Progressivism in the United States

Two historical breakthroughs took place in U.S. foreign policy within the same week: An interim agreement between the world powers and Iran on its nuclear program on April 4 in Lausanne and U.S. President Barack Obama?s handshake with Cuban President Raul Castro on April 11 in Panama City.

Barack Obama and Raul Castro held the first face-to-face talks between US and Cuban leaders since 1956 in Panama on April 11, vowing to pursue their historic effort to bury Cold War-era enmity.

Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to set foot in Jamaica since 1982 on April 8 -- and made some time for the late reggae legend Bob Marley.

On arrival, Obama descended from Air Force One to greet a long line of people including Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller, whom he embraced.

Billionaire financier George Soros (photo) put the chance of Greece leaving the eurozone at one in three on Monday.

Last week he had put it at 50:50.

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George Soros stated that Greece’s chances of a Grexit are 50-50 and the country is on the verge of catastrophe.

“Greece is a lose-lose story and the best that could happen is that it could scrape by”, stated Soros on Bloomberg. “Greece is a long-term problem handled incorrectly by all sides since the start”.

The chances of Greece leaving the euro area are now 50-50 and the country could go ?down the drain,? billionaire investor George Soros said.

Under the motto "Stop the Bad Reforms in Education", high school pupils in Macedonia marched from the city park in Skopje to the front of the Education Ministry in the city centre, demanding that that government scrap graduation exams.

Following in the footsteps of their older colleagues in universities who successfully rebelled against government plans for state-run "external" tests, high school pupils in Macedonia, united in a movement called "High School Plenum", announced their own protest in Thursday in Skopje.

CNBC underlined this week that “Patience with Greece running low after tough week”. The international cable new network reports that more and more analysts are wondering if relations between institutional creditors and Greece can be repaired. 

Barack Obama pilloried Republicans on March 9 over an incendiary letter to Iran's leaders that warned a nuclear deal with the United States could be scrapped by the next president.