Section: US & Canada
On Cluster Munitions, a Tentative Step Toward Sanity
You can always tell a policy development is significant when it’s released late Friday afternoon – and before a holiday weekend to boot. The decision by the United States to “hold” further transfers of CBU-105 cluster munitions to Saudi Arabia is a perfect example. In this case it was even more obscure than usual since the...
Ultranationalist arrested for plotting attacks during Euro 2016 soccer tournament
Ed AdamczykKIEV, Ukraine, June 6 (UPI) — A French man arrested in Ukraine in May was planning mass attacks during France’s Euro 2016 soccer tournament, Ukraine’s intelligence agency announced. …read more Source: United Press...
Vladimir Putin the Book: 15 Years in 3 Volumes
Referencing the Russian President has never been easier. Vladimir Putin’s entire oeuvre of speeches and addresses over a 15-year career has been collected in a new three-volume book that premiered at a Moscow book fair over the weekend. The book, titled Direct Speech, and issued by the publishing house Zvonnitsa, claimed to be a “portrait...
French national arrested in Ukraine ‘planned Euro 2016 attacks’
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) has claimed that a French national arrested last month was planning a series of attacks during the Euro 2016 football tournament. The man apparently had two rocket launchers and 18 shells for them, more than 5,000 cartridges, 100 detonators, 125 kg of TNT explosives and five Kalashnikov assault rifles in his...
Euro 2016: The Detained Frenchman in Ukraine
Ukraine’s security service says a Frenchman arrested late last month with a large cache of arms was planning to attack Euro 2016, the soccer tournament that begins this week, and other major targets in France.Vasily Gritsak, the head of the SBU, as the agency is known, said the man, who has not been publicly identified, contacted armed...
Ukraine: Man Planned Attacks on Euro Soccer Championship in France
Ukraine’s state security service said on Monday a French citizen detained in late May on the border with Poland had been planning attacks in France to coincide with the Euro 2016 soccer championship it is hosting. On Saturday the Ukrainian border guard service… …read more Source:...
Ukraine arrests Frenchman for plotting attacks on Euro 2016
Ukraine’s intelligence agency has thwarted a plot to attack the European Championship soccer tournament in France by arresting a heavily-armed Frenchman who wanted to cross into the European Union, officials said Monday. … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Ukraine Says It Foiled Plot to Attack Euro 2016 Tournament
Ukraine said a suspected terrorist was arrested with a haul of weapons and planned to attack France during the Euro 2016 soccer championship. …read more Source:...
The Latest: Paris increases security further for Euro 2016
MOSCOW (AP) — The Latest on the European Championship soccer tournament being held in France (all times local): 2:45 p.m. Paris’ police prefect says the level of security in the French capital has been further increased in order to protect potential soft targets during the European Championship soccer tournament. Michel Cadot says an extra...
Ukraine arrests Frenchman with cache of weapons for plotting mass attacks on Euro 2016
The SBU said it had followed the man since December and allowed him to purchase five machine-guns, two rocket propelled grenades and other weapons before he was arrested on the border between Ukraine and Poland last month. …read more Source: Toronto...
