Section: US & Canada
Baby born using experimental three-person technique sparks warning from doctors
A couple who spent a decade trying to conceive have become the first to successfully use a “three-person IVF” method to treat infertility this month — but experts warn that the treatment is still highly experimental and there is not enough proof that it can improve the chances of getting pregnant. On Wednesday, it was revealed by a clinic in...
Canada is deciding whether it wants to get into the business of cyberwar
To hack or not to hack? That’s the conversation that is happening in an array of Western militaries, as details emerge of Russian interference in the American election, Chinese infiltration of various North American systems, and the recent hacking of the Ukranian power grid. The question, now, is whether one good hack deserves another, and...
Kremlin Tells Ukraine That the Status of Annexed Crimea Is Non-Negotiable
Russia annexed the peninsula in 2014 and also supports separatist rebels in the east of Ukraine. …read more Source:...
7 big questions about the Trump administration
The known unknowns. Politics is inherently unpredictable, as the tumultuous 2016 presidential election certainly showed, and every new administration enters surrounded by a haze of Donald Rumsfeld’s famous “known unknowns” — questions that are clearly in play but to which the answer is, as of yet, not clear. For Donald Trump, that range of...
Biden: Russian Attempts to Influence Elections ‘Will Occur Again’
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden warned European nations Wednesday to be ready for Russia to try to influence their elections in the same way that U.S. intelligence agencies say they are certain Russia did in the November vote that is bringing Donald Trump to office this week. “With many countries in Europe slated to hold elections this year,...
Samantha Power’s diagnosis of the threat from Russia is brilliant. Her solutions aren’t.
Samantha Power, the outgoing US ambassador to the United Nations, gave her final public speech in office on Wednesday — and she devoted basically all of it to the threat Vladimir Putin’s Russia poses to global stability. Speaking at the Atlantic Council, Power offered what might be the simplest and clearest explanation of Putin’s...
The Morning Vertical, January 18, 2017
Your daily roundup …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine’s Savchenko Draws Fire For Crimea Comments
Ukrainian lawmaker Nadia Savchenko has caused controversy by suggesting that Kyiv must accept Moscow’s grip on Crimea for the time being if it wants to regain control over eastern territory held by Russia-backed separatists. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Joe Biden: Russian Election-Meddling ‘Will Occur Again, I Promise You’
Joe Biden offered a stirring defense of liberalism, as well as a harsh rebuke of Russia in his final speech as vice president.Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Biden warned of “dangerous demagogues and autocrats that have emerged seeking to capitalize on people’s insecurities. In this case, using...
Russian Officials Invite Marine Le Pen to Crimea
Ukraine has called her views on the peninsula “historically and legally worthless.” …read more Source:...
