Section: US & Canada
Russian Navy Ship Sinks After Colliding with a Freighter in the Black Sea
(MOSCOW) — A Russian naval reconnaissance ship sank Thursday after colliding with a freighter off Istanbul, but all crew members were rescued, the Defense Ministry said. Turkey’s coastal safety authority said all 78 personnel from the Russian frigate Liman were safe, as were all crew aboard the freighter, the Togo-flagged Youzarsif H. The...
Russian navy ship sinks in Black Sea, all 78 crew rescued
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian naval reconnaissance ship sank Thursday after colliding with a freighter off Istanbul, but all crew members were rescued, the Defense Ministry said. Turkey’s coastal safety authority said all 78 personnel from the Russian frigate Liman were safe, as were all crew aboard the freighter, the Togo-flagged Youzarsif H....
Russian navy ship sinks in Black Sea, all 78 crew rescued
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian naval reconnaissance ship sank Thursday after colliding with a freighter off Istanbul, but all crew members were rescued, the Defense Ministry said. Turkey’s coastal safety authority said all 78 personnel from the Russian frigate Liman were safe, as were all crew aboard the freighter, the Togo-flagged Youzarsif H....
The Morning Vertical, April 27, 2017
Your daily roundup. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Hackers Exploited Known Microsoft Word Flaw for Months Before Company Patched It
Hackers used the flaw to help steal millions from online bank accounts and to spy on Russian speakers, likely in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Trump’s First 100 Days: What Mattered, And What Didn’t
The indelible takeaway from Donald Trump’s presidential campaign was his unrelenting assault on political norms, the countless things he said and did that serious candidates just weren’t supposed to say or do. It was a reality-show circus of OMG, WTF and sometimes LOL, and it was all supposed to be disqualifying: his birtherism and...
Russia Steps Up Anti-U.S. Military Propaganda
Russia is increasing disinformation operations aimed at undermining government and public support for American military forces in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. officials. The stepped-up disinformation includes creating and circulating recent news stories falsely claiming American soldiers were engaged in sexual misconduct in Poland and were...
Sanctions Short-Circuit Russia’s Electricity Plans for Annexed Crimea
By Anastasia Lyrchikova and Anton ZverevMOSCOW/SEVASTOPOL, Crimea(Reuters) – Russia’s $1.3 billion plan to build two new power plants in Crimea… …read more Source: U.S....
Solar Power Farm Sprouts at Chernobyl Nuclear Site
Thirty years ago this week, the world eyes focused on the Ukrainian city of Chernobyl, where the world’s worst nuclear accident was contaminating swaths of what was then the Soviet Union. Now, that nuclear wasteland is being transformed into a solar farm that could generate as much energy as two units of the doomed nuclear plant....
Ukraine wants armed peacekeepers after war monitor killed
International monitors are back on patrol in eastern Ukraine, just days after an observer was killed by a suspected landmine. …read more Source: Global...
