Section: US & Canada
South African University Removes Statue Honoring British Imperialist Following Student Protests
South Africa’s University of Cape Town removed a statue of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes on Thursday to cheers from students, a symbolic move that exposes persistent racial divides two decades after the end of apartheid. The statue at the university, one of Africa’s top academic institutions, has been covered up for the past few...
Tending to the War Wounded in Mariupol
MARIUPOL, Ukraine—In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque wrote: “A hospital alone shows what war is.” The hospital here is no exception. The faces of soldiers, both young and old, recovering from wounds and sickness incurred on the front lines—located only eight miles away from here—speak to the innumerable contradictions of war....
OSCE Reports Intense Fighting Between Ukraine And Pro-Russian Rebels As Foreign Ministers Meet In Berlin
As foreign ministers of Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine prepared to meet in Berlin Monday to push for a lasting peace deal in eastern Ukraine, fighting on the ground intensified. …read more Source: International Business...
How to Keep the Financial Pressure on Iran and Its Proxies
“…Our concerns will remain with respect to Iranian behavior so long as Iran continues its sponsorship of terrorism, its support for proxies who destabilize the Middle East, its threats against America’s friends and allies — like Israel,” President Barack Obama said, immediately after lauding Washington’s new...
Russia is now projecting serious power in the Black Sea
Russia’s seizure of Crimea ensured that Moscow could expand its naval capabilities throughout the Black Sea and into the Mediterranean, Matthew Bodner writes for Defense News. The Kremlin’s Black Sea Fleet was based and operated out of the Crimean city of Sevastopol. However, even under the leadership of pro-Russian former Ukrainian...
German FM: Russia’s return to G-8 depends on Ukraine deal
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Fighting Picks up in War-Torn Eastern Ukraine
DONETSK, Ukraine—Fighting has picked up in eastern Ukraine after more than a month of relative calm, as diplomats gathered in Berlin on Monday to discuss the country’s crisis. Observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said Sunday that its mission observed an intense clash with the use of tanks and heavy...
German FM: Russia’s return to G-8 depends on Ukraine deal
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s foreign minister says Russia’s return to the top diplomatic table depends on the success of a peace initiative for Ukraine. …read more Source: U.S....
German foreign minister says Russia’s return to G-8 depends on Ukraine deal
Germany’s foreign minister says Russia’s return to the top diplomatic table depends on the success of a peace initiative for Ukraine. …read more Source: FOX...
German FM: Russia’s Return to G-8 Depends on Ukraine Deal
German foreign minister says Russia’s return to G-8 depends on Ukraine deal …read more Source: ABC...
