Section: Muscat Daily (Oman)
Obama pushes for calm in angry Russia-Turkey row
Obama also offered the prospect of rolling back sanctions if Russia fully implemented Minsk peace accords signed in February over the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source: Muscat...
Putin to be notable absence from Ukraine crisis talks in Berlin
Ukrainian insurgency leaders have also dismissed the Berlin gathering as meaningless because it fails to include Putin. …read more Source: Muscat...
Ukraine rebels withdraw from key frontline village
Pro-Russian fighters have withdrawn from a strategic frontline village, Ukraine’s military reported on Friday. …read more Source: Muscat...
Russia slams EU sanctions renewal as pointless ‘blackmail’
The measures will last until June 2016, the 28-nation bloc decided, condemning the “illegal annexation” of the Black Sea peninsula. …read more Source: Muscat...
G7 summit opens with tough line on Ukraine
The leaders of Germany and the United States hammered home a tough line on Russia on Sunday at the start of a G7 summit dominated by crises in Ukraine and Greece. …read more Source: Muscat...
Russia slams EU ‘witch hunt’ against its diplomats
The move came in retaliation for a travel ban imposed by Moscow on 89 Europeans over the Ukraine crisis which Russia bills as its answer to EU sanctions. …read more Source: Muscat...
Russian missile maker says BUK rocket downed MH17
Ukraine and the West have accused pro-Moscow rebels of shooting down the plane with a BUK missile supplied by Russia. …read more Source: Muscat...
Poroshenko says Ukraine waging ‘real war’ with Russia
Poroshenko sparked fresh Kremlin fury on Wednesday by warning that his crisis-torn country was fighting a ‘real war’ against Russian aggressors. …read more Source: Muscat...
NATO warns Putin ‘critical’ to implement Ukraine truce
NATO leaders on Wednesday warned President Vladimir Putin to waste no time in implementing a fragile peace deal to end the fighting in Ukraine. …read more Source: Muscat...
Putin hosts Kerry for Ukraine, Syria talks
Kerry was also set to discuss Yemen and Libya and brief Putin on the negotiations on curtailing Iran’s nuclear programme. …read more Source: Muscat...
