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Russia’s celebrity prosecutor promoted as general
Natalia Poklonskaya, the chief prosecutor of Crimea, has now been promoted to major general following her rise to prominence during the Russian annexation of the peninsula …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
East Ukraine shelling cuts off gas supplies to Mariupol
Fighting in east Ukraine has damaged a gas pipeline, leaving three towns, including the port city of Mariupol, without gas supplies for up to two days, gas transport monopoly Ukrtransgaz said Friday. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine conflict could spark ‘all-out war’ experts warn
Minsk ceasfire deal violated by recent fighting, monitors claim …read more Source: Anadolu...
Malaysia Airlines makes emergency landing in Melbourne
A Malaysia Airlines flight returned safely to Melbourne airport on Friday, having turned back within minutes of take-off after an engine fire alert went off, airport and airline officials said. The Airbus A330 aircraft MH148 was carrying 300 passengers and heading from Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur. “There was an emergency declared, there was an...
Washington accuses Russia of ‘outright lies’ on Ukraine
Washington’s UN envoy accused Russia on June 11 of spinning “outright lies” on Ukraine designed to hide the Kremlin’s direct involvement in a war it launched to thwart Kiev’s pro-Western drive. …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
Only Iran can break ISIS by invading Iraq and Syria
Source: Pravda.Ru photo archive The Middle East continues to remain one of the most troubled regions in the world. Hotbeds of tensions continue to grow along with the number of new conflicts. Pravda.Ru discussed the current state of affairs in the Middle East with Russian MP, Director of the Center for the Study of the Middle East and Central...
Social Security Numbers Of Every Federal Employee Stolen In Data Breach, Union Says
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk (second from left) speaks during a meeting on Capitol Hill on June 10, 2015. Yatsenyuk met with Republican lawmakers while visiting Washington. U.S. Capitol Police gather after a suspicious package was found forcing a partial evacuation of the Dirksen Senate Office Building and of a hearing of the Senate...
Putin, once critical of Stalin, now embraces Soviet dictator’s tactics
Only six years ago, President Vladimir Putin visited the Polish port of Gdansk, birthplace of the Solidarity movement that threw off Soviet domination, and reassured his Eastern European neighbors that Russia had only friendly intentions. Putin spoke harshly that day of the notorious World War II-era pact that former Soviet leader Josef Stalin...
Fresh clashes claims 7 lives in eastern Ukraine
At least seven people, including two children, have lost their lives in the violence in eastern Ukraine since Wednesday evening. Officials from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic say three women and two kids were killed after shells hit a residential bloc in the city of Gorlovka. Four children were injured in shelling of other...
Ukraine: Fuel tanks still burning in oil facility
Five people were killed and another 14 were injured after fire broke out at storage facility near Kiev Monday night …read more Source: Anadolu...
