Section: Africa&ME
Blatter: Russia will host best-ever World Cup
Fifa president Sepp Blatter is adamant Russia can host the best World Cup ever in 2018, despite their political problems. Russia’s annexing of eastern Ukraine last year sparked brutal battles between loyalists and separatists, with major city Donetsk a shell of its former self due to the continuing fighting. Within the Eurasian nation, laws...
US-Ukraine joint military mission begins
Hundreds of U.S. paratroopers start training battalions of Ukrainian national guard troops. …read more Source: Anadolu...
News24.com | US starts training Ukraine forces
US paratroopers have launched a training mission for Ukrainian government forces who will fight separatists in the east. …read more Source:...
US starts training Ukraine forces
US paratroopers have started training Ukrainian government troops, angering Moscow as the conflict continues. …read more Source:...
US, Ukraine Start Military Training, Defying Russian Fury
YAVORIV, WESTERN UKRAINE—Troops from the United States and Ukraine kicked off joint training exercises Monday intended to help bolster Ukraine’s defenses against incursions from Russian-backed separatists in the east. Speaking under driving rain… …read more Source:...
Guard on trial for murder of 300 000
Former death camp guard Oskar Gröning has declared he is ready to speak about the horrors of Auschwitz. ||| Berlin – He watched his fellow SS men kill children with their bare hands and saw Jews being herded into the gas chambers of Auschwitz, but former death camp guard Oskar Gröning has always denied ultimate responsibility for the...
US, Ukraine start military training, defying Russian fury
Troops from the United States and Ukraine officially open joint training exercises intended to help bolster Ukraine’s defenses against incursions from Russian-backed separatists in the east …read more Source: The Daily...
OSCE chief says ‘good chance for peace’ in Ukraine
The OSCE chief says a truce was holding in a key village in eastern Ukraine and urged rival sides to ’embrace a good chance for peace’ in the war-torn region …read more Source: The Daily...
Russian minister angers Norway with Arctic visit
HELSINKI: Norway said on Sunday it was angry that Russia’s deputy prime minister visited its Arctic Svalbard archipelago this weekend even though he is banned from Norwegian territory over Russia’s role in the Ukraine conflict. “We are not too happy about it,” Norwegian foreign ministry spokesman Rune Bjastad said. Dmitry Rogozin...
France, Russia negotiating solution to frozen warship deal: Hollande
French President Francois Hollande said April 19 that negotiations with Moscow were under way to find a solution to a dispute over the sale of two Mistral warships, frozen over the Ukraine crisis …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
