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News24.com | Fighting rages anew at Ukraine airport
Fighting has raged on at the main airport of Ukraine’s city of Donetsk as separatists resumed attempts to break the tenuous grip of government forces on the complex. …read more Source:...
‘Leviathan’ ruffles Russian feathers
Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Oscar-nominated film “Leviathan” has won acclaim around the world but is dividing opinion back at home. ||| Moscow – Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Oscar-nominated film “Leviathan” has won acclaim around the world but is dividing opinion back at home, where some see it as a critique...
Eleven killed in Ukraine clashes
Fierce fighting in east Ukraine has killed at least 11 people over the past 24 hours as government forces and rebels battled for an airport. …read more Source:...
Conflict biggest threat to business
The risk of international conflict is now the biggest threat facing countries and businesses in the coming decade, trumping concerns about the economy, the World Economic Forum said yesterday. ||| Ben Hirschler LondonThe risk of international conflict was now the biggest threat facing countries and businesses in the coming decade, trumping...
Obama, Cameron vow to defend free speech
British Prime Minister David Cameron and US President Barack Obama said stronger economies were critical to maintaining free speech. ||| London – British Prime Minister David Cameron and US President Barack Obama on Thursday said stronger economies were critical to maintaining free speech and defeating a “distorted ideology” manifest in...
News24.com | Fierce battle for airport breaks out in Ukraine
Heavy artillery and shelling has rocked Ukraine’s east as the army and pro-Russian rebels waged a fierce battle for a key airport, threatening all-out conflict. …read more Source:...
Global leaders to descend on Davos
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US Secretary of State John Kerry will be among the political heavyweights attending next week’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. ||| Simeon Bennett and Simon Kennedy Geneva and LondonCHINESE Premier Li Keqiang, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US Secretary of...
Ukraine’s foreign minister sees new ‘contact group’ meeting on Ukraine soon
A “contact group” meeting of Ukraine, Russia and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe could be held in the next few days to conside …read more Source: The New...
News24.com | UN Security Council condemns Ukraine bus attack
The UN Security Council has strongly condemned a rocket attack on a bus in east Ukraine that left 11 civilians dead. …read more Source:...
Ukraine tensions keep Putin from Auschwitz
VLADIMIR PUTIN Russian President Vladimir Putin is unlikely to join world leaders gathering at the site of the Auschwitz death camp this month because distrust caused by the conflict in Ukraine has cast a pall on arrangements to commemorate the Holocaust. The Nazi camp, where about 1.5 million people were killed, most of them Jews, became a...
