Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Sky News Is Being Investigated Over That Disastrous Malaysia Airlines Segment
Sky News is now facing an investigation over its controversial report about the Malaysia Airlines crash in Ukraine last month. The network sparked outcry from viewers earlier this year when one of its reporters rifled through a victim’s belongings at the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash site. Both the network and the reporter, Colin...
Ukraine Says Fighting Halts Recovery Of Bodies From Refugee Convoy Attack
By Natalia Zinets and Richard Balmforth KIEV, Aug 19 (Reuters) – Fifteen bodies have been recovered from the site of an artillery strike on a refugee bus convoy in east Ukraine, but further operations have been suspended due to renewed fighting in the area, a Ukrainian military spokesman said on Tuesday. The Kiev military has said...
Anti-Aircraft Weapons In Syria Could Threaten Commercial Aviation, New Report Warns
WASHINGTON (AP) — Armed groups in Syria have an estimated several hundred portable anti-aircraft missiles that could easily be diverted to extremists and used to destroy low-flying commercial planes, according to a new report by a respected international research group. It cites the risk that the missiles could be smuggled out of Syria by...
Russia Has Already Invaded Ukraine: Strobe Talbott
Strobe Talbott, one of America’s top Russian experts who translated Nikita Khrushchev’s memoirs into English, was Deputy Secretary of State from 1994-2001. He is presently President of the Brookings Institution and widely regarded as a potential secretary of state in a Hillary Clinton administration. He spoke with WorldPost editor...
Refugee Convoy In Ukraine Hit By Rocket Fire, Dozens Reportedly Killed
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A spokesman for Ukraine’s national security council says “dozens” of civilians have been killed in a rebel attack on a convoy of people trying to flee war-torn eastern Ukraine. Col. Andriy Lysenko told reporters Monday that he is unable to provide exact figures but that dozens have died, including...
Russia: Agreement Reached On Humanitarian Aid To Ukraine But Not On Ceasefire
(Adds quotes context) BERLIN, Aug 18 (Reuters) – Russia on Monday said all objections to it sending a humanitarian convoy to Ukraine had been resolved but said no progress had been made in Berlin talks toward a ceasefire between government and rebel forces in the east of the country. Following the talks between Russia, Germany, France and...
Ukraine Says Government Forces Have Entered Rebel-Held City
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Army troops have penetrated deep inside a rebel-controlled city in eastern Ukraine in what could prove a breakthrough development in the four-month-long conflict, the Ukrainian government said Sunday. However, the military acknowledged that another one of its fighter planes was shot down by the separatists, who have been...
Obama Heading Back To DC In Rare Break From Vacation
EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama is getting off the island.In a rare move for him, the president planned a break in the middle of his Martha’s Vineyard vacation to return to Washington on Sunday night for unspecified meetings with Vice President Joe Biden and other advisers.The White House has been cagey about why the...
Legal ‘Pussyrioting’ Lives on in Another Russian Court Blunder
Russia’s use of “extremism” laws to prosecute nonviolent dissent is best known through Pussy Riot’s Dance Seen Around The World in Moscow’s main Christian Orthodox Cathedral, which yielded some of its participants two-year prison terms. On August 15, a district court in Moscow issued a verdict against Maxim...
Top Ukraine Rebel Leader Says Troops Training In Russia
DONETSK, Ukraine, Aug 16 (Reuters) – Ukrainian rebels are receiving new military equipment and troops trained in Russia, and will launch a major counter-offensive against government forces, a separatist leader said in a video released on Saturday. The four-month conflict in eastern Ukraine has reached a critical phase, with Kiev and Western...
