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Flights between Russia and Ukraine to stop due to sanctions
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Opinion: The Ayatollah dreamed it, Obama delivers it
The late Ayatollah Khomeini dreamed it; President Barack Obama is trying to deliver it: the end of Pax Americana. The topic was at the center of a daylong seminar in Tehran last week attended by ambassadors from Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela, plus a number of Islamic Iranian officials and scholars. The five Latin American...
Ukraine’s Donetsk region bans MSF, UN agencies
Donetsk bans MSF and some UN agencies from continuing their activities in the eastern Ukranian region. …read more Source:...
Russia, US, Turkey and Saudi Arabia start Syria talks
Senior diplomats from Russia, the US, Saudi Arabia and Turkey are meeting in Vienna on Friday for key talks on the war in Syria that excludes Iran, a key player The top diplomats of Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United States started key talks on Friday in Vienna to try to find a way to end the Syrian conflict. Russian Foreign Minister...
Merkel: EU sanctions against Russia tied to implementation of Minsk agreement
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says EU sanctions against Russia will remain in place if the implementation of the Minsk agreement is delayed. …read more Source:...
Saudi Arabia, US, Russia and Turkey hold frosty Syria talks
VIENNA // Top diplomats from Russia, the United States, Saudi Arabia and Turkey held talks in a frosty atmosphere on Friday on how to end the Syrian conflict, with the sides sharply at odds on the future of Bashar Al Assad.The Vienna meeting took place three weeks after Moscow thrust itself into the heart of the crisis by launching a bombing...
Iran marches, Russia rules, Obama watches
Guess who just popped up in the Kremlin? Bashar al-Assad, Syrian dictator and destroyer, now Vladimir Putin’s newest pet. After four years holed up in Damascus, Assad was summoned to Russia to bend a knee to Putin, show the world that today Middle East questions get settled not in Washington but in Moscow, and officially bless the...
No need to distinguish between ‘moderate’ & other terrorists — RT News
There can be no “moderate” terrorists, President Putin said, speaking about the situation in the Middle East at the Valdai discussion forum. “Why play with words dividing terrorists into moderate and not moderate. What’s the difference?” Putin told the forum. A whole “snarl” of terrorist groups act in the...
Ukraine’s separatists ban MSF
MSF director of operations Bart Janssens called the decision disturbing and ‘vague’ …read more Source: World...
Merkel urges Kyiv to press on with painful reforms
Merkel says Ukraine is already on ‘this courageous road’, and that she is aware of ‘how difficult it is’ to pass much-needed reforms …read more Source: World...
