Section: US & Canada
MH17 Investigation at ‘Advanced Stage,’ Results Due in Months
Dutch prosecutors say an international joint investigation into the downing of Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine is “at a very advanced stage” and the results will be available within months. This part of the investigation concerns the weapon used and “the exact launch site of the weapon” to bring down the Malaysia Airlines...
Police Break Up Protest In Crimea Over Beach Access
Police in Russia-controlled Crimea have forcibly broken up a protest by locals upset over amusement rides being set up near the shores of the Black Sea that they say obstruct access to the beach. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Reporter’s Notebook: Branded a ‘Terrorist’ for Reporting Two Sides of Ukraine’s War
A journalist has had guns pointed at him, slept in a shipping container, and walked past corpses, but until now had never been listed as a terrorist by a nationalist website. …read more Source: The New York...
Crimean Tatars Face Russian Crackdown
Topuz Bakhtiyar’s large family was fast asleep in their first-floor apartment in a five-floor building on Tsvetochnaya Street in the city of Yalta, Crimea, early in the morning of February 12 when a group of heavily armed masked men broke the windows and stormed the apartment. Shouting commands in Russian, the raiders locked the women in...
Wildrose sorry for comparing NDP carbon tax to Ukraine famine
EDMONTON – Members of Alberta’s Wildrose Opposition have apologized for comparing the NDP government’s carbon tax to a famine caused by Soviet government policies in Ukraine during the 1930s that killed millions of people. The article posted on a blog says socialist collective mentality has failed around the world and the carbon tax...
Alberta Wildrose members sorry for comparing NDP carbon tax to Ukraine famine
Members of Alberta’s Wildrose Opposition have apologized for comparing the NDP government’s carbon tax to a famine caused by Soviet government policies in Ukraine during the 1930s that killed millions of people. The article posted on a blog says socialist collective mentality has failed around the world and the carbon tax will give...
The Face of Evil: Surveying the ISIS Killing Fields in Northern Iraq
SINJAR, Iraq—Evil doesn’t always reveal itself through goose-stepping armies or skyscrapers collapsing on a clear autumn day. Sometimes, it’s only a sun-bleached bone in a field. This was the place the old peshmerga colonel wanted to show me. It wasn’t anything special by the look of it. Certainly, this plot of brown grass on a...
Warts and all, France will be tested by Euro 2016
PARIS (AP) — As with all modern sporting mega-events and their hosts, Euro 2016 will be a mirror for contemporary France: The reflection could be beautiful, ugly, or — most likely — a mix of both. Befitting the world’s sixth-largest economy, the bricks and mortar for a successful tournament have been ready for months. New, refurbished or...
Russia Agrees to Allowing Observers in Ukraine Carry Pistols
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Russia is ready to agree to allowing additional international observers in warring eastern Ukraine to be armed with pistols …read more Source: ABC...
Russia agrees to allowing observers in Ukraine carry pistols
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Russia is ready to agree to allowing additional international observers in warring eastern Ukraine to be armed with pistols. …read more Source: FOX...
