Section: US & Canada
EU Official: Russia, Ukraine Reach Deal on Gas Supplies for Coming Winter
EU official: Russia, Ukraine reach deal on gas supplies for coming winter …read more Source: ABC...
Obama’s Foreign Policy Doctrine: The Worse, the Better
What a mess. President Obama says he wants to take in at least 10,000 refugees from the Middle East. Meanwhile, Russia’s Vladimir Putin is sending fighter aircraft and troops to prop up a Syrian leader who Obama has said over and over again must go. The 50 or so Syrian rebels that we spent roughly $1 million apiece to train and equip have...
Is Russia Ramping Up Military Involvement in the Middle East?
As if Syria wasn’t nasty enough after four years of bloody civil war—a brutal Syrian regime, Islamic State barbarity, an Iranian and Hezbollah influx, and the presence of al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front and its bomb-building Khorasan group. Now reports of rampaging Russians. Reports indicate that Moscow has deployed a military expeditionary...
Ukraine’s ban of Russian airlines adds fuel to political conflict
Despite the ban, Russian airline Aeroflot says it has ‘not received official notification about halting flights’ from Ukraine’s aviation authorities. …read more Source: Toronto...
Ukraine Bans Russian Planes, Software
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said on September 25 that his government has banned flights of Russian airlines, primarily Aeroflot and Transaero, to Ukraine starting October 1. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Robert Fulford: How ‘failed states’ became a recipe for genocide
The slogan “Never Again” appeared often in the 20th century, as the world slowly came to grips with the greatest crime of the modern era, the killing by Nazi Germany of 6 million European Jews in the 1940s. It was said with confidence, as if the Holocaust had taught everyone about the profound evil that can spring from racial hatred. But the...
Ukraine orders Russian airlines be banned from flying into the country beginning Oct. 25
Ukraine’s prime minister says Russian airlines will be banned from flying into the country, the latest attempt to put pressure on Russia as the conflict in eastern Ukraine grinds on. …read more Source: FOX...
Pope’s Messages To UN And Congress Diverge Sharply In Tone
Pope Francis’ speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Friday may have addressed similar themes as his address to Congress on Thursday, but the tone could not have been more different, with the pontiff issuing a scathing indictment of the U.N.’s failure to fulfill its mission. The speech was also notable for the pope’s...
Here’s how many hours you’ll have to work to afford that new iPhone (AAPL)
The iPhone 6S and 6S Plus go on sale today. The cheapest version, the 6S with 16GB of storage, costs about $650 unsubsidized. This chart from Statista takes that price and compares it against the average hourly wage in cities around the world as measured by UBS. If you make an average wage in New York, you’ll only have to work about 24...
Ukraine to Ban Russian Airlines From Flying Into the Country
Ukraine orders Russian airlines be banned from flying into the country beginning Oct. 25 …read more Source: ABC...
