Section: US & Canada
Ukraine President to watch W. Cup final in Brazil
Brazil’s Foreign Ministry says Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko has confirmed he will watch Sunday’s final World Cup match in Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana stadium along with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other world leaders. …read more Source: Miami...
Presidents of the Ukraine and Russia _ Germany too _ to watch World Cup final
Brazil’s Foreign Ministry says Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko has confirmed he will watch Sunday’s final World Cup match in Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana stadium along with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other world leaders. …read more Source: FOX...
Gains of Ukraine Forces Come at a Price for Civilians
A disputed attack in Marinka, a farming village southeast of Donetsk, killed five civilians and caused anger among residents. …read more Source: The New York...
Deadly artillery attack in eastern Ukraine overnight
Artillery fire killed at least four people in an overnight attack on a residential area in eastern Ukraine, spurring more people to flee the besieged city of Donetsk and its suburbs on Saturday to take their chances elsewhere. …read more Source: CTV...
Following Deadly Missile Strike, Ukrainian Forces Bombard Rebel Positions
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian war planes bombarded separatists along a broad front on Saturday, inflicting huge losses, Kiev said, after President Petro Poroshenko said “scores and hundreds” would be made to pay for a deadly missile attack on Ukrainian forces. In exchanges marking a sharp escalation in the three-month conflict,...
Super Typhoon Neoguri, Gaza Strikes And Close Encounters With Bulls: Week In Photos, Jul. 6 – Jul. 13
Nothing quite compares to the power of a photograph to communicate the goings on in the world. Ranging from the serious to the silly, these photos offer peeks into what happened around the globe this week.1. A damaged railway bridge near the village of Novobakhmutivka, eastern Ukraine on July 8, 2014.(DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images)2....
Love On The Barricades: Ukraine Crisis Makes Couples … And Breaks Them Apart
The marriage of pro-Russian separatist militant “Motorola” to Yelena is not the first love story of the Ukraine crisis and it probably won’t be the last. Some of the relationships, however, have not ended well. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukrainian Fighter Jets Pound Rebels
By Richard Balmforth and Natalia Zinets KIEV, July 12 (Reuters) – Ukrainian war planes bombarded separatists along a broad front on Saturday, inflicting huge losses, Kiev said, after President Petro Poroshenko said “scores and hundreds” would be made to pay for a deadly missile attack on Ukrainian forces. In exchanges marking a...
Ukraine Scrambles Fighter Jets Against Pro-Russian Separatist Rebels As They Resume Deadly Missile Attacks
Ukraine scrambled jet fighters to strike at rebel positions early on Saturday, after separatists resumed missile attacks on government forces near the frontier with Russia, the border guard service said. In a night of violence in several areas of eastern Ukraine following a missile strike by separatists on Friday that killed at least 23...
Rebel Attacks Dent Ukrainian Military
Ukrainian government troops were on high alert in anticipation of further attacks after one of the bloodiest days of conflict since last month’s cease-fire, as neither Kiev nor the pro-Russia separatists showed signs of backing down. …read more Source: The Wall Street...
