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Canada looks to join NATO force of 10,000 troops meant to keep Russia in check
Canada is interested in joining a NATO joint expeditionary force of at least 10,000 troops that is being created to bolster the alliance’s eastern flank in an effort to check Russia’s creeping military takeover of eastern Ukraine, according to Britain’s Financial Times newspaper. The British-led division-sized force will include...
Postcard from Washington: Texas Governor Rick Perry sees ‘aggressive overreach’ … but not in the mirror
WASHINGTON — You could list about five dozen putative candidates for the U.S. presidency in 2016 but only one of them is facing 109 years in the Texas State Penitentiary for abuse of official capacity. Now this Bush-y-haired Republican is standing before us and trying his best to talk tough about eye-RACK while brandishing the most excruciatingly...
Photos August 29: Top images from around the world
A North Korean boy arm wrestles with former NFL player Bob “The Beast” Sapp Friday, Aug. 29, 2014 in Pyongyang, North Korea. Former NFL player Sapp and a group of brawny pro wrestlers led by a Japanese politician took their oddball attempt at sports diplomacy to the streets of Pyongyang on Friday, staging a tug-war and arm wrestling competition...
UN Security Council meets in emergency session on growing Ukraine crisis
By Cara Anna And Trenton Daniel The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday accused Moscow of having “outright lied” about its role in Ukraine, as alarmed members of the Security Council demanded that Russia remove its fighters from a new front in the unfolding crisis in Ukraine. Council members at the emergency meeting heard from a top...
Canadian troops off to Europe as part of NATO plan to rein in Putin’s ambitions
As many as 1,000 Canadian troops at a time are expected to soon be constantly rotating through Europe. It will be the first time that Canada has so many troops across the pond since it closed two bases in Germany’s Black Forest when the Cold War ended. The Canadians are to be part of an urgent NATO plan to try to rein in Vladimir...
Rebels enter southeastern town as battle for Ukraine’s strategic coastline heats up
By Peter Leonard NOVOAZOVSK, Ukraine — Pushing west in a new offensive along Ukraine’s strategic coastline, heavily armed Russian-backed separatist forces captured new territory Wednesday far from their previous battles with government troops. The bold offensive along a new southeastern front raised the prospect that the separatists are...
Photos August 26: Top images from around the world
The child of a Sich special volonteer battalion member holds her father on August 26, 2014 during an oath-taking and farewell ceremony in Kiev. The battalion is leaving the Ukrainian capital to take part in anti-terrorists operation (ATO) in the east of the country. Kiev’s security services on August 26 released a video purporting to show...
As tanks roll, Ukraine unveils $3 billion boost to defence budget against pro-Russian rebels
By Efrem Lukatsky And Laura Mills KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s president announced plans Sunday to boost his country’s defence spending by an estimated 50 per cent as government forces seek to overpower pro-Russian separatists in the east. President Petro Poroshenko pledged to spend an extra 40 billion hryvnia ($3 billion) by 2017 during...
Aid trucks return empty from Ukraine to Russia
Alexander Roslyakov DONETSK, Russia — Hundreds of trucks from a bitterly disputed Russian aid convoy to rebel-held eastern Ukraine rolled back across the border into Russia on Saturday. An Associated Press reporter counted 225 of the white tarp-covered trucks as they drove from Ukraine into a Russian border town called Donetsk, which bears the...
Photos August 22: Top images from around the world
Family members of Malaysia Airlines flight attendant Nur Shazana Mohamed Salleh, one of the Malaysians who perished aboard flight MH17 that was downed in eastern Ukraine, cry during a burial ceremony in Putrajaya, outside Kuala Lumpur on August 22, 2014. Black-clad Malaysians paused for a minute of silence Friday on a nationwide day of mourning...
