The Olympic Committees of at least 5 European countries besides the U.S. have received terrorist threats before the games in Sochi.

Despite assurances by the Russian authorities , letters containing terrorist threats delivered to the Olympic Committees of Italy , Hungary, Germany , Slovenia and Slovakia have caused alarm and caused some nervousness in relation to security.

The protests in Ukraine started at the end of November exactly November 21 when President Yanukovych has arbitrarily set aside a long-awaited trade agreement that would " depth " ties with the EU and called on the contrary to what the people wanted , greater support to Russia. This sparked a series of popular demonstrations pro EU have gradually increased in number and intensity.

The most populous among the Arab countries , Egypt enters the new year 2014 with the deepest divisions in the social sphere and with the greatest bloodshed that have ever occurred during its modern history.

Egypt is not new to " civil violence " has in fact been abused for decades all over the assassination of Anwar Sadat by an Islamist in 1981 , attacks against tourist sites in 1990, today perhaps again at risk.

It seems incredible but exactly 50 years since the assassination of Kennedy that Dallas is still a struggle against a communist country : China.

This time it comes to Caroline Kennedy, daughter of John , U.S. Ambassador to Japan, who will have to deal with the issue of the Senkaku .

Tuesday, November 26 two unarmed B52 U.S. bombers flew over the airspace of the Senkaku Islands in order to challenge China who in the meantime had declared , in an arbitrary and one-sided that it is its own airspace.