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What Russia wants from Obama
What Russia wants from the U.S. now
Russian official Alexei Pushkov tells CNN's Christiane Amanpour what his country wants from Obama's second term.
What Russia wants from the U.S. now
Part II: Russian official Alexei Pushkov tells CNN's Christiane Amanpour what his country wants from Obama's second term.
By Mick Krever, CNN
To congratulate U.S. President Barack Obama on his reelection, Russian Prime Minister Demitry Medvedev did what any other self-respecting 21st-century denizen would do: He took to Twitter.
“@BarackObama Congratulations!,” he Tweeted Wednesday morning.
Given the state of U.S.-Russian relations in recent years, it may seem an overly joyful reaction. FULL POST
Syria’s children search for hope and a place to live
By Samuel Burke, CNN
More than half of those fleeing for their lives in Syria are children. Some arrive with their families, while others are war orphans who arrive alone.
The numbers are exploding. Turkey says 100,000 refugees have now flooded that country and the government says it cannot build camps fast enough to house the vast numbers.
Human rights groups say right now at least 15,000 Syrian refugees are stranded at the border. Turkey won't let them across, leaving them as sitting ducks for Bashar al-Assad's artillery and his air force.
Turkey isn’t alone – tens of thousands of other refugees are flowing into Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan – countries with even fewer resources to deal with them. FULL POST
The U.S. election and the price of sitting out Syria
This is part of a series on foreign policy issues Christiane Amanpour is analyzing in the-lead up to next week’s presidential debate on foreign affairs.
By Christiane Amanpour, CNN & ABC
For the last 19 months Syria has fallen deeper and deeper into civil war. What started in March 2011 as another offshoot of the Arab Spring, the demand for freedom and reform, was met so brutally that ordinary Syrians decided that Assad had to go.
Left to fester, with the United Nations deadlocked over how to end the fighting, the death toll has reached 29,000 according to the Syrian opposition, and the most horrific massacres of women, children and old men have taken place. Extremists and foreign jihadists are joining the battle. With 1.2 million people displaced, the approaching winter poses as much of a threat as the relentless violence.
As worrisome as this is, recent history has shown us that when people are battling for survival, they end up taking help wherever it’s offered. When I covered the 1990s genocide in Bosnia, the people pleaded for years for the West to help. They did not. Instead the U.N. imposed a similar arms embargo that only ensured the superiority of the better-armed. So all sorts of foreign Mujaheddin came in. The parallels are eerily similar in Syria.
Will whoever wins the U.S. election make any changes to this policy of ‘Sitting Out Syria?’ FULL POST
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