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...
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...
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...
EU to Broaden Ukraine-Linked Sanctions
European Union member states are set to agree to add the so-called Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk to their sanctions lists as part of the expansion of pressure on those involved in destabilizing Ukraine, three EU diplomats said. …read more Source: The Wall Street...
Planes Bring More Bodies Of MH17 Victims To The Netherlands
KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Two military aircraft carrying remains of victims from the Malaysian plane disaster departed for the Netherlands Thursday, while Australian and Dutch diplomats joined to promote a plan for a U.N. team to secure the crash scene which has been controlled by pro-Russian rebels. All 298 people aboard Malaysia Airlines...
MH17: Cold War Replay?
The most bizarre conspiracy theory surrounding the recent downing of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine comes from a leading pro-Russian separatist, Igor Girkin. Relying on second-hand information, Girkin asserted that many of the passengers from the crash had already been dead before the plane had even taken off. His underlings had reported to...
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...
