Section: US & Canada
Ukraine marks 31st anniversary of Chernobyl nuclear disaster
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China Launches New Aircraft Carrier, Bolstering Naval Presence
The Chinese navy on Wednesday launched its new aircraft carrier as Beijing continues to grow and modernize its maritime forces. The ship, which currently does not have a name, is China’s first domestically built and second overall carrier, the BBC reported. It is not expected to be operational until 2020 and will carry China’s...
China Launches First Home-Built Aircraft Carrier Amid South China Sea Tension
By Michael Martina BEIJING (Reuters) – China launched its first domestically built aircraft carrier on Wednesday amid rising tension over North Korea and worries about Beijing’s assertiveness in the SouthChina Sea. State media has quoted military experts as saying the carrier, China‘s second and built in the northeastern port of Dalian, is...
Cardin less concerned Trump will ease Russia sanctions
The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says he’s no longer worried President Donald Trump will notch a quick deal with Russia to undo sanctions it faces for aggression in Ukraine. Sen. Ben Cardin introduced a bill in February with Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) making it harder for Trump to...
China just unveiled its first homemade aircraft carrier
China has unveiled its first homemade aircraft carrier. It’s the country’s second aircraft carrier in total after buying a carrier from Ukraine in 1998. …read more Source: Business...
Mounting Incitements to War With Russia
Stephen F. CohenVillainizing the Kremlin—without much evidence—for crises from Washington and Europe to Syria, Ukraine and Afghanistan is increasing the possibility of a US-Russian war. …read more Source: The...
Putin’s Daughter’s Dutch Penthouse Goes on Sale for $3 Million
Maria Putin reportedly left Holland in 2014 after the MH17 plane crash in Eastern Ukraine, which soured Dutch-Russian relations. …read more Source:...
Russia’s Interference in the U.S. Election Was Just the Beginning
Mike Conaway, the Republican who replaced Devin Nunes as head of the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. election, has described his mission simply: “I just want to find out what happened,” he’s said. The more urgent question elsewhere in the world, however, isn’t confined to the past....
Russian Photographer Recalls Death, Beauty Inside Chernobyl’s Fourth Reactor
In 1990, photographer Viktoria Ivleva became the first journalist known to have entered the fourth block of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Soviet Ukraine, where a deadly explosion and fire on April 26, 1986, triggered the world’s worst civilian nuclear accident and sent a radioactive cloud drifting across the Soviet Union and Europe. In...
3 government troops killed in eastern Ukraine
3 government troops killed in eastern Ukraine …read more Source:...
