Section: Lebanon
Pompeo Says US Will Do “Everything in Its Power” to Stop Nord Stream 2 Pipeline
United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday in a joint press conference with Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz that the US will do everything in its power to stop Russia’s plans to build the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Europe. Pompeo said that the pipeline from Russia to Germany, on which construction began last...
Putin accuses Kyiv of meddling in Orthodox faith
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused the government in Kyiv of flagrantly meddling in the life of Orthodoxy in Ukraine where a new national church has broken away from Moscow’s orbit. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko Announces Re-election Bid
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday launched an uphill battle for re-election, five years on from a bloody uprising that brought him to power on a promise to tackle corruption. “This feeling of deep responsibility towards my country… prompted me to decide to run again for the office of President of Ukraine,” he told a forum in Kiev....
Ukraine sentences ex-leader Yanukovych in absentia to 13 years for treason
A Ukrainian court Thursday found ex-president Viktor Yanukovych guilty of high treason and sentenced him in absentia to 13 years in prison over attempts to quash a 2014 pro-Western uprising. …read more Source: The Daily...
20 presumed dead from ship fires off Crimea: AFP
…read more Source: Al-Manar TV
Crimea: Ships Catch Fire, 10 Killed, 14 Rescued
Ten crew members lost their lives, while 14 were rescued after two ships caught fire in the Kerch Strait near Crimea, Russia’s Transport Ministry s …read more Source:...
Death toll from ship blaze near Crimea rises to 14 – TASS
The death toll from a fire on board two ships in the Kerch Strait near Crimea has risen to 14, TASS news agency cited a source in Russia’s emergency services as saying. …read more Source: The Daily...
NATO, Russian ambassadors to meet Friday
NATO and Russian ambassadors will meet in Brussels Friday, the Western military alliance said, with discussions likely to focus on the standoff over Ukraine and on nuclear weapons. …read more Source: The Daily...
Russia extends detention of jailed Ukrainian sailors
A court in Moscow Tuesday ordered eight Ukrainian sailors seized by Russia last year off the coast of Crimea to be kept in pre-trial detention until April 24, Russian news agencies reported. …read more Source: The Daily...
Russia pressed to free Ukrainian sailors
The leaders of Germany and France are pressing Russia to release Ukrainian sailors captured over a month ago in time for the new year and Orthodox Christmas. …read more Source: The Daily...
