Section: US & Canada
Road To Dispossession: Locals Pushed Aside For The Trans-Crimea Highway
Tightening its grip over the illegally annexed Ukrainian region of Crimea, Moscow is pushing ahead with the construction of a $2 billion highway across the peninsula. But hundreds of residents say their property rights are being trampled in the rush to get the project under way. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
U.S. debate on arming Ukraine puts pressure on Russia, Trump
Seeking leverage with Russia, the Trump administration has reopened consideration of long-rejected plans to give Ukraine lethal weapons, even if that would plunge the United States deeper into the former Soviet republic’s conflict. …read more Source: CTV...
Trump administration reopens consideration of rejected plans to arm Ukraine
Deliberations put pressure on Trump, who’s fighting perceptions he is soft on the Kremlin amid investigations into whether his campaign colluded with Moscow …read more Source: The Globe and...
US debate on arming Ukraine puts pressure on Russia, Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking leverage with Russia, the Trump administration has reopened consideration of long-rejected plans to give Ukraine lethal weapons, even if that would plunge the United States deeper into the former Soviet republic’s conflict. The proposal, endorsed by the Pentagon and the State Department, reflects his...
US debate on arming Ukraine puts pressure on Russia, Trump
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Wozniacki beats Stephens to reach Rogers Cup women’s tennis final
TORONTO — Sixth-seeded Caroline Wozniacki defeated Sloane Stephens 6-2, 6-3 on Saturday afternoon to reach the final of the Rogers Cup women’s tennis tournament. Wozniacki will play either defending champion Simona Halep of Romania or Elina Svitolina of Ukraine in the championship on Sunday. Stephens had her serve broken in the opening game...
Week 12: Putting the Squeeze on Paul Manafort
At the rate Robert S. Mueller is going, he will soon have enough material to write an eight-volume biography of former Trump campaign director Paul Manafort with enough material left over to construct a Manafort Broadway musical, a Manafort video game and a Manafort theme park. According to news reports this week, the special counsel has hoovered...
UN: Displaced in Ukraine’s Rebel-held East Lack Basic Services, Benefits
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is appealing to the government of Ukraine in Kyiv and Russian-backed authorities in eastern Ukraine to provide basic services and pension benefits to hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people struggling to survive in the rebel-held parts of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions....
Software and Hard Consequences
World War III has started, and almost no one seems to have noticed. Or perhaps the Cold War is a better analogy, if the Cold War had 20 sides fighting each other all at once and, again, if almost no one was paying enough attention to realize what is going on. At least, this is what Alexander Klimburg insists in The Darkening Web, his new book on...
Top-ranked Pliskova eliminated by former world No. 1 Wozniacki at Rogers Cup
TORONTO — Caroline Wozniacki made some changes this week to try to change her fortune in a city that has not been kind on the tennis front. Personal driver? Not needed this time around. Same hotel as before? Switch that booking. Wozniacki is not only winning in Toronto for the first time in her career, she’s doing it against the...
