Section: US & Canada
In War-Torn East Ukraine, Donetsk Faces Starvation As City Is Isolated
DONETSK, Ukraine — In a small kitchen in an apartment in this war-torn city, Tamara Bilan placed some bread next to a plate of cookies. That was all she had to offer a visitor, and all she had to eat herself. The 67-year old pensioner had made both the bread and cookies with ingredients she got through food-aid distribution in the city....
Rockets kill 29 in Ukrainian city as rebels launch offensive
Indiscriminate rocket fire slammed into a market, two schools, homes and shops Saturday in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, killing at least 29 people, authorities said. Ukraine’s top rebel…Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Bank of Japan’s Kuroda praises ‘big decision’ by ECB
Davos (Switzerland) (AFP) – Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda on Saturday urged a Davos panel not to succumb to pessimism over the state of the world economy, as he welcomed the “big decision” by the ECB to embark on a huge bond-buying spree.Kuroda was addressing the closing event at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the...
Missile attacks kill 26 civilians and wound 80 in Ukraine
Twenty-six civilians were killed and another 80 wounded in missile attacks Saturday on Mariupol, an industrial center and seaport in the southeast of Ukraine, officials said. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Pro-Russian rebel rockets kill 29 in Ukrainian city
Indiscriminate rocket fire slammed into a market, two schools, homes and shops Saturday in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, killing at least 29 people, authorities said. …read more Source:...
Rockets kill 29 in Ukrainian city as rebels launch offensive
KIEV, Ukraine — Indiscriminate rocket fire slammed into a market, two schools, homes and shops Saturday in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, killing at least 29 people, authorities said. Ukraine’s top rebel leader said an offensive had begun on the strategically important port.Ukraine’s president called an emergency meeting of...
Rockets kill 29 in Ukrainian city as rebels launch offensive
Indiscriminate rocket fire slammed into a market, two schools, homes and shops Saturday in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, killing at least 29 people, authorities said. Ukraine’s top rebel leader said an… …read more Source: WAVE 3...
Ukraine: Offensive Has Begun Upon Key Gov’t City
KIEV, Ukraine—The RIA Novosti news agency is citing eastern Ukrainian rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko as saying an offensive has begun on the strategic government-held port of Mariupol has begun. Earlier Saturday, rockets rained down on Mariupol’s outskirts, killing at least 21 people, according to city authorities. MORE:Ukraine Sliding...
Rockets kill 29 in Ukrainian port city of Mariupol
Indiscriminate rocket fire slammed into a market, two schools, homes and shops Saturday in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, killing at least 29 people, authorities said. Ukraine’s top rebel leader said an offensive had begun on the strategically important port. …read more Source: CTV...
Catching Spies: James Bond’s Body Language
Which of the foreign diplomats in your country are spies? Which of your spies is a double agent? And which foreign leaders are planning to bomb their neighbours? All governments strive to answer such questions. American spooks think studying body language may help. Spooks are seldom as easy to spot as Leslie Nielsen in “Spy Hard”...
