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Ukraine drops nonaligned status, won’t join NATO yet
KIEV, Ukraine – The Ukrainian president on Monday signed a bill dropping his country’s nonaligned status but signalled that he will hold a referendum before seeking NATO membership. The bill, which Parliament adopted last week and Petro Poroshenko signed into the law at a news conference on Monday, has angered Moscow which called it a...
Ukraine’s president signs bill dropping nonaligned status
The Ukrainian president has signed a bill dropping his country’s nonaligned status but signalled that he will hold a referendum before seeking NATO membership. …read more Source: CTV...
Republican horses at the starting gate malaise
It’s the 29th of December and the annual case of General Malaise has infected me. It’s left me worried, not about politics or whether the White House will continue its dismantling of America and Obama’s use of the Constitution and Bill of Rights as a doormat on which he can scrub his soul (if he has one). It really doesn’t...
Gormley: In defence of outrage
The latest trend in Internet outrage is to be outraged by outrage, and its target may as well be me. Me, along with everyone else who writes about outrageous things for a newspaper, or shakes their fist while reading about the outrageous things described in newspapers. There are lots of us out there: people irritated by irritating things. Maybe...
Canada ‘stood up strongly abroad for Canadian values’ in 2014: Baird
Calling 2014 “an unprecedented year in the fight for freedom and security around the world,” Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Canada responded to various crises the way it knows best. “Canada has always approached global challenges from a principled position,” Baird said, explaining the country’s involvement in conflicts in Europe...
Russia’s ruble down 7 per cent after release of economic report
MOSCOW – The Russian currency extended its losses on Monday after a report showed the economy has started shrinking in annual terms for the first time since 2009 as the country is buffeted by falling oil prices and Western sanctions. Meanwhile, the government, which has been scrambling to support the ruble and the economy, announced fresh steps...
Search team discovers ‘oily spots’ where AirAsia jet may have crashed
WATCH: Air-Asia airbus 320 vanished from radar off the coast of Indonesia SURABAYA, Indonesia – An Indonesian helicopter searching for the missing AirAsia jetliner saw two oily spots in the water Monday, and an Australian search plane spotted objects elsewhere in the Java Sea, but it was too early to know whether either was connected to the...
Flight QZ8501 disappeared at cruising altitude — usually the safest part of the trip
By Trisnadi Marjan and Margie Mason SURABAYA, Indonesia — The search for a missing AirAsia jet carrying 162 people that disappeared more than 24 hours ago on a flight from Indonesia to Singapore resumed with first light Monday. First Admiral Sigit Setiayana, the Naval Aviation Centre commander at the Surabaya air force base, said that 12 navy...
Justice Belied: The Unbalanced Scales of International Criminal Justice
Justice Belied: The Unbalanced Scales of International Criminal Justice Edited by Sebastien Chartrand and John Philpot Baraka Books, 2014 This enlightening book on international criminal justice is a collection of papers by 15 authors, many involved in the defence of individuals tried by international courts. While the papers differ in tone and...
Missing AirAsia flight is 3rd Malaysia linked incident this year
JAKARTA, Indonesia – The disappearance Sunday of AirAsia Flight 8501 was the third air incident this year involving Malaysia, where budget carrier AirAsia in based. Here’s a look at the two other disasters, as well as the latest missing flight, which went missing with 162 people aboard less than an hour after taking off from Surabaya,...
