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Putin Arrives in Rising Cuba, Foresees Rising Latin America
By Molly Seder and David Kerans
WASHINGTON (VR)– Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Cuba on Friday morning, making his second appearance there in 14 years. Cuba is the first stop in his Latin America tour; the grand finale will be a meeting of BRICS leaders in Brazil, July 14-16.
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Indian Village Council Orders Girl Raped
By Andrew Hiller
WASHINGTON (VR) – The idea that the sins of the brother shall be passed on to the sister is a particularly odd thought in the 21st Century. In Northern India, a fourteen year old girl was ordered raped by her own village council as retribution for the alleged actions of her brother. In this perverted case of tit for tat, the teen's brother's alleged actions (he has been accused of assaulting the wife of Birju Pasi) resulted in Pasi raping the young girl. The story, women's advocates say seems to point again to a trend against women and not just in India.
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Boehner Moves Ahead on Obama Lawsuit
By Kate Zickel
WASHINGTON (VR) — House Speaker John Boehner is pushing forward with his pending lawsuit against US President Barack Obama over delays in the new health care law. While Boehner did not specify which aspects of the ACA his proposed congressional lawsuit would challenge, the speaker said Thursday that the suit will focus mainly on the administration’s decision to delay the requirement that certain employers provide health coverage to their employees. Reviews of Boehner’s decision to sue the President are mixed.
By Tawab Malekzad and Sean Nevins
WASHINGTON (VR) – This game is not the first World Cup final that Germany and Argentina will go head to head. Memories from the 1986 and 1990 World Cup finals are sure to haunt the players as they step on the pitch, as this will be the third time that these two teams play each other for the World Cup trophy.
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!["[Barack Obama] promised to be the most open President in history,” Cuillier pointed out. “But now he's one of the worst; that’s just a fact, there's research everywhere that backs that up."](http://cdn.ruvr.ru/2014/07/12/1506486692/7RIAN_02278694.LR.en.jpg "\"[Barack Obama] promised to be the most open President in history,” Cuillier pointed out. “But now he's one of the worst; that’s just a fact, there's research everywhere that backs that up.\"")
By Lauren Murphy
WASHINGTON (VR) – One of the largest teachers’ unions in the United States has announced it will start giving $30,000 grants to some of its members to critique and rewrite Common Core Standards. The American Federation of Teachers is announcing the move at their annual convention that kicked off today in Los Angeles. In the past, the AFT hasn’t completely bashed the standards but the union has grown increasingly critical, experts say this could be a major blow to the standard’s supporters.
By Tawab Malekzad
WASHINGTON (VR) — Several small jihadist groups around the world have allegedly started to pledge their allegiance with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). One of these groups is a Pakistani Taliban group called Tehreek-e-Kalifefat (TeK) (The Caliphate Movement) according to a report by London’s The Telegraph.
By Andrew Hiller
WASHINGTON (VR) – It was an achievement years in the making. Today, Russia fielded a successful test of an Angara Rocket. The achievement is being heralded as one that might provide a powerful new energy that is “ecologically” clean. The Angara is the first space booster designed from scratch since the fall of the Soviet Union. It is propelled by paraffin and oxidized liquid oxygen.
By Andrew Hiller
WASHINGTON (VR) –Israeli jets attacked at least 50 targets in the Gaza Strip earlier today. At least 15 people were reportedly killed, many others wounded. The action follows over 100 rockets being fired from Gaza into Israeli territory, failed US peace negotiations, the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers and a retaliatiatory murder by Israelis against a Palestinian teenager.
By David Kerans
WASHINGTON (VR)— The wedge between Ukraine and Russia over how to handle unrest in the eastern regions of Ukraine is on the verge of producing a serious wedge between the US and Western Europe. The immediate catalyst for both of these wedges is, of course, the escalating aggression Ukraine’s government is visiting on its own population in the eastern regions of the country.
By Crystal Park
Former Georgian president and foreign minister to Mikhail Gorbachev, Eduard Shevardnadze, died today at the age of 86. Heralded as the man who helped end the Cold War, Shevardnadze had a positive reputation in the West. However, in his home country of Georgia, Shevardnadze was plagued by corruption scandals, and was eventually ousted out of office in 2003 after 11 years in power.
By Andrew Hiller
WASHINGTON (VR) – It was an achievement years in the making. Today, Russia fielded a successful test of an Angara Rocket. The achievement is being heralded as one that might provide a powerful new energy that is “ecologically” clean. The Angara is the first space booster designed from scratch since the fall of the Soviet Union. It is propelled by paraffin and oxidized liquid oxygen.
By Molly Seder
WASHINGTON (VR)– Russia’s Foreign Ministry denounced the U.S. arrest of a Russian national on vacation in the Maldives arguing that it was in violation of an international agreement. The secret service detained 30-year-old Roman Seleznev on July 5, after forcing him aboard a plane bound for Guam on charges of hacking Americans’ credit card information. A federal court has ruled to continue to detain Seleznev, a decision that is eliciting protest from Russia.
By Andrew Hiller
WASHINGTON (VR) – The ongoing US Sanctions against Russia have created some choppy waters for Americans companies, but some of America's biggest credit card companies have decided to keeping doing business there. Probably is the financial institution's bottom line. According to Morgan Stanley, Visa generates annual revenues of about $471 million in Russia and about 2 percent of Mastercards gross revenues is derived from business there.
By Tawab Malekzad and Sean Nevins
WASHINGTON (VR) – This game is not the first World Cup final that Germany and Argentina will go head to head. Memories from the 1986 and 1990 World Cup finals are sure to haunt the players as they step on the pitch, as this will be the third time that these two teams play each other for the World Cup trophy.
