Mar 08 Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 239 missing at sea By Kayla Ruble Rescue crews from multiple countries were still searching on Sunday for a Malaysia Airlines plane missing off the southern coast of Vietnam -- more than 20 hours after the Boeing 777-200 aircraft carrying 239 people vanished early Saturday morning. Continue reading
Mar 08 Four nations urge U.S. gas exports amid Ukraine crisis By Josh Lederman, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Four Central European nations are urging the United States to boost natural gas exports to Europe as a hedge against the possibility that Russia could cut off its supply of gas to Ukraine. Ambassadors from Hungary, Poland, Slovakia… Continue reading
Mar 07 Watch Shields and Gerson on Cold War echoes, campaign financing By PBS News Hour Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson join Jeffrey Brown to discuss the week’s news, including the crisis over the fate of Crimea in Ukraine and criticism of the Obama administration’s foreign policy, as well as the… Continue watching
Mar 07 Watch News Wrap: U.S. economy added 175,000 jobs despite February's harsh winter weather By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 07 Ukraine athletes protest, but compete in Paralympics despite Russian occupation By Sarah Corapi Concerns that Ukraine would be boycotting the Sochi Paralympic Games were quelled on Friday when the Ukrainian Paralympic Committee announced that -- despite Russian occupation in Crimea -- its team would still be competing. Valeriy Sushkevich, president of the… Continue reading
Mar 07 Dempsey: Russia's ethnic Crimea claim poses 'significant risk' to Eastern Europe By Larisa Epatko Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Friday the U.S. is pushing “aggressively” for a diplomatic resolution to the Ukrainian Crimea tug-of-war with Russia and that he’s been in touch with his Russian counterpart daily. Continue reading
Mar 07 Watch On Ukraine, 'we're seeking aggressively to resolve this diplomatically,' Dempsey says By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 07 Lavrov warns Kerry that 'reckless' sanctions could come back to harm U.S. By Joshua Barajas, Justin Scuiletti Updated March 7 at 1:30 p.m. EST | In a call with Secretary of State John Kerry Friday, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov warned the United States against "hasty and reckless steps" that would damage relations between Russia and the… Continue reading
Mar 07 Background Briefing: What you should know about the Ukraine crisis By Council on Foreign Relations Ukraine's most prolonged and deadly crisis since its post-Soviet independence began as a protest against the government dropping plans to forge closer trade ties with the European Union and has since spurred a global standoff between Russia and Western powers. Continue reading
Mar 07 Obama to Putin: Russia's actions violate Ukraine's sovereignty By Joshua Barajas Updated March 7, 11:00 a.m. ET | The Kremlin said that Putin, for his part in the phone conversation with Mr. Obama, reiterated that Russia could not ignore the current Ukraine government's "illegitimate decisions" in Crimea, and that US-Russia relations… Continue reading