Section: US & Canada
3 nations mark year since downing of Malaysian jet
Hundreds of family members and friends of the 298 passengers and crew killed when MH17 was blown out of the skies above rebel-held Eastern Ukraine rose to give Aljuned a standing ovation at a moving Dutch commemoration service for the victims. Ukrainian and Western authorities say the plane was downed, most likely by mistake, by a missile fired...
Ukraine-Russia tension rises over separatist powers, expulsions
While fighting in eastern Ukraine between government forces and Russian-backed separatists has ground down lately into a war of slow attrition, tension between Moscow and Kiev has been rising over diplomatic expulsions and unfulfilled conditions of a five-month-old peace plan. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Realism and the American Republic
In the crude violence of the contemporary international scene—with Russia running rampant in Ukraine and rattling its saber toward the Baltic states, with Muslims and Christians facing slaughter by ISIS in the Levant, and with thousands of African migrants boarding overloaded scows to cross the Mediterranean in a perilous search for work—it may...
Ukraine Expels Top Russian Diplomat From Odessa For ‘Incompatible’ Actions Amid Ongoing Tension
Russia’s Foreign Ministry criticized Ukraine Friday after officials in Kiev opted to deport the Kremlin’s top representative in Odessa, the seat of a volatile region in southern Ukraine. The political dispute unfolded amid tense relations between the Eastern European nations over Russia’s purported support of separatists active...
Russia Sends 2,000 Paratroopers on Drill near European Border
Around 2,000 Russian servicemen from its Airborne troops (VDV) have been taking part in landing combat drills near the country’s border with Estonia and Latvia, at a time of tension between Russia and the West over Moscow’s support for separatist rebels in Ukraine. The VDV troopers, usually stationed in the Tulskaya region, began the...
The War Between Russia and Ukraine Is on Facebook Too
Last December, a prominent Russian blogger Rustem Adagamov visited a World War II museum in Svolvaer, Norway. Among other things, Christmas balls decorated with swastikas and portraits of Nazi leaders caught his attention. He took some photographs and shared them on Facebook. Several months later, these photographs were reported to Facebook...
New evidence from shot-down Malaysia Airlines flight surfaces
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over Ukraine one year ago …read more Source:...
Ukraine separatists, likely culprits in downing of MH17, hold memorial ceremony at crash site
HRABOVE, Ukraine — The images left you with a queasy feeling in your gut Here, in this field of wildflowers, 298 people aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashed to Earth after being shot out of the sky one year ago. But today’s memorial ceremony, coordinated by separatist leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic...
Footage May Show Flight 17 Crash Debris
Video obtained by News Corp. Australia purportedly shows the direct aftermath of the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down over eastern Ukraine one year ago, killing 298 people. …read more Source: The New York...
Dutch, Australians, Ukrainians mark deadly MH17 anniversary
Residents of the Ukrainian village where a Malaysian airliner was shot down with 298 people aboard a year ago marched Friday to the crash site. …read more Source: CTV...
