Section: Daily News & Analysis (India)
‘White House on lockdown after loud bang’
The White House was put on lockdown on Saturday after a loud noise was heard on the South Lawn moments before President Barack Obama and his family were due to take off by helicopter, a White House pool report said on Saturday. It said the noise prompted Secret Service agents to move the press back into the briefing room, lock the doors and put...
Scribbled note shows Boris Nemtsov on trail of Russian deaths in Ukraine
It may have been the last note Boris Nemtsov ever wrote, a hurried scrawl in blue pen on a plain white sheet of A4 paper. A day before he was shot dead near the Kremlin last week, the Russian opposition figure and his close aide Olga Shorina were discussing a sensitive investigation he was preparing into Moscow’s backing for separatist...
‘Ukraine doesn’t plan large pre-payments to Russia for gas’
Ukrainian Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn said on Wednesday that Ukraine did not plan to make large pre-payments to Russia for gas supplies, Interfax news agency reported. Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom said earlier on Wednesday that Ukraine had paid for enough Russian gas to last until March 6. Also Read: Russia’s Gazprom says...
More than 30 killed in mine blast in rebel east Ukraine, says local authority
An early morning mine blast in the eastern Ukrainian rebel stronghold of Donetsk killed more than 30 people and injured 14, a local official said on Wednesday. Approximately 70 people were working underground at the time of the explosion, a local emergencies ministry official told the Donetsk separatist press service as saying. Previously, local...
More than 30 killed in mine blast in rebel east Ukraine, says local authority
An early morning mine blast in the eastern Ukrainian rebel stronghold of Donetsk killed more than 30 people and injured 14, a local official said on Wednesday. Approximately 70 people were working underground at the time of the explosion, a local emergencies ministry official told the Donetsk separatist press service as saying. Previously, local...
Obama, European leaders to discuss Ukraine, global security: White House
US President Barack Obama will hold talks on Tuesday with European leaders to discuss the Ukraine crisis and global security issues, the White House said. Obama and the leaders of Britain, France, Germany and Italy, as well as the head of the European Commission, will speak by video conference at 11:30 a.m. EST, it said in a statement. The...
Ukraine’s economy is starting to disintegrate, Polish Deputy PM says
Ukraine’s economy is starting to disintegrate, creating a risk of hundreds of thousands of immigrants flowing into Poland, Polish Deputy Prime Minister Janusz Piechocinski said. Piechocinski, leader of the centre-right junior coalition partner PSL, said he thought Ukrainian elites had made disappointing progress in building a Western-style...
Russia ready to consider discount on gas price for Ukraine in Q2
Russia is ready to consider providing Ukraine with a discount for gas supplies within their existing contract starting from the second quarter, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak told Rossiya 24 TV channel on Tuesday. Russia and Ukraine have been engaged in talks, mediated by the European Commission, over gas supplies, complicated by a...
Mourners pay respects to murdered Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov
Several hundred Russians, many carrying red carnations, queued on Tuesday to pay their respects to Boris Nemtsov, the Kremlin critic whose murder last week showed the hazards of speaking out against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin’s aides deny any involvement in killing Nemtsov, who was shot in the back four times on Friday within...
Kerry presses Russia’s Lavrov on Ukraine ceasefire deal
US Secretary of State John Kerry told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday that Moscow and pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine must implement a ceasefire or face “consequences” that could further hit Russia’s faltering economy. Kerry said the ceasefire must be respected in all “key strategic areas”...
