Russian energy giant Gazprom says it is cutting gas supplies to Ukraine following Kyiv’s failure to meet a Monday deadline to pay nearly $2 billion of its outstanding debt.Gazprom says Ukraine must now pre-pay for any natural gas after missing the deadline.Also Monday, Gazprom filed a lawsuit in a Stockholm arbitration court to try […]
The man accused and who pleaded guilty in the 1993 rape and killing of 92-year-old Grace Mae Odle in Ogden Utah, 40-year-old Stephen Ellenwood, received life in prison for aggravated murder on Tuesday. It was about 2am on May 3, 1993 that Ellenwood climbed through a window at an Ogden retirement home before sexually assaulting […]
WASHINGTON, June 11, 2014 – The recovery of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from the Taliban was fully consistent with U.S. law, U.S. interests and the U.S. military’s core values, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told the House Armed Services Committee today. The secretary assured the committee that he would not sign off on any decision that […]
Islamist militants, advancing across parts of northern Iraqi, have seized the city of Tikrit and forced as many as 500,000 people to flee.Iraqi security officials said the Sunni militants, who on Tuesday overran the city of Mosul, pushed southward on Wednesday, taking control of Iraq’s biggest oil refinery and of Tikrit, fallen dictator Saddam […]