Section: US & Canada
Sarah Palin’s Low-Budget TV Channel Is Pricier Than Netflix
Sarah Palin is returning to her roots in low-budget television–but this time, she’s on the web, the focus is American politics, and she owns the network. The Sarah Palin Channel launched Sunday, asking prospective viewers for 9.95 per month–96 cents more than Netflix–or 99.95 a year. (No word on whether subscribers get...
Police team turns back from Ukraine crash site
SHAKHTARSK, Ukraine — An international police team abandoned its attempt to reach the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines plane for a second day running Monday as clashes raged in a town on the road to the area.With government troops intensifying their push to claw back more territory from pro-Russian separatist rebels, the death toll is...
'Massive explosive decompression' downed MH17: Kiev
Downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 may be a war crime, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights says …read more Source: The Globe and...
Access hindered to MH17 site
Uncertainty hangs over an international effort to retrieve human remains from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 as fighting rages in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Fighting forces police team to turn back from Ukraine crash site
An international police team has failed to reach the crash site of a Malaysian Airlines plane for a second day running as clashes rage in a town on the road to the area. …read more Source: CTV...
Japan to step up sanctions against Russia following Malaysian airliner disaster
Japan is stepping up sanctions against Russia over the unrest in Ukraine. …read more Source: FOX...
Russia hopes for ‘impartial’ Malaysia jet crash investigation
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday dug his heels in on the war in Ukraine and Russia’s alleged involvement in the conflict, saying that Kiev had overstepped its bounds in fighting the insurgency. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
US: Russia has fired rockets into Ukraine
WASHINGTON — Stepping up pressure on Moscow, the U.S. has released satellite images it says show that rockets have been fired from Russia into neighboring eastern Ukraine and that heavy artillery for separatists has crossed the border. …read more Source: Boston...
Black boxes show MH17 suffered massive decompression after shrapnel hit
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:...
Death Toll Mounts as Clashes Intensify in Ukraine
(KIEV, Ukraine) — At least eight civilians have been killed by fighting and shelling in two Ukrainian cities held by separatist militants, officials in the rebellion-wracked east said Monday. Authorities in Luhansk said five people were killed and 15 injured by overnight artillery strikes. Three were killed in Donetsk as a result of...
