Section: US & Canada
‘Many’ More Human Remains Found At MH17 Crash Site
Dutch investigators say they have recovered “many” more body parts and pieces of wreckage after returning to the site of the MH17 plane crash in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Berger: Ukraine’s moment of opportunity
Should Canada be more involved in Ukraine? Such involvement is inevitable, because politics and economy today are global, and a conflict elsewhere is no longer merely a regional concern. Even more so for Canada in Ukraine. Canada has a special place and meaning in Ukrainian national mythology. Canadian opinion matters there. …read more...
Hollande: France Will Reimburse Russia If Warships Not Delivered
French President Francois Hollande says France will refund payments made by Russia for two Mistral amphibious-assault ships if the warships are not delivered because of Moscow’s involvement in the Ukraine conflict. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
When Is a TV Channel a Foreign Agent?
Yuri Kochetkov/Reuters Where do the limits of a free press lie? If one were to ask Ilya Ponomarev, a member of the Russian parliament and the only lawmaker to vote against his country’s annexation of Crimea, the answer might be at the doorstep of RT, formerly known as Russia Today. In a recent interview with BuzzFeed, Ponomarev—who...
Berger: Ukraine’s moment of opportunity
Should Canada be more involved in Ukraine? Such involvement is inevitable, because politics and economy today are global, and a conflict elsewhere is no longer merely a regional concern. Even more so for Canada in Ukraine. Canada has a special place and meaning in Ukrainian national mythology. Canadian opinion matters there. At the moment,...
Brussels Hits Gazprom with Anti-Trust Charge
Brussels officially charged Gazprom with violating EU anti-trust legislation today. The accusation is four years in the making and comes at a time when tensions between Europe and Russia are at a post-Cold War high.The EU’s complaints are straightforward. In the words of EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, Gazprom, which...
Medvedev: Sanctions cost Russia $106 billion
Ed AdamczykMOSCOW, April 22 (UPI) — Russia has put a price, $106 billion, on the economic sanctions imposed on it in response to its involvement in Crimea and Ukraine. …read more Source: United Press...
More human remains found at MH17 crash site 9 months later
Nine months after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over Ukraine, investigators have uncovered more body parts at the crash site. …read more Source: New York Daily...
Is Trouble Brewing for the 2015 NPT Review Conference?
Since its adoption in 1968, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has become a critical mechanism to achieve nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament goals. With only a week to go before state parties to the NPT gather at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York to review progress on the implementation of this landmark treaty, it is...
EU Charges Russia’s Gazprom Gas Giant With Market Abuse
BRUSSELS—The European Union on Wednesday charged Russian state energy giant Gazprom of abusing its dominant position in central and eastern EU nations in an antitrust case that will further test tense relations between Brussels and Moscow. EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said Gazprom is strong-arming customer nations ranging from...
