Section: US & Canada
NATO’s Uneasy New Reality: Could It Still Stop Russia?
One Monday afternoon in June, several hundred American, British and Polish troops parachuted into central Poland. Last month’s jump was just practice, part of an extended NATO rehearsal for a defense of northern Europe against Russia.But in a real crisis — if those soldiers were called to defend the Baltic states — they could be...
AP News Analysis: Brexit raises new opportunities for Putin
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin has remained poker-faced as Britain voted to exit the European Union, but the Russian leader stands to gain significantly from the British departure, which would weaken the EU and create new tensions in the bloc. With Britain facing a long and messy divorce with the EU, both London’s role and,...
Kerry Traveling To Georgia, Ukraine Ahead Of NATO Summit
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is en route to Europe for solidarity visits aimed at assuring Georgia and Ukraine that those two countries have not been left out in the cold by the trans-Atlantic community. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Brexit Doesn’t Actually Help Putin
Daniel Kochis Politics, Europe NATO, not the EU, guarantees European security. Will Britain’s vote to leave the European Union be a boon for Putin’s Russia? This claim was often repeated during the run-up to the vote and trotted out again in the aftermath of Thursday’s referendum. But it deserves a skeptical eye. First and...
Dutch Investigators Of MH17 Crash In Moscow For Two-Day Visit
Representatives of the Joint International Criminal Investigation Team have arrived in Moscow to discuss their probe into the crash of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine two years ago. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
News Wrap: Iraq bombing death toll rises as search teams find more victims
JUDY WOODRUFF: Good evening. I’m Judy Woodruff. Gwen Ifill is away. On the “NewsHour” tonight: JAMES COMEY, FBI Director: No charges are appropriate in this case. JUDY WOODRUFF: Despite declaring Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server while secretary of state extremely careless, the FBI says there is not enough evidence to...
Desire to break free from Ukraine keeps devastated Donetsk fighting
JUDY WOODRUFF: Tonight, we begin a weeklong series from Eastern Europe that we’re calling Fault Lines. On Friday, NATO will announce the largest military buildup in Europe since the Cold War. Tensions between the West and Russia have reached the highest level since the fall of the Soviet Union. This week, we will examine the causes of that...
Ukraine’s Former Prime Minister on Dirty Politics, Populist ‘Bullshit,’ and Life After ‘Political Suicide’
Shortly after stepping down from power in Ukraine, Arseniy Yatsenyuk met with FP to discuss his future — and Ukraine’s. …read more Source: Foreign...
Ukraine plans alternative route after Russian transit ban
Allen ConeKIEV, Ukraine, July 5 (UPI) — Ukraine is seeking a new route for shipping goods to Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic after Russia placed new restrictions on transit through its territory. …read more Source: United Press...
Cohen: Ukraine’s uneasy past is belied by its determination to have a future
KYIV, Ukraine – This is not a country weary of the past and frightened of the future. It does not seem poor, forlorn or even at war. To follow the news and read the statistics, you’d think Ukraine was the sick man of Europe – a moniker that once belonged to Turkey and that Turkey now reclaims. Ukraine defies easy characterization. But one...
