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Obama says hopes Trump can stand up to Russia when needed
US President Barack Obama on Thursday said he hoped President-elect Donald Trump could stand up to Russia when needed, and would take a constructive approach to cooperating with Moscow where interests aligned. “In order for us to solve many big problems around the world, it is in our interest to work with Russia,” Obama told a joint...
No better US ambassador for Prague than Trump’s ex-wife, says Czech President Milos Zeman
Czech President Milos Zeman has thrown his support behind a bid by Ivana Trump, the ex-wife of US President-elect Donald Trump, to become the next ambassador to the country of her birth. “They could not send a better U.S. ambassador to Prague,” Zeman told her in a telephone call on Wednesday, the president’s office said in a...
Russia: Vladimir Putin withdraws signature from International Criminal Court treaty
President Vladimir Putin signed an executive order on Wednesday, removing Russia’s signature from the International Criminal Court’s founding treaty, piling pressure on a court that is already reeling from withdrawals by some African countries. Moscow never ratified the treaty, which it signed in 2000, meaning it never became a member...
Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko asks for Donald Trump’s support against ‘Russian aggression’
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Merkel’s conservatives back rival Steinmeier as Germany’s next president
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives agreed on Monday to back Social Democrat Frank-Walter Steinmeier as Germany’s next president, creating a vacancy at the foreign ministry at a critical moment in relations with Russia and the United States. Merkel’s camp had hoped to promote its own candidate but chose to back political...
Ukraine MPs get into fistfight over accusations of links to Russian govt
A brawl broke out between two Ukrainian MPs on Monday during a meeting of parliament faction leaders in Kiev, as one party leader accused another of working with the Kremlin and calling for him to be jailed. Oleh Lyashko, the leader of Radical Party, was on the receiving end of several punches thrown by Opposition Party leader Yuriy Boyko after...
Russia detains Ukrainian ‘terrorist’ group in Crimea
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Russia detains Ukrainian ‘terrorist’ group in Crimea
Russia’s security service said Thursday it had detained several people in Crimea, accusing them of being saboteurs sent by Kiev to the Moscow-annexed peninsula to attack infrastructure targets. …read more Source: Hindustan...
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama pledge to unite behind President-elect Donald Trump
Donald Trump put aside the celebrations and began planning his 73-day transition to the White House on Wednesday as rival Hillary Clinton promised to bury the bitterness of their long presidential race and work to unify a divided country. After the Republican Trump’s stunning upset of the heavily favored Clinton, Democratic President Barack...
EU finance ministers agree on new sanctions against Crimean officials
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