Section: US & Canada
Russia State Of The Nation Live Stream: Watch President Vladimir Putin’s Address
With a sagging economy and involvement in conflicts from Ukraine to Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin will give his annual state of the nation address Thursday. The speech is expected to begin at noon in Moscow (4 a.m. EST), the Moscow Times reported. …read more Source: International Business...
Putin opens Crimean ‘energy bridge’
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin has traveled to the capital of Crimea to open an electricity connection with the Russian mainland, 10 days after the peninsula lost power coming from Ukraine. After Russia annexed Crimea in March 2014, it began building an underwater electricity cable system to the peninsula from Russia’s Krasnodar...
Putin Opens Crimean ‘Energy Bridge’
Putin inaugurates electricity connection to Crimea …read more Source: ABC...
Canada’s mission to Iraq could be expanded to include police training, says Dion
The scope of the Trudeau government’s reconfigured mission in Iraq will be broader than just the military and could include a sizable police training contingent, Canada’s foreign affairs minister said Wednesday. Stephane Dion found himself repeatedly buttonholed in the polished hallways of NATO headquarters over the last two days,...
Five things to watch for in Putin’s State of the Nation address
Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to give his annual state of the nation address in Moscow on Thursday. The speech comes at the end of a year that has been both economically and politically difficult for Russia. The country’s economy is still reeling and the country is involved in two ongoing wars — in Syria and Ukraine. International...
Polio Outbreak In Ukraine Prompts WHO Call To Action
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The World Health Organization is urging Ukraine’s health ministry to declare a state of emergency due to a polio outbreak, a move meant to prompt more action from the government in Kiev.In September, Ukraine announced two polio cases – the first in Europe since 2010.The U.N. health agency recommended that...
Ukraine’s Crazy Polio Outbreak
With only half the countrys children vaccinated, it was inevitable that something like this would happen in Ukraine. …read more Source: The Daily...
Astronauts Come to Congress
Astronauts Kjell Lindgren (left) and Scott Kelly NASA / ReutersTo testify before Congress, you don’t actually have to be in the room. That’s the case for NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station, who occasionally beam into congressional hearings via satellite. On Wednesday, Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren appeared before...
NATO invites Montenegro to join, as Russia plots response
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the invitation to Montenegro, which has strong economic and cultural ties to Russia, reaffirmed the alliance’s longstanding “open-door” policy toward potential member states. […] Viktor Ozerov, chairman of the defense committee at the upper house of Russia parliament, told...
The Russo – Turkish Crisis: Is the Syrian War Going Global?
Will the downing of the Russian fighter jet by the Turkish armed forces over Turkey’s war-torn border with Syria on 24 November go down in history as the ‘Franz Ferdinand moment’ of our century? Could it trigger a chain of events culminating in the next big confrontation between great powers? The short answer is no: despite the...
