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Syrian opposition begins talks in Moscow
Syrian opposition figures on Monday began four days of talks on how to end the near four-year conflict, with members of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime set to join them but the main exiled opposition alliance boycotting the event. The closed-door talks opened as planned at 11 am Moscow time (0800 GMT), a Russian diplomatic source told...
Miss Colombia crowned Miss Universe; Miss USA runner-up
Miss Colombia Paulina Vega has been crowned Miss Universe, beating out contestants from 87 other countries.Miss USA Nia Sanchez and Miss Ukraine Diana Harkusha were the runners-up during Sunday’s competition.Vega said the contests leading to Miss Universe were the first she’d participated in and will be her last, as she’s eager...
15 finalists, including Indonesia, named for Miss Universe crown
Miss USA, Miss Venezuela and Miss Colombia have been named among the 15 finalists competing to be crowned Miss Universe.The contestants were narrowed from 88 during the preliminary competition in recent days, but the results were only announced during the live show Sunday night.”I thought I was done for sure there,” said Miss...
Russia blocks UN condemnation of shelling of Ukraine city
Russia blocked a Western-backed U.N. Security Council statement Saturday that would have condemned indiscriminate shelling in Ukraine’s southeastern city of Mariupol that killed about 30 civilians and injured more than 90.The blocked statement, obtained by The Associated Press, called for “an immediate de-escalation of...
Rockets kill 30 in Ukrainian city as rebels launch offensive
Indiscriminate rocket fire slammed into a market, schools, homes and shops Saturday in Ukraine’s southeastern city of Mariupol, killing at least 30 people, authorities said. The Ukrainian president called the blitz a terrorist attack and NATO and the U.S. demanded that Russia stop supporting the rebels.Ukrainian officials rushed to defend...
Ukraine Cedes Airport on One of Bloodiest Days of War
Donetsk. Ukrainian forces on Thursday ceded a long-disputed airport to Russian-backed rebels as an upsurge in clashes killed nearly 50 people and punctured Europe’s latest push for peace in the nine-month war. The deadliest day of fighting since the signing of an increasingly irrelevant September truce also saw Moscow and Kiev trade bitter...
Top official: Russians will ‘eat less’ for Putin
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, on Friday warned the West against trying to topple President Vladimir Putin and said that Russians are ready to sacrifice their wealth in Putin’s support. Russia has for the past year been sliding into recession amid a slump in its energy export...
Pro-Russian rebel announces new Ukraine offensive, no talks
A top Ukrainian separatist leader said Friday he would not push for new peace talks with Kiev and warned that his forces were launching a new offensive to expand their control. “Our side will no longer push for any more truce talks,” Donetsk rebel chief Alexander Zakharchenko said in comments published on a Ukrainian separatist...
Bloody bus attack in Ukraine as troops abandon airport
At least 41 people were killed in Ukraine’s east Thursday, one of the deadliest days in the separatist war, with a bloody bus shelling in Donetsk as government forces abandoned their defense of the city’s strategic airport. In a graphic illustration of the degenerating nine-month conflict, pro-Russian rebels also paraded some 20...
Ukraine troops cede Donetsk airport to pro-Russia rebels
Ukraine’s military on Thursday said days of unceasing attacks by pro-Russian insurgents had forced its soldiers to abandon a devastated airport that has become the symbolic prize of the nine-month war. Defense officials said fighting around the ruins of the Donetsk air hub — once one of eastern Europe’s most modern and busiest...
