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    The Final Solution Of The Christian Arab Question In The Middle East
    Aug08

    The Final Solution Of The Christian Arab Question In The Middle East

    In 2003, as President George W. Bush unleashed his invasion of Iraq-based on the false premise of WMDs- for the overarching goal of reengineering the Arab world to conform to Western notions of governance and economics, the Christian community of that ancient Mesopotamian land numbered 1.5 million, representing some 5 percent of the Iraqi...

    MH17 Update: Ukraine Crash Site Search Suspended As Fighting Escalates
    Aug08

    MH17 Update: Ukraine Crash Site Search Suspended As Fighting Escalates

    The Netherlands prime minister has temporarily suspended search efforts at the site where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 went down as fighting between pro-Russian rebels and Ukraine forces picked up speed. Some 228 coffins carrying the remains of an unknown number of passengers have been returned to the Netherlands, but investigators continue to...

    Canada Will Send Military Supplies to Ukraine
    Aug08

    Canada Will Send Military Supplies to Ukraine

    TRENTON, Ontario—Canada says it is sending non-lethal military equipment to Ukraine to help the country protect its eastern border against Russia. Defense Minister Rob Nicholson said Thursday that Canada will deliver helmets, ballistic eyewear, protective vests, first aid kits, tents and sleeping bags to Ukrainian troops. Russia has massed...

    Russia Bans Western Food Imports In Ukraine Sanctions Retaliation
    Aug08

    Russia Bans Western Food Imports In Ukraine Sanctions Retaliation

    Moscow banned imports of most food from the West on Thursday in retaliation against sanctions over Ukraine, a stronger than expected measure that isolates Russian consumers from world trade to a degree unseen since Soviet days. In eastern Ukraine, a Dutch recovery team called off its work at the site where a Malaysian airliner was shot down over...

    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

    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

    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

    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

    (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

    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

    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...