Section: US & Canada
Russia Rejects Report Blaming Russia for Downing of Civilian Airliner
Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed an international investigation into the downing of Malaysian Airliner MH17 over east Ukraine in 2014 as deeply flawed, after investigators concluded Russia’s military provided the missile used in the attack that killed all 298 people aboard. Asked about the Joint Investigative Team (JIT) report...
In Ukraine, the Game and the War Go On
KYIV, Ukraine—The war in Ukraine escalated this week to its most violent levels of the year with Russian artillery and rocket attacks targeting both Ukrainian military forces and civilian settlements along the front lines in eastern Ukraine’s embattled Donbas region. “The Kremlin controls the violence in eastern Ukraine and could bring this...
Putin says US exit from Iran deal could trigger instability
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Friday that the U.S. exit from the Iranian nuclear deal could trigger dangerous instability and raise new threats for Israel if Tehran resumes a full-fledged nuclear program. “We can’t sort things out with North Korea. Do we want another problem on the same scale?”...
Michael Cohen had yet another Trump Tower meeting with a Russian oligarch during the transition
Donald Trump may still be hiding the White House visitor logs, but it would still be more interesting to get a peek at the schedule for Trump Tower. There was the well-known meeting between Trump’s senior campaign staff and Russian operatives during the campaign, the more recently discovered meeting with representatives for Saudi Arabia and...
Netherlands, Australia hold Russia accountable for downing Malaysian flight
THE HAGUE – The Netherlands and Australia said on Friday they held the Russian state responsible in part for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in July 2014 that killed all 298 aboard, and will seek compensation. MH17 was shot down over territory held by pro-Russian separatist forces in eastern Ukraine in 2014 as… …read more...
Markets Disrupted as Italy’s Populists Negotiate Cabinet
Italy’s prime minister-designate, Giuseppe Conte, a political novice and obscure law professor accused of padding his resume, put the finishing touches to his cabinet lineup Friday. And initial reaction from financial markets was far from approving. Italian government bond prices slumped and the country’s ailing banks saw their stock...
Ukrainians Protest In Odesa To Support Sentsov
Protests took place in Odesa, Ukraine in support of Oleh Sentsov, a Ukrainian film director who is serving a 20-year prison sentence in Russia on terrorism charges widely seen as politically motivated. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Siren Call: The ‘Distinctly High Voice’ That Led MH17 Sleuths To A Russian Missile Suspect
When the trail of documentation ended, the suspect’s “high-pitched” voice led the way. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
News you might have missed: Morning links for Friday, May 25
Trump is deregulating space exploration (Bloomberg) Outer space is no escape from the long arm of bureaucracy. Decades-old restrictions are keeping many space start-ups grounded, while even larger companies like SpaceX are struggling to obtain permits that seem hopelessly outdated. To clean up this process. President Donald Trump signed his...
This Week: ‘Spygate’ Sham Escalates, A Cohen Ally Cooperates With The Gov’t
The White House and conservative media went into overdrive this week with claims that the FBI planted spies in the Trump campaign. We now know there was an informant, Cambridge University professor Stefan Halper, working with the bureau, but there is no indication that he was “embedded” in the campaign as a “spy” for “political” purposes....
