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EU agrees to extend Russia sanctions until mid-2017
European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to extend the bloc’s main economic sanctions against Russia over the turmoil in Ukraine for six months until mid-2017, diplomats said. …read more Source: The Daily...
The Manchurian cabinet
US president-elect Donald Trump seems determined to revive a forgotten Hollywood genre: the paranoid melodrama. Perhaps the greatest film in this genre, The Manchurian Candidate, concerns a communist plot to use the brainwashed son of a leading right-wing family to upend the American political system. Given the fondness that Trump and so many of...
EU leaders reach deal to let Netherlands ratify Ukraine pact
EU leaders reach deal to let Netherlands ratify Ukraine pact …read more Source: World...
EU leaders reach deal to let Netherlands ratify Ukraine pact
EU leaders reach deal to let Netherlands ratify Ukraine pact …read more Source: World...
Kiev agrees to release 15 imprisoned pro-Russia forces
The Kiev government agrees to release 15 prisoners taken from war-torn eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
NATO to Hold Talks with Russia Monday: Stoltenberg
NATO will hold a fresh round of formal talks with Russia on Monday to discuss European security and the Ukraine conflict, alliance head Jens Stoltenberg said. “I have invited members of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) to a meeting on Monday at ambassadorial level at NATO headquarters to discuss topics of relevance to European security, notably...
Leaders of Russia and Japan hold hot spring meeting on island row
NAGATO // The leaders of Russia and Japan held talks at a hot springs resort in western Japan on Thursday on a territorial dispute that has divided their countries for 70 years.Following their discussions, Russian president Vladimir Putin and Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe ordered a start to consultations on possible joint economic activity...
Kiev to free 15 east Ukraine prisoners in ‘goodwill gesture’
Some of the 15 are seriously ill or elderly and six of them are women, she said. …read more Source: World...
Ukraine: Pro-Russian separatists kill 1, injure 2
Fighting in eastern Ukraine after Russia’s illegal Crimea annexation continues to take toll …read more Source: Anadolu...
Hundreds at Russia, Iran embassies protest over Aleppo
In Ankara and Kiev, crowds gather to protest humanitarian tragedy in northern Syrian city …read more Source: Anadolu...
