s death is
Fox News contributor and former congressman Allen West is taking the job of CEO at the Dallas-based and non-profit National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), a think tank founded in 1983. The group says that since its inception, their goal
The government of Australia, which has been at the forefront of resisting international pressure of developed countries to manage their economies around the threat of climate change, is expected to resist more spending proposed at the summit for a “Green
Russian President Vladimir Putin in nothing but green underwear and European leader Jose Manuel Barroso are among those being paraded and burned during traditional British bonfire celebrations this week. Effigies of the two leaders were unveiled as part of Guy
Last night around a thousand masked anarchists tried their very best to take over Central London and start a revolution. They’d bought their V for Vendetta masks in advance from the local toy shop, and got ready to do battle
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday warned Vladimir Putin he will not be able to avoid a “conversation” over the loss of Australian lives in the downing of Flight MH17 over Ukraine. Last month Abbott vowed to “shirtfront” the
Russian president Vladimir Putin in the most powerful man in the world, according to Forbes magazine. In news that will come as a blow to Barack Obama, the US president was beaten into second place by the Russian leader, with
(AFP) — For a second year in a row, Russian President Vladimir Putin has beaten Barack Obama to the title of world’s most powerful leader as ranked by Forbes. In a year in which Russia annexed Crimea, stoked a conflict
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Nov. 4 (UPI) — An interactive memorial to late Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs in St. Petersburg, Russia, was demolished after Apple’s current CEO announced he is gay. The two-meter high replica of an iPhone 6, whose
Russia’s Ministry of Education and Science purged thousands of “unsuitable” school textbooks from schools, eliminating the business of many of the nation’s book publishers. The purge is raising eyebrows, as the only company unaffected is the Soviet-era publisher Enlightenment, owned
Nuclear-capable Russian bombers in European airspace, NATO intercepts, a foreign submarine in Swedish waters — the fall-out from the Ukraine crisis feels like a return to Cold War days. NATO has intercepted Russian aircraft on more than 100 occasions so
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone that Sunday’s planned elections in eastern Ukraine were illegitimate and would not be recognized by European leaders, a Berlin government spokesman said on Friday. Merkel
Chelsea Handler is not very happy with Instagram right now. On Thursday, the 39-year-old comedienne reportedly posted a topless image of herself alongside Vladimir Putin, both straddling horses, to the social media site. It was deleted immediately. After administrators notified the television
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban froze plans on Friday to impose a tax on Internet traffic, climbing down in the face of massive street protests and warnings from the European Union that the levy was a mistake.
Multiple reports appear to confirm that the FBI has closed in on a second NSA leaker who is suspected of having fed information to journalists Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill, as well as Edward Snowden. The FBI reportedly raided his
Denmark’s school sex education programme has been so successful the collapsing birth rate is “approaching epidemic” levels, and children will now be taught how to successfully reproduce at school, and encouraged to have children younger to save the Danish people.
Another ObamaCare enrollment period is upon us, which means the accumulated trove of personal data stored in the glitchy HealthCareDotGov website will become an even more tempting target for hackers. The test servers got hacked a while back, without anyone
Darth Alekseyevich Vader, an electrician formerly known as Viktor Shevchenko, attempted to run for Prime Minister of Ukraine on Sunday but was turned away at the polling station after he refused to take off his mask. According to EOnline, the
An Australian climate change lobby group has faced a backlash after creating a billboard advert comparing coal miners to paedophiles. The ad was one of a number of possible images posted onto the Facebook page of the Australian Youth Climate
(Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin accused the United States on Friday of making the world a more dangerous place by imposing a “unilateral diktat” in international diplomacy and denied Russia wanted to build a new empire. In a speech laced
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s most prominent opposition leader is in bare feet, dressed in blue jeans and a checkered shirt, as he opens the door to his apartment in a drab Soviet-era block. Two years ago, Alexei Navalny was the
