Section: Africa&ME
Russia calls for end to sanctions as EU targets Ukraine separatists
The European Union has imposed sanctions on the organisers of rebel elections in eastern Ukraine this month, hitting the separatists and their organisations with asset freezes and travel bans. …read more Source: World...
News24.com | EU imposes sanctions on Ukraine’s rebels
The EU has imposed sanctions on the organisers of rebel elections in eastern Ukraine, hitting the separatists with asset freezes and travel bans. …read more Source:...
From shoe banging to Ukraine, archives comb Khrushchev past
More than 700 documents and objects on display at exhibition …read more Source: Gulf...
Russia urges EU to lift sanctions, promises to waive counter-measures
Deputy Foreign Minister urges EU to lift sanctions against Moscow over the Ukrainian conflict and promises to waive its counter-measures …read more Source: Business...
EU imposes sanctions on Ukraine rebel vote organisers
Rebels in eastern Ukraine held their elections on Nov. 2, arguing that the vote was the next step after local referendums in May calling for independence from Ukraine. …read more Source: World...
NATO concerned over Russian forces in Crimea
AMMONNEWS – NATO’s top military commander has said he is “very concerned” that Russia’s military build-up in the annexed Crimean region could be used as a launchpad for attacks across the whole Black Sea region.US General Philip Breedlove’s comments late on Wednesday came amid fears in Kiev that …read...
Cyprus solution looking unrealistic
An article published in the ‘Economist’ online points to EU hypocrisy regarding the “frozen conflict” between Russia and Georgia, Modova and recently the Ukraine. However, much less is said about Cyprus which has been in conflict for over 50 years. It is unsurprising that onlookers are sceptical about a solution to the Cyprus problem given...
MH17 remains arrive in Netherlands
Amsterdam: Six more coffins carrying body parts of victims from downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 arrived in the Netherlands from Ukraine on Friday, with nine victims of the July disaster still unidentified. A Dutch Air Force C-130 transport plane arrived at an airfield in the southern city of Eindhoven after leaving Kharkiv in eastern...
Nordic, German FMs open new forum in Copenhagen
Ukraine, ISIL, Mideast tensions and EU ‘investment plan’ among topics to be discussed by foreign ministers in first of a news series of meetings …read more Source: Anadolu...
EU sanctions 13 more Ukrainian rebels
EU imposes asset freezes and travel bans on 13 Ukrainian separatists, bringing the total number to 132 …read more Source: Anadolu...
