Section: Time (USA)
Russia Is Closing McDonald’s Restaurants Over Health Violations
Russian regulators are targeting McDonald’s restaurants in a crackdown that authorities say is a matter of food safety. But the closure of several Russian McDonalds restaurants and unscheduled checks of several others comes on the heels of tit-for-tat sanctions between Russia and Western countries over the ongoing conflict in Ukraine....
Ukrainian Government Troops Take Over Much of Luhansk
(KIEV, Ukraine) — A Ukrainian official says government troops have taken control of a large part of Luhansk — a besieged rebel stronghold in eastern Ukraine — after days of street battles. Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for Ukraine’s National Security Council, told reporters Wednesday in Kiev that government forces are now controlling...
Chinese, Russian Media Turn Criticisms Back on U.S.
(BEIJING) — Chinese and Russian state media have seized on the U.S. police shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old and ensuing protests to fire back at Washington’s criticisms of their own governments, portraying the United States as a land of inequality and brutal police tactics. MoreRebels in Besieged Ukrainian City Reportedly Being...
Europe’s Economic Woes Require a Japanese Solution
No policymaker, anywhere in the world, wants his or her national economy to be compared to Japan’s. That’s because the Japanese economy, though still the world’s third-largest, has become a sad case-study in the long-term damage that can be inflicted by a financial crisis. It’s more than two decades since Japan’s...
Ukraine’s Rebel Capital Seeks Ersatz Normality
(DONETSK, Ukraine) — It has been weeks since Donetsk last had a traffic jam. MoreRebels in Besieged Ukrainian City Reportedly Being ReinforcedUkraine: ‘Dozens’ of Civilians Killed in Convoy’Turning Point’: Elders, Clergy Help to Calm Ferguson Protests NBC NewsSeeing Green: How Pot Delivery Apps Stay Above the Law NBC NewsTime Is...
Rebels in Besieged Ukrainian City Reportedly Being Reinforced
The Ukrainian army has blasted its way into the separatist stronghold of Luhansk, but Reuters reports that retreating rebels are fighting to maintain control of the city, aided by a supply of men and weapons from over the border in Russia. Ukrainian military spokesman Anatoly Proshin told the Guardian on Monday that government forces would...
In West Africa, Medical Workers Risk Becoming Victims in the Fight Against Ebola
Less than a month ago, there were around two hundred doctors, nurses and hospital staff at Phebe Hospital in Liberia’s central Suakoko district. Today, that number has plummeted to less than twenty five, and all but one of the hospital’s four wards are closed. The waiting room is bare and there is only one patient, a one-year old...
Ukraine: ‘Dozens’ of Civilians Killed in Convoy
(KIEV, Ukraine) — 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 children. The barrage...
Ukraine Says Troops Entered Rebel-Held City
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s government said Sunday that separatists shot down a Ukrainian fighter plane after army troops entered deep inside a rebel-controlled city in the east in what could prove a breakthrough development in the four-month long conflict. MoreDow Drops 100 Points on News of Ukraine ViolenceUkraine Inspects Russian...
War Claims Thousands of Lives in Eastern Ukraine
As developments at the MH17 crash site have slowed, fighting in Eastern Ukraine has increased. According to the United Nations human rights office, the death toll from the Ukraine conflict doubled last week from 1,129 on July 26 to 2,086 on Aug. 10. Heavy shelling between the Ukrainian military forces and pro-Russian separatists continues,...
