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      NATO-Russia Council to meet on Monday: Stoltenberg
      Dec15

      NATO-Russia Council to meet on Monday: Stoltenberg

      BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO envoys will hold a formal meeting with Russia on Monday after Moscow agreed to discuss the conflict in eastern Ukraine and as the alliance seeks to avoid any escalation of the East-West standoff. …read more Source: Libya...

      EU-Ukraine pact collapse ‘biggest present’ for Putin: Dutch PM
      Dec15

      EU-Ukraine pact collapse ‘biggest present’ for Putin: Dutch PM

      Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte warned Thursday it would be the “biggest ever present” for Russian President Vladimir Putin if a historic EU-Ukraine cooperation deal is torpedoed by popular opposition in the Netherlands. Rutte said he was “moderately optimistic” of a deal at an EU summit in Brussels for steps to allow his country to …read...

      EU-Ukraine pact collapse ‘biggest present’ for Putin: Dutch PM
      Dec15

      EU-Ukraine pact collapse ‘biggest present’ for Putin: Dutch PM

      Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte warned Thursday it would be the “biggest ever present” for Russian President Vladimir Putin if a historic EU-Ukraine cooperation deal is torpedoed by popular opposition in the Netherlands. Rutte said he was “moderately optimistic” of a deal at an EU summit in Brussels for steps to allow his country to finally...

      Suspected Russian mercenary leader attended Kremlin reception
      Dec15

      Suspected Russian mercenary leader attended Kremlin reception

      MOSCOW (Reuters) – A man identified as a Russian mercenary leader in Ukraine and Syria by an authoritative website attended a Kremlin reception earlier this month, Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said on Thursday, raising questions about the man’s links to the authorities. …read more Source: Libya...

      Russia, Brexit and Aleppo loom over year-end EU summit
      Dec15

      Russia, Brexit and Aleppo loom over year-end EU summit

      EU leaders are facing a “minefield” of crises in their final Brussels summit of 2016. Leaders appear split on extending sanctions against Russia, approving a Ukraine deal, responses to Aleppo and Brexit negotiations. …read more Source:...

      Britain’s May urges ‘smooth and orderly’ Brexit
      Dec15

      Britain’s May urges ‘smooth and orderly’ Brexit

      British Prime Minister Theresa May urged her EU counterparts Thursday to make Brexit “as smooth and orderly… as possible” as they prepared to discuss the process at a dinner without her. “We want that to be as smooth and orderly a process as possible. It is not just in our interests, it is in the interests of Europe as well,” May said as she...

      Putin, Abe hold hot spring meet on WWII island row
      Dec15

      Putin, Abe hold hot spring meet on WWII island row

      Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese premier Shinzo Abe on Thursday launched a hot spring summit aimed at resolving a dispute over a group of islands that has prevented the countries from formally ending their World War II hostilities. Abe is hosting Putin in his ancestral city of Nagato in hopes of achieving a breakthrough over the...

      Putin: President’s victory? Russia’s role in recapturing Aleppo
      Dec15

      Putin: President’s victory? Russia’s role in recapturing Aleppo

      The damage was done and any chance of pushing the US to coordinate forces in Syria evaporated. When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the Kremlin’s bombing campaign in Syria last year to back up leader Bashar al-Assad, the regime’s forces were being pushed back.Now Damascus is celebrating its biggest victory in over five years...

      Dutch PM Rutte: ‘a bit more optimistic’ on Ukraine deal at EU summit
      Dec15

      Dutch PM Rutte: ‘a bit more optimistic’ on Ukraine deal at EU summit

      BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Thursday he was “a bit more optimistic” that EU leaders would back additional caveats to the bloc’s landmark agreement with Ukraine, key to helping the former Soviet state move out of Russia’s orbit. The post Dutch PM Rutte: ‘a bit more optimistic’ on...

      Dutch PM Rutte: ‘a bit more optimistic’ on Ukraine deal at EU summit
      Dec15

      Dutch PM Rutte: ‘a bit more optimistic’ on Ukraine deal at EU summit

      BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Thursday he was “a bit more optimistic” that EU leaders would back additional caveats to the bloc’s landmark agreement with Ukraine, key to helping the former Soviet state move out of Russia’s orbit. …read more Source: Libya...