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More body parts found as MH17 search resumes
DUTCH investigators have recovered many more body parts and pieces of wreckage after resuming their search at the MH17 plane crash site in Ukraine, the Netherlands said yesterday. All 298 passengers and crew onboard the Malaysia Airlines jetliner – most of them Dutch – died when it was shot down over rebelheld eastern Ukraine last year. “Many...
EU turns up heat on Russian gas giant
The EU launched a legal attack on Gazprom yesterday, stoking tensions with Moscow as it accused the Russian gas giant of overcharging buyers in eastern Europe and hindering competition. ||| Foo Yun Chee and Philip Blenkinsop BrusselsTHE EU launched a legal attack on Gazprom yesterday, stoking tensions with Moscow as it accused the Russian gas...
Kremlin names new agriculture minister
The governor of one of Russia’s key wheat-producing regions has been named as Moscow’s new agriculture minister. ||| Moscow – President Vladimir Putin has appointed the governor of one of Russia’s key wheat-producing regions as agriculture minister, the Kremlin said on Wednesday, charged with strengthening the sector....
News24.com | Ukraine aims to prevent Russian attacks at WW2 commemorations
Ukraine is planning an operation involving tens of thousands of police to guard against any attack by separatists or Russian agents during World War Two commemorations next month. …read more Source:...
Wall Street rallies
Wall Street ended sharply higher on Monday after China moved to stimulate its slowing economy while investors bought up technology stocks on cautious optimism on upcoming earnings reports. ||| New York – Wall Street ended sharply higher on Monday after China moved to stimulate its slowing economy while investors bought up technology stocks...
News24.com | US starts training Ukraine forces
US paratroopers have launched a training mission for Ukrainian government forces who will fight separatists in the east. …read more Source:...
US starts training Ukraine forces
US paratroopers have started training Ukrainian government troops, angering Moscow as the conflict continues. …read more Source:...
Guard on trial for murder of 300 000
Former death camp guard Oskar Gröning has declared he is ready to speak about the horrors of Auschwitz. ||| Berlin – He watched his fellow SS men kill children with their bare hands and saw Jews being herded into the gas chambers of Auschwitz, but former death camp guard Oskar Gröning has always denied ultimate responsibility for the...
FBI head’s Holocaust remarks rile Poland
Poland summons US ambassador over article written by FBI’s director on Poland’s alleged responsibility for the Holocaust ||| Warsaw – Poland has summoned the United States’ ambassador in Warsaw over an article written by a top US intelligence official on Poland’s alleged responsibility for the Holocaust during World...
Putin ready to work with USA
Russia has key interests in common with the USA and needs to work with it on a common agenda, President Vladimir Putin said. ||| Moscow- Russia has key interests in common with the United States and needs to work with it on a common agenda, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday in a television interview. In his comments to the...
