Section: Africa&ME
Kyiv and rebels to exchange hundreds of prisoners soon: security service
Kyiv and pro-Russian separatists will exchange hundreds of prisoners soon, an aide to the head of Ukraine’s SBU state security service said …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
Ukraine Peace Talks Break Down
Ukrainian officials and pro-Russian rebels will not be meeting in Belarus’ capital Minsk for another round of peace talks. Belarussian officials on Friday announced the breakdown of the negotiations but did not give a reason. Talks between Ukrainian government negotiators and their pro-Russian separatist counterparts have failed to produce...
Witness points finger at Ukraine for MH17 crash
Polygraph test showed no evidence of the witness lying …read more Source: Gulf...
Ukraine truce hangs in balance after ‘difficult’ talks
The latest push for peace in Ukraine appeared moribund on Thursday after initial talks failed to agree when the warring sides should meet again to try ending their eight-month conflict. …read more Source: The...
Opinion: Obama’s second term surprises
Just before his second election win, President Barack Obama was caught by a surreptitiously live microphone whispering confidences in the ears of the then Russian President Dmitri Medvedev. The gist of the whisper, later broadcast by eavesdroppers in the US media, was an Obama promise to be “more flexible” in his second term in office. We may...
Ukraine truce hangs in balance
KIEV — The latest push for peace in Ukraine appeared moribund on Thursday after initial talks failed to agree when the warring sides should meet again to try ending their eight-month conflict. Negotiations mediated by European and Russian envoys in the Belarussian capital Minsk broke up after more than five hours on Wednesday...
Moscow warns Kiev against Nato bid
MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Ukraine’s pursuit of Nato membership posed a danger to European security and that the West was using Kiev’s bid to join the Atlantic alliance as a way to fuel confrontation between Russia and Ukraine. The Kiev parliament’s renunciation of Ukraine’s neutral status this...
Pope slams IS, decries suffering of children – ‘So many tears this Christmas’
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis yesterday condemned the “brutal persecution” of minorities by Islamic State insurgents and said the joy of Christmas was marred by the suffering of children in the Middle East and around the world. Tens of thousands of people flocked to St. Peter’s Square to hear the Argentine pope deliver his “Urbi et Orbi” (to...
Russian FM: NATO membership dangerous for Ukraine
Sergei Lavrov believes it would be dangerous for Ukrainians to join NATO …read more Source: Anadolu...
Ukraine: Separatists, govt agree on prisoner swap
“We’re going to exchange 150 for 225,” Separatist leader Aleksandr Zakharchenko has said. …read more Source: Anadolu...
