Section: Africa&ME
UK minister warns of Russia threat
Russian actions in Ukraine are undermining the security of nations in Eastern Europe, British foreign minister Philip Hammond is to warn in a speech on Tuesday. …read more Source:...
Putin says plan to take Crimea hatched before referendum
Latest account at odds with official version that Russian annexation decision came after March 2014 plebiscite when Crimean residents voted to become part of the Russian Federation …read more Source: Business...
Ukraine: rebels have withdrawn weapons
Ukranian President Poroshenko has said that rebel fighters have withdrawn a significant amount of heavy weapons …read more Source: World...
Obama: world should monitor Ukraine ceasefire
Obama has said that Europe and the US need to work to ensure there is effective monitoring of the Ukraine ceasefire …read more Source: World...
War in Ukraine Leaves Many Elderly in a Vulnerable Position
DEBALTSEVE—In eastern Ukraine, the elderly are left especially vulnerable by the conflict between government forces and Russian-backed separatists. In the wrecked suburbs of Debaltseve, 77 year-old Ukrainian pensioner Lydia Stepanovna is trying to come to terms with the events of the last few months. She’d lived here quietly for 16 years...
Putin Admits Pre-Referendum Takeover Plot
Russian President, Vladmir Putin, has admitted that he ordered the takeover of Crimea, weeks before the peninsula had a self-determination referendum. Mr Putin had ordered that the returning of Crimea to Russia should begin, during an all-night meeting on February 22, 2014, after former Ukrainian President, Victor Yanukovych, was ousted. This new...
Obama, EU Chief Meet in Washington for Talks on Ukraine
U.S. President Barack Obama is meeting Monday in Washington with the head of the European Council for talks on strategy aimed at countering Russian efforts to redraw the borders of Ukraine. Ahead of the meeting, the White House accused Moscow and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine of blocking European truce observers from fully monitoring...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko says rebels have withdrawn significant amount of heavy weapons
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Monday pro-Russian rebels had withdrawn a significant amount of weaponry from the front-lines in eastern Ukraine in accordance with a three-week-old ceasefire deal. …read more Source: The Daily...
Crimea takeover a challenge to UN Charter, says EU official
‘This cannot be left without answer: the EU condemns the illegal annexation of Crimea,’ EU foreign policy chief tell UN Security Council. …read more Source: Anadolu...
Nemtsov: Islamist motive ‘nonsensical’
A colleague of Boris Nemtsov said that suggestions he was killed by Islamists were nonsensical. ||| Moscow – A colleague of Boris Nemtsov, the Russian opposition figure shot dead near Moscow’s Red Square, said suggestions he was killed by Islamists were nonsensical and useful for the Kremlin because they deflected accusations that...
