Section: US & Canada
Peace Activists Focus on Reducing Military Spending at Counter-NATO Summit
While NATO heads of states are meeting in their newest headquarters to discuss increasing defense budget spending, leading peace activists from around the world are gathered for a counter-summit to advocate for less militarization. Military spending will be one of the issues topping the NATO summit agenda Thursday in Brussels. Increasing defense...
Prosecutors To Look Into Comments By Transparency International Official
The Russian Prosecutor-General’s Office says it will look into recent remarks by the deputy chief of Transparency International Russia (TIR) regarding controversial lawmaker Natalya Poklonskaya. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Savchenko Says Ukraine Ignoring Her Party Registration Bid
Nadia Savchenko, a former military helicopter navigator who entered politics after returning home following two years in a Russian jail, says the Justice Ministry is ignoring her request to register her new political movement. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Canada will continue to share intel with allies, says Trudeau
Minister of National Defence Minister Harjit Singh Sajjan stands with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as he holds a press conference at NATO headquarters during the NATO Summit in Brussels, Belgium on Thursday, May 25, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick BRUSSELS – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada will continue as usual when it comes...
Manafort advised Trump team on Russia scandal
Months after the FBI began examining Paul Manafort as part of a probe into ties between President Donald Trump’s team and Russia, Manafort called Trump’s chief of staff Reince Priebus to push back against the mounting controversy, according to four people familiar with the call.It was about a week before Trump’s inauguration,...
PM Trudeau praises benefit of sharing intelligence with the U.S. and others
BRUSSELS — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada will continue as usual when it comes to sharing intelligence with allies, even as U.S. President Donald Trump is being accused of playing fast and loose with sensitive secrets. “The track record has shown that collaboration and co-operation between allies, friends and partners has saved...
Tusk ‘Not Sure’ He Has Same View As Trump On Russia
European Council President Donald Tusk said he was “not sure” he and U.S. President Donald Trump had “a common position” on Russia. Tusk was speaking after meeting with Trump in Brussels. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
MP Urges Government to Fast-Track Magnitsky-Style Legislation
Legislation that would impose sanctions on human rights violators around the world, deny them visas, and seize their assets may soon be passed in Canada. Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said last week that the government will support Bill-S-226—which would establish Magnitsky-style sanctions on human rights abusers not only in Russia...
NATO formally joins coalition against ISIS
A soldier of the Polish Army sits in a tank as a NATO flag flies behind during the NATO Noble Jump military exercises of the VJTF forces on June 18, 2015 in Zagan, Poland. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) BRUSSELS – The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is lending its support to the U.S.-led coalition against the group calling itself the Islamic State...
NATO to lend support to coalition against ISIL, says Sec.-Gen. Stoltenberg
BRUSSELS — The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is lending its support to the U.S.-led coalition against the group calling itself the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. “NATO joining the coalition to defeat (ISIL) is a strong political message of unity in the fight against terrorism,” Sec.-Gen. Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday. The...
