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Ukraine ceasefire under pressure ahead of key four-way talks
Surging fighting around hotspots in separatist-held east Ukraine put fresh pressure on a shaky ceasefire under review at talks on Monday between the French, German, Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Cuba, US face bumpy road ahead
Cuba and the United States just made history. Now comes the hard part. ||| Panama City – Cuba and the United States just made history. Now comes the hard part. In the first meeting of its kind in nearly 60 years, President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro sat down together for over an hour on Saturday at a regional summit in...
Rubio to launch Republican presidential bid
Marco Rubio will portray himself as the Republican most ready to handle threat to America in a chaotic world when he announces his presidential candidacy. ||| Miami/ Washington – US Senator Marco Rubio will make a muscular foreign policy a focal point when he announces his presidential candidacy on Monday, portraying himself as the...
China, Russia and eastern Europe boost defence spending: study
Military spending increased sharply in 2014 in China and Russia and the Ukraine conflict prompted eastern European countries to boost their defence pr …read more Source: The New...
News24.com | Soviet-era statues smashed in Ukraine
Masked men have smashed communist-era monuments in Ukraine’s second city after the country’s pro-Western parliament voted to purge the nation of Soviet symbols and its head of state compared today’s Russia to Nazi Germany. …read more Source:...
‘Fighting might resume in Ukraine’
A Ukrainian pro-Russian separatist leader has accused Kiev of “totally ignoring” the terms of a peace deal and warned that fighting might resume. ||| Ukrainian pro-Russian separatist leader Alexander Zakharchenko accused the Kiev government of “totally ignoring” the terms of a peace deal and warned in an interview with AFP that fighting might...
Amnesty says Ukraine rebels killed captive soldiers
Amnesty International said Thursday that it has evidence that Russian-backed separatists in east Ukraine have killed several captured government soldi …read more Source: The New...
Athens due to service IMF debt
Greece is due to make its 459-million-euro April loan payment to the International Monetary Fund. ||| Athens – Greece is due to make its 459-million-euro ($495-million) April loan payment to the IMF on Thursday following days of uncertainty, but the European nation’s ability to honour its debts remains a source of acute anxiety to...
Greece gets support, not money from Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin offered Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras moral support and long-term cooperation but no financial aid. ||| Moscow – Russian President Vladimir Putin offered Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras moral support and long-term cooperation but no financial aid on Wednesday, leaving Athens to fend for itself in...
Litvinenko’s death ‘was an accident’
One of two Russians accused of poisoning Alexander Litvinenko said that the former KGB officer may have killed himself accidentally. ||| Moscow – One of two Russians accused of poisoning ex-Soviet spy Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006 said on Wednesday the former KGB officer may have killed himself accidentally while handling...
