Section: US & Canada
Poland, Britain want new sanctions on Moscow, say Russia responsible for downing of airliner
The foreign ministers of Poland and Britain have called for more economic sanctions on Russia, saying it is responsible for the downing of the Malaysia Airlines passenger jet over eastern Ukraine this month. …read more Source: FOX...
Sole Israeli national on downed Malaysian airliner was son of evangelical Christian
Ithamar Avnon, the sole Israeli national aboard the downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, pictured in Jerusalem in 2008. (Shai Penn Eisenman) AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A few hours before he departed Amsterdam for Australia on July 17, Ithamar Avnon was praying for peace with his parents at their home in the Netherlands. That evening, pro-Russian...
Police team turns back from Ukraine crash site
Self-proclamed Donetsk People’s Republic policemen search a minivan near Shakhtarsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine on Monday, July 28, 2014. An international police team abandoned its attemp… …read more Source: The Bismarck...
Russian Oligarch’s Balkan-Style Gambit in Ukraine
On July 25, the London Financial Times published a lengthy and fascinating report dealing with the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Courtney Weaver, a Moscow staffer for the newspaper, described how Konstantin V. Malofeev, a Russian Orthodox Christian billionaire little known in the West, traveled to Sevastopol, on the southwest coast of the Crimean...
Pope Francis Begs For An End To War On 100th Anniversary Of WWI
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is marking the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I with an impassioned plea for people to “not repeat the mistakes of the past,” urging them to embrace dialogue to overcome conflicts. Francis cited current warfare between Israelis and Palestinians, as well as in Iraq and in Ukraine....
Sino-Russian Entente Would Move the World a Step Closer to 1914
This piece also appears in the South China Morning PostArtyom Lukin says the U.S. policy of containment is pushing China and Russia ever closer to forming a powerful anti-Western alliance, greatly raising the possibility of a Third World War VLADIVOSTOCK — Whereas the first two world wars broke out and were fought mainly in Europe, the...
Western nations agree on new Russian sanctions over Ukraine, France says
Leaders reportedly voiced regret that Russia was not putting pressure on separatists to bring them to the negotiating table …read more Source: The Globe and...
International police team turns back from Ukraine crash site
A Ukrainian security spokesman says data from the recovered flight data recorders shows Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crashed due to a massive, explosive loss of pressure after being punctured multiple times by shrapnel. …read more Source:...
Why Conspiracy Theories Take Hold in Russia
All it takes is an hour or two of Russian state television to learn that someone is plotting against Russia. Watch for a few more hours, and you’ll find that everyone is plotting against Russia. Watch for a few more days, and the truth comes out: Russia is plotting against Russia. Thanks to the increasingly baroque explanations of...
‘Massive Explosive Decompression’ Brought Down MH17, Ukraine Says
KIEV Ukraine (Reuters) – Analysis of the black box flight recorders from a downed Malaysian airliner show it was destroyed by shrapnel coming from a rocket blast and went down because of “massive explosive decompression”, a Ukrainian security official said on Monday. The spokesman for Ukraine’s Security Council, Andriy...
