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Reuters: United Nations appoints Portugal’s Guterres as next UN chief

The 193-member United Nations General Assembly unanimously appointed former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres on October 13 as the ninth …
Reuters

Reuters: Trump adviser accuses US of disregarding Russia’s interests

MOSCOW – A foreign policy adviser to U.S. Republican candidate Donald Trump has accused Washington of contributing to an atmosphere of mutual contempt …
Reuters

Associated Press: Russia, the West clash in tiny Montenegro election

PODGORICA, Montenegro – Voters in Montenegro face a stark choice: continue on a chartered pro-Western course and NATO membership, or slide back to the …
Associated Press

Bloomberg: Scotland poses new Brexit issue for May with referendum bill

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she’ll publish a draft Scottish Independence Referendum Bill next week, holding out the threat of a new bid to …
Bloomberg

BBC: This map will show you the windiest place on Earth right now

This dynamic map shows exactly which way is the wind is blowing everywhere on Earth. Its creator Cameron Beccario drew on data from several sources, …
BBC

Wall Street Journal: Europe’s ties with Russia fray over Moscow’s role in Aleppo bombing

European relations with Moscow, which went into a tailspin over Ukraine in 2014, are deteriorating anew as Russian bombing of the Syrian city of …
Wall Street Journal

Bloomberg: Trump puzzled why more women don’t support him

Donald Trump planted a kiss on a rally sign that he took from a woman at one of his Florida events on Wednesday, and expressed bewilderment that some …
Bloomberg

Politico: Clinton campaign accuses Trump of ‘possible ties to foreign espionage’

Hillary Clinton’s campaign escalated its response Wednesday to WikiLeaks’ ongoing publication of hacked emails from aide John Podesta, demanding …
POLITICO

BBC: Trump presidency ‘dangerous’, says UN rights chief

Donald Trump’s “deeply unsettling and disturbing” views make him a danger internationally, the UN’s human rights chief has said. UN High Commissioner …
BBC

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Aleppo neighborhood pounded by air strikes

Victims were pulled from the rubble of bombed-out buildings in Aleppo’s Bustan al-Qasr district on October 11. It came after Russian warplanes resumed …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Ukraine Today: Spain arrests Ukrainian sailors in drug trafficking case

Eleven Ukrainian sailors and a citizen of Uzbekistan have been arrested and investigated in Spain for their alleged involvement in a network that …
Ukraine Today

Politico: Vladimir Putin and France unfriend each other

The new Cold War is getting chilly again. Russian President Vladimir Putin called off a trip to Paris due to take place next week, sparking a …
POLITICO

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Clinton campaign says FBI probing whether Russia behind leaked e-mails

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign said the FBI is investigating whether Russia is behind the hacking and leak of a top …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Voice of America: In jailing Clinton, Trump would have company among world leaders

If Republican Party presidential candidate Donald Trump were elected and carried out his promise to investigate and jail his political opponent, …
Voice of America

Bloomberg: Oil falls from 15-month high amid questions on Russian stance

Oil slipped from a 15-month high in New York amid uncertainty over whether Russia would join an OPEC deal to curb supply. Crude fell as much as 1.9 …
Bloomberg

Reuters: Second hacker group targets SWIFT users, Symantec warns

Cyber-security firm Symantec Corp said on Oct. 11 that a second hacking group has sought to rob banks using fraudulent SWIFT messages, the same …
Reuters

Washington Post: Across Europe, revulsion at Trump but little idea of what to do about him

LONDON – The man who stands a reasonable chance of becoming the next president of the United States is “a hate preacher.” He is “unfit to hold the …
Washington Post

UPDATE: Georgia to continue wobbling between West, Russia after election

Georgia looks set to continue following a tricky path between East and West, as the country’s ruling party Georgian Dream came out top in the first …
Oleg Sukhov
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