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Germany, France, Russia agree need Minsk measures faster
(Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed in a phone call to discuss the Ukraine crisis on Friday that the measures of the Minsk accord need to be implemented more quickly. …read more Source: The...
Putin, Merkel, Hollande discuss political solution to Ukraine crisis – Kremlin
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin, his French counterpart Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed the Ukraine crisis on Friday, stressing the need for a political solution to the conflict in the Donbass, the Kremlin said. …read more Source: The...
NATO leaders to show resolve towards Russia despite Brexit
WARSAW (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama urged NATO leaders on Friday to stand firm against a resurgent Russia over its seizure of Crimea from Ukraine, saying Britain’s vote to leave the European Union should not weaken the western defence alliance. …read more Source: The...
Internet reposts can mean jail in Russia crackdown
MOSCOW: Recent graduate Maxim Kormelitsky did not think twice when he shared a picture online with an expletive-ridden caption about Russian Orthodox believers and their tradition of jumping into freezing cold water. But then he got a summons from investigators in his small Siberian hometown. Within a few months the 21-year-old was put on trial...
Dutch pressed Moscow for MH17 radar evidence
THE HAGUE: Dutch investigators probing who is to blame for the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 two years ago have pressed Russian authorities to hand over outstanding evidence, officials said Thursday. Initial results from the criminal inquiry into who shot down the ill-fated flight over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014 killing all 298...
Merkel: Russian actions caused ‘loss of trust’ with NATO
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that Russia’s actions in Ukraine had eroded mutual trust with the West, speaking on the eve of a major NATO summit in Poland. “If through words and deeds the validity of (international) law and the inviolability of borders are questioned, then of course trust is lost,” she told the...
U.S. to provide $23 million more for Ukraine humanitarian crisis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will provide nearly $23 million (17.70 million pounds) in additional humanitarian aid to help people affected by the crisis in eastern Ukraine, the State Department said on Thursday. …read more Source: The...
Kerry to discuss separatist conflict, reforms, with Ukraine
KIEV (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was due to visit Kiev on Thursday to discuss Ukraine’s reforms and a fragile ceasefire in eastern Ukraine where Russian-backed separatists are fighting government forces. …read more Source: The...
Three astronauts blast off for ISS in upgraded Soyuz craft
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan: Three astronauts blasted off into the early morning sky in an upgraded Soyuz spacecraft from Russia’s Baikonur cosmodrome Thursday, heading towards the International Space Station. First-time astronauts Kathleen Rubins of NASA and Takuya Onishi of the Japanese space agency set off for a four-month mission at the ISS...
Six die, including three children, in rebel Ukraine (Updated)
KIEV: Three children died in Ukraine’s war-torn east as their father disassembled a grenade, and three Ukrainian troops were killed in clashes in the troubled region with pro-Russian rebels, officials said Tuesday. An insurgency commander said the children, aged between two and 11, found a grenade Monday and gave it to their father in the...
