Section: Time (USA)
Ukraine Passes Bills on Eastern Autonomy
(DONETSK, Ukraine) — Ukraine’s parliament has passed two bills on granting greater autonomy to the rebellious regions in the east as well as amnesty for most of those involved in the fighting that gripped the region since April. The Tuesday vote in a closed session comes on the same day that parliament planned to ratify a trade deal with...
How Putin Got His Way In Ukraine
After all the lives and territory Ukraine has lost this year, it’s easy to lose sight of the way its conflict with Russia began last winter, when Moscow tried to elbow its way into Ukraine’s economic pact with Europe. In response, thousands of ordinary Ukrainians went onto the streets to tell Russia to mind its own business, and the...
Ukraine Government Repels Rebel Attack on Airport
LUHANSK, Ukraine — A convoy of more than 200 white trucks crossed the Russian border to deliver humanitarian aid to a battered Ukrainian city on Saturday, a move made without Kiev’s consent yet met with silence by Ukraine’s top leaders. MoreMost Countries Are Not Doing Enough to Recover Wartime Jewish ArtWhy Ukraine’s Peace Plan...
Pope Urges World to Shed Apathy Toward New Threats
REDIPUGLIA, Italy — Pope Francis urged the world Saturday to shed its apathy in the face of what he characterizes as a third world war, intoning “war is madness” at the foot of a grandiose monument to soldiers killed in World War I. MoreWhat You Don’t Know About George Clooney’s Wife-to-Be NBC NewsNigerian President Hijacks...
U.S. Escalates Sanctions on Russian Energy, Defense Sectors
The United States is imposing harsh new sanctions on Russian energy and defense firms, the Treasury Department announced Friday, in response to American confirmation that Russian forces have fought alongside Ukrainian separatists. The new sanctions restrict exports of American goods, services and technology to Russian’s largest oil...
Poland Resumes Gas Deliveries to Ukraine
(WARSAW, Poland) — Poland has resumed deliveries of gas to Ukraine that had been halted after its own supplies from Russia dropped this week, the state pipeline operator said Friday. The statement by Gaz-System S.A. suggests gas flows from Russian supplier Gazprom are once again meeting Poland’s daily demand, but there was no immediate...
U.S. to Ratchet Up Russia Sanctions
President Barack Obama announced Thursday that the United States would “deepen and broaden” its sanctions on Russia for its actions in eastern Ukraine, despite last week’s cease-fire reached between the government of Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists. American and European officials have been preparing the additional sanctions for weeks,...
Most Countries Are Not Doing Enough to Recover Wartime Jewish Art
Italy is among the countries doing the least to identify and research works of art looted or otherwise acquired from Jews during the Holocaust, according to a report published on Wednesday. It is joined on the list by Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, Argentina and Brazil, among others. The report, compiled by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims...
Full Text of Obama’s Address on ISIS
President Barack Obama addressed the nation Wednesday on his strategy to confront the threat of the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS). MoreObama Says U.S. Will Bomb ISIS In Syria, Train RebelsObama Will Pledge ‘Relentless Effort’ to ‘Destroy’ ISISObama to Pledge No Ground Troops in Plan to ‘Destroy’ ISIS NBC...
Why Ukraine’s Peace Plan Leaves the Door Open for a Winter of Conflict
The armistice in eastern Ukraine came like clockwork with the end of the summer fighting season, and both the government forces and the separatist rebels have taken it as a chance to entrench, consolidate their gains and make up for their losses. Even the separatist forces, who with the aid of Russia were on the offensive before the ceasefire...
