Section: The Indian Express (India)
Leaders in Minsk for marathon Ukraine peace talks
Left to right, Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko talk in Minsk, Belarus, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. (AP Photo) Marathon talks on ending the war in Ukraine lasted through the night into the 14th hour on Thursday as the leaders of Russia,...
Leaders in Minsk for crucial Ukraine peace talks
Left to right, Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko talk in Minsk, Belarus, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. (AP Photo) Intense talks on ending the war in Ukraine stretched through the night on Thursday as the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and...
Ukraine: Fighting continues, peace talks later today.
Fighting is continuing to rage in eastern Ukraine ahead of crucial peace talks later in the day. Shelling early Wednesday rocked a bus station in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, where an Associated Press reporter saw one body at a bus station and was told by rebel officials that another body had been recently removed from the scene. Donetsk city...
“Military means” not the solution to Ukraine conflict: Merkel
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper with German Chancellor Angela Merkel following a joint news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario on Monday, Feb. 9, 2015. (Source: AP) German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday the conflict between Russia and Ukraine cannot be solved by “military means.” Merkel made the remark in a joint news...
Russians write open letter to Putin over foreign-currency mortgages
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russians with foreign-currency mortgages have written an open letter to President Vladimir Putin seeking help with repayments that have soared because of the rouble’s plunge, saying they were misled by banks. The letter, published by the Vedomosti and Kommersant business newspapers on Monday, reflects...
Chemical plant in eastern Ukraine catches fire
An explosion and fire have rocked a chemical plant outside a separatist stronghold in eastern Ukraine. Rebels say it was hit by government shelling. No casualties or damage were immediately reported from the blast which was so powerful that it was heard as far as downtown Donetsk. An armed conflict between Russia-backed separatists and government...
Merkel to brief Obama on four-party talks on Ukraine crisis
FILE – President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. (Source: AP) President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are trying for a public display of unity despite a potential split over arming Ukrainian fighters to better battle Russian-backed separatists. That was the unstated point of Monday’s meeting at the White...
Bank’s services for arms dealers in conflict with its own policy
An Indian Express Investigation in collaboration with Le Monde and International Consortium of Investigative Journalists By: Will Fitzgibbon & Martha M Hamilton It was a scene of incredible carnage. In July 2003, a recently re-armed rebel group, Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy, resumed its two-month siege of the capital,...
HSBC sheltered murky cash linked to dictators, arms dealers
An Indian Express Investigation in collaboration with Le Monde and International Consortium of Investigative Journalists By: Gerard Ryle, Will Fitzgibbon, Mar Cabra, Rigoberto Carvajal, Marina Walker Guevara, Martha M Hamilton and Tom Stites Secret documents reveal that global banking giant HSBC profited from doing business with arms dealers who...
“Get out of Ukraine”: US Vice President Joe Biden to Russian President Vladimir Putin
Talking tough, US Vice President Joe Biden has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin simply to “get out of Ukraine.” Speaking at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, Biden said the conflict in Ukraine had moved beyond the need for a “reset” with the relationship, instead requiring a “re-assertion” of the “fundamental bedrock principles on...
