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...
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...
Majority In Russia Believe Malaysian Jet Shot Down By Ukrainians: Poll
A public-opinion poll in Russia has found that the majority of residents in Russia’s big cities believe that the Malaysian passenger plane that crashed in eastern Ukraine killing 298 people on July 17 had been shot down by the Ukrainian army. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Euro-Zone Business Confidence Holds Up
Euro-zone businesses were mostly undaunted by growing tensions between the European Union and Russia over Ukraine’s future following the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. …read more Source: The Wall Street...
Observers turned back from Ukraine crash site
Paul Picard, the head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) mission in Russia’s southern Rostov-on-Don region, center, meets with local administration in Rostov-on-… …read more Source: The Bismarck...
Russian Stocks Are Laughing Off The Latest Sanctions (RSX, SPX)
If you were expecting Russian stocks to fall Wednesday, you were wrong. Russia’s MICEX index was actually up a healthy 2.2%. On Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama announced a fresh round of economic sanctions on Russia for its ongoing involvement in destabilizing Ukraine. “Among the targets of the new measures include the Bank of...
Russia Defiant in Face of Tougher Sanctions
Russia’s central bank promised to support financial institutions hit by new sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union. The United States imposed sanctions on more Russian banks on Tuesday, targeting the country’s second-largest lender VTB , its subsidiary the Bank of Moscow, and the Russian Agriculture Bank. The...
