Section: US & Canada
Brandon University: student advice for surviving life on campus
(Milana Paddock/Brandon University) Unofficial school motto: ‘Be You at BU’Best place for a nap: The music loungeBest cheap lunch: Soup at Forbidden FlavoursFavourite campus food: Pizza at Forbidden FlavoursPerks of living in this town: Short commutesBest place to study: North Stacks at the John E. Robbins Library or Down UnderWorst place...
Mueller Question to Trump on Ukraine Based on Debunked Conspiracy Theory
The New York Times published a list of questions Monday that, it said, were prepared by Special Counsel Robert Mueller to ask President Donald Trump. One of them, oddly, referred to a long-debunked conspiracy theory about the 2016 Republican Party platform. …read more Source:...
Russia’s Deadly Su-27: The Plane That Terrifies NATO (and Buzzes Its Fighter Jets)
Robert Farley Security, Europe From Russia with love. The original version of the Flanker has enjoyed tremendous export success, and still flies in eleven air forces around the world. The bulk of aircraft fly in Russian (359) and Chinese (fifty-nine) service. In some smoldering conflicts (Russia-Ukraine, Ethiopia-Eritrea, Vietnam-China) both...
Russia’s Deadly Su-27: The Plane That Terrifies NATO (and Buzzes Its Fighter Jets)
Robert Farley Security, Europe From Russia with love. The original version of the Flanker has enjoyed tremendous export success, and still flies in eleven air forces around the world. The bulk of aircraft fly in Russian (359) and Chinese (fifty-nine) service. In some smoldering conflicts (Russia-Ukraine, Ethiopia-Eritrea, Vietnam-China) both...
Armenia Protest Leader Calls for General Strike
The leader of an Armenian protest movement that forced the country’s veteran leader to step down announced on Tuesday a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience after the ruling party thwarted his bid to take over as prime minister. Addressing tens of thousands of people gathered in a square in the Armenian capital, Nikol Pashinyan said...
WhatsApp founder’s Facebook exit: What he didn’t say
Add WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum to the list of former executives who have soured on Facebook — perhaps with a question mark next to his name. Koum announced Monday in a Facebook post that he is leaving the company, whose board he joined when the social media giant bought WhatsApp in 2014. The $19 billion purchase remains Facebook’s biggest...
Advanced U.S. missile system arrives in Ukraine, Kiev confirms
The Ukrainian army has received the first tranche of a large shipment of advanced U.S. anti-tank missile systems under a weapons pact inked between Washington and Kiev in March. The first deliveries of the the FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missile, the shoulder-fired weapon is armed with a so-called “fire and forget” … …read...
Mueller has a whole lot of Russia collusion questions for Trump
Trump falsely claimed Mueller sent him “no questions on Collusion.” There are many. Will Trump answer them? President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday morning that special counsel Robert Mueller did not send any questions about collusion with Russia to his legal team. That’s not even close to true. Several questions on the list published by the...
Cohen: Why we ought to worry about democracy’s retreat globally
Justice Rosalie Abella of the Supreme Court of Canada lives on public platforms. She lectures often, at home and abroad, and collects laurels celebrating her shimmering career (including 38 honorary degrees) like loose change. As a decorated jurist of 42 years, she contemplates law and society as a quotidian challenge. So there she was two weeks...
Experts: Mueller questions leaked by Team Trump
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