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France not planning to deliver lethal weapons to Ukraine
A French diplomatic source said arming Ukrainian authorities would not be coherent at a time when Western powers are asking Russia to stop providing separatists with weapons. …read more Source: World...
Hospital shelled in east Ukraine as calls mount for truce
Four killed ahead of Kerry visit …read more Source: Gulf...
Deadly shell hits hospital in Ukraine’s Donetsk
Reports say several killed or injured in clashes between government forces and pro-Russia separatists in country’s east. …read more Source: AL...
ADL Condemns ‘Unacceptable’ Russian Separatist Anti-Semitism
ADL slams ‘anti-Semitic appeal’ of Donetsk and Lugansk pro-Russian leaders, who called Kiev ‘pathetic representatives of the Jews.’ …read more Source: Arutz...
Ukraine Muslims hold workshop on Hijab
A woman in a hijab is a rare sight on Kiev streets. …read more Source: World...
EU Official Calls for Immediate Truce in Ukraine
The European Union’s foreign policy chief has called for an immediate truce in eastern Ukraine, where fresh fighting has killed three people, according to officials. Witnesses saw at least three bodies outside a hospital that was hit by shells in the rebel-held city of Donetsk on Wednesday. “It wasn’t one shell. One was over...
EU Backs Call for Truce in E. Ukrainian Town
BRUSSELS/KYIV—The EU’s foreign policy chief threw her support on Wednesday behind a call for a temporary … …read more Source:...
Turkish imams expelled from Crimea
The enforced departures of the Turkish imams and teachers came as a wide range of religious communities in Crimea have said that they have come under surveillance by Russias security service …read more Source: World...
Shell hits hospital in Ukraine’s Donetsk, dead feared – city mayor
A shell hit a hospital in the east Ukrainian rebel-controlled city of Donetsk on Tuesday and dead and injured were feared, the city administration said. “There was an artillery shell at 12 noon … The shell hit a hospital, there are dead and wounded,” a statement on the administration’s website said. Send to Kindle …read more Source:...
Taiwan plane cartwheels into river after take-off, killing at least 16
Rescue personnel remove an injured passenger from a TransAsia ATR 72-600 turboprop plane that crash-landed into a river outside Taiwan’s capital Taipei in New Taipei City on February 4, 2015. (AFP Photo/Sam Yeh) Taipei, Reuters—A TransAsia Airways plane with 58 passengers and crew on board cartwheeled into a river shortly after taking off...
