Section: US & Canada
Poroshenko: Ukrainians will vote on joining NATO years from now
The divisive issue of whether Ukraine should join NATO will be put to a vote years from now, after the necessary reforms have been completed, President Petro Poroshenko announced Monday. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Russia Gets Greater Control Over Black Sea Region
MOSCOW—Russia tightened its control Monday over Georgia’s breakaway province of Abkhazia with a new treaty envisaging closer military and economic ties with the lush sliver of land along the Black Sea. The move drew outrage and cries of “annexation” in Georgia and sent a chill through those in Abkhazia who fear that wealthy Russians will...
Europe’s Challenge: A ‘Twilight Zone’ in Russia’s Shadow, or a ‘World of Rules?’
This comment is excerpted from a speech at Harvard’s Center for European Studies late last week. In Harvard Yard, on 5 June 1947, on the steps of Memorial Church, momentous words were said.It is logical that the United States should do what it can to assist the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no...
Blood and destruction, east Ukraine residents suffer shelling
Standing in the rubble of their home in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk a man describes how his wife was shredded by shrapnel but ‘miraculously’ managed to protect their one-year-old granddaughter: Video provided by AFP …read more Source: USA...
Lithuania Protests Russian Blockade at Border
The ex-Soviet republic of Lithuania accused Moscow on Monday of blocking its vehicles and goods at the Russian border, and summoned its ambassador to protest. “The drivers report that all traffic from Lithuania was blocked as of this morning,” said Algimantas Kondrusevicius, president of the Lithuanian truckers’ association...
Russia gets greater control over Black Sea region
MOSCOW — Russia tightened its control Monday over Georgia’s breakaway province of Abkhazia with a new treaty envisaging closer military and economic ties with the lush sliver of land along the Black Sea.The move drew outrage and cries of “annexation” in Georgia and sent a chill through those in Abkhazia who fear that wealthy...
Ukraine Pledges to Form New Government Following Pressure From West
Ukraine will take the first steps this week towards forming a new government, President Petro Poroshenko said on Monday, seeking to assuage concern among his Western allies that the delay is holding up reform and imperiling Western assistance. The U.S. and other Western governments are criticizing Kiev’s tardiness in putting together a...
Fisher: Barack Obama alienates friends at a time when his country needs them the most
CANBERRA, Australia — There are ominous parallels in how U.S. President Barack Obama deliberately humiliated Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott last weekend, publicly accusing him of being a laggard on climate change, and how the American leader has kept Prime Minister Stephen Harper waiting at the altar for several years by withholding...
World War 3: Russia Accuses West of Seeking ‘Regime Change’ in Moscow
Russia has accused the West of trying to uproot the current regime in Moscow, which prompted comparisons to the Cold War era. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said this weekend: “As for the concept behind the use of coercive measures, the West is making it clear it does not want to try to change the policy of the Russian Federation … they...
Putin Strengthens Ties with Georgia Breakaway Region
President Vladimir Putin signed a “strategic partnership” agreement with Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia on Monday, angering Tbilisi, which said Moscow was looking to annex the territory. Russia and Georgia fought a war in 2008 over Abkhazia and a twin region of South Ossetia, provoking the worst crisis between Moscow and the West...
