Section: US & Canada
Europe Raises Prospect of Reworking Ukraine Pact
A top European Union official backed away from a pledge not to allow changes to the bloc’s newly ratified trade pact with Ukraine, a move likely to intensify Russian pressure on Kiev. …read more Source: The Wall Street...
Stephen Harper focuses on child health, avoids world hotspots in UN speech
William Marsden and Robert Sibley Postmedia News NEW YORK — Prime Minister Stephen Harper used the opportunity of his first appearance before the United Nations’ General Assembly in four years to burnish Canada’s reputation as a global leader while sidestepping issues of terrorism, Ebola and climate change that have preoccupied the...
US Military Concerned by Russian Cold War-style Bomber Flights
The U.S. military is concerned by flights by long-range Russian bombers near U.S. airspace, a top U.S. commander said on Thursday, saying the Cold War-style activity was raising questions for Pentagon planners. The remarks by Admiral Samuel Locklear, head of the U.S. military’s Pacific Command, came after Russian Bear long-range bombers...
How ISIS Is Using Us to Get What It Wants
“O crusaders, you have realized the threat of the Islamic State, but you have not become aware of the cure, and you will not discover the cure because there is no cure. If you fight it, it becomes stronger and tougher. If you leave it alone, it grows and expands… So mobilize your forces, O crusaders. Mobilize your forces, roar with...
23 Charts That Show Why This Is The Best Moment In History To Be Born
Sometimes it seems like the world is falling apart. Between Ebola, climate change, Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine, and the ongoing war in Iraq and Syria, there’s bad news everywhere you look. Yet while speaking at the UN on September 24, President Obama said that he often tells young people in the United States “that this is...
Kardashian gets scare outside Paris fashion show
PARIS (AP) — Kim Kardashian received a fright at a Paris Fashion Week event Thursday when she was apparently jostled by someone waiting in a large crowd outside her car. Ex-journalist Vitalii Sediuk, a former Ukrainian television reporter, told The Associated Press in an email that he is the person in the video, and that he’d only been...
Poroshenko Sees Ukraine Applying for EU Membership in Six Years Time
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko said he would present a broad plan of social and economic reforms on Thursday (September 25), which would allow the former Soviet republic to apply for membership of the European Union in six years. Ukraine’s parliament ratified a landmark agreement on closer ties with the EU on September 16,...
Putin Isn’t Chasing After Empire in Ukraine; He Fears a Color Revolution at Home
MOSCOW — While various commentators have described President Vladimir Putin as playing a chess game against the West, I would argue that he has actually been primarily reacting tactically to what he saw as a major defeat. After all, in late February, in just a few days Ukraine went from having chosen alliance with Russia to a victory by...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko sure that peace is on the way
Ukrainian president says he believes most dangerous phase of conflict has passed …read more Source:...
The UN becomes the setting of a frightening game
It has not been a bad week for either Barack Obama or the United Nations. Monday evening, Obama caught the world off guard by launching disruptive airstrikes against ISIL (aka ISIS, IS, or Caliphate) assets in Syria. Warplanes from the Gulf States participated in the strikes, which are continuing. The activity at the UN shows serious U.S....
