Section: US & Canada
Ukraine, Russia End Gas Talks Without Breakthrough
BRUSSELS—Ukraine and Russia on Tuesday failed to get a decisive breakthrough in their standoff over gas supplies to Kiev and will resume European Union-sponsored talks next week. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukraine counterpart Petro Poroshenko had agreed on a broad thrust of a deal on Friday, but the issues on how, when and how much...
Watch: Ukrainian girl escapes death as Donetsk stadium debris crashes down
The video above is of CCTV footage taken on Monday outside the Dobass Arena in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, which, despite attempts to broker a ceasefire, continues to be the site of clashes between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists. We see a young child, identified in reports as a girl, stroll over to the stadium, which […]...
Deadlock Over Russian Gas to Ukraine Remains
Kiev needs to raise $1.6 billion in additional funding before it and Moscow meet again next Wednesday, when the European Union said it was hopeful an interim deal could be signed that co …read more Source: The Wall Street...
Ukraine, Russia end gas talks without breakthrough
BRUSSELS — Ukraine and Russia on Tuesday failed to get a decisive breakthrough in their standoff over gas supplies to Kiev and will resume European Union-sponsored talks next week.Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukraine counterpart Petro Poroshenko had agreed on a broad thrust of a deal on Friday, but the issues on how, when and how much...
Putin’s Propaganda Network Created Its Own Movie For MH-17 Conspiracy Theories
Russia Today, the English-language news outlet of the Russian government, is debuting a documentary Wednesday that purports to tell the “untold story” of how the Malaysian Airlines flight MH-17 may have actually been shot down by a military aircraft in July. The mainstream consensus is that Kremlin-backed Ukrainian separatists shot...
Progress Reported In Brussels Gas Talks
European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger has announced that substantial progress was reached in today’s talks between representatives of Ukraine and Russia on gas supplies in Brussels. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
What it Took for SpaceX to Become a Serious Space Company
The Space Exploration Technology rocket factory is a large, white hangar-like building near Los Angeles international airport, with a parking lot filled with late-model motorcycles and Tesla electric cars. The vast metal structure once churned out 737 fuselages for Boeing. When you get through the front doors, past security and a cubicle farm...
Submarine hunt exposes Swedish readiness gap
Sweden, which is not a NATO member, has downsized its military significantly since the Iron Curtain fell and has scrapped some of the resources it used to hunt for Soviet submarines, including helicopters equipped with sonar and anti-submarine weapons. Sweden built up an anti-submarine force after a Soviet sub with nuclear weapons ran aground off...
Sweden Hunts For Undersea Intruder, Reports Two Possible New Sightings
STOCKHOLM, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Sweden’s military is working on two new observations that could be evidence of suspected “foreign underwater activity” near the country’s capital, a senior naval officer said on Tuesday. Swedish forces have been scouring the sea off Stockholm since Friday, after what the military called...
Ukraine urges Russia to stop separatist elections
Ukraine’s foreign minister says pressure from Russia is needed to halt illegal elections. …read more Source: USA...
