Section: US & Canada
Polish leader wants NATO to beef up eastern flank
Poland’s president says the downing of a passenger plane in rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine reinforces the need for NATO to strengthen its defenses on its eastern flank. …read more Source: Miami...
Polish leader: plane’s downing highlights need to beef up NATO defenses on eastern flank
Poland’s president says the downing of a passenger plane in rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine reinforces the need for NATO to strengthen its defenses on its eastern flank. …read more Source: FOX...
Amid sanctions, France in warship sale to Russia
France says it will go ahead with the sale of a warship to Russia, despite calls for an arms embargo against the country, highlighting how Europe’s strong business ties are hindering its ability to punish Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine. …read more Source: Miami...
Delta Cancels All Flights To Israel Indefinitely
AP- Delta Air Lines is canceling all flights to Israel until further notice, citing reports that a rocket landed near Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport. A Delta Boeing 747 from New York was flying over the Mediterranean headed for Tel Aviv on Tuesday when it turned around and flew to Paris instead. Flight 468 had 273 passengers and 17 crew on...
How Technology is Unraveling the Clues of Flight MH17
Over the weekend, the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 tragedy turned into a Law and Order episode on the international stage with Secretary of State John Kerry appearing on Fox News and other outlets to make a case against Russia, prompting Fox News interviewer Chris Wallace to observe that Kerry was once “a prosecutor in...
Oksana Bashuk Hepburn: Hold Putin to account
The downing of the Malaysian passenger plane is a dire lesson for the world: Vladimir Putin’s aggression can reach us. He is responsible for the deaths of the Malaysian flight passengers but so are the rest of us. We have been emboldening him for years by tip-toeing around his aggression in Nagorno-Karabakh, Moldova, Chechnya, Georgia. Our...
Ukraine votes to call up more military reserves to protect border
Support among Ukrainians for joining the European Union and NATO has increased in the past few months …read more Source: The Globe and...
Airlines cancel Israel flights over missile fear
Delta Air Lines is canceling all flights to Israel until further notice, citing reports that a rocket landed near Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport. A Delta Boeing 747 from New York was flying over the Mediterranean headed for Tel Aviv on Tuesday when it turned around and flew to Paris instead. Flight 468 had 273 passengers and 17 crew on...
British experts to analyze MH17 black boxes
Britain’s prime minister says black boxes from the Malaysia Airlines plane downed in eastern Ukraine will be examined by U.K. air accident investigators. …read more Source: Miami...
Russians fed conspiracy theories on Ukraine crash
Putin, traveling home from Brazil, passed along the same flight path as the Malaysian passenger jet less than one hour before it was hit — suggesting an assassination attempt. An Associated Press journalist saw a Buk launcher — which rebels have bragged about owning in social media — in rebel-held territory near the crash site...
