Section: US & Canada
Finland Goes After Russian Sub With Depth Charges
Finnish forces dropped depth charges into Baltic waters as a warning after sighting a foreign submarine presumed to be Russian. The Financial Times has more: Commodore Olavi Jantunen, the navy’s chief of operations, told Finnish broadcaster YLE that he could not say for certain whether it was a submarine, and he did not want to speculate....
Forest fire hits large section of zone around Chernobyl reactor
Fire has engulfed a large sector of woods in the exclusion zone around the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Ukrainian prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk says the fire is being brought under control. …read more Source: Global...
Forest fire hits large section of Chernobyl exclusion zone
Fire has engulfed a large sector of woods in the exclusion zone around the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Ukrainian prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk says the fire is being brought under control. …read more Source: CTV...
Forest fire blazes in Chernobyl off-limits zone
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Fire has engulfed a large sector of woods in the exclusion zone around the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Ukrainian… …read more Source:...
Forest fire threatens Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear zone
A forest fire in northern Ukraine threatened on Tuesday to spread towards the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) on Tuesday, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said in a post on Facebook. …read more Source: The Toronto...
Pushing Back Against a Chinese Lake in the South China Sea
China’s aggressive actions in the South China Sea are prompting a soul-searching query from Hanoi to Washington: At what point does a sliced-up salami cease being a salami at all? In a short space of time, China’s unilateral and incremental efforts to carve out a greater presence in the South China Sea — by, for example, turning empty...
Riga Summit Likely To Disappoint Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine
The latest draft of the Eastern Partnership declaration prepared for the bloc’s Riga summit next month contains little good news for EU hopefuls Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine, and highlights the shrinking ambitions of the European Union in its eastern neighborhood. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
These Are the Most Influential World Leaders on Twitter (and Why That Doesn’t Matter)
Because of its near total ubiquity, it’s easy to overlook just how crucial Twitter has become to the public work of international diplomacy, where its used for both public outreach and propaganda. Nine years after the service’s founding, the social media tool has been so widely adopted by world leaders and their governments that it...
Ex-Boxer Fights to Save Kiev
Vitali Klitschko hung up his gloves for politics, seeking Western investment for the capitol of a country that Russia wants back. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukrainian leader’s firm says assets seized in Russia
KIEV (Reuters) – Russian authorities have seized the assets of a confectionery factory owned by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in the… …read more Source:...
