Section: US & Canada
Amid concerns over Russian action in Ukraine, Syria, US and NATO also seeking Moscow’s help
The United States and its NATO allies struggled Tuesday to come up with a clear message to send Russia at a time of conflicting concerns in Europe and the Middle East. …read more Source: FOX...
Russia Challenging Japan? Kremlin To Build Military Compounds On Disputed Kuril Islands
With attention on Russia’s role in Syria and Ukraine, the Kremlin’s long-term dispute with the Japan over the Kuril Islands has fallen to the wayside. But after a Kremlin announcement Tuesday that it would construct military compounds on the islands, relations with Japan were likely to become even more strained. …read more...
Ukrainian President Pardons Russian in Prisoner Exchange
President Petro Poroshenko has pardoned a Russian citizen arrested in eastern Ukraine and exchanged him for a Ukrainian serviceman held by Russian-backed separatists. Poroshenko announced the exchange on his official website, which showed a photograph of him meeting early Tuesday with the freed Ukrainian, Andrei Grechanov. The president said he...
U.S. sending 30-year-old, obsolete equipment to Ukraine military
You know he doesn’t like to upset Vladimir. That’s why he welched on the U.S. commitment to install missile defense systems in Poland and the Czech Republic. That’s why he whispered to Dmitri Medvedev that he could be more flexible as soon as he got past that dumb election. Ukraine is a tricky question, though, for Barack Obama....
Rudder problem, pilot actions led to Indonesia AirAsia crash
A rudder control system problem that had occurred 23 times in the previous 12 months coupled with the pilots’ response led to last year’s crash of an AirAsia plane that killed all 162 people on board, Indonesian investigators said Tuesday. In releasing their report, the National Transportation Safety Committee said an analysis of...
Russia HIV infection bucks trends as World Aids Day marked
MOSCOW (AP) — On a frigid evening on the outskirts of Moscow, two HIV-prevention activists unzip backpacks, pull out packs of hypodermic needles and start discretely approaching people leaving a nearby pharmacy with an offer that could save their lives. So-called harm reduction programs — which distribute clean needles and condoms as well as...
Lubomyr Luciuk: Canada has been good to refugees — including my family
Canada has been good to refugees. I should know. My late parents were both political refugees, fleeing the Soviet and Nazi occupations that eviscerated Ukraine, before, during, and after the Second World War. Like millions of others, they found themselves in Western Europe at war’s end, their homeland no longer theirs. They could not...
Ultra Right Cuts Crimea’s Lights
Ukrainian activists, including the far right, are blowing up power lines in the Russian-occupied peninsula and risking an even greater confrontation between Kiev and Moscow. …read more Source: The Daily...
Poroshenko Pardons Russian In Prisoner Exchange
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has pardoned a Russian citizen arrested in eastern Ukraine and exchanged him for a Ukrainian serviceman held by Russia-backed separatists. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukrainian president pardons Russian citizen in exchange for serviceman held by rebels
President Petro Poroshenko has pardoned a Russian citizen arrested in eastern Ukraine and exchanged him for a Ukrainian serviceman held by Russian-backed separatists. …read more Source: FOX...
