Section: US & Canada
Ukraine Death Toll Nears 5,000: More Than A Quarter Of Deaths Since September Ceasefire
At least 4,707 people have died in Ukraine in the nine and a half months since the start of an armed conflict between the Ukrainian military and pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country, a United Nations team announced Monday. That’s an average of around 16 deaths per day. …read more Source: International Business...
Death Toll In Eastern Ukraine Up To 4,707: UN
GENEVA (AP) — Fighting in eastern Ukraine has killed at least at least 4,707 people since the conflict began in mid-April and more than a quarter of the recorded deaths have come since a much-ignored cease-fire, U.N. rights investigators said Monday. A new report from the U.N. team in Ukraine says at least 1,357 of the fatalities have been...
Kazakh Citizen Sentenced To Prison For Fighting In Luhansk
The Sary-Arqa District Court in the Kazakh capital found Yevgeny Vdovenko guilty of intentional and illegal participation in a military conflict abroad after he fought alongside pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Nazarbaev Calls On Kazakhs To Defend Independence, Unity
President Nursultan Nazarbaev has called on citizens to defend Kazakhstan’s independence and laid out plans for a new celebration of the Central Asian country’s history. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Nazarbaev Calls On Kazakhs To Defend Independence, Unity
President Nursultan Nazarbaev has called on citizens to defend Kazakhstan’s independence and laid out plans for a new celebration of the Central Asian country’s history. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Smart Power through Inclusivity in an Increasingly Volatile World
The brutality of ISIS, Russia’s aggression in Ukraine and the Ebola epidemic are issues that give us the sense that we are returning to a harsher and more violent world of “realpolitik” than what we have witnessed during the last couple of decades. Decision makers are constantly faced with the difficult task of how to most...
UN Says Death Toll in Eastern Ukraine up to 4,707
GENEVA— The U.N. human rights office says at least 4,707 people have been killed and 10,322 wounded in the conflict-affected areas of eastern Ukraine. It says more than 5 million people are living in the conflict areas where they face rising hardships and some struggle to stay alive. At least 1,357 fatalities have been recorded since the...
Russian Arms Sales Soared in 2013, Bucking Global Slowdown
Russian arms makers’ sales soared 20 percent in 2013, bucking a slowdown in other countries’ industries, largely thanks to a Kremlin push to modernize its military, the SIPRI think tank said on Monday. Russia’s figures were strong enough to slow a three-year decline in global arms sales caused mainly by Washington’s...
UN says death toll in eastern Ukraine up to 4,707
GENEVA — Fighting in eastern Ukraine has killed at least at least 4,707 people since the conflict began in mid-April and more than a quarter of the recorded deaths have come since a much-ignored cease-fire, U.N. rights investigators said Monday.A new report from the U.N. team in Ukraine says at least 1,357 of the fatalities have been recorded...
UN: Around 1,300 Killed in Ukraine Since Cease-fire
Around 1,300 people have been killed in Ukraine’s separatist conflict since a September cease-fire, according to a U.N. report that said many living in the country’s rebel-held east were struggling to survive. As of Dec. 12, 4,707 combatants and civilians had been killed since pro-Russian rebels seized eastern regions near the border...
