Section: US & Canada
Russian President Vladimir Putin Threatens to Retaliate if U.S. Deploys New Missiles in Europe
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin sternly warned the United States against deploying new missiles in Europe, saying Wednesday that Russia will retaliate by fielding new weapons that will take just as little time to reach their targets. While the Russian leader didn’t say what specific new weapons Moscow could deploy, his...
Putin Threatens Retaliation If US Puts Missiles In Europe
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin sternly warned the United States against deploying new missiles in Europe, saying Wednesday that Russia will retaliate by fielding new weapons that will take just as little time to reach their targets. While the Russian leader didn’t say what specific new weapons Moscow could deploy, his...
Cyprus Orthodox Church Backs Ukrainian Church’s Independence
Cyprus’ Orthodox Church says it supports the Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s right to independence that was granted by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople last month, aiming to heal its divisions. …read more Source: U.S....
Cyprus Orthodox Church backs Ukrainian church’s independence
Cyprus’ Orthodox Church says it supports the Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s right to independence that was granted by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople last month, aiming to heal its divisions …read more Source: ABC...
Cyprus Orthodox Church backs Ukrainian church’s independence
Cyprus’ Orthodox Church says it supports the Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s right to independence that was granted by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople last month, aiming to heal its divisions. …read more Source: FOX...
‘It Was A Tragedy Then. We Have Another Tragedy Now.’ Ukrainians Rue Lack Of Justice For Euromaidan Killings
Five years later, there have been arrests and convictions over some of the 106 killings during the Euromaidan uprising. But only a few included prison time, and none involved former police officers. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ottawa folk duo explores LeBreton Flats’ history
Silent Winters 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26, Gladstone Theatre, 910 Gladstone Ave. Tickets: $23, available at thegladstone.ca Until her great-aunt’s 100th birthday party, Ottawa musician Olenka Bastian never spent much time thinking about LeBreton Flats, that forlorn expanse of land along the Ottawa River west of Parliament Hill. But then a woman at...
US Steps up Winter-Warfare Training as Global Threat Shifts
Hunkered down behind a wall of snow, two U.S. Marines melt slush to make drinking water after spending the night digging out a defensive position high in the Sierra Nevada. Their laminated targeting map is wedged into the ice just below the machine gun. Nearly 8,000 feet up at a training center in the California mountains, the air is thin, the...
‘This is soul-destroying’: Families of captured Ukrainian sailors fear the world has forgotten them
To Russia, they’re criminals, but to their families, 24 young Ukrainian sailors are hostages and pawns in Russia’s latest confrontation with the West. …read more Source:...
How Many Times Trump’s Predecessors Declared a National Emergency
The push for a border barrier marks President Donald Trump’s fourth declaration of a national emergency–about a third as many as his three immediate predecessors in their two terms. The number of declared emergencies puts Trump on a par with Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. President Gerald Ford, who signed the 1976 National...
