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UN Security Council holds urgent meeting on Ukraine cease-fire
The UN Security Council is preparing to hold an emergency session on Ukraine amid worries about a renewal of full-scale conflict in the rebel-held east. Officials with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will brief the council Wednesday afternoon. The main city in the east, Donetsk, has seen its heaviest shelling in recent...
Russia’s military plans regular patrols from Arctic to Gulf of Mexico
MOSCOW – Russia’s defence minister says the military will conduct regular long-range bomber patrols, ranging from the Arctic Ocean to the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. Sergei Shoigu’s statement comes as NATO has reported a spike in Russian military flights over the Black, Baltic and North seas as well as the Atlantic Ocean. It...
Obama and Putin circle each other warily in China amid Ukraine strains
BEIJING – On the surface, President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin were all niceties – a pat on the back here, a pleasantry there. But away from the cameras, the two leaders circled each other warily at a global summit in China, coming face to face while relations between their countries continue to deteriorate. The White House...
Harper, Obama attend TPP meeting in Beijing
WATCH: Prime Minister Stephen Harper has concluded his trade mission to China and is expected home in Ottawa in time for Remembrance Day festivities. Jacques Bourbeau reports. BEIJING – Prime Minister Stephen Harper and 11 other world leaders said Monday they’re inching ever closer to an agreement on the proposed Asia-Pacific trade deal as...
Shelling shakes main city in Ukraine’s east, raising fears of full-scale war
DONETSK, Ukraine – The heaviest shelling in recent weeks has shaken the main city in Ukraine’s rebel-held east, heightening worry about the renewal of full-scale conflict despite a cease-fire signed two months ago between Ukraine and Russia-backed separatists. Artillery explosions roared throughout the early hours of Sunday in Donetsk,...
Coffins carrying remains of Malaysia Flight 17 victims arrive in the Netherlands
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands – Recently discovered remains of some of those on board Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 were flown back to the Netherlands on Saturday, nearly four months after the passenger jet plunged out of the sky over eastern Ukraine. The remains, in five coffins, arrived on board a military transport plane and were carried to waiting...
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warns world ‘on brink of new Cold War’
BERLIN – Tensions between the major powers have pushed the world closer to a new Cold War, former Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev said Saturday. The 83-year-old accused the West, particularly the United States, of giving in to “triumphalism” after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the communist bloc a quarter century ago....
Ukraine rebels moving military convoys in hint of possible renewed hostilities
SNIZHNE, Ukraine – Associated Press reporters saw more than 80 unmarked military vehicles on the move Saturday in rebel-controlled areas of eastern Ukraine, indicating that intensified hostilities may lie ahead. Three separate columns were seen – one near the main separatist stronghold of Donetsk and two outside the town of Snizhne, 80 kilometres...
Ukraine accuses Russia of sending dozens of tanks
KIEV, Ukraine – Ukraine on Friday accused Russia of sending dozens of tanks and other heavy weapons into rebel-controlled eastern regions and said five servicemen were killed in clashes with the rebels. Ukrainian National Security and Defence Council spokesman Andriy Lysenko said at least 32 tanks, 16 artillery systems and 30 trucks loaded with...
Rebels in eastern Ukraine say more remains found at Malaysia Airlines crash site
KIEV, Ukraine – Rebel separatists in east Ukraine say more human remains have been found at the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines plane that was brought down in May. The rebel transportation ministry said Friday the remains will be handed over by officials from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to forensic specialists in the...
