Section: US & Canada
Moves to Dismantle ‘Euromaidan’ Protest Tents in Kyiv Spark Clashes
Tensions flared on Thursday on Kyiv’s Independence Square, the scene of street protests that toppled a Moscow-backed president in February, when protesters still camped there clashed with city workers who tried to clear away their tents. The protesters set fire to heaps of tyres, sending clouds of black smoke billowing across the city...
NATO chief urges Russia to ‘step back from the brink’ of war
Anders Fogh Rasmussen warns that further intervention in Ukraine would bring Russia greater isolation in the world …read more Source: The Globe and...
Russia Hits Back on Sanctions; Bans Food From West
MOSCOW—Russia banned most food imports from the West on Thursday in retaliation for sanctions over Ukraine, an unexpectedly sweeping move that will cost farmers in North America, Europe and Australia billions of dollars but will also likely lead to empty shelves in Russian cities. The announcement shows that while President Vladimir Putin...
Russia retaliates on West’s sanctions over Ukraine
Russia bans imports of meat, fish, milk and fruit from US, EU, Australia, Canada, Norway …read more Source:...
MH17 Update: Ukraine Crash Site Search Suspended As Fighting Escalates
The Netherlands prime minister has temporarily suspended search efforts at the site where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 went down as fighting between pro-Russian rebels and Ukraine forces picked up speed. Some 228 coffins carrying the remains of an unknown number of passengers have been returned to the Netherlands, but investigators continue to...
NATO aid to Ukraine likely to sharpen conflict with Russia
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen visited Kiev on Thursday to offer help from the Western alliance to shore up Ukraine’s defenses as government forces close in on pro-Russia separatists in the embattled east of the country. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Russia Bans Western Food Imports In Ukraine Sanctions Retaliation
Moscow banned imports of most food from the West on Thursday in retaliation against sanctions over Ukraine, a stronger than expected measure that isolates Russian consumers from world trade to a degree unseen since Soviet days. In eastern Ukraine, a Dutch recovery team called off its work at the site where a Malaysian airliner was shot down over...
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...
Russia hits back on sanctions, bans food from West
Russia banned most food imports from the West on Thursday in retaliation for sanctions over Ukraine. …read more Source: CNY...
