Section: US & Canada
Ukraine delays heavy weapons pullback, blames rebel attacks
Ukraine says weapons pullback not yet possible because rebel attacks are continuing …read more Source:...
Ukraine wants Canada to persuade U.S. to send weapons
Kiev official says Ottawa has the ‘authoritative voice’ to persuade other Western countries to provide lethal arms in fight against Russian-backed rebels …read more Source: The Globe and...
Defiant Mood as Donetsk Marks Holiday
Ukraine has delayed the promised withdrawal of heavy weapons, blaming rebels for continued violations of the ceasefire reached in Minsk. …read more Source: The Boston...
Kiev Says Rebels Attack Villages in Southeast, Citizens Burn Putin Effigy
In the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy, activists burn an effigy of Russian President Vladimir Putin — ‘ to protest his annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea last year. The protest coincides with an Orthodox tradition — just before Lent – that celebrates the passage of winter and the renewal of spring’. …read...
OSCE says Ukraine cease-fire has lowered military exchanges
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe says the cease-fire in Ukraine has “very significantly” lowered the level of military exchanges between government and separatist forces, but violations are still taking place. Lamberto Zannier told a group of reporters Monday that there have been a number...
OSCE says Ukraine cease-fire has lowered military exchanges
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe says the cease-fire in Ukraine has “very significantly” lowered the level of military exchanges between government and separatist forces, but violations are still taking place.read more …read more Source: CNS...
OSCE says Ukraine cease-fire has lowered military exchanges
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe says the cease-fire in Ukraine has “very significantly”… …read more Source:...
Putin Says War With Ukraine ‘Unlikely’
Russian President Vladimir Putin says a war with Ukraine is “unlikely” and he hopes “it will never happen.” …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Europe’s Kids Are Moody and Depressed
The future belongs to the young. So how the next generation feels and thinks matters to people of all ages. As much as baby boomers may lament it, it is millennials — those coming of age in this new century — who will shape the world’s economic and geopolitical destiny for years to come. At a time of renewed economic turmoil in Europe,...
From China, Love and Hate for Common’s Oscar Speech
After ascending the stage to receive the Oscar for Best Original Song along with popular crooner John Legend, the Chicago-born hip-hop artist known as Common sought to link the historic civil rights protests in Selma, Alabama with more recent struggles elsewhere. Common’s winning song, Glory, was dedicated to marches on Selma’s Edmund...
