Section: Time (USA)
Europe Needs A New Source of Oil and Gas, Fast
MoreJudge Places Most Blame on BP for 2010 Oil SpillDropping Oil Prices Threaten Moscow’s BudgetHalliburton to Pay $1.1 Billion Over Gulf of Mexico Oil SpillThis article originally appeared on OilPrice.com MoreFive Best Ideas of the Day: September 9Halliburton to Pay $1.1 Billion Over Gulf of Mexico Oil SpillJoan Rivers’ Clinic...
Putin Promises New Weapons to Fend Western Threats
(MOSCOW) — Russia is developing an array of new nuclear and conventional weapons to counter recent moves by the U.S. and NATO, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday as the military successfully tested a new intercontinental ballistic missile launched from a nuclear submarine. MorePro-Russian Rebels Free Hundreds of Captured Ukrainian SoldiersMH...
Pro-Russian Rebels Free Hundreds of Captured Ukrainian Soldiers
Separatist insurgents in eastern Ukraine have freed 648 Ukrainian soldiers under the terms of a truce signed last week that calls for both sides to release all prisoners, Ukrainian officials have said. The pro-Russian rebels are expected to release another 500 soldiers, pending further negotiations that seek to bring an end to the some five...
MH17 Report Fumbles For Clarity Among Ransacked Wreckage
The callous disregard for the wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines flight shot down over eastern Ukraine on July 17 would have been clear to anyone who visited the crash site. By the time foreign investigators were able to access the scene of this crime, it had not just been contaminated; it had been picked apart like a macabre give-away on the lawn...
Death Toll in India, Pakistan Floods Reaches 400
JHANG, Pakistan (AP) — The death toll from floods in Pakistan and India reached 400 on Tuesday as armies in both countries scrambled to help the victims and authorities in Islamabad warned hundreds of thousands to be prepared to flee more flooding in the days ahead. MoreOpen Wide: These Sinkholes Swallowed Vehicles WholeGas Explosions Kill 25 in...
Iraq Approves New Unity Government, Sets the Stage for Combatting ISIS
MoreIraq’s Battleground Dams Are Key to Saving the Country from ISISU.S. Strikes in Iraq Against Jihadists, Moving West Toward SyriaIraqi Refugee: ISIS Wouldn’t Exist Under SaddamIraq’s parliament has approved a new government, setting the stage for expanded U.S. military support to battle the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater...
MH17: Preliminary Crash Report Blames ‘High-Energy Objects’
Dutch experts have released a preliminary report into the fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which crashed in the Donetsk region of Ukraine on July 17, saying that the plane was hit by “high-energy objects.” All 298 people on board, including 193 Dutch citizens, died in the incident. The report is the first official paper to come from the Dutch...
Isolated Cease-Fire Violations Reported in Ukraine as President Visits Front Line
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko visited the eastern port city of Mariupol on Monday and attempted to reassure his compatriots by promising a “crushing defeat” to pro-Kremlin rebels gathered nearby if they violated a precarious cease-fire agreement. Poroshenko received a warm welcome and declared that the rebels had returned over 1,200...
The U.S. Will Help Georgia Join NATO in Face of Putin’s ‘Dangerous Actions’
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel arrived in Georgia over the weekend to beef up military ties and help the country join NATO. Hagel’s visit to the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, follows on the heels of the NATO summit in the U.K. last week, where Georgia was made a “NATO enhanced-opportunities partner,” according to a U.S. Department of...
Russia Is Testing NATO’s Resolve in Eastern Europe
A few years ago, when NATO strategists would stop to consider a possible threat from Russia, their chief concern was the possibility, however slight, that the Russian state would implode, lose control of its nuclear arsenal and allow a few warheads to fall into the wrong hands. That at least was the worry Ivo Daalder expressed in the fall of...
