Section: Lebanon
Ukraine could introduce martial law if eastern fighting worsens: Poroshenko
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Thursday he did not rule out introducing martial law and a new wave of military mobilization if the conflict with pro-Russian separatists worsened. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine reports three killed in ‘heaviest fighting for a year’
Ukraine said Thursday that pro-Russian rebels had killed three of its soldiers in the worst violence seen in the separatist east for a year …read more Source: The Daily...
EU’s Tusk says Russia ‘unreliable’ on Ukraine
EU president Donald Tusk Wednesday said he and Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko believed Russia’s account of recent events in the strife-torn east of the country was “unreliable.” …read more Source: The Daily...
AP Sources: Trump campaign chairman tied to undisclosed foreign lobbying
Donald Trump’s campaign chairman helped a pro-Russian governing party in Ukraine secretly route at least $2.2 million in payments to two prominent Washington lobbying firms in 2012, and did so in a way that effectively obscured the foreign political party’s efforts to influence U.S. policy. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukrainian protesters accuse prosecutors of abetting corruption
Ukrainian activists Wednesday held a protest in central Kiev accusing the country’s powerful prosecutors of obstructing a newly formed national agency that has exposed massive official corruption …read more Source: The Daily...
Trump aide’s name surfaces in Ukraine corruption probe: NYT
Corruption investigators in Ukraine say an illegal, off-the-books payment network earmarked $12.7 million in cash payments for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign chairman Paul Manafort, the New York Times reported Monday. …read more Source: The Daily...
Lavrov urges calm after Ukraine flare-up over Crimea
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Monday appealed for calm after a flare-up with Ukraine over the annexed Crimea peninsula but warned Moscow was ready to stamp out any attempts to destabilize the region …read more Source: The Daily...
Lavrov: Russia Concerned about Ukraine Situation
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday that Moscow was concerned about the developments of the situation in Ukraine. …read more Source: Al-Manar...
Germany to Russia: Minsk deal must stay focus of Ukraine peace process: RIA
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov Monday that the Minsk deal must remain the focus of the Ukrainian peace process despite a spike in tensions in Crimea, the RIA news agency reported …read more Source: The Daily...
Russia Deploys Advanced S-400 Air Missile System to Crimea
Russia has deployed its advanced S-400 air defense missile system to annexed Crimea, Russian news agencies reported on Friday …read more Source: Al-Manar...
