Section: Time (USA)
Trump Administration Hits Russian Railway With Sanctions Over Passenger Service to Crimea
(WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration on Wednesday imposed sanctions on a Moscow-based private railway company that last month opened passenger service between Russia and Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014. The sanctions target Grand Service Express, its CEO and seven people who were slapped with European Union sanctions...
President Trump Asks How Long Ukraine Can Resist Russian Aggression in Newly Surfaced Recording
(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump inquired how long Ukraine would be able to resist Russian aggression without U.S. assistance during a 2018 meeting with donors that included the indicted associates of his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. “How long would they last in a fight with Russia?” Trump is heard asking in the audio portion of a video...
After Trump’s Bold Move, Iran Is Left With Few Strategic Options
Scoring legitimate foreign-policy wins has not been easy for U.S. President Donald Trump, Twitter proclamations notwith-standing. But he’s just notched his biggest one yet against Iran. Since Trump decided to pull out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iran has been careful to take only incremental steps away from the...
Bodies of 11 Ukrainians Killed in Plane Crash by Iran Missile Arrive in Kyiv
(KYIV, Ukraine) — The bodies of the 11 Ukrainians who died when an Iranian missile shot down a passenger plane have arrived in Ukraine on Sunday for a farewell ceremony. They were among the 176 people killed in the Jan. 8 catastrophe, when a Ukrainian Airlines plane heading to Kyiv was brought down shortly after takeoff from Tehran. Iran...
Ukrainian Prime Minister Resigns After Recordings Capture Him Criticizing Zelensky
(KYIV, Ukraine) — Ukraine’s prime minister says he has submitted his resignation, days after he was caught on tape saying the country’s president knows nothing about the economy. In a Facebook post Friday, Oleksiy Honcharuk said that he has given his resignation to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “I took this post to implement...
Why Iran’s Regime Is Facing Renewed Protests After the Ukraine Airlines Plane Crash
It took three days for Iran to admit the truth. Hours after it launched missiles at bases in Iraq that house U.S. troops on Jan. 8, a Ukraine International Airlines passenger jet bound for Kyiv crashed shortly after taking off from Tehran, killing all 176 on board. Iranian officials suggested the cause was technical failure but backtracked on...
Nations of Iran Plane Crash Victims Seek Compensation for Families
(LONDON) — The governments of countries that lost citizens when Iran shot down a Ukrainian airliner demanded Thursday that Tehran accept “full responsibility” and pay compensation to the victims’ families. The foreign ministers of Canada, the U.K., Afghanistan, Sweden and Ukraine issued the statement on after a meeting at the Canadian High...
Ukraine Opens Investigation Into Possible Surveillance of Former U.S. Ambassador
(KYIV, Ukraine) — Ukrainian police say they have opened an investigation into the possibility that the former U.S. ambassador came under illegal surveillance before she was recalled from her post. The announcement Thursday came two days after Democratic lawmakers in the United States released a trove of documents that showed Lev Parnas, an...
‘Today, the American Soldier is in Danger, Tomorrow the European Soldier Could Be,’ Warns Iran’s President Rouhani
(TEHRAN, Iran) — Iran’s president warned Wednesday that European soldiers in the Mideast “could be in danger” after three nations challenged Tehran over breaking the limits of its nuclear deal. Tehran’s top diplomat meanwhile acknowledged that Iranians “were lied to” for days following the Islamic Republic’s accidental shoot...
Videos Reportedly Show Iranian Forces Firing Bullets and Tear Gas at Crowds Protesting Downed Airliner
(DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) — Iranian police and security forces fired both live ammunition and tear gas to disperse demonstrators protesting against the Islamic Republic’s initial denial that it shot down a Ukrainian jetliner, online videos purported to show Monday. There was no immediate report in Iranian state-run media on the incident...
