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Trump Cancels Putin Meeting Over Ukraine Crisis
US President Donald Trump scrapped Thursday a planned meeting at the G20 summit with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin over Moscow’s detention of a group of Ukrainian sailors. “Based on the fact that the ships and sailors have not been returned to Ukraine from Russia, I have decided it would be best for all parties concerned to cancel...
Search For Missing Flight MH370 To End, Four Years After
In this file photo taken on September 09, 2014 shows part of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 at the crash site in the village of Hrabove (Grabovo), some 80km east of Donetsk. PHOTO: Alexander KHUDOTEPLY / AFP A private search for Flight MH370 will end in the coming days, an exploration firm said on Tuesday, some four years after the plane...
No Russian Missile Involved In MH17 Plane Crash – Russia
Part of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 at the crash site in the village of Hrabove (Grabovo), some 80km east of Donetsk. Alexander KHUDOTEPLY / AFP Moscow on Thursday rejected an international investigation that found a Russian missile downed flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014, saying no such weapon had ever crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border...
Putin Approves New Government Without Major Changes
Russian President Vladimir Putin visits National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute” in Moscow on April 10, 2018.Alexey NIKOLSKY / Sputnik / AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday approved a new government with key posts largely unchanged for his fourth Kremlin term. Veteran foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and Defence Minister Sergei...
Russia, China Tighten Ties With Iran
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) speaks during his press conference with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the Diaoyutai State Guest House in Beijing on April 23, 2018. MADOKA IKEGAMI / POOL / AFP Russia and China moved Thursday to extend their economic influence in Iran, while Europeans are finding it...
Putin To Open Crimea Mega Bridge Linking Russia
Russian President, Vladimir Putin Alexander ASTAFYEV / SPUTNIK / AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to unveil Tuesday a highly symbolic bridge linking southern Russia to the Crimea, four years after the peninsula was annexed from Ukraine. The Crimean Bridge, at 19 kilometres (nearly 12 miles) will be Europe’s longest, overtaking...
First China-Made Aircraft Carrier Starts Sea Trials
China’s first domestically manufactured aircraft carrier, known only as “Type 001A”, leaves port in the northeast city of Dalian early on May 13, 2018. AFP Photo. China’s first domestically manufactured aircraft carrier started sea trials Sunday, state media said, a landmark in Beijing’s ambitious plans to modernise its navy as...
First Made-In-China Aircraft Carrier Starts Sea Trials
China’s first domestically manufactured aircraft carrier started sea trials Sunday, state media said, a landmark in Beijing’s ambitious plans to modernise its navy as the Asian giant presses its claims in disputed regional waters. The carrier, known only as “Type 001A”, set out for the trials from a port in northeastern China at...
Rift Deepens As Europe Seeks Trump Alternatives
US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with senior military leaders at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 9, 2018. NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP A deepening transatlantic rift as “flattery” fails to sway Donald Trump has left Europeans in search of new answers, including closer dealings with Russia that only recently would have been...
Merkel Blasts Breaches Of Ukraine Truce
German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives a joint press conference with the Danish Prime Minister on April 12, 2018 at the Chancellery in Berlin. MICHELE TANTUSSI / AFP German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday said she was deeply concerned by repeated breaches of a ceasefire between government forces and Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine....
