Section: US & Canada
Ukraine’s iconic ex-pilot goes on hunger strike in prison
A celebrated former military pilot in jail on charges of plotting an attack on parliament says she has started refusing food and water in protest …read more Source: ABC...
EU To Sanction Nine People Over Ukraine Separatist Vote
The European Union is now expected to add nine individuals allegedly involved in the organization of last month’s elections in the areas controlled by Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine to its sanctions list, according to sources in Brussels. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Flynn has given ‘substantial assistance’ to the special counsel
Special counsel Robert Mueller told a federal court Tuesday that former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn has given “substantial assistance” to the Russia investigation and should not get jail time. Flynn has sat for 19 interviews with the special counsel and other Justice Department offices, and his early cooperation gave prosecutors...
‘We Feel Like Little Insects’ — Families Separated By Barbed Wire On Ukraine-Russia Border
As tensions grow between Moscow and Kyiv, families living in two villages along the Ukraine-Russia border have been separated by a barbed-wire fence. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Poroshenko: Meeting To Form Independent Ukrainian Church Set For December 15
President Petro Poroshenko says senior figures from Orthodox Christian communities in Ukraine will meet on December 15 in a bid to form a new, unified, independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Key Ukrainian church gathering slated for next week
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says local Orthodox communities will gather for a summit next week that is expected to form a new, independent Ukrainian church. The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the Istanbul-based institution that serves as a center of the global Eastern Orthodox faith, has drafted...
Key Ukrainian church gathering slated for next week
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says that local Orthodox communities will gather for a summit next week that is expected to form a new, independent Ukrainian church …read more Source: ABC...
Key Ukrainian church gathering slated for next week
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says local Orthodox communities will gather for a summit next week that is expected to form a new, independent Ukrainian church. The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Holocaust survivors mark Hanukkah at events around the world
BERLIN (JTA) – In a ballroom decorated with a giant Hanukkah menorah made of golden balloons, some 400 Holocaust survivors and their families gathered for the second annual “Holocaust Survivors’ Night.” This second annual event, sponsored by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, was both festive and somber. Speakers...
Putin says he won’t take Ukrainian leader’s calls
Russian President Vladimir Putin has admitted that he is not taking calls from the Ukrainian leader …read more Source: ABC...
