Section: US & Canada
Ukraine: Body parts retrieved at jet crash site
HRABOVE, Ukraine — Wearing gloves and carrying blue plastic buckets, international investigators finally began gathering up body parts and victims’ belongings Friday in the fields where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 came down.Artillery boomed in the distance as the 70-member team of Dutch and Australian experts painstakingly combed a...
More Remains Found at Ukraine Crash Site
After delays, Dutch and Australian police officers and forensic experts are searching the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. …read more Source: The New York...
Obama, Putin Discuss Ukraine in Phone Call
U.S. President Barack Obama has spoken by telephone with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, with Obama saying the United States remains deeply concerned about Moscow’s increased support for separatists in Ukraine. Speaking to reporters at the White House Friday, President Obama said he discussed his preference for a diplomatic solution...
Russia accuses EU of double standards over Ukraine
Russia accused the European Union of double standards on Saturday, saying it had lifted a ban on supplying Ukraine with military technology and equipment “on the quiet” but imposed sanctions on Moscow’s defence sector. …read more Source: The Toronto...
Ukraine Struggles To Find Strategy For Getting Back Crimea
Russia has said it will never give up the Ukrainian region of Crimea. Nonetheless, the Kyiv government and civil society are actively working on strategies to return the Black Sea peninsula to Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia Bans Polish Apples in a Tit for Tat for EU Sanctions
Russian authorities are banning fruit and vegetable imports from Poland in what appears to be retaliation against European Union sanctions over President Vladimir Putin’s support for the pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine. Poland is among the European Union nations who have condemned Russia’s backing for the Ukrainian separatists and is...
Photographs as Weapons of War in the Middle East
In 2003, my Atlantic colleague James Fallows performed a huge public service. He painstakingly reviewed the evidence and concluded that perhaps the single most iconic anti-Israel image did not in fact document an Israeli action at all. Muhamed al-Dura was, we were told, the name of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy shot dead by Israeli soldiers, as...
Ukrainian Forces Advance in East as Russia, West Squabble
KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Government forces tightened the noose around the main stronghold of pro-Russian rebels in east Ukraine on Saturday and, with diplomacy stalled, Moscow and the West stepped up their war of words. The seizure of Krasnogorovka and Staromikhailovka, towns just outside Donetsk, brought the army to the edge of one...
Investigators Comb Ukraine Crash Site
Experts returned to the Flight 17 crash site for a second successive day, even as Ukrainian government troops pushed on with their offensive. …read more Source: The Wall Street...
UK prime minister says NATO must rethink Russia
LONDON — Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron says NATO must rethink its long-term relationship with Russia following its “illegal” actions in Ukraine.Writing to alliance leaders, Cameron says it is clear that Russia views NATO as an adversary. He says NATO must strengthen its ability to respond quickly to any threat,...
