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Russia hopes for Ukraine gas deal this week
Sep30

Russia hopes for Ukraine gas deal this week

Russia stopped gas flows to Ukraine in June in a standoff over the gas price with its neighbouring former Soviet republic …read more Source: The Globe and...

12 killed in worst east Ukraine shelling in a week
Sep29

12 killed in worst east Ukraine shelling in a week

Eastern Ukraine has suffered the worst violence in more than a week as fighting between pro-Russian rebels and government troops in the region killed at least 12 people and wounded 32, officials said Monday. …read more Source:...

Kelly McParland: Obama’s about-face blows a hole in soft power’s fantasy world
Sep29

Kelly McParland: Obama’s about-face blows a hole in soft power’s fantasy world

President Barack Obama sudden about-face at last week’s high-profile UN gathering has only exacerbated the difficulty “progressives” have in sorting out how to bring order to the world. Mr. Obama came to office preaching one approach — dialogue, diplomacy, co-operation, brotherhood — and it didn’t work. Now he’s trying bombs....

Leonid Bershidsky: Ukraine is toppling Lenins 20 years too late
Sep29

Leonid Bershidsky: Ukraine is toppling Lenins 20 years too late

The Lenin statue in Kharkiv was the biggest in Ukraine. Perhaps that’s why it lasted longer than most, escaping what has been called the Leninfall — the mass teardown of monuments to the Soviet Union’s founder that Ukraine’s Euromaidan revolution set off this year. It is now toppled, too, but it’s hard to see what that...

Ukraine fighting leaves 12 dead, 32 wounded
Sep29

Ukraine fighting leaves 12 dead, 32 wounded

Eastern Ukraine has suffered the worst violence in more than a week as fighting between pro-Russian rebels and government troops …read more Source: Toronto...

Eastern Ukraine violence kills at least 12, wounds 32
Sep29

Eastern Ukraine violence kills at least 12, wounds 32

Eastern Ukraine has suffered the worst violence in more than a week as fighting between pro-Russian rebels and government troops in the region killed at least 12 people and wounded 32, officials said Monday. …read more Source: CTV...

Ukraine soldiers suffer worst loss of life since ceasefire began
Sep29

Ukraine soldiers suffer worst loss of life since ceasefire began

Seven Ukrainian soldiers were killed when a separatist shell hit their armoured personnel carrier near Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine, a military spokesman says. …read more Source:...

Seven Ukrainian soldiers killed in rebel attack despite ceasefire, military says
Sep29

Seven Ukrainian soldiers killed in rebel attack despite ceasefire, military says

It was the largest single number of Ukrainian soldiers killed since a fragile ceasefire came into force on Sept. 5 …read more Source: The Globe and...

Photos September 28, 2014: Top images from around the world
Sep28

Photos September 28, 2014: Top images from around the world

Syrian Kurds sit on a hill looking down on clashes between jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) and Kurdish fighters,close to the Turkish-Syrian border in Sanlinurfa province, on September 28, 2014. Turkey has so far taken in over 160,000 refugees who fled the IS assault around the town of Ain al-Arab, but Erdogan said it would be better if they...

Russian ship played key role in Canada’s Franklin expedition even as Harper denounced Russian government
Sep28

Russian ship played key role in Canada’s Franklin expedition even as Harper denounced Russian government

A Russian-flagged vessel played a key role in Canada’s recent discovery of a sunken ship from the missing Franklin expedition, the Canadian Press reports. More from the Canadian Press report: Prime Minister Stephen Harper has billed the Franklin search as an expression of Canadian sovereignty in the North — particularly in light of the...