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France urged not to renew Russia sanctions
The French parliament on Thursday adopted a resolution urging the government not to back the extension of sanctions against Russia over the conflict in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
News24.com | Pregnant woman among 4 killed in east Ukraine
Four civilians including a pregnant woman have been killed and eight others wounded when their cars came under mortar fire in war-torn eastern Ukraine, rebel officials say. …read more Source:...
News24.com | Ukraine marks 30 years since Chernobyl catastrophe
Ukrainians have held candlelit vigils to mark 30 years since the world’s worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl spewed radiation across Europe and left several thousand people dead or dying. …read more Source:...
Ukraine remembers Chernobyl disaster
Ukrainians held candlelit vigils Tuesday to mark 30 years since the world’s worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl spewed radiation across Europe and left several thousand people dead or dying. …read more Source:...
Ukraine marks 30 years since Chernobyl catastrophe
Ukrainians held candlelit vigils to mark 30 years since the world’s worst nuclear accident – as Chernobyl spewed radiation across Europe and left several thousand people dead or dying. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Obama and Merkel push for trade deal
US President Barack Obama vows to do his utmost to advance a controversial trade deal with the EU in his last eight months in office. ||| Hanover, Germany – US President Barack Obama said on Sunday he would do whatever he could to advance a controversial trade deal with the European Union in his last eight months in office, but warned that...
Profound disagreement at talks with Russia, says Nato chief
Russia refuses to give ground on Eastern Ukraine and Crimea, and accuses Nato of threatening its borders …read more Source: Business...
News24.com | NATO, Russia to hold highest-level talks since Crimea annexation
NATO and Russia begin their highest level talks for nearly two years, in a bid to ease military tensions over the Baltic Sea and the simmering violence still gripping eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
News24.com | Ukraine, Russia reach deal to release pilot
Ukraine and Russia have reached a deal to free a jailed Ukrainian pilot, President Petro Poroshenko says, suggesting that she will be swapped for two Russian servicemen jailed in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Russian looks to counter US influence
The powerful chief of Russia’s equivalent to the FBI on Monday called for sweeping new rights restrictions, including curbing Internet freedoms and making it illegal to question Moscow’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. …read more Source:...
