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Quadruplets born to 65 year old mother still in intensive care
BERLIN — Doctors say the week-old quadruplets born prematurely to 65-year-old Annegret Raunigk in Berlin are still in intensive care, but have been gaining a little weight and are being given their mother’s milk through feeding tubes. The babies were born during the 26th week of pregnancy at Berlin’s Charite Hospital on May 19. Five...
Antiques: Junior Gibson mandolin is no child’s play
Q: This Gibson mandolin belonged to my mother, who received it as a young girl in the 1920s. She was quite good and played in the Mandolin Orchestra in Lethbridge, Alta., and also in Toronto at the Ukrainian Labour Temple. It’s 66 centimetres long and the label inside reads “Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Co. Kalamazoo, Michigan, The Gibson Junior...
Wars and displaced persons camps, in Ukraine and in Haiti
Separatist commander Arseny Pavlov • Photo by Andrew Butko While in Moscow three weeks ago, following a media tour to Donetsk, eastern Ukraine in which I participated, I had the pleasure of meeting Jon Hellevig, a regular writer at Russia Insider. Jon was in Donetsk a few weeks before our group, thanks to the efforts of the same Russian/German...
Russia begins massive air force exercise
Russia’s military forces have begun a large exercise involving around 250 aircraft and 12,000 service personnel, according to its defence ministry. The ministry described the four-day drill as a “massive surprise inspection”, to check combat readiness. The tests began on the same day as Nato and some of its partners started an Arctic...
Canadians take part in NATO war games aimed at sending message to Russia over Ukraine aggression
While what Canadian Joint Operations Command is calling Exercise Sarmis has not attracted much attention in the West, it has been big news in Romania and Russia is not amused …read more Source: Vancouver...
Canadians take part in NATO war games aimed at sending message to Russia over Ukraine aggression
CAMP DOIRON, Romania — Would Canadians have reckoned 16 months ago infantrymen from a base in the Ottawa Valley would be climbing a hill on the edge of the Transylvanian Alps to attack a Romanian position in war games aimed at deterring Russian aggression? But there they were, a platoon from the Royal Canadian Regiment in Petawawa, Ont., dressed...
Firearms of the revolution: The Molotov cocktails of Kyiv
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Eurovision: Sweden’s Mans Zelmerlow wins final
Sweden beat Russia to win the 60th Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday, an event described by organizers as beyond politics but marred by boos for the Russian that were apparently prompted by the Ukraine conflict and the Kremlin’s anti-gay policies. Italy took third in Europe’s iconic songfest, which this year carried the extra...
Top rebel commander killed in east Ukraine: report
Aleksey Mozgovoi, a top rebel commander in east Ukraine, has been killed along with around six others in an attack by an unknown group of assailants, the press service for the separatist Luhansk territory (LITs) reported on Saturday. …read more Source: The Toronto...
Sweden wins 60th Eurovision Song Contest
Sweden won the 60th Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday, finishing ahead of Russia, whose contestant received some boos as the Ukraine conflict spilled over into the continent’s largest songfest. …read more Source:...
