Section: US & Canada
Ukrainian court finds ex-president guilty of treason
A court in the Ukrainian capital Kiev has found former President Viktor Yanukovych guilty of treason …read more Source: ABC...
Ukrainian court finds ex-president guilty of treason
A court in the Ukrainian capital Kiev has found former President Viktor Yanukovych guilty of treason. Yanukovych fled Ukraine in 2014 as tensions in Kiev flared up following a deadly … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych Convicted Of Treason
A court in Kyiv has found former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych guilty of treason. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
This Time It’s Russia’s Emails Getting Leaked
Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily BeastRussian oligarchs and Kremlin apparatchiks may find the tables turned on them later this week when a new leak site unleashes a compilation of hundreds of thousands of hacked emails and gigabytes of leaked documents. Think of it as Wikileaks, but without Julian Assange’s aversion for posting...
NATO Fears That This Town Will Be the Epicenter of Conflict With Russia
NARVA, Estonia—If you haven’t heard of Narva, you might very soon. This small, mostly Russian-speaking city lies along Estonia’s boundary with Russia, separated geographically from its larger neighbor only by a partially frozen river. A 13th-century castle towers over passersby, while an intimidating medieval stronghold stares back...
Study: Global Terror Attacks Down 33 Percent
A new study by a defense analysis company indicates there was a 33 percent drop in global terror attacks in 2018, and terrorism fatalities fell to a 10-year low. Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Center released its annual Global Attack Index on Wednesday, saying one of the central reasons for the decrease in incidents and fatalities was the...
Read: Manafort Pushes Back On Mueller’s Claims That He Lied
Lawyers for Paul Manafort submitted a court filing Wednesday pushing back on special counsel Robert Mueller’s claims that Manafort lied to investigators since coming to a cooperation agreement with prosecutors. The filing — which is heavily redacted in its public form — comes ahead of a hearing scheduled for Friday on the dispute. Manafort...
“Liberal Hegemony” Is a Straw Man
The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International RealitiesJohn MearsheimerYale University Press, 2018, 328 pp., $30 The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. PrimacyStephen WaltFarrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2018, 400 pp., $28 Republic in Peril: American Empire and the Liberal TraditionDavid C....
Segal: A modern Governor General is a good thing for Canada
Independent of the very different politics on both sides of our border with the United States, we Canadians sometimes forget that our constitutional underpinnings are also quite different. Americans have a congressional republic, with en elected Head of State, and three branches – executive, congressional and judicial – each with its own powers....
6 Remain Missing After Black Sea Ship Fire
Ambulance crews on the Crimean Peninsula transported a dozen survivors of a ship fire to hospitals on Tuesday while six of their crewmates have remained missing in the Black Sea. At least 14 sailors died in the tragedy. Two Tanzanian-flagged tankers caught fire Monday while liquefied petroleum gas was being pumped from one tanker to another. The...
