Section: US & Canada
Apprehension of Chechens in Europe Mounts after Attack on Blogger
Chechen emigres in Europe are becoming increasingly apprehensive about their safety following a hammer attack last week by a would-be assassin on a trenchant critic of Chechnya’s Kremlin-backed leader, Ramzan Kadyrov.They say the attack, foiled when popular Chechen blogger Tumso Aburakhmanov confronted his assailant, is part of a violent...
Ukraine pledges help for airline compensation for Iran plane crash victims
Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne is in Kyiv on March 3 for the start of a two-day visit that will include a meeting with the head of the Ukraine International Airlines, where he will try to speed up delivery of the compensation it must pay under international aviation law to the families of all those killed on Flight 752....
Ukraine pledges help for airline compensation for Iran plane crash victims
OTTAWA — Ukraine’s ambassador to Canada says his government will help Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne secure compensation from Ukraine International Airlines for the families of all those killed on Flight 752, including 55 Canadians. Champagne is in Kyiv March 3 for the start of a two-day visit that will include a...
Ukraine pledges help for airline compensation for Iran plane crash victims
OTTAWA — Ukraine’s ambassador to Canada says his government will help Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne secure compensation from Ukraine International Airlines for the families of all those killed on Flight 752, including 55 Canadians. Champagne is in Kyiv March 3 for the start of a two-day visit that will include a...
Serbian Orthodox Church Again Protests Against Montenegro’s Religion Law
Thousands marched in central Podgorica, Montenegro’s capital, on February 29 marking St. Simeon Day, a festive occasion for the Serbian Orthodox Church, which took the opportunity to reiterate its opposition to Montenegro’s law on freedom of religion. Metropolitan Onufriy, head of Ukraine’s Moscow-led Orthodox Church, led the...
Ukraine pledges help for airline compensation for Iran plane crash victims
Ukraine’s ambassador to Canada says his government will help Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne secure compensation from Ukraine International Airlines for the families of all those killed on Flight 752, including 57 Canadian citizens. …read more Source::...
Europe Races to Ready Hospitals for Coronavirus Break Out
With public health experts warning a tipping point for coronavirus is getting closer, European authorities are racing to try to ready their health systems to cope with a flood of sick and highly contagious patients.European countries are still in containment mode but they’re also trying simultaneously to prepare their health services and...
Ukraine Opens Case Involving Former Prosecutor General
Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation, responsible for investigating high-level crime in that country, Thursday opened a criminal case concerning alleged pressure by then-U.S. vice president Joe Biden to get rid of Viktor Shokin, then Ukraine’s prosecutor general.Biden, who served under former U.S. President Barack Obama, is running...
Where Does Donald Trump’s Strange (And Dangerous) ‘Absolute Rights’ Idea Come From?
President Donald Trump’s theory of executive power starts and ends with his “absolute rights.”Trump invoked that catchphrase earlier this month, when, in apparent response to his angry tweets, the Justice Department undercut its own prosecutors and reduced their recommended prison sentence for Roger Stone, Trump’s longtime friend and...
The ‘Puppet Master’ of Putin’s Kremlin Is Out, but His Sinister Policies Are Still In
ALEXEI NIKOLSKY/AFP via Getty ImagesMOSCOW—Historians of Vladimir Putin’s reign used to write volumes about the man who stood behind him, directing and manipulating, like the éminence grise of old. Kremlinologists described Vladislav Surkov as a shadowy crafter of Russian domestic policies, and somebody who destroyed his opponents without...
