Section: US & Canada
Ukraine capture reveals how amateurs have succumbed to hatred of Russia, Putin
Reporter’s first-person account of his interrogation by Ukrainian soldiers uncovers the reality of those engaged in the conflict with Russia. …read more Source: Toronto...
President Obama prepares to increase sanctions on Russia
President Obama is preparing to increase U.S. sanctions on Russia in a coordinated effort with European leaders in response to Russia’s continued role in supporting the separatist fighters in neighboring Ukraine, a senior administration official said Monday. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Ukraine official: Black box shows missile shrapnel downed Malaysian airliner
Evidence from the black box of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 indicates that shrapnel from an exploding missile ripped through the passenger jet, causing a “massive explosive decompression” that led to the crash and death of 298 passengers and crew, a Ukrainian government official said Monday. …read more Source: Miami...
U.S. sales to Russia have only risen since sanctions imposed
In the months since the United States imposed sanctions on Russian businesses and close associates of President Vladimir Putin’s, an odd thing has happened: U.S. exports to Russia have risen. …read more Source: Miami...
French Sales of Weapons to Russia Not Welcomed by European Union
“The agreement was signed in 2011, the boat is almost finished and must be delivered in October … The Russians have paid. We would need to pay back 1,1 billion euros,” French President François Hollande explained during a dinner hosted by the Presidential Press Association on July 21. After the crash of flight MH17 above the...
Syria’s War Poets
GAZIANTEP, Turkey—Visiting Czechoslovakia in the 1970s, the American novelist Philip Roth reflected on what distinguished him from his peers behind the Iron Curtain: “It occurred to me that I work in a society where as a writer everything goes and nothing matters, while for the Czech writers I met in Prague, nothing goes and...
U.S. says Russia violated nuclear missile treaty
With tensions already high over Ukraine and downed Malaysian plane, Obama administration accuses Russia of conducting banned tests …read more Source:...
Japan is stepping up sanctions against Russia
TOKYO — Japan is imposing more sanctions against Russia over its support for pro-Moscow rebels in Ukraine who are accused of shooting down a Malaysian jet, the chief government spokesman said Monday. …read more Source: New York Daily...
International police team forced to retreat from battlefield in Ukraine
The road to the site is now violently contested between pro-Russia rebel fighters and the Ukrainian military because it is also a route for supplies to reach the rebels holding Donetsk …read more Source: The Globe and...
Eastern Ukrainians Flee as Fighting Heats Up
SHAKHTARSK, Ukraine—Panicky residents in an eastern Ukrainian town fled their homes Monday carrying a few possessions in plastic bags and small suitcases as shells exploded in the distance, fighting that also prevented an international police team from reaching the site of the Malaysia Airlines crash. “Mom, hang in there,”...
