Section: US & Canada
Ukraine children eat food tainted by Chornobyl: AP
Rural families in Ukraine are resorting to milk and produce from land still contaminated by fallout from the world’s worst nuclear accident three decades ago. …read more Source: CTV...
Gorbachev Urges Putin and Obama to Begin Ukraine Talks
The Soviet Union’s last leader Mikhail Gorbachev has urged the U.S. and Russian presidents to personally start talks on alleviating the Ukraine crisis, fearing the conflict may not stay “frozen” for long. Ukraine has entered a tense stalemate with Russian-backed separatists in its eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions, after violence erupted...
How to Start a New Life in the French Foreign Legion
Military service is often the chosen path of those with a patriotic calling. But for the men of the French Foreign Legion, the country they’re trained to fight and die for isn’t their own. Volunteers come from all over the world—Panama, Slovakia, the United States—to be sent to some of the most far-flung and dangerous posts occupied...
Obama’s royal holiday: Lunch with queen, dinner with princes
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh wave to well-wishers during her 90th birthday celebrations in Windsor, Britain, 21 April 2016. (ANDY RAIN/EPA/Getty Images) LONDON — Most people send a card, call, or post on Facebook for someone’s birthday, but President Barack Obama has gone the extra mile —...
The Morning Vertical, April 22, 2016
Your daily roundup …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Moscow defends ruling to suspend Tatar legislature in Crimea
A spokesman for President Vladimir Putin has rejected U.S. criticism about a recent decision to suspend a Crimean Tatar legislative body. …read more Source: FOX...
AP Exclusive: Ukraine children eat food tainted by Chernobyl
Viktoria Vetrova knows the risk her four children take in drinking milk from the family’s two cows and eating dried mushrooms and berries from the forest. …read more Source: FOX...
Moscow defends ruling to suspend Tatar legislature in Crimea
A spokesman for President Vladimir Putin has rejected U.S. criticism about a recent decision to suspend a Crimean Tatar legislative body. … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Moscow defends ruling to suspend Tatar legislature in Crimea
A spokesman for President Vladimir Putin has rejected U.S. criticism about a recent decision to suspend a Crimean Tatar legislative body. … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The News...
Moscow defends ruling to suspend Tatar legislature in Crimea
MOSCOW (AP) — A spokesman for President Vladimir Putin has rejected U.S. criticism about a recent decision to suspend a Crimean Tatar legislative… …read more Source:...
