Section: US & Canada
Do Sanctions Work?
Amid the buzz around new U.S. and EU sanctions being imposed on Russia, sanctions on another country, on the other side of the world, were being gently lifted. In October, following elections, America and Australia removed all remaining sanctions on Fiji, which had included travel bans for top officials, an embargo on arms sales and limits on...
Ukraine Peace Talks May Be Held In Minsk On Dec. 24 And 26: Poroshenko
KIEV (Reuters) – A fresh round of peace talks involving Russia, Ukraine and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will be held in the Belarussian capital on Dec. 24 and 26, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said in a statement on Monday. The dates were discussed in a phone conversation among French President Francois...
Ukraine, Russia, France, Germany agree to hold new round of Ukraine peace talks
Leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany on Monday reached an agreement to call another round of Ukraine peace talks this week. …read more Source: CTV...
Ukrainian-Canadians answering call of the homeland
Canadians of Ukrainian ancestry have raised $2.4 million in aid and donated time and talents to supporting Ukraine in the conflict with Russian-backed opposition. …read more Source: Toronto...
What Can Latvia’s Integration With Europe Teach Ukraine?
Fabrizio Tassinari is head of foreign policy at the Danish Institute for International Studies and a visiting professor at Humboldt University in Berlin. He is the author of the book Why Europe Fears its Neighbors. RIGA — Seen from Riga, one is tempted to write a counterfactual history of the Ukraine war. What would have happened if the...
Crossword: What in the world, in 2014
From the rise of Islamic State to the unending chaos in Ukraine and the deadly spread of Ebola, a series of big news events defined 2014. Here at WorldViews, we put together questions from some of the events, big and small, that made headlines, to test how closely you’ve been following the news this year. If […] …read more Source: The...
Russian Bill Seeks To Nullify Crimea’s Soviet-Era Transfer To Ukraine
The chairwoman of the Russian Federation Council says the upper house of parliament is drafting legislation that would retroactively proclaim the Soviet Union’s 1954 transfer of Crimea to Ukraine as “legally void and nonbinding” since the moment of its enactment. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Seeing need, Yechiel Eckstein’s Jewish-Christian fellowship gets into aliyah game
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein arriving in Israel with the first group of immigrants brought by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, Dec. 22, 2014. (International Fellowship of Christians and Jews) (JTA) — Citing failures by the organization traditionally responsible for bringing Jews to Israel, the founder of a Jerusalem-based interfaith...
Leaders agree on Ukrainian peace talks this week
Previous rounds of talks in September involving representatives of Ukraine, Russia, pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe produced a ceasefire deal, which has often been violated. Recent peace efforts have helped sharply reduce hostilities, and the conflicting parties are now discussing...
Ukraine, Kazakh Presidents Meet in Kyiv
The presidents of Ukraine and Kazakhstan have discussed military cooperation and the situation in eastern Ukraine during a meeting in Kyiv. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said the countries renewed their military and technical cooperation. He also said Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev agreed the principals outlined in the Minsk...
