Section: US & Canada
At least 824,000 displaced by Ukraine conflict: UN
Geneva (AFP) – The conflict in Ukraine has driven more than 824,000 people from their homes, the UN refugee agency said on Friday, warning that it was having to scramble aid to offset the impact of winter.At least 430,000 people had been displaced within Ukraine as of Thursday, UNHCR said, 170,000 more than at the start of...
Poland’s Tusk Denies Claim Putin Offered To Partition Ukraine
Poland’s former prime minister, Donald Tusk, has denied that Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested that Russia and Poland carve up Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Poland’s Tusk denies claim on partition offer
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s former prime minister, Donald Tusk, has denied that Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested that Russia and Poland carve up Ukraine. Sikorski had said the offer was made in a one-on-one meeting between Tusk and Putin in Moscow in 2008. …read more Source: San Francisco...
Poland’s former prime minister denies that Russia suggested partition of Ukraine with Poland
Poland’s former prime minister, Donald Tusk, has denied that Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested that Russia and Poland carve up Ukraine. …read more Source: FOX...
Revealed – The Palaces Of Ukraine’s Energy Oligarchs
A short drive from Kyiv stand the twin palaces of two Yanukovych-era executives at Ukraine’s state energy company Naftohaz. Police have been investigating allegations of fraud at the company worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The two oligarchs, who have not explained the origin of their families’ spectacular wealth, are now...
International Roles in Middle East Policies
China has no strategy, but it has a policy. This is what Chinese experts have said in the course of explaining — or justifying — Chinese policy toward the countries of the Middle East. Russia is clinging to its policy because it is a state that understands strategy and what makes a strategy, from geography to natural resources....
EU Agrees To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cuts
* Overall goal of 40-percent cut in emissions by 2030 * EU says sets example for rest of the world to follow * Environmentalists complain compromise fails to do enough (Adds link to text, industry views, energy security) By Barbara Lewis and Alastair Macdonald …read more Source: The Huffington...
U.S. Urges Ukrainians To Vote
The United States is urging all Ukrainians, including those in rebel-controlled areas in the east as well as the illegally annexed Crimean peninsula, to vote in upcoming parliamentary elections. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Vladimir Putin emboldened by weak U.S. response to Russian aggression
Russian military provocations have increased so much over the seven months since Moscow annexed Crimea from Ukraine that Washington and its allies are scrambling defense assets on a nearly daily basis in response to air, sea and land incursions by Vladimir Putin’s forces. Not only is Moscow continuing to foment … …read more...
Creepy Crimea-annexing Vladimir Putin figure will haunt your nightmares
An extremely creepy automated figure of Russian President Vladimir Putin signing the treaty annexing Crimea into the Russian Federation is expected to fetch thousands when it’s auctioned off next month. Jen Markham explains. Video provided by Buzz60 …read more Source: USA...
