Section: Africa&ME
Ukraine: Pro-Russian separatists kill 1, injure 2
Fighting in eastern Ukraine after Russia’s illegal Crimea annexation continues to take toll …read more Source: World...
Hundreds at Russia, Iran embassies protest over Aleppo
In Ankara and Kiev, crowds gather to protest humanitarian tragedy in northern Syrian city …read more Source: Anadolu...
EU-Ukraine pact collapse ‘biggest present’ for Putin: Dutch PM
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte warned Thursday it would be the “biggest ever present” for Russian President Vladimir Putin if a historic EU-Ukraine cooperation deal is torpedoed by popular opposition in the Netherlands. Rutte said he was “moderately optimistic” of a deal at an EU summit in Brussels for steps to allow his country to …read...
EU-Ukraine pact collapse ‘biggest present’ for Putin: Dutch PM
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte warned Thursday it would be the “biggest ever present” for Russian President Vladimir Putin if a historic EU-Ukraine cooperation deal is torpedoed by popular opposition in the Netherlands. Rutte said he was “moderately optimistic” of a deal at an EU summit in Brussels for steps to allow his country to finally...
Suspected Russian mercenary leader attended Kremlin reception
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A man identified as a Russian mercenary leader in Ukraine and Syria by an authoritative website attended a Kremlin reception earlier this month, Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said on Thursday, raising questions about the man’s links to the authorities. …read more Source: Libya...
Russia, Brexit and Aleppo loom over year-end EU summit
EU leaders are facing a “minefield” of crises in their final Brussels summit of 2016. Leaders appear split on extending sanctions against Russia, approving a Ukraine deal, responses to Aleppo and Brexit negotiations. …read more Source:...
Putin, Abe hold hot spring meet on WWII island row
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese premier Shinzo Abe on Thursday launched a hot spring summit aimed at resolving a dispute over a group of islands that has prevented the countries from formally ending their World War II hostilities. Abe is hosting Putin in his ancestral city of Nagato in hopes of achieving a breakthrough over the...
Putin Meets Japan’s Abe to Talk Peace Treaty, Closer Ties
Russia’s president is visiting Japan to discuss signing a peace treaty and expanding economic cooperation. However, a decades-old territorial dispute and Japan’s support for the Obama administration’s anti-Russian sanctions may stand in the way. Vladimir Putin has arrived in Japan on Thursday to meet with Prime Minister Shinzo...
Britain’s May urges ‘smooth and orderly’ Brexit
British Prime Minister Theresa May urged her EU counterparts Thursday to make Brexit “as smooth and orderly… as possible” as they prepared to discuss the process at a dinner without her. “We want that to be as smooth and orderly a process as possible. It is not just in our interests, it is in the interests of Europe as well,” May said as she...
Putin: President’s victory? Russia’s role in recapturing Aleppo
The damage was done and any chance of pushing the US to coordinate forces in Syria evaporated. When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the Kremlin’s bombing campaign in Syria last year to back up leader Bashar al-Assad, the regime’s forces were being pushed back.Now Damascus is celebrating its biggest victory in over five years...
