Section: US & Canada
After Nearly A Week, Trump Signs New Russia Sanctions Bill
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a bill imposing new sanctions on Russia and limiting his ability to ease them, according to several reports. Trump signed the bill on Wednesday after it passed Congress last week and landed on his desk on Friday. The White House later released a statement announcing that Trump signed the bill, though the...
Donald Trump Signs Russia Sanctions
President Donald Trump has signed the bill passed by Congress to put more sanctions on Russia, according to a White House official. The bill was signed privately at the White House on Wednesday as the ceremony closed to the press, but according to official a statement is forthcoming. The sanctions bill passed in the Senate by an overwhelmingly...
Belarus Extradites Russian Activist Wanted For Alleged Extremism
Russian opposition activist Vladimir Yegorov has been extradited from Belarus to Russia, his lawyer says. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Things I didn’t know (a continuing series)
The French had four times as many dead (95,000) in the Crimean War as the British did (22,000). …read more Source: Foreign...
Ukraine Ready to Fight Russia in Court Over First Land Link to Annexed Crimea
Moscow has poured billions into a bridge set to open next year, but Ukraine is preparing a lawsuit against it. …read more Source:...
Olympic Judo Champion Arrested In Ukraine On Sexual Assault Charges
Two-time Olympic judo champion Peter Seisenbacher was arrested in Kyiv on sexual assault charges on August 1 after seven months on the run. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Energy Department Scientists Barred From Attending Nuclear Power Conference
No one can explain why the U.S. scientists were prevented from attending the conference in Russia. Edwin Lyman, a physicist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, was one of 30 U.S.-based scientists scheduled to speak at the quadrennial International Atomic Energy Agency conference on fast breeder nuclear reactors in Yekaterinburg, Russia, in late...
Pentagon and State Department are said to propose arming Ukraine
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon and State Department have proposed to the White House a plan to supply Ukraine with anti-tank missiles and other arms, according to Defense Department officials. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
US Begins Russia Drawdown After Kremlin Retaliates for Sanctions
The United States began removing furniture and equipment from a diplomatic property in Moscow on Tuesday in the first sign of compliance with a Kremlin order to slash its presence in Russia as retaliation for new U.S. sanctions. President Vladimir Putin has ordered the United States to cut around 60 percent of its diplomatic staff in Russia by...
News of the day from across the globe, Aug. 1
Macedonia and neighboring Bulgaria signed a historic friendship agreement designed to dampen a historic rivalry in their region that is still at odds over old ethnic and territorial disputes. The deal, in which both countries renounced territorial claims against each other and Bulgaria commits to backing its smaller neighbor’s bids to join...
