Section: US & Canada
Malaysia Air MH17 Wreckage Still Lying in Ukraine
HRABOVE, Ukraine—A child’s skipping rope, its yellow handles blistered and charred, lay Tuesday amid wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 that was still strewn across fields of Eastern Ukraine more than seven weeks after the jet was shot down. Chunks of fuselage carrying the Malaysian carrier’s logo were lined up alongside a...
Oy Vey: Yiddish Has a Problem
Ai-yi-yi! Let’s kvetch about the fact that you have to schlep all the way to Brooklyn to schmooze in Yiddish nowadays. Chances are you understood that above paragraph perfectly, despite it being littered with Yiddish vocabulary. “Yinglish”—the marriage of Yiddish and English—is a pop-cultural standard: Girls’ Shoshanna...
Malaysia: Dutch Report Suggests MH-17 Shot Down from Ground
Less than two months after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crashed over Ukraine, investigators are closer to knowing why. The plane broke apart in mid-air after a number of “high-energy objects” penetrated its fuselage, says the Dutch Safety Board. All 298 people on board were killed in the July 17 crash, most of them from the...
OSCE: Let Journalists in Crimea Do Their Jobs
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has called for the de-facto authorities in Crimea to allow media members to do their job without hindrance. Speaking in Vienna on Tuesday, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, expressed concern about the intimidation of free voices in Crimea, following the detention...
EU delays economic sanctions against Russia
The 28-nation bloc said the punitive measures will come into force ‘in the next few days’ depending on how well the ceasefire agreement in eastern Ukraine is upheld. …read more Source: New York Daily...
New EU chief known as harsh critic of Putin’s incursion in Ukraine
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com The European Council has elected Donald Tusk, Poland’s prime minister, as its new president. Tusk, 57, who traces his political roots to the anti-communist Solidarity labor movement in the Soviet era, is the longest serving […] The post New EU chief known as harsh critic of...
Lavrov Calls For Eastern Ukraine Status Talks To Start Soon
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says he hopes that talks would start soon on the status of eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian separatists have been waging an armed rebellion. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
‘Shaky’ Ukraine truce holds despite overnight shelling
Ukraine says five servicemen have died since the cease-fire took effect last week. …read more Source: USA...
Nazis In Ukraine? German TV Shows Ukrainian Soldiers Displaying Nazi Symbols
A German television station showed video of Ukrainian volunteer soldiers with Nazi symbols on their helmets Monday night. One soldier was seen with a Nazi swastika on his helmet and another had the distinct lightning bolt-like runic symbol of Nazi Germany’s SS division, by many accounts the most brutal organization in Hitler’s...
The Majority Of Americans Already Consider Obama’s Presidency A ‘Failure’
President Barack Obama’s legacy isn’t looking so hot — at least according to what respondents told a Washington Post-ABC News poll released Tuesday morning. The poll found a 52% majority of Americans believe Obama’s presidency is, on a balance, a “failure,” compared to 42% who believe it to be a success. Those on the...
