Section: US & Canada
MH17: Rebels have laid mines on route to crash site, Kiev says
The OSCE observers turned back to the city of Donetsk after discussions with rebels …read more Source: The Globe and...
Total Bracing For Sanctions Impact
The oil major says it has stopped increasing its stake in Russian gas-producer Novatek and will review the effect of sanctions on Russia at the end of August. …read more Source: The Wall Street...
International Observers Turned Back From Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Crash Site In Eastern Ukraine
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — 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...
Obama: ‘Not a new Cold War,’ but new Russia sanctions announced
President Obama announced a new round of U.S. sanctions against Russian banks and a shipbuilding company Tuesday, saying Russia must pay an increasingly high price for its military aggression in Ukraine and the downing of a passenger jet. The penalties follow tougher sanctions in an agreement reached by European Union … …read more...
EU Units of Russian Banks Exempt From Sanctions
European Union-based subsidiaries of Russian state-owned banks are exempt from EU sanctions, two European officials said. …read more Source: The Wall Street...
19 killed in Ukraine as separatists maintain control of MH17 wreckage
International observers have turned back from another attempt to reach the site where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 went down in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: CTV...
The Right-Wing Delusion That Obama Is an Israel-Hating Dove
Among some right-leaning hawks, there is a persistent delusion that President Obama is a non-interventionist dove who rejects American exceptionalism and hegemony, all the while harboring a unique, possibly anti-Semitic distaste for Israel. The populist manifestation of this delusion has asked us to believe that Obama “pals around with...
Russia Restricts Imports Of Fruit, Vegetables From Poland
Russia’s food safety watchdog says it has imposed “restrictions” on imports of fruit and vegetables from Poland beginning August 1. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Here’s Putin’s Next Move (RSX)
Vladmir Putin’s next move could be to block the transit of gas through Ukraine to Europe, write Morgan Stanley analysts. This could cause energy prices to spike in Putin’s effort to retaliate against the world for imposing economic sanctions on Russia. New Sanctions The U.S. and the European Union announced a fresh round of economic...
Moroccan jailed for killing Jewish physician in Ukraine
(JTA) — A Moroccan man who killed a Jewish physician in Ukraine was sentenced to 15 years in jail after a court of appeals reversed his acquittal. Shakeeb Otman from Casablanca was sent to jail on July 22 for the premeditated murder of Leon Fraierfeld, an orthopedic surgeon from the city of Lviv in western Ukraine on Oct. 19, 2012. The July...
