John J. Xenakis - Page 16

Contents: Greece’s parliament raises taxes, cuts pensions to satisfy lenders; Germany’s government blocks debt relief for Greece, despite new austerity measures

Contents: Iran’s younger generations propel Rouhani to decisive presidential win; Brief generational history of Iran and Saudi Arabia; Donald Trump gets royal treatment visiting Saudi Arabia

Contents: France’s new president Macron commits troops to Mali ‘as long as necessary’; UN peacekeeping forces grow as jihadist attacks increase and Mali A riddle

Contents: US warplanes strike Syrian regime military convoy near al-Tanf base; Al-Tanf becomes a military flash point because of strategic value

Contents: Christian vs Muslim violence continues to spread across Central African Republic; CAR refugees threaten to spread Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo

Contents: Syria’s Bashar al-Assad accused of burning thousands of political opponents in crematorium; Final push to expel ISIS from Raqqa, Syria, to begin in June

Contents: North Korea launches medium-range ballistic missile; North Korean missile launch sends a message to everyone

Contents: MSF: Central American refugees entering Mexico are regularly beaten and tortured; Canada receives record numbers of Mexican asylum seekers after Trudeau’s welcome tweet

Contents: Obamacare continues total meltdown as Aetna pulls out completely; Britain’s NHS patients wait for months just to get bowel cancer tests; Criminal Veterans Administration director has firing overturned

Contents: US will ‘quickly’ arm Kurdish militias in Syria, despite Turkey’s opposition; Turkish officials furious at plans to arm the Kurds

Contents: Trump considers new troop surge and strategy change in Afghanistan war; Generational analysis: Afghanistan war versus Iraq war

Contents: Russia, Iran and Turkey announce farcical new Syria peace plan; Syria refuses to permit foreign monitors

Contents: Ancient tensions flare between China and North Korea; China’s relations deteriorate with both South and North Korea

Contents: European officials worry that Macedonia’s chaos could destabilize the Balkans; Macedonia comments reveal acrimonious divisions in the Western Balkans

Contents: Kashmir violence surges as India launches massive house-to-house sweep; Narendra Modi’s ‘demonetization’ program results in more Kashmir bank robberies

Contents: Italy prepares for possible Mediterranean refugee crisis this summer; Europeans blame China and ‘the freeway effect’ for the migrant crisis

Contents: Donald Trump and Mahmoud Abbas commit to work for historic Mideast peace deal; Donald Trump and Mahmoud Abbas try again, channeling Sisyphus

Contents: Kurdish forces in Syria take Tabqa city en route to Raqqa; US military moves to protect Syrian Kurds from Turkey’s military

Contents: Japan’s largest warship, the JS Izumo, will escort and defend a US supply ship; Japan moves from ‘self-defense’ to ‘collective self-defense’

Contents: France’s presidential election in doubt because of abstainers; France’s Eurosceptic Marine Le Pen starts to backtrack on euro policy

Contents: European Union lays out demands for Britain over Brexit negotiations; Sharp disagreements ahead over the 60 billion euro Brexit ‘divorce settlement’; Corrections to yesterday’s article on Macedonia

Contents: Protesters storm Macedonia’s parliament fearing calls for ‘Greater Albania’; Brief generational history of Macedonia; Heidelberg Conflict Barometer

Contents: Israel’s warplanes strike weapons depot inside Syria near Damascus; Israeli analyst: A new war with Hezbollah might involve all of Lebanon

Contents: Philippines President Duterte seeks to appease China at ASEAN meeting; The phrase ‘Code of Conduct’ is the new code word for appeasement

Contents: Turkey’s warplanes strike Kurdish militias fighting ISIS in Syria and Iraq; PKK conducts new terror attack in southeastern Turkey; US State Dept. says that it’s ‘deeply concerned’ about the Turkish airstrikes

Contents: In Pakistan, you may murder anyone with impunity by accusing him of blasphemy first; Even Pakistan is shocked by three blasphemy murders in 11 days

Contents: Kenya’s herders attack well-known conservationist, stoking tribal tensions; Battle between Kenya’s farmers and herders morphs into tribal conflict

Contents: Scientists worldwide hold an international March for Money on ‘Earth Day’; Climate change — a self-correcting problem; Climate change predictions; Rural America and Working Class America

Contents: Kashmiri students at two Indian colleges harassed and beaten; Indians seek solutions and blame intervention from China

Contents: Cameroon’s president finally caves in, restores internet to English speakers; With violence in Venezuela’s streets continuing, Maduro confiscates GM factories

Contents: EU officials increasingly fear a Marine Le Pen upset victory in France’s elections; Marine Le Pen fights accusations of anti-Semitism; The threat to the ‘European project’

Contents: UN says lengthy Mosul operation leading to major humanitarian disaster; ISIS using both mustard gas and chlorine gas attacks in Mosul; Iraq says that ISIS and al-Qaeda are in talks to join forces

Contents: Video of Kashmir man tied to jeep further inflames anti-India violence; Signs grow in media that Indians are beginning worry about Kashmir

Contents: Sharply divided Turkey approves referendum giving Erdogan near-dictatorial powers; Turkey’s referendum results will be closely scrutinized by Europe

Contents: Deadly explosion in Syria targets buses carrying 5,000 al-Assad supporters; Evidence of Bashar al-Assad’s war crimes and atrocities continues to grow

Contents: US sends dozens of troops to Somalia, first time since Black Hawk Down; Somalia’s civil war and the Black Hawk Down incident