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World › Ukraine, Russia leaders to meet in a bid to rescue truce
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko on Saturday said he will meet with Russia’s Vladimir Putin next week as Kiev reported rebel attacks have subsided, signalling the possibility of rescuing a truce in the six-month conflict. Pro-Russian rebels and the Ukrainian military in the eastern Donetsk region said they have agreed to…...
World › One MH17 passenger had oxygen mask on
The body of one passenger of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was found wearing an oxygen mask, Dutch prosecutors said Thursday, raising questions about how much those on board knew about their fate when the plane plunged out of the sky above Eastern Ukraine in July. The passenger, an Australian, did… …read more Source: Japan...
World › Ukraine’s truce in trouble amid airport battle
Despite a cease-fire declared a month ago between the Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels, the biggest city in eastern Ukraine remains embroiled in fighting that includes daily artillery and rocket barrage hitting residential areas. The fighting focusing on the airport of the rebel-held city of Donetsk shows the difficulties of… …read...
World › Fighting rages around airport in eastern Ukraine
Pro-Russian rebels pressed Friday to seize a key airport in eastern Ukraine despite fierce resistance by government forces. An AP reporter on Friday saw three rebel tanks firing their cannons at the main terminal of Donetsk airport, where government forces have holed up. Sniper shots rang around the area. Rebels… …read more Source: Japan...
World › Red Cross worker killed by shelling in Donetsk
A Red Cross worker was killed by shelling in the rebel-held city of Donetsk, the aid group said Thursday. The International Committee of the Red Cross said Laurent DuPasquier, a 38-year-old Swiss national, died when a shell landed near the group’s office in the eastern Ukrainian city. “We are deeply… …read more Source: Japan...
World › Ukraine rebels close in on Donetsk airport
Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine advanced Wednesday on the government-held airport in Donetsk, pressing to seize the key transportation hub even as the two sides bargained over a troop pullout under a much-violated truce. Fighting for the airport has raged for months as the insurgents have tried to dislodge the… …read more Source:...
World › EU keeps Russia sanctions as clashes resume in Ukraine
The European Union on Tuesday decided to keep in place biting economic sanctions on Russia over its alleged backing of pro-Kremlin insurgents who have largely ignored a four-week Ukrainian truce. The bloc’s announcement came just moments before NATO reported the continued presence of “hundreds” of elite Russian soldiers in the…...
World › Deadly attacks by pro-Russian rebels threaten Ukraine truce
Ukraine’s truce and troops withdrawal deal lay in tatters Tuesday after the deadliest wave of attacks by pro-Russian insurgents in more than a month left nine soldiers and four civilians dead. Thirteen soldiers and civilians were killed in 24 hours, officials said Monday, in the worst violence since the government… …read more Source:...
World › Ukraine leader sees end to war, eyes EU membership by 2020
Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko on Thursday proclaimed an end to the “most dangerous” part of Ukraine’s pro-Russian uprising and the start of a post-war recovery that would lead to an EU membership bid in 2020. But the upbeat message was clouded by new deadly clashes and a defiant decision by… …read more Source: Japan...
World › NATO cautiously welcomes Ukraine buffer zone deal
NATO’s top military commander expressed cautious optimism Saturday that a tenuous Ukrainian ceasefire whose details were thrashed out in marathon overnight negotiations would help end a bloody pro-Kremlin uprising that has inflamed East-West ties. Government forces and pro-Kremlin militias were due by early Sunday to pull back their forces...
