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UN data: Quarter billion people on Earth do drugs

About 250 million people on Earth do drugs at least once a year, and 30 million of them are drug addicts, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime …
Interfax-Ukraine

The Hill: Ex-Fox News head Roger Ailes dead

Former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes died May 18 morning at 77, the Drudge Report reported. Read more here.
The Hill

Reuters: Trump campaign had at least 18 undisclosed contacts with Russians – sources

Michael Flynn and other advisers to Donald Trump’s campaign were in contact with Russian officials and others with Kremlin ties in at least 18 calls …
Reuters

Associated Press: Trump finds Russia probe out of his control

WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump is facing a crisis he can’t manage with a tweet or a taunt. The appointment of former FBI Director Robert …
Associated Press

RFE/RL: Canada backs Magnitsky bill sanctioning rights violators in Russia

The Canadian government will back imposing sanctions on officials from Russia and other nations deemed guilty of human rights violations, Foreign …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Washington Post: Putin paid Trump? Republicans think McCarthy’s statement has to be a joke

Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s Republican colleagues were ready on May 17 to accept the House majority leader’s explanation that he was joking in his private …
Washington Post

Business Insider: These are the major hotspots where the US military is deployed

The US military has over 1.3 million men and women on active duty, with more than 450,000 of them stationed overseas. Read more here.
Business Insider

Reuters: Special counsel to probe Trump-Russia ties

The U.S. Justice Department, in the face of rising pressure from Capitol Hill, named former FBI chief Robert Mueller on May 17 as special counsel to …
Reuters

Reuters: Merkel meets Russian-German migrants amid fake news worries

German Chancellor Angela Merkel met leaders of the three million-strong community of Germans with ties to Russia on May 17, amid concerns over their …
Reuters

Reuters: France’s Macron, Tusk begin work on European overhaul

France’s centrist President Emmanuel Macron gave ministerial jobs to conservatives, socialists and newcomers to politics on May 17, appointing an …
Reuters

Reuters: Online speculators increasing bets on early end to Trump presidency

Online betting markets are increasingly seeing action on bets predicting U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment in the wake of controversies …
Reuters

Reuters: Slovakia to buy APCs for 1.2 billion euros, send troops to NATO missions

Slovakia approved on May 17 plans to spend 1.2 billion euros ($1.33 billion) by 2029 to replace the army’s outdated armored personnel carriers, in the …
Reuters

Spiegel: What country has the most female managers?

Girls aren’t allowed to go to school, they marry young and when they get pregnant, they rarely receive prenatal care. Even in industrialized nations …
Spiegel

EurActiv: China’s ambitious Silk Road summit

In the last twenty years, the rise of China has been the most significant geopolitical and global economic development. It now faces further …
EurActiv.com

The Telegraph: Erdogan’s bodyguards in clash with protesters in Washington (VIDEO)

More than nine people were injured after clashes broke out between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s bodyguards and protesters outside the Turkish …
The Telegraph

New York Times: Trump may have shifted US intelligence policy on Russia. Or maybe not

MOSCOW — President Trump’s acknowledgment that he shared intelligence on terrorism with Russia was something of a coup for President Vladimir V. …
New York Times

RFE/RL: Reports say Trump asked Comey to quash FBI probe of aide’s Russian ties

U.S. President Donald Trump tried to quash an FBI investigation of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s ties with Russia during a meeting …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Wall Street Journal: Cybersecurity firm says US hacker linked to fake Macron documents

A group of cybersecurity experts has unearthed ties between an American hacker who maintains a neo-Nazi website and an internet campaign to smear …
Wall Street Journal
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