Section: US & Canada
Germany: Top-level talks on Ukraine peace resuming in Minsk
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Foreign Ministry says talks between senior officials from Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine to pave the way for a summit of leaders in Minsk will resume in the Belarusian capital. …read more Source: U.S....
DAN LOEB: We’re in a ‘haunted house market’
Daniel Loeb of Third Point LLC writes in his latest investor letter that increased volatility has turned 2015 into a “haunted house market.” Here’s Loeb: Already, 2015 has been marked by increasing volatility, prompting a banker friend (hat tip to Jimmy L.) to characterize this as a “haunted house market” where a new scary event...
Harper was noncommittal on question of arming Ukraine
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has vowed to “never accept the illegal occupation of Ukraine by Russia,” but won’t say whether Canada could give Ukraine weapons and other “lethal” military aid to fight Russian-backed rebels. …read more Source: Vancouver...
Germany: Top-level talks to organize summit on Ukraine peace to resume in Minsk
Germany’s Foreign Ministry says talks between senior officials from Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine to pave the way for a summit of leaders in Minsk will resume in the Belarusian capital. …read more Source: FOX...
Germany: Top-level talks on Ukraine peace resuming in Minsk
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Foreign Ministry says talks between senior officials from Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine to pave the way for a summit of leaders in Minsk will resume in the Belarusian capital…. …read more Source: Associated...
Life Under Shelling in Eastern Ukraine: A Battle to Survive
DONETSK, Ukraine—At the Trudovskoi bus station in Donetsk, the gossip these days focuses on whose house has been hit by shelling and where you can get food handouts. Day and night, mortars and rockets rain down on the rebel stronghold in eastern Ukraine — mainly in the city’s outlying districts, where the poorest people live. “One shell...
Residents battle to survive, find heat, food, shelter in eastern Ukraine
At the Trudovskoi bus station in Donetsk, the gossip these days focuses on whose house has been hit by shelling and where you can get food handouts. …read more Source: CTV...
A Ukrainian Father’s Desperate Search for His Son, Trapped in Donetsk Airport
Once the green van screeched to a halt, doors swung open and the blindfold was removed. Words were irrelevant. Teary eyed, Slavik clutched his mother tightly, before reaching for his father, the chief architect of his extraordinary release. His first words, when they eventually came, were simple: “You don’t understand how much I’ve...
Obama still weighing decision on arming Ukraine forces
U.S. President Barack Obama signalled Monday he will wait for the results of high-stakes talks on Ukraine before deciding whether to arm the Kiev government, saying diplomacy and sanctions remain his preferred tools to resolve the crisis. …read more Source: The Toronto...
Obama Defers to Merkel on Ukraine Talks, Greek Economy
President Obama, in a rare nod to a visiting foreign head of state, deferred Monday to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on two hot-button issues: military aid to Ukraine to resist Russian-backed separatists and the harsh anti-austerity stand of the new government in Greece. …read more Source:...
