Section: The Toronto Sun (Canada)
MH17 anniversary: Ukrainian village mourns Malaysian Airlines crash victims [Photos]
In a solemn procession, residents of the Ukrainian village where a Malaysian airliner was shot down with 298 people aboard a year ago marched Friday to the crash site. Half a world away, Australia’s prime minister remembered the “savagery” of the attack as he unveiled a plaque in Canberra set in soil from the field where the wre...
MH17 disaster one year later: Ukrainian villagers recall horrors of bodies falling from the sky
The field outside Hrabove, littered a year ago with bodies and smelling of burnt flesh and plastic, now smells of wild flowers. …read more Source: The Toronto...
Fishing ban in Arctic
Canada, the United States, Russia and other Arctic nations signed an agreement on Thursday to bar their fishing fleets from fast-thawing seas around the North Pole, an agreement delayed more than a year by tensions over Ukraine. …read more Source: The Toronto...
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17: Year later, relatives still waiting for answers
For many families of the 298 people killed when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was brought down July 17 last year over eastern Ukraine, uncertainty and agonizing waiting is still woven into the fabric of life a year later. …read more Source: The Toronto...
G7 leaders urge tough line on Russia
Leaders from the Group of Seven (G7) industrial nations backed a tough line towards Moscow at the start of a summit in the Bavarian Alps, with U.S. President Barack Obama urging the gathering to stand up to Russian aggression in Ukraine. …read more Source: The Toronto...
Gay pride rally attacked in Kiev
Several dozen unknown assailants attacked a gay pride march in Kiev on Saturday, throwing flares and wounding two policemen, a Reuters witness reported. …read more Source: The Toronto...
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...
U.S., Russia speak of cooperation but no breakthroughs
Top U.S. and Russian officials said they hoped to work together on contentious issues such as the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria but offered no sign of concrete progress after more than eight hours of talks on Tuesday. …read more Source: The Toronto...
Russia has equipped Ukraine rebels to attack at short notice: NATO
NATO’s chief said on Monday that Russia had built up forces on the border with Ukraine and sent more military hardware into eastern Ukraine, enabling pro-Russia separatists to launch attacks with little warning if they chose. …read more Source: The Toronto...
Forest fire threatens Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear zone
A forest fire in northern Ukraine threatened on Tuesday to spread towards the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) on Tuesday, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said in a post on Facebook. …read more Source: The Toronto...