Section: US & Canada
Australian wins World Press Photo award for migrants image
Last year’s competition was overshadowed by the disqualification of a winner who admitted that one in a series of pictures about the Belgian city of Charleroi was actually taken in Brussels, and by controversy surrounding the pictures of the gritty, post-industrial Charleroi. Lars Boering, managing director of the World Press Photo...
Fascists And Evil Americans: Ukrainian Separatists Launch Magazine For Kids
The grotesque political caricatures in a new children’s magazine launched by Ukrainian separatists leave little room for the imagination. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine’s Grim Slide
Ukraine’s government was on the verge of collapse earlier today after two smaller parties quit the governing coalition in disgust following Tuesday’s failed vote to oust the unpopular Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk from office. Both Ukrainian reformers and journalists denounced Tuesday’s flubbed no-confidence vote as a crooked...
Another faction quits Ukraine’s governing coalition
MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Ukraine sank deeper into political turmoil Thursday as the governing coalition lost its majority in parliament after a second faction bailed out. …read more Source: CNS...
AP’s Mstyslav Chernov wins Royal Television Society award
LONDON (AP) — Associated Press journalist Mstyslav Chernov has been named camera operator of the year at the Royal Television Society awards in London. Chernov, based in Ukraine, has covered the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine, the aftermath of the deadly terror attacks in Paris in November and Europe’s refugee crisis. He picked up...
Another Faction Quits Ukraine’s Governing Coalition
Another faction withdraws from governing coalition in Ukraine’s parliament …read more Source: ABC...
Another faction quits Ukraine’s governing coalition
Ukraine sank deeper into political turmoil Thursday as the governing coalition lost its majority in parliament after a second faction bailed out. …read more Source: FOX...
Another faction quits Ukraine’s governing coalition
Ukraine sank deeper into political turmoil Thursday as the governing coalition lost its majority in parliament after a second faction bailed out. … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Another faction quits Ukraine’s governing coalition
MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Ukraine sank deeper into political turmoil Thursday as the governing coalition lost its majority in parliament after a second faction bailed out. The move by Samopomich (Self Help), which has 26 seats in the 450-seat parliament, leaves the coalition partners with 217 votes. The failure to create a new majority coalition may...
Preparing for the Collapse of the Saudi Kingdom
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. ReutersFor half a century, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been the linchpin of U.S. Mideast policy. A guaranteed supply of oil has bought a guaranteed supply of security. Ignoring autocratic practices and the export of Wahhabi extremism,...
