By E. Patrick Neer | Echo Houston, we have a problem. Russian deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin announced Tuesday that Russia intends to end cooperation with the United States regarding access to the International Space Station (ISS) in a punitive response to U.S. sanctions, the Telegraph reported. This ...
By E. Patrick Neer | Echo Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and U.S. President Barack Obama have joined forces to find and rescue the 276 girls abducted by Nigerian terrorist organization Boko Haram on Wednesday, Time reported. Obama assured the public the United States would do everything it could ...
By E. Patrick Neer | Echo A measure intended to raise the minimum wage was shot down by the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, raising the ire of President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats, Reuters reported. The White House-backed bill ran into the force of GOP opposition, failing to raise the 60 necessary ...
By E. Patrick Neer | Echo It's time for the global policeman to take an honest look in the mirror. The United Nations denounced the U.S. for 25 human rights issues in a report released Thursday, March 20, Al-Jazeera reported. The U.N. report's initial goal was an assessment of the U.S.'s compliance ...
By E. Patrick Neer | Echo Losing your keys is an inconvenience. Losing a 200-foot-long, 660,000-pound aircraft plane? That's something else entirely. Malaysian Airlines flight MH730 launched from Kuala Lumpur last Saturday, en route for its destination in Beijing. Forty minutes passed uneventfully, ...
By E. Patrick Neer | Echo Sorry, Ukraine, Crimea may be leaving you for someone else. Yesterday, the Crimean parliament voted to join the Russian Federation. Crimea is an autonomous province of Ukraine, located on a peninsula on the southern edge of the country. The province is populated by a Russian ...
By E. Patrick Neer | Echo A boxing heavyweight champion-turned-politician, a right-wing nationalist and a former government minister. In any other part of the world, this could be the setup of a lame joke, but in Ukraine, these three men are the faces of the anti-government opposition movement in a ...
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