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Photos June 2: Top images from around the world
The day’s best photos, as selected by editors at Postmedia News, are a stunning collection of the greatest images from around the world. Tourists react to a large bubble created by a street performer...
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Arrest in Jewish museum killings mocks Europe’s bid to track jihadists
PARIS — The suspect in the recent killings at the Jewish Museum in Brussels is a text book case of the West’s long-standing fear — the threat posed by radicalized citizens returning from the...
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Fisher: Western leaders mark D-Day with an aggressor in their midst
WARSAW — Vladimir Putin keeps turning up like a bad penny. Kicked out of the Group of Eight two months ago over his swift annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, instead of hosting a scheduled gathering of...
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Fisher: Stop the charade about Russian meddling in Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine — As western convictions about Ukraine begin to wobble, Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to toy with his biggest Slavic neighbour. Putin has been playing one of the oldest games...
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Maher: Conservatives leave the pitch with more red cards and own goals than...
When MPs gathered in Ottawa back in October 2013, Jim Flaherty was still finance minister, Mike Duffy was a senator, the prime minister had a secret plan to announce a free trade deal with the European...
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Putin backs Ukraine cease-fire, warns it will fail without peace talks;...
By David McHugh THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KIEV, Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed support Saturday for Ukraine’s unilateral cease-fire in its battle against pro-Russian separatists and...
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Ukraine, European Union ink historic trade pact
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Friday signed up to a trade and economic pact with the European Union, saying it may be the “most important day” for his country since it...
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Russian foreign minister accuses United States of fueling confrontation in...
MOSCOW — Russia’s foreign minister on Saturday accused the United States of encouraging Ukraine to challenge Moscow and heavily weighing in on the European Union. Speaking in televised remarks...
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Coyne: 147 years on, economic union still a dream
Unveiling the western premiers’ groundbreaking initiative for a “Canada Free Trade Zone,” Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall was momentarily overcome by a sense of national vision. “The proposal before...
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At least 4 civilians killed in artillery attack that hit residential in...
MARYINKA, Ukraine — Artillery fire killed at least four people in an overnight attack on a residential area in eastern Ukraine, spurring more people to flee the besieged city of Donetsk and its suburbs...
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Fisher: How long until the West takes meaningful action against Russia?
What to do about Russia? The question that has been largely unanswered since Moscow seized Crimea in March and subsequently began encouraging a violent revolt by ethnic Russian separatists in eastern...
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Train carrying bodies of Flight 17 victims arrives in Kyiv-controlled Kharkiv
KHARKIV, Ukraine — A train carrying the remains of people killed in the Malaysia Airlines crash arrived in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Wednesday on their way to the Netherlands, a journey...
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Harper government shies away from report Germany to reject EU-Canada trade deal
MONTREAL – The Harper government isn’t responding directly to a report that Germany is set to reject Canada’s long sought after trade deal between Canada and the European Union. The leading German...
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Ukraine prepares offensive in hopes of retaking rebel stronghold of Donetsk
By Ayse Wieting And David McHugh DONETSK, Ukraine — Ukrainian officials said their forces advanced to the outskirts of a key town north of Donetsk on Saturday as they try to retake the stronghold held...
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Red Cross: Russian aid convoy for eastern Ukraine held up by lack of security...
By Alexander Roslyakov And Jim Heintz KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKY, Russia — Hundreds of trucks in a Russian aid convoy waited Saturday near the Ukrainian border as complicated procedures dragged on for...
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Rebels enter southeastern town as battle for Ukraine’s strategic coastline...
By Peter Leonard NOVOAZOVSK, Ukraine — Pushing west in a new offensive along Ukraine’s strategic coastline, heavily armed Russian-backed separatist forces captured new territory Wednesday far from...
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EU to slap new sanctions on Russia as Ukraine’s president calls conflict...
Juergen Baetz And Jim Heintz BRUSSELS, Belgium — A top European Union official said Saturday that the 28-nation bloc is set to decide new sanctions against Russia as Ukraine’s president warned the...
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U.S. data-sharing deal with Europe in jeopardy over spying revelations
By Karin Matussek U.S. surveillance practices revealed by Edward Snowden raised questions about whether companies can rely on rules that govern data transfers between the European Union and U.S.,...
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