Section: US & Canada
Malaysia Airlines to cut 6,000 jobs after pair of air disasters
‘Painful steps’ need to be taken to overhaul the airline, struggling to repair its image after MH370 vanished and MH17 was shot down over Ukraine …read more Source: Calgary...
Kremlin: Russian Troop Images Are From ‘Computer Games’
On Thursday, NATO released images it said showed that Russian combat troops had crossed into Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Pro-Russia separatists in firm control of strategic coastal town
Pro-Russia separatists, relaxed and well-equipped, held firm control on Friday of the strategic coastal town of Novoazovsk, a day after Ukraine claimed tanks and armoured vehicles had invaded from Russia. …read more Source: CTV...
Russia Says Open to Gas Talks With Ukraine, Offers Discount
Russia is open to talks on resuming gas supplies to Ukraine and willing to offer a price cut of nearly 20 percent, Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Friday, but the discounted price is still above the level Kiev demands. Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed late last year to cut the gas price for Ukraine to $268.50 per 1,000 cubic meters...
McDonald’s Objects to Russia Restaurant Closures
McDonald’s on Friday objected to the Russian government’s decision to close 12 of its restaurants in the country, following weeks of highly publicized investigations into health and safety at the fast food giant’s locations. “We are closely studying the content of the agency documents to determine what should be done to re-open...
‘Fog lifts to show Russia at war’
The West’s grand strategy of transforming Russia into a liberal democracy by weaving it into a web of interconnectedness has failed. By moving from proxy war to open war, by giving up pretense and deniability in Ukraine, Russia has very clearly made that point. …read more Source:...
EU ministers call for new sanctions against Russia
MILAN (AP) – Several European Union foreign ministers on Friday accused Russia of invading eastern Ukraine and said Moscow should be punished with more sanctions. The meeting of the 28-nation bloc’s top diplomats in Milan came one day after NATO said Moscow has slipped at least 1,000 Russian … …read more Source: The...
Putin Likens East Ukraine Crisis to Nazi Sieges
Vladimir Putin said Ukraine and Russia were “practically a single nationality” and compared Kiev’s military actions to the Nazi sieges of World War II …read more Source:...
Pro-Russia separatists in control of coastal town
Captured Ukrainian border guards sit in a garage at the Novoazovsk border crossing point, in eastern Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. At Novoazovsk, rebel fighters looked to be in firm control,… …read more Source: The Bismarck...
Death Toll in Ukraine Conflict Exceeds 2,200, U.N. Says
A surge in fighting around Donetsk and Luhansk brought the total number of people killed since mid-April to at least 2,220, and the number of injured to at least 5,956. …read more Source: The New York...
