What We’re Reading
Date: 12 December 2014
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Get recommendations from New York Times reporters and editors, highlighting great stories from around the web. Today, great reads from John Branch, Ravi Somaiya and others.
2014. gada 11. decembris bija ceturtdiena zem zvaigznes zīmes ♐. Tā bija 344 diena gadā. ASV prezidents bija Barack Obama.
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Date: 12 December 2014
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Get recommendations from New York Times reporters and editors, highlighting great stories from around the web. Today, great reads from John Branch, Ravi Somaiya and others.
Date: 11 December 2014
By MARK SCOTT
Mark SCOTT
Google plans to shut the site in the country in protest of a new law that would force the company and other news aggregators to pay Spanish publishers for the use of their content.
Date: 11 December 2014
By MARK SCOTT
Mark SCOTT
The decision is in response to a Spanish law that comes into force in January that would allow newspapers and other publishers to charge Google for content it uses.
Date: 12 December 2014
By DAVID LEONHARDT
David LEONHARDT
Date: 11 December 2014
By ELLEN BARRY
Ellen BARRY
News analysis; Russian Pres Vladimir Putin, shunned by many Western leaders, visits longtime ally India to discuss possible trade projects; Russia's partnership with India seems uncertain, however, as India grows less interested in geopolitics and more interested in economic growth, which Russia may not be in best position to help foster.
Date: 11 December 2014
By JONATHAN MAHLER
Jonathan MAHLER
Federal District Court Judge Leonie M Brinkema in Alexandria, Va, gives Obama administration and Justice Department deadline for deciding whether to force New York Times reporter James Risen to testify at trial of whistle-blower Jeffrey Sterling; Risen has been battling government subpoenas to reveal his confidential sources about bungled Central Intelligence Agency operation since 2008.
Date: 12 December 2014
By PETER POMERANTSEV
Peter POMERANTSEV
Op-Ed article by British television producer Peter Pomerantsev contends that Russians who came of age before 1991 grew up in culture dependent on lying for survival and assumed notion of split identities that led to nation's authoritarian and farcical government; says Russia has been employing similar obfuscations to lead Western leaders on; holds that twisting of truth that Russian government uses to control cynical public at home also plays well with West increasingly skeptical of its own institutions.
Date: 11 December 2014
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS