Section: US & Canada
5 dead in Ukraine after vehicle plows into sidewalk crowd
Ukrainian police say five people are dead after a vehicle plowed into a crowd on a sidewalk in the city of Kharkiv. …read more Source: FOX...
Teens arrested in vandalism at Jewish cemetery in Romania
(JTA) — Police in Romania arrested three teenagers accused of destroying 10 headstones at a Jewish cemetery. The incident occurred over the weekend, police said in a statement Monday about the arrests near the northern city of Reghin, located 200 miles north of Bucharest, the capital. The suspects allegedly smashed the headstones and drew a...
Protesters Remain Camped Outside Ukrainian Parliament
Protesters in Kyiv hunkered down in a tent camp outside the Ukrainian parliament demanding more be done to tackle corruption in the country. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Olympic Gymnast Gutsu Accuses Ex-Teammate Scherbo Of Raping Her In 1991
Former Soviet gymnast Tatiana Gutsu has accused ex-teammate Vitaly Scherbo of raping her in 1991, when she was 15 years old and he was 19. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The Daily Vertical: Playing Make-Believe
The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The Morning Vertical, October 18, 2017
Your daily roundup. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Protesters Block Street Near Ukrainian Parliament With Tents
Ukrainian protesters in Kyiv who are demanding that President Petro Poroshenko enact anticorruption reforms or step down have blocked a main street near parliament with dozens of tents. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukrainian Officials Say Two Soldiers Killed, Four Wounded In East
Ukraine’s military says that two of its soldiers were killed and four were wounded amid multiple cease-fire violations by Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine on October 17. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
WJC Urges City of Vinnitsa to Pull Monument to Anti-Semitic Leader as ‘Defender of Ukraine’
“Petilura was anything but an honest man. He was a cruel barbarian, indisputably responsible for pogroms in which 35,000-40,000 Jews were murdered.” …read more Source: The Jewish...
Ukraine’s Combat Veterans Dig in for the War Against Corruption
KYIV, Ukraine—Thousands of protesters massed in front of Ukraine’s parliament building Tuesday, underscoring a simmering level of frustration among Ukrainians—particularly the country’s war veterans—with the slow pace of anti-corruption reforms that has persisted since the 2014 revolution. According to initial estimates,...
