Section: US & Canada
Ukrainian government moves to ban Communist Party
A court in Kiev is holding a hearing on the government’s request to ban the Communist Party of Ukraine. …read more Source: Miami...
Ukrainian government tries to ban Communists, accuses them of supporting rebels
A court in Kiev is holding a hearing on the government’s request to ban the Communist Party of Ukraine. …read more Source: FOX...
Ukrainian Parties Quit Parliament Coalition, Trigger Election
Two Ukrainian parties have quit the majority coalition in parliament to allow President Petro Poroshenko to start the procedure for new parliamentary elections. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Eurozone Growth Rebounds in July
A private-sector survey showed that business activity rose, but that worries about the Ukraine crisis have begun to cloud the outlook. …read more Source: The New York...
Long odds for justice in Malaysia jet disaster
Ukrainian honor guards lift up a coffin, holding the body of one of the Malaysian Airlines plane passengers, to load it onto a Dutch cargo plane in Kharkiv airport, Ukraine, Wednesday, July 23… …read more Source: The Bismarck...
What This Photograph Might Tell Investigators About What Really Happened to MH17
Much has been made of the possibility that the loss of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 was the work of an anti-aircraft missile. Even without confirmation or corroboration, investigators will have a wealth of evidence from the crash site and images from the scene to piece together the aeroplane’s last moments. For the moment, there must remain...
In Russia, Crime Without Punishment
The scene was almost too horrible to take in, and yet in a world of bristling threats no scene has been more revealing: under the baking July sun of eastern Ukraine, hundreds of bodies lay rotting as pro-Russian militiamen, some of them apparently drunk, brandished their weapons to keep European observers away. A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777...
MH17: Fifty Australian Police To Help UN Team Secure Crash Site; More Bodies To Reach Netherlands
The Australian government has sent 50 police officials to London, where they will join a U.N. team to travel to eastern Ukraine to help secure the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, keeping in mind the vulnerability of the area, even as an operation to airlift bodies to the Netherlands continued for a second day. …read more...
German Officials Say The EU Will Hit Putin With Biting Sanctions
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The German government believes the European Union could move to sanctions on sectors of the Russian economy by the end of July unless Russia acts quickly to defuse the crisis in eastern Ukraine, an EU source said on Thursday. German officials in Brussels have also briefed that Berlin favors a time limit on how long new...
Plane with more crash victims leaves Ukraine
In this framegrab made from a video provided by press service of the rebel Donetsk People’s Republic and icorpus.ru, pro-Russians collect parts of the burning debris of a Ukrainian military fi… …read more Source: The Bismarck...
