Section: US & Canada
Ukraine’s Volunteers Mix Patriotism With Bravado
Fighting alongside regular troops and heavy artillery, the battalions are a cross-section of Ukrainian society. But they also include extreme nationalists and people who aren’t prone to showing restraint. …read more Source: The Wall Street...
How Money Warps U.S. Foreign Policy
On Sunday, when Hillary Clinton used an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg to take pointedly more hawkish stances than President Obama on Syria, Iran, and Gaza, observers chalked it up to her presidential ambitions. As one Democratic operative told Politico, Clinton’s advisors are “good poll readers.” On Tuesday, when Rand Paul declined to...
Ukraine death toll spikes as attacks intensify
DONETSK, Ukraine — A rebel-held city in eastern Ukraine came under intensified shelling Wednesday as the U.N. revealed that the death toll from the fighting between government troops and separatists has nearly doubled in the last two weeks.A spokeswoman for the U.N.’s human rights office, Cecile Pouilly, said the organization’s...
Ukraine death toll doubles in 2 weeks: UN
At least 1,129 were killed in Ukrainian violence between July 26 and Aug 10, doubling the death toll from months of fighting, the UN says. About 60 people die every day in the violence. …read more Source: New York Daily...
Ukraine-bound Russian convoy stuck amid bickering
Hundreds of Russian trucks carrying aid intended for rebel-held eastern Ukraine remained parked Wednesday in the southern city of Voronezh, their fate shrouded in mystery as Ukraine accused Moscow of plotting to use them as a cover for invasion. …read more Source:...
Standoff ensues over Russian aid convoy for eastern Ukraine
As a standoff ensued between Russia and Ukraine over a massive aid convoy dispatched from Moscow, the United Nations on Wednesday sharply increased its estimate of the death toll from four months’ of fighting in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Ukraine-Bound Convoy Shrouded In Mystery
VORONEZH, Russia (AP) — Hundreds of Russian trucks carrying aid intended for rebel-held eastern Ukraine remained parked Wednesday in the southern city of Voronezh, their fate shrouded in mystery as Ukraine accused Moscow of plotting to use them as a cover for invasion. Fighting between government troops and pro-Russian separatists increased as...
World War 3 Impending? UN Says Ukraine Death Toll Doubles in 2 Weeks
GENEVA (AP) — The number of people who have been killed in eastern Ukraine appears to have doubled in the last two weeks, the U.N. human rights office said Wednesday. A spokeswoman for the office, Cecile Pouilly, said the U.N.’s “very conservative estimates” show the death toll has risen to at least 2,086 people as of Aug. 10 from 1,129 on...
Ashton Ready to Call Special Meeting on Iraq, Ukraine, Gaza
European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is ready to call a special foreign ministers’ meeting as early as this week and is talking to EU governments about it, a spokesman said on Wednesday. The meeting is expected to cover conflicts in Iraq, Ukraine and Gaza. France and current EU president Italy have been pressing for a...
Is Russia’s Humanitarian Convoy a Trojan Horse?
Let’s imagine that the Russian convoy trundling toward Ukraine is in fact carrying humanitarian aid, as the Kremlin has assured the international community, and that it’s not a Tr …read more Source: The New...
