Section: The Vancouver Sun (Canada)
Rescuers scouring mountainside after avalanche sweeps away school group in French Alps, killing at least three
French authorities confirmed two high school students and a Ukrainian skier died in the accident, which took place on a ski trail closed amid avalanche warnings …read more Source: Vancouver...
Matthew Fisher: North Korea H-bomb testing is another foreign policy failure for lame-duck Obama
From North Korea to Afghanistan, Egypt, Libya, Iraq and Syria, to Ukraine, eastern Europe and the South China Sea, Obama’s presidency has been a bust …read more Source: Vancouver...
Ukraine’s prime minister says his country won’t repay $3 billion debt owed to Russia
Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced a ‘moratorium’ on any debt repayments to Russia on Friday. That effectively means that Ukraine is defaulting on the debt …read more Source: Vancouver...
Brawl erupts in Ukrainian parliament after lawmaker swats PM with bouquet of roses, tries to drag him from podium
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk was delivering his annual report to parliament, urging lawmakers to adopt the state budget for 2016 and a new tax code …read more Source: Vancouver...
Eric Morse: Trouble in the skies over Turkey
Putin now has three conflicts of his own making that he cannot apparently contain: Crimea, East Ukraine and Syria. …read more Source: Vancouver...
Human rights groups trying to reverse Stephen Harper’s plan to sell advanced weapons to Ukraine
Human rights groups are questioning whether Canadian-made weapons would be used against civilians in the conflict against Russian-backed separatists …read more Source: Vancouver...
Russian-made missile exploded less than a metre from MH17’s cockpit, Dutch investigators say
MH17 was destroyed by a Buk surface-to-air missile over eastern Ukraine, the Dutch Safety Board said Tuesday …read more Source: Vancouver...
Ukrainian officer on trial in Russia for deaths of two journalists says she was kidnapped by Russians
Russian prosecutors claim Nadezhda Savchenko intentionally targeted journalists and civilians when Ukrainian forces attacked rebel positions …read more Source: Vancouver...
Obama uses UN speech to blast Putin on Ukraine ahead of first meeting with the Russian president in a year
U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin clashed Monday over their competing visions for Syria …read more Source: Vancouver...
Russia may launch ‘demonstrative’ strikes in support of Assad’s regime in Syria ahead of Putin’s UN appearance
‘All Russian policy in Syria is very clearly directed at overcoming international isolation because of Ukraine,’ one expert said of Putin’s increasing isolation …read more Source: Vancouver...
