Section: US & Canada
Russia After Putin Is Not a Solved Problem
Tyrannies are fragile things and when the fear upon which they are based crumbles, they collapse. The protests in Russia over the past weeks may be a sign of the growing fearlessness of some Russian citizens and the resulting weakness of Putin and his gang. There is good reason, therefore, to be hopeful that the Putinist kleptocracy may end. Who,...
Russian Airliner Lands Safely After Both Engines Fail – Drawing ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ Comparisons
(MOSCOW) — The captain of a Russian passenger jet was hailed as a hero Thursday for landing his plane in a cornfield after it collided with a flock of gulls seconds after takeoff, causing both engines to malfunction. While dozens of people sought medical assistance, only one was hospitalized. The event drew comparisons to the 2009 “Miracle on the...
Flying Down East
We were flying away from Washington D.C. again, leaving the Sturm und Drang of our hometown in early August for a point nearly as far east on the U.S. map as one can get. It is “Down East,” in the vernacular of Maine, and the town of Eastport, where residents say the sun first rises over the United States, as does the moon, which gets far too...
Russian jet crash-lands in field outside Moscow after striking flock of gulls
A Russian passenger jet flew into a flock of birds then crash-landed in a cornfield just outside a Moscow airport Thursday, according to Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency. The Ural Airlines Airbus A321 was carrying 226 passengers and a crew of seven from Moscow’s Zhukovsky airport to Simferopol — a city on the Crimean Peninsula —...
U.S. Wants to Seize Iranian Supertanker to Stop It Being Released From Gibraltar
(MADRID) — The United States moved on Thursday to halt the release of an Iranian supertanker detained in Gibraltar for breaching international sanctions on oil shipments, thwarting efforts by authorities in London and the British overseas territory to defuse tensions with Tehran. The Gibraltar government confirmed earlier media reports that the...
US Move Halts Release of Iranian Tanker Held in Gibraltar
The United States moved on Thursday to halt the release of an Iranian supertanker detained in Gibraltar for breaching international sanctions on oil shipments, thwarting efforts by authorities in London and the British overseas territory to defuse tensions with Tehran.The Gibraltar government confirmed earlier media reports that the U.S....
Russian ‘Miracle’: 23 Hurt When Plane Makes Emergency Landing in Cornfield
Updated Aug. 15, 5:45 a.m.MOSCOW — Russians hailed a miracle Thursday after a passenger plane carrying 233 people made an emergency landing in a corn field on the outskirts of Moscow after striking a flock of birds shortly after takeoff.The Ministry of Health said 23 people had suffered injuries, but that nobody had been killed when the Ural...
23 Hurt When Russian Plane Makes Emergency Landing
A passenger jet made an emergency landing in a field outside of one of Moscow’s airports Thursday after colliding with a flock of birds, injuring at least 23 people, Russian officials said.The Ural Airlines A321 carrying 226 passengers and a crew of seven hit the birds as it took off Thursday from Moscow’s Zhukovsky airport en route...
Ukraine’s Biggest Power Producer Denies Wrongdoing In Price Manipulation Case
Ukraine’s largest private electricity and coal producer DTEK says the country’s antigraft bureau has no “basis” to charge its employees for manipulating electrical power prices, Kyiv-based Concorde Capital investment bank stated on August 14, citing the company’s recently published investor …read more Source: Radio Free...
Hunky Bill, B.C. perogy pioneer, restaurateur, PNE mainstay, dies at 88
VANCOUVER — Bill Konyk, a legendary Vancouver businessman who fought a human rights battle to maintain his nickname Hunky Bill, has died. He was 88. His youngest son, Mark Konyk, says his dad will be remembered as a man who opened the West Coast to good Ukrainian food, adding he was a pioneer in educating people in B.C. about how to eat and make...
