Section: US & Canada
Intense Ukraine shelling traps hundreds of miners
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Intense fighting erupted around east Ukraine’s main rebel-held city on Sunday that wrecked a power station and briefly trapped more than 300 coal miners in one of Europe’s largest pits.Repeated rounds of rocket and mortar fire echoed across snow-covered Donetsk on Sunday evening despite a formal truce...
Merkel urges Putin, Poroshenko to implement peace plan
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the leaders of Russia and Ukraine that she’s not ready to take part in a four-way summit over the Ukraine conflict unless there’s a chance of real progress. After talking with Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine on the phone Saturday, Merkel met Sunday...
Merkel urges Putin, Poroshenko to implement peace plan
After talking with Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine on the phone Saturday, Merkel met Sunday with Poroshenko and French President Francois Hollande at the presidential palace in Paris. In talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Poroshenko, she stressed that for the meeting to be successful there has to...
Merkel urges Putin, Poroshenko to implement peace plan
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the leaders of Russia and Ukraine that she’s not ready to take part in a four-way summit over the Ukraine conflict unless there’s a chance of real progress…. …read more Source: Associated...
Hollande Leads Unity March Through Paris
French President Francois Hollande briefly led hundreds of thousands of people through the streets of Paris on Sunday, in a massive demonstration to show solidarity with the victims of a terror spree last week that killed 17 people. Heads of state from Europe, the Middle East and Africa linked arms to form a human chain with Hollande, as crowds...
This Week In Pictures: Faith In Practice Around The World, January 4 to 10
Humans express their faith in a multitude of ways. These photos capture the incredible diversity within faith practices that happen in our world in the span of just one week.Cologne, Germany: January 5 The Cologne Cathedral switched off its lights to protest a planned march by Pegida (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident)...
World Leaders Head Paris March to Honor Terror Victims
PARIS—More than 40 world leaders, their arms linked, marched through Paris Sunday to rally for unity and freedom of expression and to honor 17 victims of three days of terrorist attacks. The leaders were heading a demonstration of at least tens of thousands of people who converged on the capital after three gunmen attacked a newspaper office,...
World leaders head Paris march to honor terror victims
PARIS (AP) — More than 40 world leaders, their arms linked, marched through Paris Sunday to rally for unity and freedom of expression and to honor 17 victims of three days of terrorist attacks. The leaders were heading a demonstration of at least tens of thousands of people who converged on the capital after three gunmen attacked a newspaper...
In Paris, a show of unity as chilling details emerge
A show of unity in Republique Square on Sunday morning. (Laurent Cipriani, AP)Maclean’s contributor Nick Kozak is at the Paris march and filing live portraits as it unfolds. Follow Maclean’s on Instagram for his updates. PARIS — Tens of thousands of people including more than 40 world leaders streamed into the heart of Paris on Sunday...
Massive crowds gather for unity rally in Paris
PARIS – Tens of thousands of people including more than 40 world leaders streamed into the heart of Paris on Sunday for a rally of national unity to honour the 17 victims of three days of terror. The aftermath of the attacks remained raw, with video emerging of one of the gunmen killed during police raids pledging allegiance to the Islamic State...
