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Nordic Allies Help Navy Improve Ship Ops in Icy Waterways as Arctic Competition Heats Up Swedish submarine HMS Gotland, left, HNLMS Tromp (F 803), center, and HMS Portland (F 79) steam in formation with other NATO and partner nation ships during maneuvering drills as a part of exercise Dynamic Mongoose, May 4, 2015. (Amanda S. Kitchner/U.S. Navy) 4 Feb 2021 In 2019, 10 Russian submarines plied the waters of the Arctic and the Barents Sea -- egresses to the Atlantic Ocean where they "exercise th...

American leadership a necessity in a post-COVID world The Montgomery Advertiser 2/4/2021 Will Sellers, Special to the Advertiser © Contributed Will Sellers Thirty years ago, the world seemed like a more stable place.  The United States was at the height of international prowess and had deftly negotiated with almost the entire world to oust Sadam Hussein from Kuwait. President Bush and his foreign policy team had built an international coalition to acknowledge that aggressi...

How Trans Europe Express trains could be making a comeback CNN 2/5/2021 © Courtesy Nightjet A revitalized network of overnight trains has also been proposed. "Rendezvous on Champs-Elysees. Leave Paris in the morning with T-E-E. In Vienna we sit in a late-night café. Straight connection, T-E-E." Kraftwerks minimalist 1976 tribute to the pleasure of long-distance train journeys will likely be familiar to music fans, but to a generation of Europeans, Trans Europe Express remains a byword for...

Oscars: Previewing Top Contenders For The International Feature Shortlist – Part One Deadline 2/3/2021 Voting for the shortlist in the International Feature Film Oscar race is currently underway with the expanded roster of 15 titles to be unveiled next week. In a year unlike any other, there is reliably excellent work and another embarrassment of riches among the 93 films submitted from countries all around the world. In the first of a two-part series, below is the latest installment in our...

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ANALYSIS-As polls tighten, Hungarys Orban steps up pre-election spending Reuters 2/4/2021 * Orbans Fidesz says it is extending decade-long policies * Latest polls show neck-and-neck race with united opposition By Gergely Szakacs BUDAPEST, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Ahead of an election next year, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is spending money on key groups of voters as opinion polls show a neck-and-neck race with an opposition united against him for the first time. The right-wing premier, in ...

2020 and 2016 worlds hottest years on record All eyes on Bidens next move All parties are curious what goals Biden will set for the next decade to make his long-term targets achievable. His administration has already indicated an aim to make the US power sector climate neutral by 2035. The EU, which submitted an updated NDC in December 2020, aims to cut all emissions by at least 55% by 2030. Cleetus and Gore both singled out transport policy as one vital area for both the US and the EU in achie...

Polish novel Koreanska Syrena tells modern haenyeo fantasy story Posted : 2021-02-04 16:08 Updated : 2021-02-05 17:33 Oliwia In, author of Polish novel "Koreanska Syrena," or "Korean mermaid" in English, about "haenyeo," or female divers, of Jeju Island / Courtesy of Oliwia In By Kwon Mee-yoo Oliwia In, a Polish citizen having lived in Korea for over 12 years, is about to publish her first book "Koreanska Syrena," or "Korean mermaid," in English, in her home country. In, who studied art hist...

Feb. 4, 2021 Ahead of an election next year, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is spending money on key groups of voters as opinion polls show a neck-and-neck race with an opposition united against him for the first time. The right-wing premier, in power since 2010, is under pressure to reopen the economy after a pandemic-driven crash that sent Hungary into its worst recession since the global financial crisis, ending seven years of steady growth. A tally by news website hvg.hu showed about...

What happened to the Trans Europe Express “Rendezvous on Champs-Elysees. Leave Paris in the morning with T-E-E. In Vienna we sit in a late-night café. Straight connection, T-E-E.” Kraftwerk’s minimalist 1976 tribute to the pleasure of long-distance train journeys will likely be familiar to music fans, but to a generation of Europeans, Trans Europe Express remains a byword for fast, luxurious international travel. Replaced by the patchy and somewhat less glamorous EuroCity brand in 1987, ...