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Sunday, June 5, 2016

#Ukraine - More Militant Attacks: Government troops under shelling in eastern regions UKRAINE TODAY

Published on 3 Jun 2016

The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 49 times in the past 24 hours. This is according to the ATO HQ.

More than 30 cases of the use of weapons by the enemy against the Ukrainian defenders were recorded from Thursday evening to midnight.

#USA - Obama: Increase Social Security Benefits: The Young Turks

Published on 4 Jun 2016

Earlier in Obama’s presidency, he offered to cut social security. Now, in a dramatic reversal, he’s saying we should expand the program. Why? Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

"PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA endorsed an expansion of Social Security for the first time on Wednesday.

“We can’t afford to weaken Social Security,” he said during a speech on economic policy in Elkhart, Indiana. “We should be strengthening Social Security. And not only do we need to strengthen its long-term health, it’s time we finally made Social Security more generous, and increased its benefits so that today’s retirees and future generations get the dignified retirement that they’ve earned.”

The increased benefits, he said, could be paid for “by asking the wealthiest Americans to contribute a little bit more. They can afford it. I can afford it.”

This was a far cry from Obama’s position on the program in late 2012, when his administration argued for reducing Social Security benefits by recalculating the way cost of living adjustments are made.”*

Read more here: https://theintercept.com/2016/06/02/o...

Hosts: Cenk Uygur

#Ukraine - 'Normandy Quartet' agrees on OSCE mission, says Poroshenko: euronews (in English

Published on 4 Jun 2016

Ukraine's president Petro Poroshenko said on Friday the leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine -- the "Normandy Quartet" -- have agreed on deploying an OSCE police mission to Ukraine's eastern region of Donbass.

He was speaking in Kyiv a day after Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there had been no such agreement.

"Today, we have made a big diplomatic breakthrough. A common agreement on the OSCE police mission deployment was made not only at the highest level of the ‘Normandy Quar…

#Syria - regime strikes kill 35 in Aleppo: Al Jazeera English

Published on 4 Jun 2016

As Syrian forces battle ISIL fighters in Raqqa, in Aleppo province, the government continues to bomb civilians. At least 35 people were killed in government airstrikes in rebel-held areas of the province, as Zein Basravi reports.