Section: Time (USA)
Prominent Journalist Killed in Car Bombing in Ukraine
(MOSCOW) — A prominent journalist has been killed in a car bombing in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev. The country’s top online publication Ukrainska Pravda said on Wednesday its top journalist Pavel Sheremet died in an explosion as he got into his car to drive to work in the morning. The publication said the car was owned by its...
How John Kerry Handled Turkey’s Coup
For the last five days, Secretary of State John Kerry has been locked in a fight between order and chaos, and it’s not clear who is winning. After standing with French President Francois Hollande to celebrate Bastille Day in Paris on Thursday morning, Kerry flew to Moscow for four hours of talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in an...
Two Years After MH17 Crash, a Settlement Has Been Reached
Exactly two years after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over Eastern Europe, the struggling air carrier has settled most of the many damages claims filed by families of the victims. Veeru Mewa, an attorney representing 165 of the Dutch victims, told The Guardian that the airline had reached a settlement with most of the parties...
California Student Among the Dead in Attack on Nice
(LOS ANGELES) — An American student from the University of California, Berkeley, was identified Sunday as one of the 84 people killed in Thursday’s Bastille Day truck attack in the French city of Nice, according to statement from the school. The university said the FBI informed school officials that the body of 20-year-old Nicolas Leslie of...
Family Mourns American Father and Son Killed in Nice Attack: ‘We Are Heartbroken and In Shock’
An American father and son were among the 84 people killed on Thursday when a large truck tore through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France. Sean Copeland, 51, and his 11-year-old son Brodie, from Texas, were on vacation in the area. “We are heartbroken and in shock over the loss of Brodie Copeland, an amazing son and brother who lit...
Read President Obama’s Remarks About the Dallas Police Shooting
President Barack Obama on Friday characterized the killing of five police officers in Dallas as a “vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement.” “Today is a wrenching reminder of the sacrifices that they make for us,” he said. “We also know that when people are armed with powerful weapons, unfortunately it makes attacks like...
Brexit and Russia Make President Obama’s Last NATO Summit His Toughest Ever
In the spring of 2014, soon after Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine, the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Army both reached out to David Ochmanek, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, with a Cold War flashback of a question: What would happen if Russian troops move on from Ukraine to attack a European country that the U.S....
Putin Says He Hopes US-Russia Ties Will Get Back on Track in July 4 Message
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin says in a July 4 message to President Barack Obama that he hopes that the ties between the two countries will get back on track. Relations between Moscow and Washington hit a post-Cold War low in 2014 when Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and threw its weight behind separatists in eastern...
Turkey Has Become the New Front of ISIS’s War on the World
The bombs ripped through the busy airport terminal. Gunfire echoed. Hundreds of travelers and airport workers ran in terror while others dove for cover. Blood covered the floor as outside, screeching ambulances parted the crowd of stunned travellers. The gun and bomb attack on Istanbul’s Ataturk international airport on Tuesday could signal...
Does ‘Brexit’ Mean Security Woes Are Next?
The comment last spring was startling, coming as it did from NATO’s commander. “Russia and the Assad regime are deliberately weaponizing migration from Syria in an attempt to overwhelm European structures and break European resolve,” U.S. Air Force General Philip Breedlove, since retired, said of Moscow’s Vladimir Putin and his...
