Section: US & Canada
Ukraine says cargo traffic resumed in Sea of Azov
Ukraine says that traffic has resumed to and from its ports on the Sea of Azov following a standoff with Russia …read more Source: ABC...
Ukraine says cargo traffic has resumed in Sea of Azov following standoff with Russia
Ukraine’s infrastructure minister said merchant ships were moving through the Kerch Strait linking the Sea of Azov with the Black Sea. …read more Source: USA...
The Latest: Ukraine seeks NATO support over Russia standoff
NATO foreign ministers are meeting with Ukrainian counterpart Pavlo Klimkin as the country seeks international backing for its Black Sea standoff with Russia. …read more Source: ABC...
Ukraine says cargo traffic resumed in Sea of Azov
Ukraine says traffic has resumed to and from its ports on the Sea of Azov following a standoff with Russia. Ukraine’s Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan said merchant ships were moving … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Ottawa earmarks $20 million to rejoin NATO airborne surveillance program
The Liberal government has budgeted up to $20 million in this fiscal year to rejoin NATO’s Airborne Early Warning and Control (AWAC) program, reversing a Conservative-era budget cut in the name of alliance utility and solidarity. …read more Source:...
‘It’s Like A Big City’ – On Board The World’s Biggest Jumbo
RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service has been granted exclusive access to film on board a flight of the world’s biggest plane – the Antonov An-225 Mriya cargo plane. The plane was built in the 1980s to carry the Soviet space shuttle, Buran. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukrainian Police Search Russian Orthodox Churches, Homes Of Priests
Ukrainian police have searched several Russian Orthodox churches and the homes of Russian Orthodox priests in several cities, amid growing tensions over the fate of Ukraine’s competing Orthodox faiths. The searches occurred in Kyiv and the nearby Zhytomyr region on December 3 and were part of a criminal investigation into inciting hatred...
NATO Foreign Ministers To Discuss Missile Treaty Impasse, Kerch Confrontation
The Black Sea naval confrontation between Russia and Ukraine and the fate of a major Cold War missile treaty will top the agenda for foreign ministers and diplomats from 29 NATO members meeting in Brussels. Ahead of the December 4 meeting, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg demanded that Russia release Ukrainian sailors and naval vessels it...
Christmas Under Marx and Lenin
ORLANDO, FL – Between his campaign against President Gerald Ford in 1975-76 and his race against Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan delivered more than 1,000 radio broadcasts. In fact, Mr. Reagan wrote most of those three-minute broadcasts himself. In one broadcast during the Christmas season, Reagan shared a story about Christmas in the Ukraine before...
Knockout that left Montreal boxer in coma prompts questions in medical community
MONTREAL — One of the doctors who worked the boxing match Saturday night in Quebec City that left Adonis Stevenson hospitalized in an induced coma said he and his colleagues are at a loss to medically justify the sport. The goal of boxing is to inflict damage on the opponent, often by knocking him unconscious. And that carries important risks for...
