Section: Time (USA)
Ukraine Trauma Counselors Battle ‘Info-Intoxication’
In the middle of summer, as the fighting in eastern Ukraine receded toward the Russian border, psychiatrists working in the area began to notice a strange affliction among the people caught up in the conflict. Its symptoms were hard to discern at first from the more typical psychological damage the war was inflicting on local...
World Leaders Gather in Liege to Commemorate World War I Centenary
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium hosted dozens of heads of state and other international delegates on Monday to mark the centenary of the start of World War I. The dignitaries gathered on a forested hill overlooking the city of Liege, just a few dozen kilometers from the border where German soldiers took their first fateful steps 100...
Ukrainian Soldiers Cross Border Into Russia
(MOSCOW) — A Russian border security official said more than 400 Ukrainian soldiers crossed into Russia, according to a report from the Interfax news agency. It wasn’t immediately clear why the soldiers entered Russia, with both sides giving conflicting accounts. MoreUkraine’s Army on Outskirts of Rebel StrongholdObama:...
Ukraine’s Army on Outskirts of Rebel Stronghold
DONETSK, Ukraine — Fighting raged Sunday on the western outskirts of Donetsk as the advancing Ukrainian army tried to seize control of the rebel stronghold. In danger of being encircled, the separatists renewed their calls for Russia to send troops to their aid. To support their operations, the pro-Russian fighters have been confiscating...
Russia’s Fear of Potential Threats Has Spawned a Real One in Ukraine
The Ukrainian airbase at Kramatorsk, a short drive from the border with Russia, was a sorry sight just a few months ago. The road leading up to it was strewn with barricades of trash, and pro-Russian separatists liked to gather around it for little victory picnics of beer and sunflower seeds. They had blocked the main gate to the airfield in...
Investigators Finally Reach Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Crash Site
International investigators reached the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 for the first time since the Boeing 777 was downed by a missile in eastern Ukraine on July 17, the Associated Press reports. Fighting between the Ukrainian military and the pro-Russian separatists had kept the investigation team, made up of Dutch and Australian...
Send More Help to the Hot Zone
The lives of both local and international health care workers, as well as the lives of thousands of people in West Africa and possibly beyond, are at stake in the world’s largest Ebola epidemic to date. Organizations such as Samaritan’s Purse and Doctors Without Borders have taken the lead in combatting the disease, which has seen...
Indonesia’s Moment
Indonesia’s President Suharto reigned for over three decades based on an implicit compact with his citizenry. The former general would ensure the world’s fourth most populous nation prospered so its people could climb out of poverty, and in return they consented to his autocratic rule and turned a blind eye when his family and cronies...
Ukrainian Parliament Votes to Keep P.M. Yatsenyuk
(KIEV, Ukraine) — Ukraine’s parliament has voted not to accept the resignation of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Yatsenyuk had said last week he was resigning after two parties left the coalition supporting him and parliament balked at passing laws he said were essential to fund the country’s war against pro-Russian...
Ukraine Official: Rebels Placed Land Mines on Roads to MH17 Crash Site
An Ukrainian official accused pro-Russian separatist fighters of lining the roads to the crash site of the downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 with land mines Wednesday, making it impossible for international investigators to access the scene of the crash. The Associated Press reports that observers from the Organization for Security and...
