Section: US & Canada
China Can Offer Little Help To Russia In Current Crisis
In the six days since Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was brought down by a missile over eastern Ukraine, amid intensifying suspicions of Russian involvement, the European Union has struggled to reconcile its desire to sanction Russia with its reliance on the country’s energy resources. But for Russia, dealing with U.S. and EU sanctions since...
Why The World Is Spinning Into Crisis Everywhere
WASHINGTON — Israel vs. Hamas. Ukraine vs. Russia. Unaccompanied minors at the Texas border. Syria in flames, with a militant “caliphate” at the door. Iran stalling for time on nukes. A rising China sowing fear throughout the rest of Asia. The world seems dangerously unmanageable these days. President Barack Obama is paying a...
Pro-Russian rebels say they shot down 2 Ukrainian fighter jets
Kyiv said two of its fighter jets were shot down over the rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, and the missiles that brought them down might have been fired from Russia. …read more Source:...
Buk Missile That Shot Down Flight MH17 Hidden In Russia After Plane Crash, Rebel Commander Admits
One of the most powerful Ukrainian rebel leaders has confirmed for the first time that pro-Russian separatists were in possession of the missile system that US intelligence analysts claim is responsible for shooting down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 last Thursday. …read more Source: International Business...
40 bodies from jet solemnly returned to Dutch soil
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands — Victims of the Malaysian jetliner shot down over Ukraine returned at last Wednesday to Dutch soil in 40 wooden coffins, solemnly and gently carried to 40 identical hearses, flags at half-staff flapping in the wind. …read more Source: Boston...
Video: Fist fight breaks out in Ukraine parliament
Lawmakers attacked one another following a decree that would enlist citizens as soldiers. …read more Source: USA...
Bleak Homecoming: Ukraine Crash Bodies Land in Netherlands
The bodies of the first victims from the Malaysian airliner shot down over Ukraine last week arrived in the Netherlands on Wednesday. …read more Source:...
Malaysian Jet Shootdown Joins Long List of Civilian-Military Air Disasters
The unfolding story of the Malaysian passenger jet shot down last week by an anti-aircraft missile over Ukraine joins a substantial list of similar military-civilian air disasters that have killed hundreds of non-combatants through decades of aviation history. In the early 1980s, the Soviet Union shot down a Korean Air Lines jet, killing 269...
Football team in Ukraine war zone changes homes
After Brazilian midfielder Douglas Costa said he was “afraid” to return to Shakhtar Donetsk, the Ukrainian club located in a war zone announced that it would play its home games elsewhere. …read more Source:...
Associated Press Bungles Malaysia Airlines Crash Alert, Sends Newsrooms Into Panic
For a brief moment on Wednesday morning, Twitter users nearly had a collective blip of a heart attack when the AP tweeted that one of the Dutch planes carrying bodies from the downed Malaysia Airlines flight “crash lands in Eindhoven.” The apparent news from one of the most trusted news sources in the world, that one of the planes...
