Section: US & Canada
Germany, France to Offer Plan to Monitor Cease-fire in Ukraine
Germany and France will present a new proposal shortly under which their soldiers could participate in the monitoring of the cease-fire in eastern Ukraine, a German foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday. The spokesman Martin Schaefer said the plan would be presented in the “next hours or days” but added, “One thing is clear. Before German and...
IFCJ announces project to bring olim from FSU, countries in crisis
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has established a project to bring more new immigrants to Israel from former Soviet Union and other countries in crisis. The project will be led by former director general of Aliyah and Absorption at the Jewish Agency, Eli Cohen, the Fellowship announced on Monday. Cohen has...
Rightist Party Wins Bulgaria Election as Vote Splinters
Bulgaria’s center-right GERB party won a snap national election on Sunday but fell short of a majority, a result that could mean another shaky coalition struggling to solve a bank crisis and revive economic growth. GERB leader Boiko Borisov, a former bodyguard and karate expert said his party would hold internal discussions on Monday on how...
Germany: Angst, Torture, and the Reluctant Leadership of Europe
Between the 75th anniversary of the start of the Second World War and the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we examine Germany’s profound lessons for the developed world in the second of our Newsweek Essays. The author, Stephen Green, was chairman of the world’s second largest bank, HSBC, and served as the UK’s...
German Factory Orders Collapse
German factory orders fell 5.7% between July and August, worse than 2.5% decline expected by economists. Orders are down 1.3% from August last year. It’s the worst single-month drop since the beginning of 2009. Export orders were worst hit, and that matches the business surveys that suggest there’s been a knock-on effect from the war...
Nobel season opens with Snowden, chili research
Stockholm (AFP) – Nobel season opens with speculation rife over fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden’s prospects for the peace prize and whether the first award announced Monday — the medicine prize — could go to research into chili, heat and pain.US physiologist David Julius has been touted by Sweden’s...
Tensions Surge in Estonia Amid a Russian Replay of Cold War Tactics
Questions mounted over whether Estonia and the NATO alliance to which it belongs faced the danger of a Russian push to reprise in the Baltics some of the tactics it used to dismember Ukraine. …read more Source: The New York...
Center-Right Coalition Leads in Latvian Parliament Vote
Alarmed by Russia’s intervention in Ukraine, the governing parties back closer ties to the West, while the opposition looks to Moscow for balance. …read more Source: The New York...
Nuland Expected In Ukraine Amid Cease-Fire Violations
U.S. State Department Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland is due in Kyiv October 6 to hold talks with senior Ukrainian government leaders. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Here’s just how badly Russia is bleeding capital
New data show just how dramatically investors began abandoning Russia after it began working to destabilize Ukraine. …read more Source:...
