Section: US & Canada
Dutch Safety Board has draft report into MH17 crash
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The team investigating last year’s crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine has prepared a draft final report and given it to countries involved in the probe for their comments. The Safety Board said last year that the Boeing 777 was likely brought down by “multiple high-energy...
Dutch Safety Board has draft report into MH17 crash
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The team investigating last year’s crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine has prepared a draft final report and given it to countries involved in the probe for their comments. …read more Source: U.S....
Dutch Safety Board has draft report into MH17 crash
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The team investigating last year’s crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine has prepared a draft… …read more Source:...
Russia’s big gas plan hit a setback
Russia’s big plan to build the Turkish Stream might have hit a snag as Russia and Turkey can’t agree on gas prices. Russia’s Gazprom and Turkey’s BOTAŞ had a six-month period to agree on the prices for gas supplies. That time frame expired on Monday without a deal. “The dispute over prices means there’s no...
Gazprom Halts Natural Gas Deliveries to Ukraine
The Russian energy giant cut off deliveries because of a pricing dispute amid political tensions between Russia and Ukraine. …read more Source: The New York...
Two Ships, Four Generations: A Family’s Odyssey
The early twentieth century was an age of immigration — millions left Europe in despair, defeat or fear to make new lives in America. My family history is not much different from that of other immigrants, but with one big deviation: two generations arrived from Europe and two later generations returned! In the spring of 1915, my father and...
Russia To Build Its Own Version Of France’s Mistral Helicopter Landing Ships After Months Of Uncertainty
Russia has committed to building its own helicopter landing ships to replace the two Mistral vessels that France built but then declined to deliver to the Kremlin because of Russian actions in Crimea and East Ukraine, reported TASS, a Kremlin-owned Russian news site, Wednesday. Admiral Viktor Chirkov, who broke the news at the international...
Russia halts gas supply to Ukraine amid pricing dispute
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian gas company Gazprom halted supplies to neighboring Ukraine on Wednesday after the collapse of pricing talks, a company official said — but an EU official said both nations gave assurances the dispute would not affect the flow of Russian gas to Europe. …read more Source: CNS...
Russia halts gas supply to Ukraine amid pricing dispute
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian gas company Gazprom halted supplies to neighboring Ukraine on Wednesday after the collapse of pricing talks, a company official said — but an EU official said both nations gave assurances the dispute would not affect the flow of Russian gas to Europe. Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said Russia stopped deliveries at 10 a.m....
Russia halts gas supply to Ukraine amid pricing dispute
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian gas company Gazprom halted supplies to neighboring Ukraine on Wednesday after the collapse of pricing talks, a company… …read more Source:...
