Section: US & Canada
Obama Said to Resist Growing Pressure From All Sides to Arm Ukraine
Democrats joined Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday in unanimously pressing the administration to send weapons to Kiev. …read more Source: The New York...
Obama slammed for delay in arming Ukraine
Lawmakers from both parties on Tuesday slammed President Obama’s continuing refusal to approve lethal arms for Ukraine, saying Tuesday that U.S. credibility is falling as Russian-backed rebels gain ground in their fight against the former Soviet republic’s government. Mr. Obama has not ruled out providing defensive weapons, which...
Ukraine president says arms withdrawal almost complete
Ukraine leader says heavy weapons withdrawal in east almost complete; accusations still fired …read more Source:...
Sweden Cuts Defense Ties to Saudi Arabia Over Human Rights Row
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden said on Tuesday it will cancel a defense agreement with Saudi Arabia worth billions of crowns to its industry after criticism of Riyadh’s human rights record sparked a diplomatic row. Sweden’s Social Democrat-led government, which came to power in October last year, has focused its foreign policy on...
U.S. says Russia sent new weapons to Ukraine rebels despite truce
U.S. assistant secretary of state says the continued delivery of weapons “is not compatible with the spirit or letter” of the ceasefire agreement. …read more Source: Toronto...
US Envoy: Eastern Ukraine, Crimea Under ‘Reign of Terror’
A top U.S. diplomat for Europe says citizens in large parts of war-torn eastern Ukraine and Crimea are living under “a reign of terror” spawned by a new influx of Russian military hardware. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, speaking Tuesday, told the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Russian tanks, armored...
Russia opts out of European arms control treaty
MOSCOW (AP) – Russia says it will no longer attend consultations related to a key European arms control treaty, accusing the West of stonewalling its demands. The move comes as Russia-West relations have plunged to their lowest point since the Cold War times over the Ukrainian crisis. The 1990 Conventional … …read more Source:...
The complete destruction of Donetsk airport shows just how bad it’s gotten in Ukraine
Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists have been fighting battles across Ukraine for almost a year, killing upwards of 6000 soldiers and civilians in the process. It’s been a bloody war, one which has completely rocked the country. Nowhere is that more apparent than at the Sergey Prokofiev International Airport in Donetsk, Ukraine....
The Russian lawmaker kicked out of the country speaks out about Putin, Snowden, and a Russian collapse
In Vladimir Putin’s quest to amass more power, the Russian government has become increasingly corrupt and ever more dangerous for critics and political activists. Case in point — the suspicious murder of Boris Nemtsov as he walked home across a busy bridge in Moscow almost two weeks ago. We recently sat down with Ilya Ponomarev — a...
Jason Kenney under fire for tweet about Muslims and for approving release of special forces photos
Defence Minister Jason Kenney has come under fire for his decision to allow the release of photos potentially identifying Canadian special forces in Iraq and his tweeting of a picture he suggested was of Muslim women put in chains by Islamic extremists but was actually from a religious ceremony. The photo of the Muslim women in black burkas and...
