Section: US & Canada
Russia, Ukraine Leaders to Meet in New Peace Push
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko meets Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as Kyiv levels new accusations against Moscow of fueling a pro-Russian insurgency in eastern Ukraine. The meeting in Minsk, Belarus, which also includes senior European Union officials, represents a fresh diplomatic push to end five months of fighting that...
A 24-Step Plan to Resolve the Ukraine Crisis
Vladimir Putin may be meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko for peace talks in Belarus on Tuesday, but the conflict between the two countries, and more broadly between Russia and the West, is in fact escalating, with Russia most recently sending aid convoys and apparent military equipment and armored vehicles into Ukrainian...
Ukraine parliamentary election set for October 26
President Petro Poroshenko dissolved Ukraine’s parliament on Monday and announced an election on October 26. …read more Source:...
Ukraine accuses Russia of moving arms over border
Moscow — Ukraine accused Russia of sending separatist fighters and an armored column into its embattled eastern region on Monday, describing the incursion as an attempt to open up a second front in the conflict now that pro-Russia forces are bottled up in their last two strongholds. Two of the 10 tanks in the armored convoy that entered...
Tourism suffers in Crimea as Ukraine shuns breakaway region
KERCH, Crimea — International cruise lines have stopped docking at Yalta, and Ukrainians have boycotted the peninsula’s once-popular Black Sea beaches. But ferry dockworker Andrey Shpachenko has been doing well despite the poor tourist season. His earnings at the company that ferries passengers to and from Crimea and Russia have …...
Ukrainian president dissolves parliament, calls October election
Ukraine’s president on Monday dissolved parliament and called for early elections in October as his country continues to battle a pro-Russian insurgency in its eastern regions. …read more Source: Toronto...
Entente Cordiale: The US and Iran in the Middle East
A year after the election of reformist Hassan Rouahni, Tehran and Washington have entered a de facto entente. While the ongoing nuclear negotiations are yet to produce a permanent deal, both sides have stepped up their assistance to the Shia-dominated government in Baghdad and the Kurdish regional government in Iraq. Just like how Washington and...
AP News in Brief at 5:58 p.m. EDT
Weapons convoys seen rolling in eastern Ukraine from the direction of Russia KRASNODON, Ukraine (AP) – For several evenings this month, convoys of military weaponry passed with clockwork-like regularity through Krasnodon, a rebel-held town in eastern Ukraine near the porous border with Russia. The convoys were seen … …read more...
Woman Recounts Story Of Alleged Sexual Assault By Malaysian Airlines Flight Attendant
A passenger has come forward to tell her story of what she says was sexual abuse at the hands of a Malaysian Airlines flight attendant. Australian Laura Bushney, 26, tells Channel 7’s Sunday Night that on a half-full August 4th flight from Kuala Lumpur to Paris, chief steward Mohd Rosli Bin Ab Karim sexually assaulted her under the guise of...
Ukraine president dissolves parliament, sets Oct. 26 election
Ukraine’s newly inaugurated president dissolved the contentious parliament Monday and set early elections for Oct. 26 in a move that will probably put further pressure on the country’s east-west divide. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
