Section: US & Canada
Sen. Cardin on needing ‘mature’ leadership on North Korea, Turkish referendum concerns
JUDY WOODRUFF: Fallout from Sunday’s referendum vote in Turkey continued today, with critics of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan calling for the results to be annulled. That is just one of a series of important issues being dealt with by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. I spoke just a short while ago with its ranking member, Democratic...
Losing the struggle for Europe
People hold placard during a protest in Heroesí square against a new law that would undermine Central European University, a liberal graduate school of social sciences founded by U.S. financier George Soros in Budapest, Hungary, April 12, 2017. (Laszlo Balogh/Reuters) George Szirtes is a celebrated British-Hungarian translator and playwright who...
Berlin, Paris, Moscow and Kyiv Discuss Ukraine Peace Deal
The German government says the leaders of Germany, Russia, Ukraine and France have renewed their commitment to implementing a faltering peace deal for eastern Ukraine. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office said the German leader spoke by phone Monday night with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and French...
Pence Reassures Japan On North Korea, Promises To Work With China
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence reassured Japan of American commitment to reining in North Korea’s nuclear and missile ambitions on Tuesday, after warning that U.S. strikes in Syria and Afghanistan showed the strength of its resolve.Pence arrived in Tokyo from South Korea, where he assured leaders of an “iron-clad” alliance with the United...
Canada military signs agreement with Latvia for upcoming NATO deployment
Canada and Latvia have put in place an agreement governing the establishment of a NATO battlegroup in the eastern European country. This summer Canada will lead a multinational NATO battlegroup in Latvia as part of what the military has called the alliance’s enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) in Central and Eastern Europe. A technical...
Germany, Russia, Ukraine, France discuss Ukraine peace deal
Germany, Russia, Ukraine, France discuss Ukraine peace deal …read more Source:...
Journalist Semena Says Russian Charge ‘Not Legal But Political’
Mykola Semena, an RFE/RL contributor who is being tried by a Russian court in Crimea, says that he is being prosecuted for political reasons. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Germany’s Merkel and Russia’s Putin Discuss Ukraine Peace Deal
BERLIN (AP) — The German government says the leaders of Germany, Russia, Ukraine and France have renewed their commitment to implementing a faltering peace deal for eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Ukraine’s Back-Channel Diplomat Still Shopping Peace Plan to Trump
As power struggles heat up back home, Andrey Artemenko is pushing policy in Washington to play politics in Kiev. …read more Source: Foreign...
There’s some irony here: The waters of Trump’s Washington are dark and deep
(Credit: AP) Years ago, I worked for a wealthy television executive in Washington, DC, who had a posh Georgetown townhouse with a courtyard. In the center of his courtyard was a small fountain, and he became obsessed with getting hold of a certain dye for it that the National Park Service used in fountains and pools at various historic sites...
