Section: Egypt
Russian Trawler Sinks, Dozens Dead
At least 54 people are believed dead after a Russian trawler sank in the Sea of Okhotsk in Russia’s far east Wednesday. Emergency officials say 63 of the 132 people aboard the ship were rescued after the Dalniy Vostok sank in icy waters near Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula. More than a dozen people are still missing. The ship was...
Ukraine Working to Stabilize Cease-fire, Merkel Says
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Ukraine “is determined” to reach a more stable cease-fire with pro-Russian rebels in the country’s restive east. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk appear after talks at the chancellery in Berlin, April 1, 2015. x German Chancellor...
Russia Denies License to Tatar-Language TV Station in Crimea
Crimea’s independent Tatar-language television station… …read more Source:...
Russia Extends Natural Gas Deal With Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a plan to extend Moscow’s current natural gas deal with Ukraine for another three months. Russian authorities announced the extension Tuesday, just hours before a temporary pricing agreement reached in October 2014 was set to expire. The deal… …read more Source:...
Malaysian Airliner Crash Investigators Appeal for Missile Witnesses
AMSTERDAM—Dutch prosecutors said on Monday they are looking for witnesses in eastern Ukraine who may have seen a Russian-made BUK rocket being fired at Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, although they added that they have not yet concluded what caused the crash. The Netherlands is leading an international investigation into the disaster, which killed...
Republicans see Obama as more imminent threat than Putin – Reuters/Ipsos poll
A third of Republicans believe President Barack Obama poses an imminent threat to the United States, outranking concerns about Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.A Reuters/Ipsos online poll this month asked 2,809 Americans to rate how much of a threat a list of countries, organizations and individuals posed to...
EU-Ukraine Summit Set for Late April in Kyiv
A summit between European Union officials and Ukraine’s leaders is scheduled to be held in Kyiv at the end of April. A statement on Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s official website said that during a Saturday phone conversation with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, “the parties have agreed … that...
Civilian Casualties Push Men to Join Rebels in Eastern Ukraine
DONETSK, UKRAINE—The continued fighting in eastern Ukraine and the shelling of civilian neighborhoods seem to be pushing more men to join the separatist fighters. Although the Kyiv government, the United States and the NATO alliance have shown the heavy presence of Russian fighters and weapons among the rebel forces, many of the new recruits are...
Civilian Casualties Push Men to Join Rebels in Ukraine
Patrick Wells Published March 27, 2015 The continued fighting in eastern Ukraine and the shelling of …read more Source:...
Families of slain Ukraine demonstrators demand justice
Obukhiv, Ukraine – Countless times on his computer, Vladimir Chaplinskiy has watched the moment his father Volodymyr was shot dead, each time looking for details he might have missed the last time, or the time before. The 21-year-old knows the sequence of events down to the second: his father… …read more Source:...
