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NATO to shift its focus to Europe, create ‘spearhead force’
BRUSSELS, Belgium – Leaving combat operations in Afghanistan behind, NATO is shifting its focus to Europe in 2015 and the creation of its new ultra-rapid-reaction force, designed as a deterrent to Russia. The priority for the 28-member alliance will be to get the new agile expeditionary force into operation, but also settling the question of who...
Photos Jan 5: Top images from around the world
The day’s best photos, as selected by editors at Postmedia News, are a stunning collection of the greatest images from around the world. An internally displaced Afghan girl looks inside from a window at a refugee camp in Kabul on January 5, 2015. Wakil Kohsar /AFP/Getty Images A Ukrainian serviceman climbs onto a new armoured vehicle during...
Letter: Canada’s role in the world
Re: Canada on sidelines as UN arms treaty comes into effect, Dec. 27. It seems like the Conservative government is being duplicitous in its foreign policy with regard to the sale of arms. Prime Minister Stephen Harper is proud of how much he is helping the people in the Ukraine stand up to Russian supported invaders and how our airforce is...
No simple solutions in Ukraine, Iraq crises
There is no question that dramatic unresolved events of 2014 have set the stage for what bodes to be an incredibly violent and volatile 2015. The internal unrest in Ukraine prompted Russia’s annexation of Crimea and has developed into a bloody civil war. Canada has been one of the most strident supporters of the pro-western government in...
In Ukraine’s Donetsk, the ‘death clutch’ of a forgotten war: Don Murray
Despite half-hearted attempts at peace, the fighting in eastern Ukraine carries on, a frozen, almost forgotten conflict in which half a million people have been displaced and there are long lineups for humanitarian aid. …read more Source:...
Rebel commander of ‘Batman’ battalion killed in eastern Ukraine
A Ukrainian security official says a prominent rebel commander in the separatist eastern region of Luhansk has been killed. …read more Source: CTV...
Ukrainian rebel commander of ‘Batman’ batalion killed
A Ukrainian security official says a prominent rebel commander in the separatist eastern region of Luhansk has been killed. …read more Source: CTV...
Boko Haram extremists kidnap 40 boys, young men in northeast Nigeria
BAUCHI, Nigeria – Boko Haram extremists have kidnapped about 40 boys and young men and killed scores of soldiers in a bold attack on a multinational military base in northeast Nigeria, according to fleeing residents and an intelligence officer. The militants came to the remote village of Malari on Friday and urged people to come out and listen to...
Canadian firms hurt by Ukraine crisis – exports to Russia plummet as Moscow strikes back against Canadian sanctions
Canadian exporters stung by Russia’s currency crisis and its retaliatory sanctions against the West wonder what 2015 will hold for a market filled with promise less than 12 months ago, writes Andy Blatchford of the Canadian Press. Here is the rest of Andy Blatchford’s article: Companies from farm-equipment manufacturers to pork...
Canadian exporters to Russia assess crisis
OTTAWA – Canadian exporters stung by Russia’s currency crisis and its retaliatory sanctions against the West wonder what 2015 will hold for a market filled with promise less than 12 months ago.Companies from farm-equipment manufacturers to pork producers spent much of 2014 adjusting to the economic instability in Russia, a country...
