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    Ukraine: Inspectors to check Russian convoy
    Aug15

    Ukraine: Inspectors to check Russian convoy

    The inspection will take place in the presence of Red Cross representatives. …read more Source: USA...

    Ukraine: inspectors to check Russian convoy
    Aug15

    Ukraine: inspectors to check Russian convoy

    KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine says a team of several dozen of its customs and border service officials will inspect a Russian aid convoy parked just beyond its border. Sergei Astakhov, an assistant to the deputy head of Ukraine’s border guard service, said the cargo would be inspected in the presence of representatives from the International...

    Ukraine: inspectors to check Russian convoy
    Aug15

    Ukraine: inspectors to check Russian convoy

    Ukraine says a team of several dozen of its customs and border service officials will inspect a Russian aid convoy parked just beyond its border. …read more Source: Miami...

    Moscow, Kiev closer to confrontation as aid convoy heads for rebel areas
    Aug15

    Moscow, Kiev closer to confrontation as aid convoy heads for rebel areas

    MOSCOW — A Russian aid convoy struck a new course toward rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine on Thursday, apparently flouting Ukrainian demands that all humanitarian shipments be subject to government inspections and prompting Kiev to threaten a direct confrontation if the convoy tries to pass through. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...

    Russians Start Paying the Price for Putin’s Ukraine Adventure
    Aug15

    Russians Start Paying the Price for Putin’s Ukraine Adventure

    For most Russians, indeed nearly all of them, the crisis in Ukraine has had a distant, almost virtual quality. It has been something they watched on TV, or debated in their kitchens, rooting for the pro-Russian rebel militias and cursing the Ukrainian government as though the war between them was hardly more than a gruesome sporting match. The...

    A Ukrainian City Under Siege
    Aug15

    A Ukrainian City Under Siege

    Luhansk is a grim place, but for residents, shelling remains the greatest danger and the most trying aspect of daily life. …read more Source: The New York...

    Two more top separatist leaders abandon eastern Ukraine battle
    Aug15

    Two more top separatist leaders abandon eastern Ukraine battle

    Two more top leaders from the armed insurrection in eastern Ukraine resigned Thursday as government forces closed in on the last two strongholds of the 4-month-old uprising. …read more Source: Los Angeles...

    News of the day From Across the Globe, August 15
    Aug15

    News of the day From Across the Globe, August 15

    British police searched a house belonging to veteran rock star Cliff Richard on Thursday in connection with sexual allegations dating back to the 1980s. Supporters of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide clashed with U.N. peacekeepers Thursday as the popular former leader faced possible arrest for not providing court-ordered testimony in a...

    Pressure mounts as Russian convoy reaches Ukraine’s border
    Aug15

    Pressure mounts as Russian convoy reaches Ukraine’s border

    Raising the stakes in Ukraine’s conflict, a Russian aid convoy of more than 200 trucks pushed up to the border Thursday but then stopped, provocatively poised to cross into rebel-held territory. […] an inspection would ease concerns that Russia could use the aid shipment as cover for a military incursion in support of the separatists,...

    Ferguson Police Look Like Forces In These Conflict-Filled Countries
    Aug15

    Ferguson Police Look Like Forces In These Conflict-Filled Countries

    One of the most striking realizations to come from the tense standoff in Ferguson, Missouri is just how closely the scene resembles images of crackdowns on protests in conflict-filled countries around the world. Seeing police officers in full military gear, firing teargas and rubber bullets at crowds of protesters, is something that western...