Section: The Epoch Times (USA)
EU Envoys Back Keeping Sanctions Against Russia Over Ukraine
BRUSSELS—The European Union’s top diplomats vowed Monday to uphold sanctions against Russia for destabilizing conflict-torn Ukraine. Determined to wait no longer for a clear message from Washington, EU foreign ministers said their economic sanctions must remain in place until Russian President Vladimir Putin respects his promise to work for...
New Fighting in Eastern Ukraine Leaves 33 Dead
International monitors on Friday strongly urged the warring sides in eastern Ukraine to silence their guns as heavy artillery and rocket barrages continued to pummel residential areas. At least 33 people including civilians have been killed and several dozen injured in fighting this week in eastern Ukraine between government forces and...
Heavy Fighting Continues in Eastern Ukraine
Freezing and nerve-shattered residents of an eastern Ukraine town battered by an upsurge in fighting between troops and Russia-backed rebels flocked to a humanitarian aid center Wednesday to receive food and warm up. Heavy shelling of government-held Avdiivka, just north of the rebel stronghold city of Donetsk, began over the weekend and...
Trump, Putin Discuss ‘Mutually Beneficial’ Trade, Security
WASHINGTON—Will President Donald Trump usher in a new era for U.S.-Russian relations, or are the two powers going to continue down the path as geopolitical foes? Now that Russian President Vladimir Putin has held his first conversation with America’s newly inaugurated leader, attention turns to the fate of U.S. sanctions against Moscow and...
Kremlin Says Putin-Trump Call Set for Saturday
MOSCOW—Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to speak by phone with U.S. President Donald Trump over the weekend, the Kremlin said Friday. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the conversation is scheduled for Saturday. They last spoke when Putin congratulated Trump on his victory shortly after his election. Peskov said...
Putin: Obama’s Govt Is Working Hard to Undermine Trump
MOSCOW—In a biting attack, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday accused the outgoing U.S. administration of trying to undermine President-elect Donald Trump by spreading fake allegations and said those who are doing it are “worse than prostitutes.” The statement reflected the Kremlin’s boiling anger at President Barack Obama’s...
Lack of Diplomacy No Barrier for Canada’s New Top Diplomat Chrystia Freeland
OTTAWA—At a glance, Chrystia Freeland’s background in deconstructing the world’s super-wealthy and pugnaciously critiquing Russia’s president wouldn’t appear to be an ideal resume for the job as Canada’s top diplomat dealing with Donald Trump’s White House. But as the former journalist was elevated to the post...
US Deploys Tanks in Germany to Help NATO
U.S. tanks have arrived in northern German on Friday in the largest American tank shipment since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989. The BBC reported the first of 87 tanks and about 144 military vehicle were unloaded in Bremerhaven, Germany, last week. Around 3,500 troops are also slated to be deployed around the eastern reaches of...
Putin Says Russia Won’t Expel US Diplomats in Hacking Flap
President Vladimir Putin castigated the United States Friday for bringing sanctions and expelling Russian diplomats amid allegations of Russian meddling in the American presidential election, but said no U.S. diplomats will be ousted in reprisal for Washington’s moves in the wake of hacking attacks. In a burgeoning controversy surrounding...
Imprisoned With ISIS: An American Journalist’s Experience in Post-Coup Turkey
For more than two months, American journalist Lindsey Snell shared a cramped Turkish jail cell with a young ISIS recruit and two other women who were the wives of al-Qaeda fighters. Her time there was horrifying. One day, Snell witnessed prison guards drag off one of the al-Qaeda fighters’ wives, who was pregnant and had gone into labor....
