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Russia warns against new US sanctions
WASHINGTON: New US legislation authorising sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine crisis could undermine relations between Moscow and Washington for a long time, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying on Friday. In a phone call with US Secretary of State John Kerry, Lavrov said that the new legislation “threatening new...
Bloody clashes resume ahead of Ukraine peace talks
Ukrainian forces lost five soldiers on Friday in a sudden resurgence of clashes ahead of peace talks aimed at ending the separatist conflict and mending East-West ties. …read more Source: Gulf...
Putin reassures Russians rouble will rise again
Russia’s economy is heading into recession because of low oil prices, Western sanctions over Ukraine and global economic problems. …read more Source: Gulf...
Mogherini says detects some willingness’ from Russia to resolve Ukraine conflict
KIEV: The European Union’s foreign policy chief said on Wednesday that she and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko had detected signs of greater willingness from Russia to resolve the crisis in Ukraine’s pro-separatist eastern territories. But Poroshenko balanced this judgment by saying Ukraine was in a virtual state of war with...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko hails first full overnight truce in rebel east
KIEV: Ukraine’s separatist east passed the night into Tuesday without any shooting, President Petro Poroshenko said, hailing the first such stretch of calm as a positive sign for the next steps in a peace plan. Ukraine is under pressure from Western backers to defuse the conflict, which has left many people struggling to survive the frigid...
UN accuses Ukraine forces and rebels of ‘torture’
GENEVA: The United Nations on Monday released a damning report accusing Ukranian forces and Russian-backed rebels of torturing and indiscriminately shelling civilians in the bloody conflict in the separatist east. Its global governing body believes the eight-month conflict has killed at least 4,634 and wounded 10,234 people — although...
UN accuses Ukraine forces, pro-Russia rebels of ‘torture’
Eight-month conflict has killed at least 4,634, the report says …read more Source: Gulf...
German lawmaker and Russia expert Schockenhoff dies
BERLIN: German conservative lawmaker Andreas Schockenhoff, a foreign policy expert on Russia and France, has died at age 57, his party said on Sunday. Schockenhoff was deputy chairman of the parliamentary group of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats and their Bavarian allies. A lawmaker since 1990, he had also coordinated...
Ukraine conflict toll tops 4,600: UN
KIEV: Fighting between government troops and pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine has left more than 300 people dead in less than a month, taking the overall toll to 4,634, the UN said on Saturday in its latest report on the conflict. Some 10,243 people have been wounded since the conflict erupted in the ex-Soviet republic’s east in April,...
Ukraine ballet school rejects charity from pro-Putin dancer
Dancer at charity gala had supported the annexation of Crimea …read more Source: Gulf...
