Section: US & Canada
How Stephen Harper hopes to win the 2015 election
Ever so slowly, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s strategy for winning the 2015 election is becoming clear. It will be built on four pillars: Economic management and tax cuts; a hard-nosed approach to crime; a “principled” foreign policy that stands up to international tyrants and terrorists; and a simple mantra to discredit and...
Expert: Russia will use ‘humanitarian crisis’ as excuse to invade Ukraine
Cut off from the Russian border and under increasing pressure from Ukrainian military forces, the pro-Russian separatists’ stronghold of Donetsk could become the flashpoint for a Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine, an expert on U.S. and Russian national security predicted.. …read more Source: FOX...
NATO Chief to Russia: ‘Step Back from the Brink’
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen is calling on Russia to “step back from the brink” of war in Ukraine by withdrawing thousands of combat troops massed on its border. “Step back from the brink, step back from the border and [do] not use peacekeeping as an excuse for war-making,” said Rasmussen during a visit to...
150 Jews who fled Ukraine fighting expected in Israel
(JTA) — At least 150 Jews who fled fighting in eastern Ukraine are expected to land in Israel next month in one of the largest group of arrivals of its kind this year. Many of the would-be immigrants, who will arrive aboard three flights chartered by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, are staying at a Jewish summer camp in...
Ukraine Crisis: Violence Erupts At Maidan, Over Five Months After Yanukovych Fled
Kievans are having flashbacks to the Euromaidan protests earlier this year, as stragglers at ground zero of the Ukrainian revolution fought off police efforts to finally clear out Independence Square for good Thursday. Some are calling them the “AlcoHundred,” a sarcastic term and portmanteau of “hundred,” which is a term...
NATO Pledges Support to Ukraine, Warns of Possible Russian Invasion
KIEV, Ukraine—NATO’s chief defied mounting Russian belligerence Thursday with a pledge to provide assistance to Ukraine, which is battling to quash an insurgency being waged by pro-Russia rebels in the country’s east. The show of support from Anders Fogh Rasmussen comes as government troops increasingly focus their push to claw...
Russia Bans Western Food Imports, Ukraine Scuffles Heat Up
Tension on the streets of Kiev. Holdout demonstrators, angry at perceived Russian interference in Eastern Ukraine, are refusing to leave Independence Square, in an anti-Moscow protest that began last autumn. But Moscow is showing no signs of changing tack, despite the protests.. and economic sanctions imposed by the west. In fact the Russian...
E.C.B. Leaves Interest Rates Unchanged, Despite Geopolitical Risks
The European Central Bank’s president said the economic risks from the Ukraine crisis did not yet warrant a shift in monetary policy. …read more Source: The New York...
‘We’re at war’: Lone American joins Ukrainian forces, battles pro-Russian separatists
The Ukrainian military finally has American boots on the ground in its fight against pro-Russian separatists. Unfortunately for the Ukrainians, it’s just one man. “Franko” is an American citizen of Ukrainian decent who joined the Donbas volunteer battalion and has fought in the region since April. “I’m of Ukrainian...
‘It’d Be Better To Die’ — Ukrainian Journalist Talks About Ordeals In Captivity
In an exclusive interview with RFE/RL’s Russian Service, Ukrainian journalist and Maidan activist Irma Krat speaks about her ordeal in captivity after being detained and held for 77 days by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
