Section: US & Canada
Work starts in Ukraine to collect wreckage of MH17
Recovery workers in rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine have started collecting debris from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, four months after the plane was brought down. …read more Source: WAVE 3...
Removal of MH17 wreckage starts in rebel-held east Ukraine
Grabove (Ukraine) (AFP) – Work began Sunday to remove the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 from rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine, four months after it was shot down claiming 298 lives.An AFP journalist saw workers from the emergency ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic begin cutting pieces of the...
Fisher: Putin exits G20 early after fracas with Harper over annexation, invasion
BRISBANE, Australia – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin skipped the final working session of the G20 leaders’ summit Sunday and hightailed it to the airport to return to Moscow hours before any of his colleagues left town. What the Russian strongman left in his wake was a conference ostensibly about the noble goal of creating $2...
Operation to recover Malaysia Airlines plane wreckage starts in Ukraine’s rebel-held east
Recovery workers in rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine have started collecting debris from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, four months after the plane was brought down. …read more Source: FOX...
News of the Day From Across the Globe
Chhattisgarh state’s health minister said a preliminary finding suggested that a poisonous chemical compound, zinc phosphate, got mixed with the drugs at the manufacturing firm whose owner has been arrested. The United Arab Emirates has issued a list designating the Muslim Brotherhood and dozens of other Islamist groups as terrorist...
Putin Leaves Before Official End of G20
Russian President Vladimir Putin departs Brisbane on Sunday (November 16) before the formal end of the two-day G20 summit, where he came under pressure from leaders over the Ukraine crisis. Putin said he was leaving before the release of the official communiqué because of the long flight to Russia and he wanted to get some sleep. He was seen...
G20 plan to boost global growth overshadowed by Ukraine crisis
The meeting of major world leaders in Australia resulted in Russian President Vladimir Putin facing threats of new sanctions …read more Source: The Globe and...
Harper says he won’t drop Ukraine
BRISBANE, Australia – Stephen Harper said it’s important to keep up the pressure on Russia while discussing his celebrated showdown with Vladimir Putin at the end of Group of 20 summit in Australia.The prime minister grinned when asked about his admonishment to Putin to get out of Ukraine, though quickly checked himself.Harper told...
Obama accuses Putin of not living up to ceasefire
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — President Barack Obama on Sunday bluntly accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of not living up to a cease-fire agreement in Ukraine, but offered no new plans for how the West might change his calculus. Obama spoke shortly after huddling with European leaders to discuss the conflict and worsening security situation....
Obama accuses Putin of not living up to ceasefire
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — President Barack Obama on Sunday bluntly accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of not living up to a cease-fire agreement in Ukraine, but offered no new plans for how the West might change his calculus…. …read more Source: Associated...
