Section: US & Canada
U.S. to Expel 60 Russian Intelligence Agents, Close Seattle Consulate
The Trump administration carried out a mass expulsion of Russian intelligence officers from the United States on Monday in retaliation for Moscow’s assassination attempt against a defector in Britain. The 60 officers include 48 embassy and consulate officials and 12 Russians working at the Russian mission to the United Nations, said...
Spain breaks up cybercrime gang after $1.2 billion spree
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Police in Spain have captured a cybercrime gang made up of Ukrainians and Russians that allegedly stole more than 1 billion euros ($1.24 billion) from financial institutions worldwide in a five-year spree, authorities said Monday. …read more Source: The Bismarck...
Spain breaks up cybercrime gang after $1.2 billion spree
Police in Spain have captured a cybercrime gang made up of Ukrainians and Russians that allegedly stole more than 1 billion euros ($1.24 billion) from financial institutions worldwide in a … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Puszkar: Canada isn’t supporting its own international election observers. Let’s fix that
When the Russian presidential election was held last Sunday, nearly 500 international electoral observers were present throughout the country, there as part of an electoral observation mission organized by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). It is common practice for OSCE member states to contribute to observation of...
America’s Global Role in Question
New eras in American foreign policy have begun in two different ways: suddenly and gradually. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, changed America’s role in the world in an instant. The events that turned the World War II alliance with the Soviet Union into the Cold-War confrontation that lasted for four...
US expels 60 Russian diplomats over nerve agent attack on British soil
This story has been updated to refelct the most current information. The United States will expel 60 Russian diplomats in response to the poisoning of a Russian double agent in England. These include 12 Russian representatives to the United Nations whom the U.S. government accused of being spies. The other 48 are from the Russian embassy in...
Many EU Nations Join US in Expelling Russian Diplomats
Several European Union countries joined the U.S. Monday in expelling dozens of Russian diplomats in a coordinated retaliation for the March 4 nerve-agent poisoning in Britain of a former Russian spy, which the British government blames on Russia and has accused the Kremlin of having approved. The coordinated expulsions — unprecedented since the...
The Latest: Ukraine expelling 13 Russian diplomats
A taxi in front of the Russian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, March 26, 2018.Russia’s Ambassador to Poland Sergei Andreev was summoned Monday to Poland’s Foreign Ministry and said he will stay in Warsaw in the coming weeks, but “we… …read more Source: The Bismarck...
The Latest: Ukraine expelling 13 Russian diplomats
The Latest on the diplomatic fallout over the nerve agent attack on an ex-Russian spy in Britain (all times local): 3:40 p.m. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says his nation is … Click to Continue » …read more Source: Miami...
The Latest: Ukraine expelling 13 Russian diplomats
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Latest on the diplomatic fallout over the nerve agent attack on an ex-Russian spy in Britain (all times local):… …read more Source: Associated...
