Section: US & Canada
Russia’s president Putin calls on separatists to release Ukrainian soldiers taken prisoner
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has called on pro-Russian separatists fighting government troops in eastern Ukraine to release Ukrainian soldiers they took prisoner and allow them to return home. …read more Source: FOX...
Malaysia Airlines suspends shares ahead of reform plan
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) – Struggling Malaysia Airlines suspended trading in its shares Friday ahead of an announcement later in the day on a restructuring plan aimed at keeping the carrier in business following two devastating air tragedies.State investment fund Khazanah Nasional, which owns 70 percent of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) and has...
NATO To Discuss Ukraine Crisis
NATO officials meet August 29 in Brussels to discuss the crisis in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia sends tanks, troops into eastern Ukraine
KIEV, Ukraine — Russian tanks and troops fired their way into eastern Ukraine on Thursday and seized a strategic gateway town on the road to the heavily militarized Crimean peninsula in a brazen display of support for pro-Russia separatists fighting Ukrainian government troops. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
Ukraine: Russia has invaded
Ukraine accused Russia yesterday of entering its territory with tanks, artillery and troops, an assertion quickly endorsed by President Obama, who said he believes Russian troops are threatening the nation’s sovereignty even as he ruled out military action, saying it was “not in the cards.”“Russia is responsible for the violence in eastern...
Nikkei Slips After Japan Data
Japanese stocks fell as investors digested domestic economic data after the latest Russia-Ukraine tensions pushed the U.S. market lower overnight. …read more Source: The Wall Street...
Obama rules out military response to Russian moves in Ukraine
President Obama rebuffed pressure for quick U.S. action in two foreign crises Thursday, declining to label Russia’s military moves into Ukraine an invasion and saying that he was not ready to expand an air campaign against Islamist militants to Syria. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Ukraine accuses Russia of sending in tanks, armor
The Kremlin has repeatedly denied arming and supporting the separatists who have been fighting Ukrainian troops for four months in the gravest crisis between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War. Two columns of tanks and other equipment entered southeastern Ukraine at midday, following heavy shelling of the area from Russia that...
Obama Urges Calm in Face of Two Crises
President Obama confronted two volatile crises with restraint Thursday, saying he was not close to authorizing airstrikes in Syria and playing down an escalation of Russia’s intervention in Ukraine. …read more Source: The New York...
Hacker Attacks on American Banks Look More Like Fraud Than Russian Cyber War
Subtlety has never been the strong suit of Russia’s hacker-patriots. In 2008, during the Russian invasion of Georgia, they managed to hijack or disable all the key websites of the Georgian government, plastering one of them with images of Adolf Hitler. The year before that, during Russia’s diplomatic spat with Estonia over a Soviet...
