Section: US & Canada
Carter Nomination Sets up Senate Critique of Obama Policies
President Barack Obama Friday nominated Ash Carter to succeed Chuck Hagel as the next defense secretary, capping a week of uncertainty about who will fill one of the administration’s most powerful posts and setting the stage for a high-profile confirmation hearing that Republicans will use to criticize the White House’s foreign policy...
Authoritarian regimes rally around Ferguson
WASHINGTON – The police-brutality marches in dozens of U.S. cities are echoing far beyond the Brooklyn Bridge, the square outside the White House and the streets of Ferguson.They’re also resonating at the Kremlin.Some of the world’s more authoritarian governments aren’t bothering to conceal their glee over the unrest...
Can Vladimir Putin Be Intimidated by Feminism?
STOCKHOLM — Everywhere one looks on the eastern fringes of Europe, the Russian bear menaces. From Ukraine to Estonia, Russian troops are either engaged in outright warfare or testing the borders of Russia’s neighbors. In Sweden and Finland, Russian planes and vessels are prodding at coastal defenses. Nordic defense officials now speak of a...
Poroshenko: Kyiv Must Hold Donetsk Airport
Ukraine’s president said Friday that the country’s armed forces must not lose control of the airport in the eastern city of Donetsk. President Petro Poroshenko presented awards to a group of “cyborgs,” the name given to the soldiers and members of volunteer battalions who have fought at the Donetsk airport, the site of...
20 Years After Budapest Memorandum, Agreement In Tatters As Russian Troops Operate In Ukraine
When American, Russian and British leaders came together to sign the Budapest Memorandum in 1994, ensuring the territorial integrity and political independence of Ukraine, few thought that exactly 20 years later to the day Russian troops would be operating in East Ukraine and Crimea, seemingly flouting the agreement. …read more Source:...
Russia holds military drills near Ukraine border
Ukraine FM Klimkin says his country needs “everyone to deliver on the ceasefire” while Russia’s Lavrov says it is wrong of the West to blame Moscow for the crisis. Jennifer Davis reports. Video provided by Reuters …read more Source: USA...
EU official says Bosnia is willing to join the bloc, despite Russia’s objections
The European Union has urged Russia to leave the Balkans out of its dispute with the bloc over Ukraine, and to let the region proceed on its path toward EU and NATO memberships. …read more Source: FOX...
Crimean Tatars Face Repression After Russia Takes Over
BRUSSELS—It was traditional for Crimean Tatars, a Muslim Turkic ethnic minority, to hold a large gathering for Human Rights Day in the central square in Simferopol, Crimea’s capital, on Dec. 10. But this year the Mejlis, a representative body of the Crimean Tatars, were told by Crimean authorities that they will not be able to hold their...
Eastern European Trade Organization Picks English Over Russian
GUAM, the interstate association of Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova, will no longer be conducting meetings in Russian. The group could typically speak Russian during meetings, a holdover universal language from the Soviet era. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin wrote on Twitter that the decision to switch languages to...
France: possible Russia may never get warships
French defence minister says Russia may never get the warships it ordered due to Ukraine …read more Source:...
