Section: US & Canada
Your Definitive Guide To Reading Monochrome Paintings
This summer the Tate Modern is showing the UK’s first ever retrospective of radical Russian artist Kazimir Malevich. If you know the name, you’re most likely familiar with the influential, arguably even revolutionary work that is the “Black Square.” And even though, in the back of your mind you realize the radical...
More MH17 victims repatriated at Netherlands ceremony
Two military aircraft carrying remains of victims from the Malaysian plane disaster departed for the Netherlands Thursday. …read more Source:...
Ukraine accused of targeting civilians in east
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — War literally came to Alexander Litvinenko’s living room, when a missile punched a gaping hole into the wall of his ninth-floor apartment. The 53-year-old college philosophy teacher had just stepped into his study to check the news online, barely escaping death…. …read more Source: Associated...
Poland cancels plans to make 2015 a year of cultural celebrations with Russia
The Polish government has canceled plans for a year of cultural celebrations with Russia out of anger with Russian actions in Ukraine. …read more Source: FOX...
MH17: Eyewitness Accounts of Horror and Confusion at Crash Site
Last Thursday, a flowered wheat field in eastern Ukraine became the scene of an unconceivable tragedy when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was brought down by a surface-to-air missile. A week after the disaster, TIME reporter Simon Shuster and Getty photographer Brendan Hoffman – both on site within hours of the disaster – give an...
Air Algerie plane disappears from radar
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — An Air Algerie flight carrying 116 people from Burkina Faso to Algeria’s capital disappeared from radar early Thursday over northern Mali after heavy rains were reported, according to the plane’s owner and government officials in France and Burkina Faso. Nearly half of the passengers were French. Air...
How Putin Is Shaping The Next U.S. Free Trade Deal
WASHINGTON — Three dozen environmental groups sent a letter to the Obama administration on Thursday asking it to reject part of a proposed trade deal with the European Union that would give a major boost to fracking in the U.S. Multiple sets of documents leaked recently show the EU requesting shipments of U.S. oil and natural gas in...
Russia Will Comply With MH17 Probe Led by Dutch
Russia’s ambassador to Malaysia told Reuters Wednesday that the country will cooperate with an investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 that will be led by the Dutch. Under the rules of the United Nations’ civil aviation body, the ICAO, the country where the crash occurred typically heads up the probe. But Russia...
Congress Is Almost as Dysfunctional as Ever
The foreign policy crises ongoing in Israel and Ukraine have rightfully dominated the news over the past week. But back in the United States, Congress is hurriedly trying to pass three pieces of legislation before the August recess—two to combat domestic crises and one to prevent one from happenin …read more Source: The New...
In The Latest Issue
In Russia, Crime Without Punishment Vladimir Putin backs the rebels suspected of shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. Why each new crisis makes him stronger From Gaza to Ukraine, the Effects of World War I Persist We still live in the long shadow of a war that began a century ago In Gaza, a Just but Bloody War Hamas provoked this round, and...
