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Washingtonmdash; President Biden pledged Friday to continue working every day to secure the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich from Russian detention, as the American journalist s time imprisoned in Russia hit the one-year mark. We will c asics ontinue to denounce and impose costs for Russia s appalling attempts to use Americans as bargaining chips, Mr. Biden said in a statement released Friday that also mentioned the case of Paul Whelan, another U.S. citizen who has been held in Russia since 2018.Gershkovich mdash; whom the U.S. State Department deemed wrongfully detained soon after his arrest mdash; is still awaiting asics gel a trial on espionage charges that the White House, his family and his employer all insist are fabricated, but which could still see him sentenced to decades in prison.The Wall Street Journal published a largely blank front page on Friday, with a headline reading His story should be here, in a protest over the ongoing detention of its reporter. Journalist Evan Gershkovich, arrested on espionage charges, stands inside a defendants cage before a hearing to consider an appeal on his arrest at the Moscow City Court in Moscow, April 18, 2023. NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty The U.S.-born son of Soviet emigres covered Russia for six years, as the Kremlin made independent, on-the salomon xt -ground reporting increasingly dangerous and illegal. Xntz Italy blocks another ship full of rescued migrants
TomDispatch Conflict and intrigue over valuable energy supplies have been features of the international landscape for a long time. Major wars over oil have been fought every decade or so since World War I, and smaller engagements have erupted every few years; a flare-up stanley kubek or two in 2012, then, would be part of the normal scheme of things. Instead, what we are now seeing is a whole cluster of oil-related clashes stretching across the globe, involving a dozen or so countries, with more popping up all the time. Consider these flash-points as signals that we are entering an era of intensified conflict over energy.From the Atlantic to the Pacific, Argentina to the Philippines, here are the six areas of conflict -- all tied to energy supplies -- that have made news in just the first few months of 2012:A brewing war between Sudan and South Suda stanley termosy n: On April 10th, forces from the newly independent state of South Sudan occupied the oil center of Heglig, a town granted to Sudan as part of a peace settlement that allowed the southerners to secede in 2011. The northerners, based in Khartoum, then mobilized their own forces and drove the South Sudanese out of Heglig. Fighting has since stanley cup price erupted all along the contested border between the two countries, accompanied by air strikes on towns in South Sudan. Although the fighting has not yet reached the level of a full-scale war, international efforts to negotiate a cease-fire and a peaceful resolution to the dispute have yet to meet with success.
Washingtonmdash; President Biden pledged Friday to continue working every day to secure the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich from Russian detention, as the American journalist s time imprisoned in Russia hit the one-year mark. We will c asics ontinue to denounce and impose costs for Russia s appalling attempts to use Americans as bargaining chips, Mr. Biden said in a statement released Friday that also mentioned the case of Paul Whelan, another U.S. citizen who has been held in Russia since 2018.Gershkovich mdash; whom the U.S. State Department deemed wrongfully detained soon after his arrest mdash; is still awaiting asics gel a trial on espionage charges that the White House, his family and his employer all insist are fabricated, but which could still see him sentenced to decades in prison.The Wall Street Journal published a largely blank front page on Friday, with a headline reading His story should be here, in a protest over the ongoing detention of its reporter. Journalist Evan Gershkovich, arrested on espionage charges, stands inside a defendants cage before a hearing to consider an appeal on his arrest at the Moscow City Court in Moscow, April 18, 2023. NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty The U.S.-born son of Soviet emigres covered Russia for six years, as the Kremlin made independent, on-the salomon xt -ground reporting increasingly dangerous and illegal. Xntz Italy blocks another ship full of rescued migrants
TomDispatch Conflict and intrigue over valuable energy supplies have been features of the international landscape for a long time. Major wars over oil have been fought every decade or so since World War I, and smaller engagements have erupted every few years; a flare-up stanley kubek or two in 2012, then, would be part of the normal scheme of things. Instead, what we are now seeing is a whole cluster of oil-related clashes stretching across the globe, involving a dozen or so countries, with more popping up all the time. Consider these flash-points as signals that we are entering an era of intensified conflict over energy.From the Atlantic to the Pacific, Argentina to the Philippines, here are the six areas of conflict -- all tied to energy supplies -- that have made news in just the first few months of 2012:A brewing war between Sudan and South Suda stanley termosy n: On April 10th, forces from the newly independent state of South Sudan occupied the oil center of Heglig, a town granted to Sudan as part of a peace settlement that allowed the southerners to secede in 2011. The northerners, based in Khartoum, then mobilized their own forces and drove the South Sudanese out of Heglig. Fighting has since stanley cup price erupted all along the contested border between the two countries, accompanied by air strikes on towns in South Sudan. Although the fighting has not yet reached the level of a full-scale war, international efforts to negotiate a cease-fire and a peaceful resolution to the dispute have yet to meet with success.
