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    Canada will send non-lethal military supplies to Ukraine to help it protect border from Russia
    Aug08

    Canada will send non-lethal military supplies to Ukraine to help it protect border from Russia

    Friday, August 8 , 2014 - 0:59 (EEST) Section: FOX News (USA)

    Canada says it is sending non-lethal military equipment to Ukraine to help the country protect its eastern border against Russia. …read more Source: FOX...

    Ukraine Crisis: Violence Erupts At Maidan, Over Five Months After Yanukovych Fled
    Aug08

    Ukraine Crisis: Violence Erupts At Maidan, Over Five Months After Yanukovych Fled

    Friday, August 8 , 2014 - 0:59 (EEST) Section: International Business Times (USA)

    Kievans are having flashbacks to the Euromaidan protests earlier this year, as stragglers at ground zero of the Ukrainian revolution fought off police efforts to finally clear out Independence Square for good Thursday. Some are calling them the “AlcoHundred,” a sarcastic term and portmanteau of “hundred,” which is a term...

    NATO aid to Ukraine likely to sharpen conflict with Russia
    Aug08

    NATO aid to Ukraine likely to sharpen conflict with Russia

    Friday, August 8 , 2014 - 0:59 (EEST) Section: Los Angeles Times (USA)

    NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen visited Kiev on Thursday to offer help from the Western alliance to shore up Ukraine’s defenses as government forces close in on pro-Russia separatists in the embattled east of the country. …read more Source: Los Angeles...

    150 Jews who fled Ukraine fighting expected in Israel
    Aug08

    150 Jews who fled Ukraine fighting expected in Israel

    Friday, August 8 , 2014 - 0:59 (EEST) Section: Jewish Telegraphic Agency (USA)

    (JTA) — At least 150 Jews who fled fighting in eastern Ukraine are expected to land in Israel next month in one of the largest group of arrivals of its kind this year. Many of the would-be immigrants, who will arrive aboard three flights chartered by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, are staying at a Jewish summer camp in...

    NATO Pledges Support to Ukraine, Warns of Possible Russian Invasion
    Aug08

    NATO Pledges Support to Ukraine, Warns of Possible Russian Invasion

    Friday, August 8 , 2014 - 0:59 (EEST) Section: The Epoch Times (USA)

    KIEV, Ukraine—NATO’s chief defied mounting Russian belligerence Thursday with a pledge to provide assistance to Ukraine, which is battling to quash an insurgency being waged by pro-Russia rebels in the country’s east. The show of support from Anders Fogh Rasmussen comes as government troops increasingly focus their push to claw...

    Russia Bans Western Food Imports, Ukraine Scuffles Heat Up
    Aug08

    Russia Bans Western Food Imports, Ukraine Scuffles Heat Up

    Friday, August 8 , 2014 - 0:59 (EEST) Section: The Boston Globe (USA)

    Tension on the streets of Kiev. Holdout demonstrators, angry at perceived Russian interference in Eastern Ukraine, are refusing to leave Independence Square, in an anti-Moscow protest that began last autumn. But Moscow is showing no signs of changing tack, despite the protests.. and economic sanctions imposed by the west. In fact the Russian...

    E.C.B. Leaves Interest Rates Unchanged, Despite Geopolitical Risks
    Aug08

    E.C.B. Leaves Interest Rates Unchanged, Despite Geopolitical Risks

    Friday, August 8 , 2014 - 0:59 (EEST) Section: The New York Times (USA)

    The European Central Bank’s president said the economic risks from the Ukraine crisis did not yet warrant a shift in monetary policy. …read more Source: The New York...

    ‘We’re at war’: Lone American joins Ukrainian forces, battles pro-Russian separatists
    Aug08

    ‘We’re at war’: Lone American joins Ukrainian forces, battles pro-Russian separatists

    Friday, August 8 , 2014 - 0:59 (EEST) Section: The Washington Times (USA)

    The Ukrainian military finally has American boots on the ground in its fight against pro-Russian separatists. Unfortunately for the Ukrainians, it’s just one man. “Franko” is an American citizen of Ukrainian decent who joined the Donbas volunteer battalion and has fought in the region since April. “I’m of Ukrainian...

    ‘It’d Be Better To Die’ — Ukrainian Journalist Talks About Ordeals In Captivity
    Aug08

    ‘It’d Be Better To Die’ — Ukrainian Journalist Talks About Ordeals In Captivity

    Friday, August 8 , 2014 - 0:59 (EEST) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    In an exclusive interview with RFE/RL’s Russian Service, Ukrainian journalist and Maidan activist Irma Krat speaks about her ordeal in captivity after being detained and held for 77 days by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Snowden’s Revelations Bring Changes to US Intelligence Gathering
    Aug08

    Snowden’s Revelations Bring Changes to US Intelligence Gathering

    Friday, August 8 , 2014 - 0:59 (EEST) Section: Voice of America (USA)

    For more than a year, former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has been living in Russia, having been granted asylum. He is wanted in the United States on espionage charges after making public key intelligence documents dealing with the U.S. National Security Agency’s secret surveillance programs. And amid frosty U.S.-Russia...