Section: Africa&ME
Ukraine death toll rises to more than 4,300 despite ceasefire
Fighting in eastern Ukraine has killed an average of 13 people each day in the eight weeks since the ceasefire agreement, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said …read more Source: World...
Nearly 1,000 killed during Ukraine ceasefire, UN says
Almost 1,000 people have been killed in Ukraine since a ceasefire came into effect in September, an average of 13 people a day, the United Nations said Thursday, as the conflict in the east drags on. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Ukraine peace outlook is bleak – OSCE official
By Michael Shields Prospects for peace in eastern Ukraine are “bleak”, underscoring the need to uphold a shaky ceasefire between government forces and pro-Russian separatist rebels, a senior official from the OSCE security watchdog said on Thursday Swiss diplomat Heidi Tagliavini, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s...
US arms supplies to Ukraine ‘would violate accords’
Russia said on Thursday (20/11/2014) the United States would violate international agreements and destabilise the situation if it supplies weapons to Ukrainian forces fighting separatists in the country’s east. A US official suggested on Wednesday that Washington should consider providing weapons to Ukraine. Russian Foreign Ministry...
Russia: U.S. arms supplies to Ukraine would destabilise situation
Washington backs Kiev in its struggle against the pro-Russian separatists in two eastern regions of Ukraine and has imposed sanctions on Russia over its policies in the crisis. …read more Source: World...
Hungary’s PM: we’ll choose our own path in ties with Russia
Orban said Hungary opposed any break-up of Ukraine. He said a sovereign Ukraine was important because it acted as a buffer between Hungary and Russia …read more Source: World...
Ukraine peace outlook is bleak – OSCE official
Fighting in eastern Ukraine has killed an average of 13 people each day in the eight weeks since the ceasefire agreement, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said …read more Source: World...
Over 950 killed since Ukraine ‘truce’
Nearly 1 000 people have been killed in conflict-torn Ukraine since a tattered truce was signed in September, the UN said in a report. …read more Source:...
International monitors shot at in east Ukraine: OSCE
A convoy of international monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) was shot at by “uniformed personnel” in east Ukraine, the organisation said on Thursday. The OSCE said that a uniformed man on the back of a flat-bed cargo truck fired two shots in the direction of their vehicles as they were driving on...
Germany to leave door ajar for fracking — draft law
Germany’s government plans to stop short of an outright ban on the controversial technique of fracking for gas, bowing to pressure from industry, according to the latest draft of a law from the environment ministry seen by Reuters. Fracking or hydraulic fracturing to extract gas and oil has transformed the US energy market, boosting...
