Section: US & Canada
Merkel Urges Germans to Welcome Refugees, Spurn Racism
Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans to turn their backs on a growing grassroots movement of anti-Muslim protesters, calling them racists full of hatred, and said Europe’s biggest economy must welcome people fleeing conflict and war. In an unusually strongly worded New Year address that also condemned Russia for its actions in Ukraine,...
Merkel Urges Germans To Welcome Refugees Despite Growing Anti-Muslim Movement
BERLIN, Dec 31 (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans to turn their backs on a growing grass-roots movement of anti-Muslim protesters, calling them racists full of hatred, and said Europe’s biggest economy must welcome people fleeing conflict and war. In an unusually strongly worded New Year address that also condemned...
Russia: Ukraine’s import of US nuclear fuel risky
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia says Ukraine’s deal to buy U.S.-made nuclear fuel for its Soviet-built reactors could trigger a nuclear accident. Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk of Ukraine announced Tuesday that his nation has reached a deal on nuclear fuel deliveries with Westinghouse to reduce dependence on Russian supplies. Russia’s Foreign...
Oliver Stone says CIA was behind Ukraine revolution in bizarre Facebook rant
American film director Oliver Stone posted a bizarre Facebook rant about Ukraine’s revolution, calling it a “coup” and insisting that the West had a hand in it. Stone wrote the post shortly after a four-hour interview with ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych. See also: The Ukrainian revolution, one year on Stone said...
Economist: Long Painful Recession in Store for Russia
Russia’s battered currency fell sharply again this week after a government report showed the economy had shrunk in November, the first such decline in five years. The Russian government recently announced steps to stabilize its banks and bolster the value of the beleaguered ruble. But experts say the country still faces a recession next...
New ‘Leaders’ Pop Up in Eastern Ukraine
Ukraine appointed a billionaire as governor of one town, but a local man disagrees, saying he won the job during a pro-Russia rally. …read more Source: The Wall Street...
Russia Says Ukraine’s Import of US Nuclear Fuel Risky
MOSCOW—Russia says Ukraine’s deal to buy U.S.-made nuclear fuel for its Soviet-built reactors could trigger a nuclear accident. Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk of Ukraine announced Tuesday that his nation has reached a deal on nuclear fuel deliveries with Westinghouse to reduce dependence on Russian supplies. Russia’s Foreign...
Russia criticizes Ukraine’s deal to buy US nuclear fuel, warns it could trigger accident
Russia says Ukraine’s deal to buy U.S.-made nuclear fuel for its Soviet-built reactors could trigger a nuclear accident. …read more Source: FOX...
Ukraine signs Westinghouse nuclear fuel deal
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine on Tuesday sealed an additional nuclear fuel supply deal with US giant Westinghouse in order to ease its energy dependence on Russia.Westinghouse Electric Company said it signed a deal in Brussels with Ukraine’s Energoatom state nuclear power provider “to significantly increase fuel deliveries to Ukrainian...
Search Operation For AirAsia Wreckage Continues After Bodies, Debris Found
SURABAYA, Indonesia/JAKARTA, Dec 30 (Reuters) – Indonesian rescuers searching for an AirAsia plane carrying 162 people pulled bodies and wreckage from the sea off the coast of Borneo on Tuesday, prompting relatives of those on board watching TV footage to break down in tears. Indonesia AirAsia’s Flight QZ8501, an Airbus A320-200, lost...
