Section: Africa&ME
Polish economic guru appointed adviser to Ukrainian president
Leszek Balcerowicz – the author of Poland’s post-communist transition to a market economy – has been appointed adviser to the Ukrainian president. The often contentious figure will have plenty to contend with in Kyiv. …read more Source:...
Return to Chernobyl with Ukraine’s ‘liquidators’
The remaining members of a brigade of firefighters return to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone 30 years after the disaster. …read more Source: AL...
US flies F-22s to Romania as show of strength to Russia
The U.S. Air Force Monday flew in two F-22 Raptor fighter jets to Romania as a show of strength to deter Russian intervention in Ukraine …read more Source: The Daily...
Witnesses: Malaysian Flight MH17 Shot Down by Ukrainian Warplane
TEHRAN (FNA)- Malaysian Flight MH17, which went down in eastern Ukraine some two years ago, was shot down by a Ukrainian fighter jet, not a ground-to-air missile, people claiming to have witnessed the incident say. …read more Source: Fars News...
Obama says Russia sanctions must stay in place until Minsk implemented
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday that the West needed to uphold the sanctions it has imposed against Russia over the Ukraine crisis until Moscow fully implements the so-called Minsk peace agreement. …read more Source: The Daily...
Witnesses: Fighter jets shot down MH17
Nearly two years after Malaysia Airlines plane plummets over Ukraine, witnesses now say they saw it shot down from the air. …read more Source: Arutz...
Obama and Merkel push for trade deal
US President Barack Obama vows to do his utmost to advance a controversial trade deal with the EU in his last eight months in office. ||| Hanover, Germany – US President Barack Obama said on Sunday he would do whatever he could to advance a controversial trade deal with the European Union in his last eight months in office, but warned that...
Obama to stress partnership with Europe in Germany speech
US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attend the Hanover Industry Fair,April 24, 2016/AFPHANOVER, GERMANY, Apr 23 – Barack Obama will set out his vision of relations with Europe with a speech in the northern German city of Hanover on Monday, trying to frame a relationship that has been less than easy throughout his...
This is how they deal with corrupt politicians in Ukraine – Kenyans should do the same.
Sunday, April 24, 2016 – Despite corruption in Kenya reaching alarming levels and the powers that be seemingly reluctant to fight this cancer, citizens have not become angry enough and confronted these greedy pigs. Until we (the citizens) say enough is enough and unite to stop these plundering politicians, they will continue having a field...
Three Ukrainian troops killed in fresh fighting
Kiev: Three Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and six injured in a fresh upsurge of fighting between pro-Russian rebels and government forces in the country’s separatist east, the Kiev military said on Sunday. “As a result of hostilities, three Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and another six wounded over the past 24 hours”, military...
