Section: US & Canada
OBAMA: ‘We need to keep sanctions on Russia’
“We need to keep sanctions on Russia in place until Russia fully implements the Minsk agreements.” …read more Source: Business...
AP Finds Chernobyl Contamination In Milk From Belarus
Associated Press reporters who visited the edge of the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Belarus say that milk from a dairy farm there contains levels of radioactive isotopes at least 10 times higher than the country’s food safety limits. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
30 years after Chernobyl disaster, containment is nearing completion
But some wonder whether Ukraine can manage on its own when international support ends in 2017. …read more Source: The Washington...
This is how scientists are keeping Chernobyl’s radiation contained
Engineers at Chernobyl, Ukraine, are close to installing a new state-of-the-art protective shelter over the remains of reactor no. 4, the site of the worst nuclear power plant accident in history. The New Safe Confinement, a 30,000-ton structure that resembles a hangar the size of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, is the largest movable...
AP Exclusive: Test finds Chernobyl residue in Belarus milk
GUBAREVICHI, Belarus (AP) — On the edge of Belarus’ Chernobyl exclusion zone, down the road from the signs warning “Stop! Radiation,” a dairy farmer offers his visitors a glass of freshly drawn milk. Associated Press reporters politely decline the drink but pass on a bottled sample to a laboratory, which confirms it contains levels of a...
How to Join a Ukrainian Militia
Alexander Clapp Society, Eurasia Meet the motley thugs of Right Sector. THE UKRAINIAN army was so pitiful when fighting broke out in the Donbas in April 2014 that President Petro Poroshenko had to outsource the nation’s defense to volunteers. By July, approximately fifteen thousand citizens and foreigners had joined “volunteer battalions.”...
Russia Threatens to Use ‘All Necessary Measures’ Against US Aggression
A Russian ambassador to NATO said that Russia would deploy “all necessary measures” against American aggression, citing the sailing of a US destroyer in the Baltic Sea as an act of intimidation. On April 11, Russian aircrafts had made a close encounter with an American Navy destroyer in international waters, with both sides accusing the other of...
Two years into new regime, grim realities persist in Ukraine
The post Two years into new regime, grim realities persist in Ukraine appeared first on PBS NewsHour. …read more Source:...
Obama, Merkel Reiterate Hope for Political Solution in Syria
U.S. President Barack Obama said during a visit to Germany on Sunday that he was “deeply concerned” about a surge in violence in Syria, where government forces have stepped up bombing of rebel-held areas around the strategic city of Aleppo. Speaking after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a 17th century palace near the...
Why Chernobyl will take 3,000 years to recover
Three decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, the city of Pripyat, Ukraine, is still thousands of years away from resettlement. …read more Source: Christian Science...
