Section: US & Canada
Ukraine Places Former Energy Regulator Chief On Wanted List
The former head of Ukraine’s energy regulator, Dmytro Vovk, is being placed on an international wanted list for alleged involvement in a multimillion-dollar electricity price-fixing scheme. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Trump Says He Wants Russia Back at G-7 Summits
U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday he wants Russia back at the Group of Seven summits of the world’s leading economies, even though it still controls Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula.Moscow was booted from the group over its unilateral 2014 annexation of the peninsula.As the G-7 leaders head to the French Atlantic seaside town of...
Macron: Russia Can’t Return To G8 Format Before Ukraine Crisis Solved
French President Emmanuel Macron has said that readmitting Russia into the Group of Seven (G7) leading industrialized nations without resolving the Ukraine crisis would be a “strategic error” and underscore the “weakness” of the grouping. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
President Donald Trump credits Vladimir Putin, slams Barack Obama in call for Russia to rejoin G7
President Donald Trump has suggested Russia rejoin the Group of 7 industrialized nations, five years after it was expelled for annexing Crimea. …read more Source: United Press...
Russia Reportedly Planning To Allow Five Jailed Ukrainians To Serve Sentences At Home
Five Ukrainian nationals held in Russia may be handed over to Kyiv to serve the rest of their sentences at home. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Kyiv Court Rules To Launch Probe Against Poroshenko, Klimkin On Corruption Charges
A court in Kyiv has ordered Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau to launch a probe against former President Petro Poroshenko and former Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin on charges of abuse of power. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
German Foreign Minister Says ‘Direct And Open Dialogue’ Needed With Moscow
German Foreign Minister Heiko Mass acknowledged having “principally different positions with Russia on many issues” on August 21 before departing for Moscow to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Homophobia grows in European countries where same-sex marriage isn’t legal: research
Acceptance of gay and lesbian people decreased in Russia, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine over a 14-year period. …read more Source: Global...
Unifor aligns with Liberal foreign policy instead of international solidarity
Chrystia Freeland and Unifor President Jerry Dias Inviting Chrystia Freeland to address this week’s Unifor convention undermines the union’s claims of international solidarity. As Foreign Affairs Minister, Freeland has pursued staunchly pro-corporate and pro-US policies. She has been bad for workers and their families around the...
Trump Considering Sullivan as Next US Envoy to Russia
U.S. President Donald Trump confirms that Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan “could very well be” his choice to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Russia. Trump answered a question from reporters at the White House Tuesday, after media reports said he intends to nominate Sullivan to be one of the most important and challenging U.S....
