Monday, March 17, 2014

WITW (March 18th)

Article: Crimea Region declaring independence from Ukraine and applied to Join Russia

  • According to Aljazeera (Least Bias source), the United Nation has approved the document saying that all countries of the world to recognise the Republic of Crimea as an independent state. In response to Crimea's declaration of independence, European Union foreign ministers moved towards imposing more sanctions on Russia over its role in the breakaway. But, Mikhail Malyshev reported that a televised news conference that the final tally was 96.8 percent in favour of splitting from Ukraine. Knowing this, US has begun giving official warnings to Russia especially upon Putin but Putin refuses to budge by stating that the vote was legal and consistent with the right of self-determination, according to Kremlin.   


Questions:

  1. What has happened to a Hezbollah  Leader in Lebanon?
    • A suicide car bomb attack has killed at least up to four people including a Hezbollah leader in Hezbollah-dominated area of the Bekaa Valley. (Hezbollah; small militia, Radical Shi'ite Muslim organization in Lebanon.
    •  http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/03/car-bomb-lebanon-kills-hezbollah-man-201431620585592964.html
  2. What has the US Navy seals done in the past week?
    • US Navy SEALS have boarded and taken control of an oil tanker late that escaped earlier this month from a rebel-held Libyan port with armed men at the helm, the US Department of Defence said. 
    • http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/03/us-navy-seals-board-rouge-libya-oil-tanker-201431710529805169.html
  3. What has North Korea done yesterday?
    • North Korea has fired 25 short-range rockets from its east coast into open water near Japan. 
    • http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/16/world/asia/nkorea-missile-launches/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

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