Section: US & Canada
Fuel shortages reported in rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Severe fuel shortages have hit the rebel-controlled areas in eastern Ukraine.Several residents of the rebel stronghold Donetsk told The Associated Press on Thursday that only a few gas stations remained open in what was once a city of half a million people. Prices for gasoline have skyrocketed by a third and drivers are...
Mosque Robbed In Annexed Crimea
Unknown individuals have robbed a mosque in Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, which was annexed by Russia last year. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Possible Russia-West Rapprochement Over Syria Stokes Fears In Europe’s East
A sudden push by France and Russia for cooperation in the fight against Islamist extremists in Syria has raised concerns across Eastern Europe that Moscow is trying to use the recent terrorist attacks in Paris to get concessions from the West on Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The Daily Vertical: Does Anybody Remember Ukraine?
The Daily Vertical is a video primer for Russia-watchers that appears Monday through Friday. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Soros Invests In Ukrainian Software Developer
U.S. financier and billionaire philanthropist George Soros is buying a “significant” stake in Ukrainian software developer Ciklum. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Narrowing rift, U.S. and Russia entertain cooperation in Syria
MOSCOW — In a striking shift, President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin are embarking on a tentative path toward closer ties and possible military cooperation, as the bitter rift over Ukraine gives way to common cause against the Islamic State group. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
Terror attacks bring greater urgency to finding migrant crisis solutions
GWEN IFILL: For more on growing calls to restrict the unprecedented migration flowing into Europe and beyond, we turn to former British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who is now president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee. And Andras Simonyi, he was Hungary’s ambassador to the United States and is now a professor at the...
Vladimir Putin’s help in Islamic State fight seen likely to come with strings attached
Western sanctions and international outrage over the invasion of Ukraine were supposed to leave Russian President Vladimir Putin isolated and weakened on the world stage, but that was before the surge of international attacks by the Islamic State found President Obama and other Western leaders suddenly in need of Moscow’s …...
Canadian newcomer Trudeau a fresh face among APEC leaders
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — He’s younger than the next youngest leader by six years and nearly a full generation behind the 60-year-old average age of his Pacific Rim peers.Newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, 43, installed on a liberal agenda at odds with the authoritarian policies of some other Asia-Pacific leaders, is...
Olympic athlete calls for all sports to be investigated
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The easy part was shutting down Russia’s anti-doping agency until further notice.The hard part for the World Anti-Doping Agency was, well, everything else.WADA’s top policymaking board handed down a declaration of noncompliance to Russia’s anti-doping agency Wednesday, in a much-expected rebuke for...
