Section: US & Canada
Venezuela’s UN Security Council bid gains backing
The unanimous endorsement of Venezuela’s candidacy to represent the region on the Security Council came at a closed-door meeting July 23 at U.N. headquarters in New York, say regional diplomats, who agreed to discuss the situation only if not quoted by name because the decision hasn’t been made public. While Venezuela must still...
Kelly McParland: Moscow threatens to hold itself hostage over tightened sanctions
In an early scene in Mel Brooks’s classic western farce Blazing Saddles, the new sheriff (a black man in an all-white town) pulls his pistol, points it at his own chin and threatens to shoot. “Isn’t anyone going to help that poor man?” a startled woman cries. After hauling himself safely off to his own jailhouse, the new sheriff...
David J. Rothkopf: Barack Obama and the Middle East’s never-ending war
WASHINGTON — I have two grown daughters. Neither can remember a moment in which the United States did not have troops deployed in the Middle East. One was 10 months old at the time the first Gulf War effectively commenced with Operation Desert Shield in August 1990. I remember watching televised reports from Operation Desert Storm the following...
Leonid Bershidsky: What we can take from the MH17 crash
At first glance, the preliminary report on the July 17 crash of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 over eastern Ukraine is pretty thin gruel. It does, however, rule out most explanations except the one that involves a ground-to air-missile. At the same time, it ends hopes that flight data might somehow reveal who shot down the plane, killing its 283...
U.S. military excercise with Russia canceled because of Ukraine
Russia’s aggressive assault on Ukraine has led to the broken partnership of a mock exercise with U.S. and Canadian military to practice escorting hijacked airliners. …read more Source: New York Daily...
EU imposing new sanctions on Russia
Moscow calls the move an ‘unfriendly step’ and says it will respond with like measures. …read more Source: USA...
European Union Hits Russia With New Economic Sanctions Over Ukraine
BRUSSELS—The European Union has decided to slap new economic sanctions on Russia — including ones targeting the country’s vital oil industry — for what it sees as Moscow’s meddling in eastern Ukraine. The sanctions will further curb access to European capital markets for Russian banks and firms, limit exports of certain...
NATO: 1,000 Russian Troops Remain in Ukraine
NATO says around 1,000 Russian troops remain inside Ukraine – a day after Ukraine’s president reported that most of the Russian forces assisting separatists there had returned home. President Petro Poroshenko said Wednesday that 70 percent of the Russian troops in Ukraine had crossed back over the border, raising hopes the cease-fire...
EU slaps new economic sanctions on Russia
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has decided to slap new economic sanctions on Russia — including ones targeting the country’s vital oil industry — for what it sees as Moscow’s meddling in e… …read more Source: The Bismarck...
EU agrees to impose new sanctions on Russia on Friday
Moscow calls the move an ‘unfriendly step’ and says it will respond with like measures. …read more Source: USA...
