Section: US & Canada
US warns of sharp rise in separatist attacks in Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States says Ukrainian rebels launched more attacks over the last three days than any similar time period since… …read more Source:...
Ukrainian Troops Quell Large Tank Offensive By Pro-Russian Forces As Donbas Conflict Worsens
Ukrainian forces thwarted a surprise pro-Russian rebel tank attack Monday that once again showed the fragility of the 16-month war in East Ukraine, according to an AFP report. “200 insurgents used tanks to storm” the village of Novolaspa, which lies between the de facto rebel capital of Donetsk and the strategic port of town of Mariupol on...
Russia’s Destruction of Banned Western Food Sparks Outrage
The Russian government is moving ahead with the mass destruction of Western food imports banned under sanctions imposed by the Kremlin over the standoff in Ukraine. Over the past few days, state media have broadcast images of bulldozers running over rounds of cheese, workers incinerating boxes of frozen bacon, and assurances from officials that...
Fighting in Eastern Ukraine Intensifies
Fighting between government forces and separatists intensified in eastern Ukraine on Monday, with the country’s president ordering his foreign minister to hold urgent talks with his counterparts from Germany, France and Russia about the escalating violence. The Ukrainian presidential website reported that some 200 separatist fighters using...
World’s Population To Top 11 Billion by 2100
The population total will grow to 11.2 billion worldwide by the end of the 21st century, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs is predicting. The current world population, at 7.3 billion, will increase to 9.7 billion by 2050 before rising to more than 11 billion five decades later, the department’s Population Division...
How America’s Global Financial System Blocks Development
NEW YORK — The Third International Conference on Financing for Development recently convened in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. The conference came at a time when developing countries and emerging markets have demonstrated their ability to absorb huge amounts of money productively. Indeed, the tasks that these countries are...
Russian economy shrank 4.6 percent in Q2 on lower oil prices
MOSCOW (AP) — Official government figures show that the Russian economy was 4.6 percent in the second quarter from the same quarter the previous year in the wake of plummeting oil prices and Western sanctions.The sharp quarterly decline reported Monday by the country’s state statistics agency is more than double the 2.2-percent contraction...
A Ukrainian Border Town Once Fenced by Soviets Blossoms Into a Shopper’s Paradise
Since 2005, a pedestrian crossing has drawn a surge of Slovakian visitors to a small Ukrainian village, where consumer goods are considerably cheaper. …read more Source: The New York...
Russia’s economy is shriveling up
Russia’s economy has contracted the most since 2009 following lower oil. Russia’s GDP shrank by 4.6% in the second quarter from the same period last year, following a 2.2% decline in the previous three months, according to the Federal Statistics Service in Moscow cited by Bloomberg’s Anna Andrianova. This was a greater...
U.S.-China Cooperation on Iran Signals a New Day in Global Governance
SHANGHAI — When the historic agreement was reached between Iran and Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States (“P5+1”) over the Iranian nuclear issue in July, President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Barack Obama highlighted their nations’ cooperation in resolving the Iranian nuclear issue, which may herald a new...
