Section: US & Canada
Ukraine doesn’t want him. Georgia wants to arrest him. Saakashvili stirs things up.
Georgia’s former president has returned to Ukraine to launch a protest movement. …read more Source: The Washington...
Ukrainians cheered by news of Manafort’s indictment
Prosecutors in Kiev are still trying to put together a corruption case against the former regime. …read more Source: The Washington...
Ukraine Official: US Should Demand Access to Yanukovych in Manafort Case
A top Ukrainian official says Russia should provide U.S. investigators with access to former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who fled to Russia after his rule was toppled in Ukraine’s Maidan revolution of 2014. Dmitry Shymkiv, the deputy head of the administration of President Petro Poroshenko, said access to Yanukovych could prove...
Special counsel’s office deems Manafort a flight risk
By Spencer S. Hsu | Washington Post Onetime Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort keeps three U.S. passports with different identification numbers and submitted 10 passport applications in as many years, the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller disclosed in a new court filing Tuesday arguing that Manafort poses a significant flight risk. The...
Podesta’s downfall sends shock waves through K Street
Washington lobbyists who represent foreign powers have taken comfort for decades in the fact that the Justice Department rarely goes after them for potentially breaking the law. That all changed on Monday.The news of Tony Podesta’s resignation from his namesake firm and indictment of Paul Manafort and Rick Gates sent K Street scrambling, as...
Assassinations in Ukraine’s Capital Raise Spectre of a Russian ‘Shadow War’
KYIV, Ukraine—A Chechen woman who had fought on the side of Ukrainian forces against Russia and its separatist proxies in eastern Ukraine died in a brazen vehicular ambush on the outskirts of Kyiv on Monday. The ambush underscored what some Ukrainian government officials and security analysts suspect is part of a larger Russian shadow war...
Podesta Group’s Ties to Manafort Case Loom Larger in Mueller Probe
The lobbying group co-founded by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign chairman is in the crosshairs of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, being mentioned indirectly Monday in the 12-count indictment of President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager. The Podesta Group has been identified in news reports as...
4 Jewish things you need to know about Catalonia
Independence supporters gather outside the Palau Catalan Regional Government Building in Barcelona, Oct. 30, 2017. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) (JTA) — After simmering for decades, national aspirations in the region of Catalonia in northeast Spain plunged that country into a major crisis with far-reaching international implications. The current...
Wife of Chechen accused of plotting to assassinate Vladimir Putin shot dead near Kyiv
Amina Okuyeva was killed and her husband Adam Osmayev was wounded. The couple were fierce critics of Putin and escaped an assassination attempt in June …read more Source: Vancouver...
Son of Ukraine’s interior minister is detained on charges
Ukraine’s anti-corruption agency has detained the son of the nation’s interior minister on embezzlement charges. …read more Source: FOX...
