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News24.com | Putin makes troop deaths a state secret
Russian President Vladimir Putin has banned revealing information about troop deaths during peacetime, as the Kremlin continues to rebuff accusations its soldiers are fighting in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Putin hiding Ukraine troop deaths?
Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a ban on information about troop deaths in “special operations”. …read more Source:...
G7 talks begin in Germany
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and his counterparts from Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Japan and the US have launched their three-day summit. ||| Dresden – Finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of Seven wealthiest nations gathered in Dresden on Thursday to discuss the global economy and tax evasion, but the...
News24.com | Russia masses heavy firepower on border with Ukraine
Russia’s army is massing troops and hundreds of pieces of weaponry, including mobile rocket launchers, tanks and artillery at a makeshift base near the border with Ukraine, a report says. …read more Source:...
Luxury brands are down bar two
Louis Vuitton and Chanel were the only big luxury brands to increase in value last year as the industry grappled with slowing sales in China and Russia, research company Millward Brown said yesterday in the 2015 BrandZ study. ||| Andrew Roberts ParisLouis Vuitton and Chanel were the only big luxury brands to increase in value last year as the...
Fear as Ukraine faces HIV drug shortage
A group of Ukrainians infected with HIV warned that thousands could soon perish because the war-torn country was running out of treatment for the deadly virus. ||| Belarus – A group of Ukrainians infected with HIV warned on Wednesday that thousands could soon perish because the war-torn country was running out of treatment for the deadly...
Quadruplets born to woman, 65, ‘at risk’
Doctors said that quadruplets whose very premature births to a 65-year-old mother of 13 have captured headlines face big health risks. ||| Doctors at a Berlin clinic on Wednesday said quadruplets, whose very premature births to a 65-year-old German mother have captured headlines and stirred debate, face big health risks.Eight days after their...
German minister to visit Ukraine amid fears over truce
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier will visit Ukraine on Friday and Saturday, the government in Berlin said, voicing fears about a possib …read more Source: The New...
Luxury brands hit by slower sales
Louis Vuitton and Chanel were the only big luxury brands to increase in value last year, according to a survey. ||| Paris – Louis Vuitton and Chanel were the only big luxury brands to increase in value last year as the industry grappled with slowing sales in China and Russia, research company Millward Brown said on Wednesday in the 2015...
Brides for sale – new form of trafficking?
Each year, dozens of women from the poorer corners of eastern Europe are lured to travel to western Europe for sham marriages. ||| London – Klara Balogova was 18, penniless and heavily pregnant when she rode thousands of miles from Slovakia to England to marry a man she had never met.She knew he did not want her, or her child. He wanted her...
