Section: US & Canada
Ukraine official: Rebels lay mines near crash site
The OSCE observers headed back to the city of Donetsk after discussions with rebels on the city’s outskirts. …read more Source: USA...
Russia Defiant In Face Of Unprecedented Western Sanctions
Russia says unprecedented Western sanctions imposed on its financial, arms, and energy sectors over the Ukraine crisis would hurt the United States and the European Union. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Mr. Putin Can Ignore Mr. Market
Anyone who hoped financial markets would take on the burden of punishing Russia for its Ukrainian adventures should think again. …read more Source:...
Ukraine Accuses Rebels of Laying Mines Near MH17 Crash Site
DONETSK, Ukraine—International observers turned back Wednesday after making another attempt to reach the site where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 went down in eastern Ukraine, and a government official said the area near the zone had been mined by pro-Russian separatists who control it. Observers from the Organization for Security and...
Ukraine official: Rebels lay mines near crash site
Ukraine official: Rebels lay mines near jet crash site, observers again fail to reach area …read more Source:...
Russia counts cost of new US, EU sanctions
After raft of new Western sanctions, Russian central bank moves to support local lenders …read more Source:...
Ukraine Official: Rebels Placed Land Mines on Roads to MH17 Crash Site
An Ukrainian official accused pro-Russian separatist fighters of lining the roads to the crash site of the downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 with land mines Wednesday, making it impossible for international investigators to access the scene of the crash. The Associated Press reports that observers from the Organization for Security and...
Rebels laying mines near MH17 crash site, Ukrainian official says
International observers turned back Wednesday after making another attempt to reach the site where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 went down in eastern Ukraine, and a government official said the area near the zone had been mined by pro-Russian separatists who control it. …read more Source: FOX...
Russia Bans Polish Fruit, Veggies in Apparent Retaliation for Sanctions
Russia announced a ban on most fruit and vegetable imports from Poland on Wednesday and said it may extend the restrictions to the rest of the European Union, its first apparent retaliation to new Western sanctions imposed over Ukraine a day earlier. Moscow, which buys more than 2 billion euros worth of EU fruit and vegetables a year making it by...
Pro-ISIS Demonstrators Call for “Death to Jews” in the Netherlands
Jewish human rights group the Simon Wiesenthal Center has expressed its shock that protests in support of Islamic terrorist group ISIS have gone undeterred by Dutch authorities in the Hague. Two public rallies, expressing support for ISIS have been held this month, with chants advocating the murder of “dirty Jews from the sewers”...
