My Conversation with Nicholas Kristof

Chinese warships in first call at an Iran port

Two Chinese destroyers have arrived at Iran’s Gulf port of Bandar Abbas, in an unprecedented visit attesting to a new rapprochement between the two countries, Iranian media reported Sunday. http://news.yahoo.com/chinese-warships-first-call-iran-port-205315307.html

Seriously, who does this on a flight?!

Shame on the plane! Photos of passengers behaving badly. Jeanne Moos reports on bare bellies and bare feet at 30,000 feet. http://edition.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/living/2014/09/17/erin-pkg-moos-passenger-shaming.cnn.html?hpt=travel_hp_blogroll

Russia won’t publish its European

  EU officials who are blacklisted from entering Russia have an ‘aggressive position’ towards the country and press for further sanctions, Russia’s Foreign Ministry representative said on Thursday. Moscow added it has no plans to make the list public.         http://rt.com/politics/192640-eu-russia-blacklist-no-entry/