Section: US & Canada
Displaced Ukrainian Children Head Back To School — In Siberia
Thousands of children displaced by the fighting in eastern Ukraine are preparing for their first day of school in Russia. In Tomsk, Siberia, many displaced families are scrambling to enroll their children in local schools. Most rely on donations to provide their children with backpacks, uniforms, and other school supplies. (Melanie Batchina,...
There’s A Word For What’s Going On In Ukraine… But What Is It?
It’s been called everything from an “invasion” and an “incursion” to a “cross-border crisis” and “escalated aggression.” We look at the difficulty of describing what, exactly, is taking place in Ukraine — and what’s stopping officials from using the word “war.”...
Pro-Russian Separatists In Control Of Key Town Of Novoazovsk
NOVOAZOVSK, Ukraine (AP) — 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 armored vehicles had invaded from Russia. Associated Press reporters saw at least a half-dozen tanks in the town of about 12,000 people, bearing the flags of...
Photos August 29: Top images from around the world
A North Korean boy arm wrestles with former NFL player Bob “The Beast” Sapp Friday, Aug. 29, 2014 in Pyongyang, North Korea. Former NFL player Sapp and a group of brawny pro wrestlers led by a Japanese politician took their oddball attempt at sports diplomacy to the streets of Pyongyang on Friday, staging a tug-war and arm wrestling competition...
‘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...
Rebels will heed Putin’s call to release trapped Ukrainian troops — on one condition
Ukrainian troops must hand over their heavy weaponry and ammunition so that it ‘will not be used against us in future,’ rebel boss Alexander Zakharchenko said …read more Source: Calgary...
