Section: US & Canada
Senators push Obama to arm Ukraine, lament slowness of aid
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the face of Russian violations of cease-fire agreements in Ukraine, both Democratic and Republican senators asked Tuesday why… …read more Source:...
Why Russia’s Probe Into the Nemtsov Murder Does Not Stack Up
Who knew Russia had such crack detectives — not just fast in their investigation of the murder of Boris Nemtsov but practically clairvoyant. Within a day of the dissident’s killing on Feb. 27, they offered a bundle of possible motives, predictably ranging from a business dispute to a love affair gone wrong, but with two big surprises. For...
Embattled Ukrainian town struggles to come back to life
DEBALTSEVE, Ukraine (AP) — When the wind picks up, the rattle of the corrugated iron roof of a destroyed gas station can sound like artillery. Four charred tanks sit stranded nearby, machine oil splattered on the ground, while a pick-up truck lies on its side surrounded by shrapnel. Debaltseve, the center of one of the fiercest battles of...
Embattled Ukrainian town struggles to come back to life
By NATALIYA VASILYEVA read more …read more Source: CNS...
Embattled Ukrainian town struggles to come back to life
DEBALTSEVE, Ukraine (AP) — When the wind picks up, the rattle of the corrugated iron roof of a destroyed gas station can sound like artillery. Four charred tanks sit stranded nearby, machine oil splattered on the ground, while a pick-up truck lies on its side surrounded by shrapnel. …read more Source: U.S....
Only a United West Can Stop Putin
MADRID — For some countries, military or political defeat is so intolerable, so humiliating, that they will do whatever it takes to overturn what they view as an unjust international order. One such revisionist power was Egypt, which resolved to undo its 1967 defeat by Israel and regain the Sinai Peninsula. This was ultimately achieved, but...
Embattled Ukrainian town struggles to come back to life
DEBALTSEVE, Ukraine (AP) — When the wind picks up, the rattle of the corrugated iron roof of a destroyed gas station can sound like artillery. Four charred tanks sit stranded nearby, machine oil splattered on the ground, while a pick-up truck lies on its side surrounded by shrapnel…. …read more Source: Associated...
Embattled Ukrainian town struggles to come back to life
DEBALTSEVE, Ukraine (AP) — When the wind picks up, the rattle of the corrugated iron roof of a destroyed gas station can sound like artillery…. …read more Source:...
It sounds like Obama doesn’t have any friends on the world stage
The New York Times reported on Tuesday that President Barack Obama’s relatively aloof approach to diplomacy has left him few — if any — close, personal relationships with world leaders. “Personal relationships are not his style,” Martin Indyk, a former Obama administration official, told the paper. Obama’s predecessors, in...
AP PHOTOS: Top pictures from Europe and Africa
LONDON (AP) — Refugee camps continue to grow in Chad with people fleeing Boko Haram violence in Nigeria by boat as the Islamic extremist group steps up attacks, while a methane explosion at a Ukrainian coal mine last week in Donetsk killed 34 people. Thousands of mourners paid their respects at the funeral of Russian opposition activist Boris...
