Section: US & Canada
Can NATO Find A Way To Contain Russia?
The crisis in Ukraine is exactly the type of confrontation that NATO wanted to preempt by expanding eastward over the past two decades. Yet Russia still views NATO as a threat.» E-Mail This …read more Source:...
Obama to talk Ukraine, militants with Euro leaders
President Barack Obama will convene a meeting of European allies to discuss the West’s response to Russia’s provocations in Ukraine and Islamic militants in Syria and Iraq. …read more Source: Miami...
Rapid Trident: U.S. ground troops to train in Ukraine next week
U.S. ground troops will train in western Ukraine next week while Kiev’s armed forces continue fighting pro-Russian separatists in the east. The Pentagon is sending roughly 200 U.S. soldiers to Ukraine for training exercises in the western part of the nation that will begin Sept. 16. The annual exercise, named … …read more...
France Suspends Delivery of Warship to Russia
PARIS—France is suspending the delivery of a hulking warship to Russia amid security concerns about Moscow’s actions in neighboring Ukraine, President Francois Hollande’s office said Wednesday. The announcement comes a day before the start of a NATO summit and after months of pressure on France from allies to suspend the sale amid...
Obama to talk Ukraine, militants with Euro leaders
NEWPORT, Wales (AP) — President Barack Obama will convene a meeting of European allies to discuss the West’s response to Russia’s provocations in Ukraine and Islamic militants in Syria and Iraq…. …read more Source: Associated...
France suspends delivery of warship to Russia
Large Mistral-class helicopter carriers ordered by Russia held by President Hollande over Russia’s actions in Ukraine …read more Source:...
Obama to talk Ukraine, militants with Euro leaders
NEWPORT, Wales (AP) — President Barack Obama will convene a meeting of European allies to discuss the West’s response to Russia’s provocations in Ukraine and Islamic militants in Syria and Iraq. The meeting will occur Thursday morning on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Wales. Obama arrived here Wednesday night after a whirlwind...
France puts warship delivery to Russia on hold
PARIS (AP) — Responding to international pressure, France suspended the delivery of a warship to Russia at least until November amid security concerns over Moscow’s role in the Ukraine crisis,… …read more Source: The Bismarck...
France puts warship delivery to Russia on hold
PARIS (AP) — Responding to international pressure, France suspended the delivery of a warship to Russia at least until November amid security concerns over Moscow’s role in the Ukraine crisis, officials said Wednesday. The Vladivostok, the first of two Mistral-class helicopter carriers ordered by Russia, was due to be delivered next month...
Russian Photojournalist Killed In Eastern Ukraine
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s state-owned RIA Novosti news agency says one of its photojournalists has died in eastern Ukraine. Andrei Stenin went missing in early August, his whereabouts unknown. The agency’s director-general, Dmitry Kiselyov, said in a statement on Wednesday that the remains in a charred car found outside the rebel...
