Section: US & Canada
US, EU Promise More Aid for Ukraine If Reforms Continue
BRUSSELS—The United States on Tuesday reinforced Western assistance for war-torn Ukraine by promising up to $2 billion in loan guarantees if that effort is matched by economic and political reforms in Kiev. The U.S. State Department said it intends to provide $1 billion in loan guarantees in the first half of 2015 and an additional $1 billion in...
Ukraine’s parliament calls for Russia, France, Germany to aid freeing pilot held by Russia
Ukraine’s parliament is calling on the leaders of Russia, Germany and France to make efforts to free Nadezhda Savchenko, a Ukrainian air force officer who is on hunger strike in a Russian prison. …read more Source: FOX...
Ukraine Bus Attack Kills 10 as Airport Battle Worsens
By Richard Balmforth KIEV (Reuters) – A passenger bus came under heavy fire in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people, Ukrainian authorities said, and fighting intensified around the international airport in the city of Donetsk as separatists tried to oust government forces. The latest violence flared after Russia, Ukraine, France...
US, EU promise more aid for Ukraine if reforms continue
BRUSSELS (AP) — The United States on Tuesday reinforced Western assistance for war-torn Ukraine by promising up to $2 billion in loan guarantees if that effort is matched by economic and political reforms in Kiev. The U.S. State Department said it intends to provide $1 billion in loan guarantees in the first half of 2015 and an additional $1...
Ukraine’s Donbass and Jim Crow — A Poor Analogy
In his WorldPost essay titled “Ukraine’s Donbas Is Like America’s Deep South,” Dr. Alexander Motyl presents the reader with a depiction of the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk (Donbass) and Crimea and concludes that their people have “proven to be the most reactionary, intolerant and illiberal...
Civilians killed in rebel shelling of Ukrainian military checkpoint, officials say
Bus driving near an army checkpoint in eastern Ukraine hit by a rebel shell, killing at least 10 civilians and wounding 13, local officials say. …read more Source: Toronto...
Ukraine truce staggering as bus attack kills 11
Across Donetsk, explosions and the sound of shells whistling overhead are unnerving the population …read more Source: The Globe and...
Kim Jong-Un May Have Just Accepted Putin’s Invitation To Visit Moscow
Kim Jong-Un may take his first ever foreign visit as Supreme Leader of North Korea, NK News reports citing a South Korean diplomatic source that spoke to the Yonhap News Agency. Russian President Vladimir Putin invited Kim in December to Moscow next May to participate in the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. If Kim does accept...
Ukraine bus attack kills 11, could herald grim future as truce staggers
An attack on a passenger bus in eastern Ukraine Tuesday killed 11 people, likely dealing the final blow to hopes that a short-lived and shaky cease-fire could take hold. …read more Source: CTV...
Nazi-Era German Word ‘Luegenpresse’ Makes a Comeback
BERLIN (Reuters) – A German linguists’ panel has chosen a Nazi-era term “Luegenpresse” (lying press), which anti-immigrant protesters have revived and shouted at the media, as the country’s non-word of the year. Chancellor Angela Merkel has condemned the demands – an end to multiculturalism – of the...
