Section: US & Canada
Germany Downplays Report of Rift with NATO over Breedlove Comments
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier downplayed a magazine report on Saturday of tensions with NATO over hawkish comments about Ukraine made by the Western alliance’s supreme allied commander. Der Spiegel news magazine said an official in Chancellor Angela… …read more Source:...
Modernizing the Polish Military
By law, Poland must spend at least 1.95 percent of its GDP on its military. That’s just a shade under the 2 percent that NATO asks its members to devote. Aside from Estonia, however, Poland is way ahead of the rest of the region in military spending. And when President Barack Obama visited Poland in June 2014, Poland committed to upping its...
EU Shows Little Appetite For More Russia Sanctions
(Reuters) – EU foreign ministers showed little appetite on Saturday for stepping up pressure on Russia over Ukraine, preferring to give a fragile ceasefire a chance before deciding whether to apply more sanctions or even to extend existing ones. …read more Source: International Business...
EU president says Putin’s goal ‘is to divide Europe’ as continent’s top diplomats gather in Latvia
EU unity has been in short supply here on the shores of the Baltic Sea, where Europe’s top diplomats gathered this week to forge a common strategy on the Ukraine crisis …read more Source: Vancouver...
EU Warms, a Little, to Belarus as Russia Relations Freeze
RIGA, Latvia— The European Union is starting to warm to Belarus again after years of bitter division during which the east European nation was coined as “the last dictatorship” on the continent. At the end of Saturday’s EU foreign affairs meeting, the Latvian host said that as relations with Russia take a further dive “we see the...
Russia: 2 Suspects Detained In Boris Nemtsov’s Murder
MOSCOW (AP) — Two suspects have been detained in the killing a week ago of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, the head of Russia’s federal security service said Saturday, an announcement received with both skepticism and reserved satisfaction by some of Nemtsov’s comrades. Alexander Bortnikov, in comments shown on state television,...
Russia: 2 Suspects Detained in Murder of Boris Nemtsov
(MOSCOW) — Two suspects have been detained in the killing a week ago of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, the head of Russia’s federal security service said Saturday, an announcement received with both skepticism and reserved satisfaction by some of Nemtsov’s comrades. Alexander Bortnikov, in comments shown on state television,...
St. Petersburg ‘Novorossia’ Museum — Shrine To An Imaginary Reality?
A citizen activist plans to open a museum in St. Petersburg devoted to the Russian view of the war in eastern Ukraine. But some culture specialists fear such initiatives echo Soviet-era efforts to rewrite history to match current politics. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Pro-Russian Rebels In Ukraine Say Weapons Pullback Complete
Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine claim to have completed an agreed withdrawal of heavy weapons in line with recent cease-fire deals, though a report from Donetsk suggested artillery fire there was continuing around the time of the announcement. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
EU warms a little to Belarus as relations with Moscow hit lows over Ukraine
The European Union is starting to warm to Belarus again after years of bitter division during which the east European nation was coined as “the last dictatorship” on the continent. …read more Source: FOX...
