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Prominent Russian separatist commander killed in eastern Ukraine
MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) – A prominent Russian separatist commander was assassinated in eastern Ukraine on Sunday evening, his allies said on Monday, accusing Ukrainian government forces of murdering him to try to destabilise an already fragile ceasefire. …read more Source: The...
Germany's Merkel willing to meet Putin on Ukraine but needs progress
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel is willing to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on the Ukraine crisis but no meeting has been set and progress needs to be made on the peace process, her spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Monday. …read more Source: The...
Pro-Russian rebel commander killed in Ukraine elevator bombing
DONETSK, Ukraine: A military chief of Ukraine’s pro-Russian rebels, Arseny Pavlov, was killed Sunday in a bomb attack in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, local authorities said, calling it a “declaration of war”. Russia, which annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014, backs a separatist, pro-Moscow insurgency in eastern...
Montenegro votes as veteran PM warns of anti-Nato threat
PODGORICA, Montenegro Montenegro votes Sunday with opposition groups hoping to end the quarter-century rule of pro-Western premier Milo Djukanovic, who warns that his rivals would derail imminent Nato accession. Djukanovic, who led the small Balkan nation to independence from Serbia in 2006, has forged closer ties with Western countries, pursuing...
Merkel says no decision yet on four-way summit on Ukraine crisis
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday said there had been no decision yet on whether to proceed with a “Normandy format” summit with Russia, France and Ukraine on the conflict in eastern Ukraine in Berlin next week. …read more Source: The...
Germany's Merkel in regular touch with Putin on Ukraine, Syria – spokesman
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel is in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the conflict in eastern Ukraine and the war in Syria, a government spokesman said on Friday. …read more Source: The...
Germany, Ukraine agree more talks needed before four-way summit
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko agreed more talks were needed before a “Normandy format” summit on the Ukraine conflict could be held, the German government said. …read more Source: The...
Children's bed shaped like missile that downed MH17 plane stirs unease in Russia
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – A Russian firm has caused a stir after putting on sale a children’s bed in the shape of a Buk missile launcher of the kind that shot down a Malaysian Airlines passenger jet in eastern Ukraine in 2014. …read more Source: The...
U.K. supports call for EU sanctions against Congo officials
DAKAR (Reuters) – The United Kingdom said on Thursday it backs targeted European Union sanctions against officials in Democratic Republic of Congo to end government repression and encourage a peaceful transition of power. …read more Source: The...
Kremlin still sees chance of four-way summit on Ukraine on Oct. 19
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Thursday that it still sees a chance of holding a “Normandy format” summit on the Ukraine conflict in Berlin on Oct. 19. …read more Source: The...
