Section: US & Canada
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...
EU sets Russia ultimatum, threatens sanctions
BRUSSELS — Despite tough rhetoric decrying Russia’s increasing military involvement in Ukraine, European Union leaders on Sunday stopped short of imposing new sanctions against Moscow right away.Instead, the 28-nation bloc’s heads of state and government tasked their executive body to “urgently undertake preparatory work”...
Fisher: Canada looks to join NATO force of 10,000 troops meant to keep Russia in check
By Matthew Fisher, Postmedia News Canada is interested in joining a NATO joint expeditionary force of at least 10,000 troops that is being created to bolster the alliance’s eastern flank in an effort to check Russia’s creeping military takeover of eastern Ukraine, according to Britain’s Financial Times newspaper. The British-led...
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:...
