Section: US & Canada
Cease-Fire? Shelling Hits School in Eastern Ukraine
Officials said that four Ukrainian servicemen have died and 29 have been injured since the start of the cease-fire Friday. …read more Source:...
Donetsk Separatists Celebrate WWII Liberation
Separatists in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, celebrated the 71st anniversary of the city’s liberation from German forces in 1943 on September 8. Speakers told a crowd of several hundred the battle against ”fascism” was continuing, referring to the current conflict against Ukrainian government forces. A cease-fire which came into...
Malaysia Airlines MH17 preliminary report says jet ‘penetrated’
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was likely struck by multiple “high-energy objects from outside the aircraft,” causing it to break up over eastern Ukraine, a preliminary report into the deadly aviation disaster concludes. …read more Source:...
Russia Denies Military Planes Approached Canadian Warship
A Russian Defense Ministry official dismissed on Tuesday a complaint by Ottawa that Russian military aircraft had acted provocatively by flying near a Canadian warship sailing in the Black Sea. Canadian Defense Minister Rob Nicholson said on Monday that Russian aircraft had on Sunday circled the frigate Toronto as it took part in a military...
Ukraine Death Toll Edges Up Despite Ceasefire
Four Ukrainian servicemen have been killed since the start of a ceasefire between government forces and pro-Russian separatists last Friday in eastern Ukraine, a defense ministry official was quoted on Tuesday as saying. The ceasefire is part of a peace plan intended to end a five-month-old conflict the United Nations says has killed more than...
Malaysia Flight 17 likely downed by ‘high-energy objects’ outside plane, report says
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was likely struck by multiple “high-energy objects from outside the aircraft,” causing it to break up over eastern Ukraine, a preliminary report into the deadly aviation disaster concluded Tuesday. The report by the Dutch Safety Board stopped short of saying the …...
MH17 ‘hit by high-energy objects’
In a new report, Dutch investigators lay out what little they know about what brought down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine. …read more Source:...
‘High-Energy Objects’ Downed Jet Over Ukraine
Air accident investigators probing the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine said high-energy objects struck the plane and caused it to break apart midflight. …read more Source: The Wall Street...
Dutch release preliminary Flight 17 crash report
Hints about what tore jet apart, but details sparse in preliminary report on what brought Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 down in east Ukraine …read more Source:...
Isolated Cease-Fire Violations Reported in Ukraine as President Visits Front Line
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko visited the eastern port city of Mariupol on Monday and attempted to reassure his compatriots by promising a “crushing defeat” to pro-Kremlin rebels gathered nearby if they violated a precarious cease-fire agreement. Poroshenko received a warm welcome and declared that the rebels had returned over 1,200...
