Section: Africa&ME
Foreign students face uncertain future in east Ukraine
Those studying medicine in rebel-held Donetsk now risk being left without internationally recognised degrees. …read more Source: AL...
Russia may toughen counter-sanctions over Ukraine
Russia may toughen its response to EU sanctions over the Ukraine crisis if the EU carries out a decision to extend the sanctions, Kremlin economic adviser Andrei Belousov said on Thursday. …read more Source: World...
Ukraine parliament sacks head of state security service
Ukraine’s parliament Thursday fired the powerful head of the SBU state security service after he fell foul of President Petro Poroshenko and became embroiled in a conflict with the nation’s chief prosecutor. …read more Source: The Daily...
Some 60mn people displaced worldwide: UNHCR
The United Nations refugee agency says almost 60 million people were displaced across the globe in 2014, expressing concern over the international community’s “inability” to contain the unprecedented number of refugees. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Antonio Guterres said in the southeastern Swiss city of Geneva on...
Russia may toughen response to EU sanctions over UkraineKremlin
NNA – Russia may toughen its response to European Union sanctions over the Ukraine crisis if the EU carries out a decision to extend the sanctions, Kremlin economic adviser Andrei Belousov said on Thu …read more Source: National News...
UN: World’s displaced hits record high
Almost 60 million people worldwide were forcibly uprooted by conflict and persecution at the end of 2014, the UN said. ||| London – Almost 60 million people worldwide were forcibly uprooted by conflict and persecution at the end of last year, the highest ever recorded number, the UN refugee agency said on Thursday. More than half the...
Ukraine soldiers ‘confess to murders’
Two Ukrainian servicemen reportedly confessed to murdering a mother and daughter after suspecting them of separatist sympathies. ||| Kiev – Two Ukrainian servicemen have confessed to murdering a mother and daughter in east Ukraine after suspecting them of separatist sympathies, the prosecutor’s office for the Kiev-controlled part of...
NATO Russia defence Europe NATO to implement ‘biggest’ defence boost since Cold War
NATO head Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday the alliance was implementing its biggest defence reinforcement since the Cold War, as the region grapples with terrorism and an increasingly assertive Russia. He spoke a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow would add more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear...
Two Ukraine soldiers charged with killing pro-Russia civilians
Ukraine has charged two government forces with killing two civilians in the eastern Ukrainian province of Luhansk. According to pro-Kiev officials in the Donetsk prosecutor’s office on Wednesday, the two soldiers were accused of committing premeditated murder, for which they may be sentenced to over seven years in jail and even life in...
French Immigration to Israel Starts to Slow
French immigration appears to be trickling, but there is an upswing in Jewish immigrants from Ukraine, Russia and Italy. …read more Source: Arutz...
