Section: Africa&ME
Ukraine ceasefire brings limited respite
People in Donetsk are trying to make the most of the five-month-old ceasefire, a breathing space in a 15-month-old conflict that has killed over 6 500. ||| Donetsk, Ukraine – Natalya Brazhnikova goes to sell bread each day at a badly charred market on the outskirts of Donetsk in east Ukraine despite the risk of shelling and gunfire. Since...
Egypt’s GASC receives wheat offers in tender- trade
Egypt, one of the world’s largest wheat importers, received offers from Russia, Romania, Ukraine and France in its latest wheat tender. …read more Source:...
8,000 HIV patients at risk in Eastern Ukraine: UN envoy
Some 8,000 people with HIV in war-torn eastern Ukraine face a critical shortage of medicine and their supply will run out in mid-August unless a blockade is lifted, a U.N. AIDS envoy has warned …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
Most Ukrainians seek political solution to Donbass crisis: Poll
Most people in Ukraine believe the best solution to the crisis in the eastern parts of the country will come through further negotiations on the basis of the Minsk II agreement. Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday that according to the study conducted by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology, 56.8 percent of the respondents said they...
Poll: Most Ukrainians seek political solution to Donbass crisis
Most people in Ukraine believe the best solution to the crisis in the eastern parts of the country will come through further negotiations on the basis of the Minsk II agreement, a new survey shows. …read more Source: Iran...
Ukraine film director goes on trial in Russia
A Ukrainian film director went on trial on terror charges in southern Russia on Tuesday, after Moscow held him for more More… …read more Source: Emirates...
News24.com | Russia submits alternative UN resolution on MH17
Russia has introduced an alternative draft resolution at the UN Security Council in a bid to thwart the creation of a tribunal that would prosecute those responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over rebel-held east Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Ukraine film director goes on trial in Russia
A Ukrainian film director went on trial on terror charges in southern Russia Tuesday, after Moscow held him for more than a year in a case decried by Kiev, rights groups and prominent film directors across the globe. …read more Source: The Daily...
EU eyes Iran amid Russian dairy ban
European companies are looking into Iran as a potential new market for their dairy products amid a Russian embargo, market intelligence firm Euromonitor International has said. According to Press TV, Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered an embargo on dairy imports from Europe in retaliation for Western sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine...
Jewish refugees in Ukraine start building ‘shtetl’ – Tevye’s modern-day Anatevka
Seventy-six permanent apartments and 20 hotel-style rooms for transients will comprise the complex, says American volunteering on the project. …read more Source: The Jerusalem...
