Section: US & Canada
Third seed Mladenovic falls at WTA Quebec City
Quebec City (AFP) – Kazakstan’s Sesil Karatantcheva, seeking her first WTA title, rallied to defeat French third seed Kristina Mladenovic 5-7, 6-4, 7-5 to reach the WTA Quebec City quarter-finals.Karatantcheva, ranked 195th, benefitted from 11 double faults by Mladenovic to advance. She will next face either Hungarian eighth seed...
US, Russia to Discuss Alleged Nuclear Treaty Violations
The State Department is leading a U.S. delegation that will meet with Russian officials in Moscow Thursday to discuss Russia’s alleged violation of provisions in the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces accord. The United States says Russia has conducted tests involving ground-based intermediate-range missiles. The move would violate...
Lured Back by a Cease-Fire in Ukraine, but Not Feeling at Home Yet
Many residents of Donetsk who had fled the fighting and returned on word of a cease-fire found a city that felt empty and still at war. …read more Source: The New York...
Ukraine leader says most Russian forces gone
Kiev, Ukraine — Russia has withdrawn about 70 percent of the armed groups it sent into eastern Ukraine in recent weeks, Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko said Wednesday, quoting his nation’s intelligence sources. “That gives us a real hope that peace efforts have good prospects,” Poroshenko said in televised remarks...
Read Obama’s ISIS Speech (FULL TEXT)
President Barack Obama addressed the nation Wednesday evening, outlining his strategy for defeating the Islamic State, the militant group also known as ISIS or ISIL. Read the full speech below, as prepared for delivery: My fellow Americans – tonight, I want to speak to you about what the United States will do with our friends and allies to...
Full Text of Obama’s Address on ISIS
President Barack Obama addressed the nation Wednesday on his strategy to confront the threat of the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS). MoreObama Says U.S. Will Bomb ISIS In Syria, Train RebelsObama Will Pledge ‘Relentless Effort’ to ‘Destroy’ ISISObama to Pledge No Ground Troops in Plan to ‘Destroy’ ISIS NBC...
LIVE: OBAMA OUTLINES ‘STRATEGY’ TO ‘DESTROY’ ISIS
President Barack Obama outlined a new, expanded strategy to “degrade and ultimately destroy” the extremist group calling itself the Islamic State (also know as ISIS or ISIL) with a primetime speech Wednesday night. Speaking from the state floor of the White House, Obama vowed to “eradicate” the group. Ahead of...
Putin grabs reins of military rebuilding in response to NATO operations
President accuses NATO of forcing the Kremlin into a new arms race, while analysts predict a renewal of fighting in Ukraine …read more Source: The Globe and...
With Homeland at War, Ukrainian-Americans Watch, Mobilize
A cease-fire in Ukraine between government troops and pro-Russian separatists has brought a temporary lull in the crisis gripping that country. But many of the estimated 1.2 million Americans of Ukrainian descent remain tense, fearful and angry. At Saint George Academy, a Catholic school in the heart of New York City’s Ukrainian-American...
Why Ukraine’s Peace Plan Leaves the Door Open for a Winter of Conflict
The armistice in eastern Ukraine came like clockwork with the end of the summer fighting season, and both the government forces and the separatist rebels have taken it as a chance to entrench, consolidate their gains and make up for their losses. Even the separatist forces, who with the aid of Russia were on the offensive before the ceasefire...
