Section: Africa&ME
G20 discusses Ukrainian sailors, climate change, US-China trade race
The world’s biggest economies participating in the G20 summit in Argentina held talks on several international issues, including the seized Ukrainian sailors, climate change, and the US-China trade race. German Chancellor Angela Merkel had an in-depth conversation with the Russian President Vladimir Putin over the deteriorating tensions...
Ukraine Urges German Naval Presence in Black Sea
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Ukraine’s leader has called on Germany and its allies to boost their naval presence in the Black Sea to deter Russia from further aggression in the region. …read more Source: Tasnim News...
Ukraine urges German naval presence in the Black Sea
Ukraine’s leader has called on Germany and its allies to boost their naval presence in the Black Sea to deter Russia from further aggression in the region. …read more Source: The Daily...
Putin: Kerch Strait Incident Planned Provocation, You Can’t Argue Against That!
Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed that the Kerch Strait standoff was a planned provocation by Ukraine. During a press conference on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Saturday, Putin touched upon several issues, as he voiced Moscow’s points of view over them. Kerch Strait Incident Speaking on the topic of...
Putin briefs Trump over Ukraine as EU leaders up pressure
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday he briefed his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump on the Ukraine crisis as he came under pressure over Moscow’s robust foreign policy at the G20 summit in Argentina. …read more Source: The Daily...
Mattis blasts Putin for election meddling, Ukraine row, US pullout of nuke pact
The US defense secretary blames Russian president for election meddling and US pullout of an arms-control treaty. …read more Source:...
War to drag on with Ukraine’s pro-Westerners in power: Putin
Russia’s Putin says current Ukrainian rulers were the root cause of the protracted conflict in the country. …read more Source:...
Mattis blasts Russia’s ‘brazen contempt’ toward Ukraine
KIEV: US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis on Saturday blasted Moscow following the Russian navy’s “brazen” violation of a waterway treaty with Kiev and the seizure of three Ukrainian vessels. Speaking of a 2003 agreement governing the Kerch Strait between the Azov Sea and Black Sea, Mattis said Moscow had shown “brazen...
Poroshenko: Over 80,000 Russian troops in and around Ukraine
Ukrainian leader warns of the Russian military build-up as he rallies for action after the first open attack by Moscow. …read more Source: AL...
Merkel, Putin agree to four-way talks on Kerch Strait
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on Saturday to hold further talks about events in the Kerch Strait at the advisor level between Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany, her spokesman said. Russia is resisting international calls to release three Ukrainian naval ships that its border patrols fired on and...
