Section: US & Canada
Obama to provide more non-lethal aid to Ukraine
Brushing aside a bipartisan call from Congress to send arms to Ukraine, the Obama administration said Wednesday it will instead provide an additional $75 million in non-lethal military equipment to Kiev in its fight against Russian-backed rebels. The military aid will include counter-mortar radar, drones, radios and medical equipment, a …...
Mikhail Ulyanov, Russian official, claims Moscow’s right to deploy nuclear weapons in Crimea
A Russian Foreign Ministry official said on Wednesday that Moscow has the right to put nuclear weapons in the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea. “I don’t know if there are nuclear weapons there now. I don’t know about any plans, but in principle Russia can do it,” said Mikhail Ulyanov, … …read more Source: The...
Photos March 11: Top images from around the world
The day’s best photos, as selected by editors at Postmedia News, are a stunning collection of the greatest images from around the world. A woman touches a monument for victims of the 2011 quake-tsunami disaster In the coastal area of Arahama district in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images People offer a silent prayer...
Poland to test resilience to attack, due to armed conflict in neighboring Ukraine
Poland’s President Bronislaw Komorowski says that an exercise will be held to test the nation’s resilience to a “crisis” like the conflict in neighboring Ukraine. …read more Source: FOX...
Ukraine’s Neighbor Poland to Test Resilience to Attack
Poland to test resilience to attack, due to armed conflict in neighboring Ukraine …read more Source: ABC...
Expert: Putin is engaged in ‘an existential struggle’ with the West
Vladimir Putin sees Russia and the West as being locked in “an existential struggle,” reports USNI News, citing an expert at a Heritage Foundation event on Tuesday. Eugene Rumer, the director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Russia and Eurasia Program, told the audience at the event that the rising tensions...
Ukraine expects $5B loan from IMF in ‘coming days’
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s finance minister says the country is expecting to receive $5 billion in credit from the International Monetary Fund in the coming days— the first in a sought-for series of bailout loans the government hopes will keep Ukraine from an economic meltdown. …read more Source: U.S....
Ukraine expects $5B loan from IMF in ‘coming days’ as economy struggles to stay afloat
Ukraine’s finance minister says the country is expecting to receive $5 billion in credit from the International Monetary Fund in the coming days — the first in a sought-for series of bailout loans the government hopes will keep Ukraine from an economic meltdown. …read more Source: FOX...
News Analysis: The Plot To Seize Crimea
A year after the whirlwind events that led to Russia’s March 2014 annexation of the Ukrainian region of Crimea, new revelations appear to show that the plan was a long time in the works. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
U.S. sending small drones and armored Humvees to Ukraine
$75 million in non-lethal aid comes as Washington unveils more sanctions related to Russia-Ukraine conflict …read more Source:...
