Section: Africa&ME
Asia slips amid Greek exit worries
Asian equities slipped on Tuesday as nervousness over Greece potentially withdrawing from the euro sapped risk appetite. ||| Tokyo – Asian equities slipped on Tuesday as nervousness over Greece potentially withdrawing from the euro and escalating conflict in Ukraine sapped risk appetite, while the dollar lost steam after its...
Obama: No Decision Yet on Lethal Weapons for Ukraine
Published February 09, 2015 As violence escalates in eastern Ukraine, U.S. President Barack Obama says he has not yet decided whether to provide lethal weapons to Ukraine as it fights Russian-backed separatists. Mr. Obama made the comments in Washington on Monday alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Both leaders said they will continue to...
Ukraine conflict: US ‘may supply arms to Ukraine’
President Barack Obama says the US is studying the option of supplying lethal defensive arms to Ukraine if diplomacy fails to end the crisis in the east. Russia had violated “every commitment” made in the failing Minsk agreement, he added, after talks with the German chancellor on a new peace deal. Mr Obama has come … …read more...
News24.com | Obama: No decision yet on Ukraine arms aid
US President Barack Obama said no decision had been made on whether to send weapons to Ukraine to help Kiev battle pro-Russian separatists. …read more Source:...
Plan to add Ukrainians to French aliya program draws criticism
Minister cannot make aliya into a “political issue,” Avinoam Bar-Yosef, president of the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute says. …read more Source: The Jerusalem...
Germany Warns ‘European Order’ at Risk Ahead of Ukraine Peace Talks
Published February 09, 2015 Germany has warned that the ‘peaceful order of Europe’ is at risk if the West abandons the principle of territorial integrity. German Chancellor Angela Merkel made the comments in Washington ahead of a proposed meeting in Belarus Wednesday with the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and France, aimed at securing an end...
Obama says US considers sending weapons to Ukraine
More to this story US President Barack Obama has said that his administration is looking at all options in handling the crisis in Ukraine, but he has not yet decided whether the US will provide lethal arms to Kiev. “The possibility of lethal defence is one of those options that’s being examined. But I have not made a decision about...
Obama says all options open on resolving Ukraine crisis
US president says providing lethal arms to Kiev is on the table if diplomacy fails to end fighting in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: AL...
Obama says all options open on resolving Ukraine crisis
More to this story US President Barack Obama has said that his administration is looking at all options in handling the crisis in Ukraine, but he has not yet decided whether the US will provide lethal arms to Kiev. “The possibility of lethal defence is one of those options that’s being examined. But I have not made a decision about...
Obama gives Merkel more time but arming Ukraine ‘remains an option’
US president says world will not stand idle as Europe’s borders are redrawn at the barrel of a gun …read more Source: Business...
