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Two Strategies and a Celebration

Reality Check: what is Putin's Ukraine strategy, what does Boko Haram want, and Malta passes same-sex partnership and adoption laws.

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A float at the Rosenmontag parade in Düsseldorf, March 3rd, 2014.

Putin's Strategy

Two weeks have passed and they're back to tense talks: US President Barack Obama has urged his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to use his influence to make separatists in eastern Ukraine stand down. With the tension mounting ever higher, how close to war with the Ukraine is Russia?

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Vehicles on fire after a powerful explosion hit Nyana Motor Park, on the outskirts of Abuja, Nigeria, April 14th, 2014.

Boko Haram

Yesterday, a massive explosion ripped through a bus station during the morning rush hour in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, killing at least 71 people and wounding 124. They haven't officially claimed responsibility but all fingers are pointing at the Nigerian radical group Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is forbidden" in the local Hausa language. What else is there to know about this terror organisation?

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Now Malta can celebrate under a rainbow flag too.

Malta

The Maltese parliament approved a law yesterday to recognise same-sex partnerships on a legal par with marriage, including allowing gay couples to adopt. This in a country so conservative that it legalized divorce in 2011! Why the swift change?

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