Section: Africa&ME
US: Tillerson to visit Turkey
Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson will soon travel to Turkey to meet senior officials and discuss a range of bilateral and regional issues, the State Department said Wednesday. Senior State Department officials said Tillersion will first visit Ukraine before heading to Turkey on July 9-10 to attend the World Petroleum Congress where he will...
Ukrainian Ex-President Says Plans to Recall Lawyers From Treason Case Trial
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said Wednesday he would call off his defense lawyers for the judicial process with regard to the case on alleged treason and refused to take part in the litigation. “I do not want to participate in an allegedly adversarial [judicial] process with the result which was determined in...
Donald Trump goes to Warsaw
US President Donald Trump who arrived in Poland, where he will meet with Central and Eastern European leaders today at a summit of the Three Seas Initiative. Also today, before heading to the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, Trump will address the Polish people. Trump’s decision to visit Warsaw is no accident, and it could have far-reaching...
Politics: Former US ambassador to Russia lays out what Trump needs to discuss with Putin in their blockbuster meeting
A former US ambassador to Russia laid out what Trump needs to discuss with Putin when the two meet later this week on the sidelines of the G-20 summit. A former US ambassador to Russia laid out what President Donald Trump needs to discuss with Russian President Vladimir Putin when the two meet later this week on the sidelines of the G-20 summit...
Ukrainian Deputy PM: “Russia not willing to implement Minsk”
Two years after the Minsk agreement was signed, the agreement is still having little or no effect on the ground. Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Klympush-Tsintsadze blames Russia on Conflict Zone. …read more Source:...
Ukraine delegation walks out of Black Sea meeting
Protest in Istanbul conference sparked by presence of Russian delegation member reportedly elected from annexed Crimea …read more Source: Anadolu...
Dutch court to try Malaysia Airlines suspects
Malaysia Airlines flight was downed in disputed area of eastern Ukraine in 2014, killing 298 people …read more Source: Anadolu...
Police seize servers of Ukrainian software firm after cyber attack
KIEV-Ukrainian police on Tuesday seized the servers of an accounting software firm suspected of spreading a malware virus which crippled computer systems at major companies around the world last week, a senior police official said., The head of Ukraine’s Cyber Police, Serhiy Demedyuk, told Reuters the servers of M.E.Doc –...
G20 summit: Trump, world leaders to meet under North Korea shadow
The rising global threat posed by Pyongyang is likely to see conflicts over climate and trade take a back seat. US President Donald Trump meets other world leaders at Germany’s G20 summit from Friday, with North Korea’s first successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile casting a long shadow over the gathering at the...
Malaysia Airlines: Trial of any MH17 suspects to be held in Dutch court
All 298 people on board were killed when the plane was downed on July 17, 2014 on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. The trials of any suspects arrested in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over war-torn eastern Ukraine will be held in the Netherlands, Dutch officials announced Wednesday.All 298 people on board were killed...
