Section: US & Canada
EU: Russia has 1 week to scale back actions in Ukraine
European leaders meeting say they are preparing to hand down additional sanctions. …read more Source: USA...
EU Sets Russia Ultimatum, Threatens Sanctions
BRUSSELS — The European Union is giving Russia a one-week ultimatum to scale back its intervention in Ukraine or face additional economic sanctions. EU summit chairman Herman Van Rompuy said early Sunday that the bloc’s 28 leaders tasked its executive body to “urgently undertake preparatory work for consideration within a week.” He says...
Garry Kasparov: It’s a War, Stupid!
As Russian troops and armored columns advance in Eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian government begs for aid from the free world it hoped would receive it and protect it as one of its own. The leaders of the free world, meanwhile, are struggling to find the right terminology to free themselves from the moral responsibility to provide that protection....
EU Names Polish PM as Council President
The European Union chose new leadership Saturday, announcing Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Turk as its new council president. EU leaders chose Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini to succeed Catherine Ashton as head of foreign policy for the 28-nation bloc. Former Belgian Prime Minster Herman Van Rompuy, who currently heads the...
European Union threatens Russia with stricter sanctions
The European Union slapped back at Moscow Saturday, threatening to impose stricter sanctions as Ukrainian officials accused Russia of sending in more tanks to flatten a small border town. During an EU summit in Brussels, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said thousands of foreign troops have flooded his country — a day after Russian leader...
Russian Politician Hospitalized After Reporting on Soldier Funerals
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian politician said on Saturday he had been badly beaten after publicising the mysterious funerals of two soldiers who may have died while fighting in Ukraine. Lev Shlosberg, a newspaper publisher who represents the liberal opposition Yabloko party in the regional assembly in the northwestern city of Pskov, said he...
Obama speaks with Harper, signals more sanctions against Russia
President Barack Obama suggested Thursday that the U.S. might impose new economic sanctions on Russia, blaming it squarely for the warfare in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: CTV...
EU threatens extra Russia sanctions as Ukraine president warns of ‘full-scale war’
But divisions among the 28 EU nations have hampered action against Moscow, and a draft of Saturday’s final statement indicated that they will merely ask the bloc’s executive arm “urgently” to prepare more options for sanctions. …read more Source: The Globe and...
Poroshenko Says Ukraine Near ‘Point Of No Return’; Putin Warns Don’t ‘Mess With Us’
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told the European Union’s foreign ministers Saturday Ukraine is “very close to the point of no return,” and a “full-scale war” with Russia, days after his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin warned the international community “it’s best not to mess with us.” Poroshenko’s comments came just...
EU to slap new sanctions on Russia over Ukraine
EU to slap new sanctions on Russia as Ukraine’s president calls conflict threat to Europe …read more Source:...
