Section: US & Canada
Former boxer Roy Jones Jr. asks Vladimir Putin for Russian citizenship
Jared M. FeldschreiberSEVASTOPOL, Ukraine, Aug. 20 (UPI) — Former heavyweight world boxing champion Roy Jones Jr. met with Russian President Vladimir Putin Wednesday for a brief meeting in Sevastopol, Crimea. …read more Source: United Press...
Four Ukrainian Soldiers Killed In Fighting; Others Released
Ukrainian officials say four soldiers have been killed and 14 wounded in recent fighting in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Putin went diving looking for a centuries-old shipwreck in the Black Sea
Russian president Vladimir Putin went deep-sea diving off the coast of Crimea to find an ancient ship. It’s just one of the many hobbies Putin has embarked upon, along with playing hockey and driving a Formula One racing car. Produced by Lamar Salter Follow BI Video: On Facebook Join the conversation about this story » …read more...
Doves on Ukraine, From Right and Left
Neither the U.S. conservative Kissinger nor the U.K. liberal Corbyn suggests a better response to Putin. …read more Source:...
Ukraine anticipates default-saving debt deal
Kiev (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine was expecting the announcement on Friday of a crucial debt restructuring agreement that could save the pro-West but strife-torn country from a devastating default.Five months of excruciating negotiations between Kiev’s cash-strapped leadership and some of the world’s biggest commercial creditors...
Joint Ukrainian-German mission finds remains of WWII German soldiers in Kiev
A Ukrainian newspaper says Ukrainian and German servicemen have found remains of about 200 German soldiers buried in Kiev during the German occupation in World War II. …read more Source: FOX...
Remains of WWII German Soldiers Found in Kiev
Joint Ukrainian-German mission finds remains of WWII German soldiers in Kiev …read more Source: ABC...
Remains of WWII German soldiers found in Kiev
MOSCOW (AP) — A Ukrainian newspaper says Ukrainian and German servicemen have found remains of about 200 German soldiers buried in Kiev during the… …read more Source:...
The base jumpers say they were standing up for Ukraine. Russia says they were ‘inciting hatred.’
MOSCOW – Moscow does not lack for political trials this summer, but the strangest one involves four Russian base-jumpers and a Ukrainian roofer nicknamed Mustang Wanted. One year ago today, Russians in the capital awoke to find that the Soviet star atop one of Moscow’s iconic seven-sisters buildings, the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building,...
Trump Takes on the World
It was 1972. The flamboyant rock star Alice Cooper, not quite a household name at that point in England, was booked to play London’s Wembley Stadium. Shortly before the concert date, only a couple hundred of the 7,000 available tickets had been sold. Facing an epic failure, the redoubtable rock music promoter Shep Gordon emblazoned the side...
