Section: Africa&ME
Ukraine hands foreigners top govt posts
Ukraine handed foreigners – including a US citizen – top posts in a new reformist government on Tuesday aimed at rooting out endemic corruption. …read more Source:...
Russia to step in to help Gazprombank
Gazprombank at least the third lender to receive capital injection since US and EU sanctions curb ability to borrow …read more Source: Business...
Ukraine parliament approves new government
Ministers in the new Cabinet include several figures who received Ukrainian citizenship by presidential decree. …read more Source: Khaleej...
Ukraine human rights ‘deteriorating rapidly’
Rights group accuse rebels of torture and says displaced people are at risk of labour abuse and human trafficking. …read more Source: AL...
Sanctions have hurt Russian economy, says Kerry
US Secretary of State John Kerry says although sanctions on Russia have not changed its behavior towards Ukraine, they have affected its economy …read more Source: Anadolu...
Ukraine, pro-Russian rebels agree new truce
Unmarked 122-mm self-propelled howitzers are seen on the road from Luhansk to Donetsk in the territory controlled by the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, eastern Ukraine, on Monday. — Reuters DONETSK, Ukraine — Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels “agreed in principle&rd …read more...
Ukrainian parliament approves new cabinet
Ukraine’s parliament approved new cabinet of ministers, including three foreigners who received Ukrainian citizenship to join government …read more Source: Anadolu...
Nato ministers chart course on Ukraine
BRUSSELS: Nato foreign ministers met in Brussels on Tuesday aiming to plot a new course after a “year of aggression” from Ukraine to the Middle East and the end of the alliance’s combat mission in Afghanistan. New chief Jens Stoltenberg said as he arrived that US Secretary of State John Kerry and other ministers from the 28-nation group...
Ukraine appoints three non-native ministers
Government hastily grants citizenship to Latvian, Georgian and US nationals to enable them assume key posts in cabinet. …read more Source: AL...
NATO announces new support for Ukraine
Alliance to activate four trust funds for Ukraine army as it condemns Russia’s “deliberate destabilisation” of Kiev. …read more Source: AL...
