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Investigators renew bid to access Malaysian jet crash site despite fighting
Jul28

Investigators renew bid to access Malaysian jet crash site despite fighting

A joint Australian-Dutch probe team renewed efforts on Monday to gain access to the crash site of a Malaysian airliner in eastern Ukraine, Australian Federal Police said, after fierce fighting kept them away the previous day. …read more Source:...

Satellite images prove Russia fired rockets into Ukraine after MH17 crash, U.S. says
Jul28

Satellite images prove Russia fired rockets into Ukraine after MH17 crash, U.S. says

Russia’s foreign ministry over the weekend accused the U.S. of conducting ‘an unrelenting campaign of slander against Russia, ever more relying on open lies’ …read more Source: Calgary...

Ukraine’s move to ban its Communist Party a step toward real independence
Jul28

Ukraine’s move to ban its Communist Party a step toward real independence

The party pushes the Kremlin’s agenda in Ukraine, in particular the allegation that the Ukrainian government is the main culprit of the death of civilians in the Donetsk conflict …read more Source: The Globe and...

US releases images to back up claim Russia gave rockets to separatists, shelled Ukraine
Jul28

US releases images to back up claim Russia gave rockets to separatists, shelled Ukraine

The U.S. stepped up pressure on Moscow on Sunday by releasing satellite images it says show that rockets have been fired from Russia into neighbouring eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: The Globe and...

U.S. claims Russia has fired rockets into Ukraine
Jul28

U.S. claims Russia has fired rockets into Ukraine

The United States released satellite images that it says show that rockets have been fired from Russia into neighboring eastern Ukraine and that heavy artillery for separatists also has crossed the border. …read more Source: CTV...

On the front lines in eastern Ukraine with a rebel dog: Susan Ormiston
Jul27

On the front lines in eastern Ukraine with a rebel dog: Susan Ormiston

The CBC’s Susan Ormiston reports from the front line in eastern Ukraine, where she received a strange request amidst the battle between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists. …read more Source:...

Gormley: Rise of the nation, fall of the world?
Jul27

Gormley: Rise of the nation, fall of the world?

Whether they’re shooting passenger jets out of the sky along the frayed, grassy fringes of Ukraine, brandishing swords and swastikas in the cluttered immigrant neighbourhoods of Greece, stalking the streets in a mad midnight hunt for Syrian refugees in Bulgaria, railing against the International Criminal Court in Kenya, attacking the...

U.S. releases images it says backs claims Russian rockets being fired into Ukraine
Jul27

U.S. releases images it says backs claims Russian rockets being fired into Ukraine

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States released satellite images Sunday that it says back up its claims that rockets have been fired from Russia into eastern Ukraine and heavy artillery for separatists has also crossed the border. A four-page document released from the State Department seems to show blast marks from where rockets were launched...

Fighting intensifies near MH17 crash site in eastern Ukraine
Jul27

Fighting intensifies near MH17 crash site in eastern Ukraine

Ukrainian armed forces mounted a major onslaught against pro-Russian separatist fighters Sunday in an attempt to gain control over the area where a Malaysia Airlines plane was downed earlier this month. …read more Source:...

Crelinsten: The war in social media
Jul27

Crelinsten: The war in social media

In mid-July, a disturbing video surfaced in which a Canadian, Andre Poulin, entreats his fellow citizens to come to Syria to join the Islamic State in Syria and the Levant (ISIL). It shows Poulin in combat and includes a graphic close-up of his corpse. The recruitment/martyrdom video was distributed by the al-Hayat Media Center, the propaganda...