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U.S. troops to remain in Baltics, Poland next year
Several hundred U.S. troops were deployed in Poland and the three Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia earlier this year after Russia seized Ukraine’s Crimea region …read more Source: World...
Last Parts of MH17 Wreckage Cleared From E. Ukraine
Dutch air crash investigators have completed their recovery of the wreckage of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet that was downed over rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine four months ago. Workers sent the last pieces of the airliner on a train Sunday from the area controlled by pro-Russian separatists to the Ukrainian government-held city of...
Last Parts of MH-17 Wreckage Cleared From E. Ukraine
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Poroshenko to mark Auschwitz liberation in Prague
Ukranian President Petro Poroshenko set to attend event marking the liberation of Auschwitz, come January. …read more Source: The Jerusalem...
Ukraine Marks Anniversary of Deadly 1930s Famine
KYIV, UKRAINE—During a weekend commemoration for millions who died of starvation in Ukraine in the early 1930s, President Petro Poroshenko lashed out at Soviet-era totalitarianism for causing the deaths and accused today’s Russian-backed rebels in the east of using similar tactics. Soviet leaders refused to acknowledge the famine of 1932...
Putin says Russia not isolated over Ukraine
Blames West for frosty ties, says Moscow will not allow itself to become internationally isolated behind another ‘Iron Curtain’ …read more Source: Gulf...
Putin dismisses risk of Iron Curtain comeback
Russian president says isolation of Russia over Ukraine crisis is “impossible”, after US threatens with more sanctions. …read more Source: AL...
Lavrov accuses West of seeking ‘regime change’ in Russia
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accuses the West of trying to use sanctions imposed on Moscow in the Ukraine crisis to seek ‘regime change’ in Russia …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
FIFA says boycott of 2018 World Cup in Russia would be ‘nonsense’
FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke has said that a boycott of the 2018 World Cup in Russia would be nonsense. Some European politicians suggested European countries could boycott the World Cup over the conflict in eastern Ukraine, which many Western governments accuse Russia of provoking. Valcke said that talk of a boycott was an attempt to...
Ukraine crisis: Are there any winners?
Thousands mark the one year anniversary of protests that toppled Ukraine’s pro-Russian president. …read more Source: AL...
