Section: Africa&ME
On APEC summit sidelines, Obama leans on Putin over peace for Syria and Ukraine
In what could be their last official meeting, the Russian and US presidents have held talks on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Peru. Topics raised included the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Obama, Russia’s Putin speak at economic summit in Peru
President Barack Obama spoke briefly with Russian President Vladimir Putin about Syria and Ukraine on Sunday as an economic summit got under way in Peru, in their first known conversation since Donald Trump was elected the next U.S. president. …read more Source: The Daily...
Obama, Putin speak for four minutes about Syria and Ukraine
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Piano: Ukraine’s Uprising
During the Euromaidan uprising, piano players defy the riot police by playing music as a gesture of peaceful resistance. …read more Source: AL...
Merkel: from austerity queen to democratic torch-bearer
A Protestant pastor’s daughter who grew up behind the Iron Curtain, Angela Merkel rose to become the “chancellor of Europe” who has outlasted a generation of world leaders. Unlike her one-time partners on the global stage, George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac and Silvio Berlusconi, Merkel is still in power and running for another...
Not so honorable, watch this crazy fist fight during a parliamentary meeting! VIDEO
Sunday, November 20, 2016 – Cases of Members of Parliament behaving badly have become common place world over.Earlier this week, a Ukrainian lawmaker punched his colleague in the face, in the latest brawl in the troubled nation’s rough parliament.Apparently, the guy speaking is radical Party head, Oleh Lyashko, and while speaking he...
Meskhetian Turks arrive in Turkey from Ukraine
Latest group join 25,000 in Turkey, mostly in Erzincan province …read more Source: Anadolu...
Obama, EU leaders agree to maintain cooperation via NATO after Trump victory
U.S. President Barack Obama and European leaders agreed in Berlin on Friday that they needed to keep working together as part of multilateral bodies like NATO and to press ahead with the transatlantic agenda, the White House said in a statement. , Their agreement comes after the election victory of U.S. Republican Donald Trump, who said during...
Lavrov: Russian Jets Striking Idlib & Homs to Prevent ISIL Exodus from Mosul to Syria
Russian bombers are striking terrorist targets in Syria’s Idlib and Homs provinces so that ISIL militants retreating from Iraq’s Mosul do not cross into Syria, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after “constructive” talks with his US counterpart, John Kerry. “Our aviation and the aviation of Syria work only in the provinces of Idlib...
Obama, EU leaders agree to keep anti-Russian sanctions over Ukraine
US President Barack Obama and EU leaders have agreed to keep anti-Russian sanctions in place for a further year over the situation in Ukraine. President Obama, who is on his final official visit to Europe, met with the leaders of Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the UK on Friday. Among the main topics on the agenda were extending sanctions...
