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Merkel sees no reason to roll back Russia sanctions – spokeswoman
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel sees no reason at all now to roll back sanctions against Russia in the Ukraine crisis, a government spokeswoman said on Wednesday. …read more Source: The...
Savchenko hailed in Ukraine parliament, berates 'lazy schoolchildren' lawmakers
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian servicewoman Nadiya Savchenko, whose resistance to her imprisonment in Russia has made her a national hero and a potentially disruptive force in Ukrainian politics, received a standing ovation in her first address to parliament on Tuesday. …read more Source: The...
German Foreign Minister says unclear if Russia sanctions will be renewed
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Tuesday it was no secret that some EU states were sceptical about extending sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis and it was unclear if the 28-nation bloc would decide to renew them. …read more Source: The...
Moscow’s fourth international airport opens despite downturn
MOSCOW: Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev opened the Zhukovsky airport about 40 kilometres southeast of Moscow city centre, Russian television reported. The new airport has a capacity of 2 million passengers per year, Rostec, the Russian state conglomerate that controls the airport’s operating company Ramport Aero, said in a statement. The...
Five Ukrainian soldiers killed, four wounded in separatist east
KIEV: Five Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and four wounded in fresh clashes with pro-Russian separatists in the country’s east, the military said Sunday, the army’s second deadliest toll this year. “Unfortunately, over the past 24 hours, five Ukrainian soldiers have died and four more have been wounded,” military...
Five Ukrainian soldiers killed in separatist attacks
KIEV (Reuters) – Five Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and four wounded in the past 24 hours as a result of attacks by pro-Russian rebels in separatist eastern regions, Ukrainian military spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said on Sunday. …read more Source: The...
17 die in fire at Ukraine home for elderly
KIEV: Seventeen people died when a makeshift home for elderly people outside the Ukrainian capital Kiev caught fire in the early hours of Sunday, the emergencies service said. “The bodies of 17 people have been found at the site of the fire,” the head of Ukraine’s state emergencies service, Mykola Chechetkin, said in comments...
17 die in fire at Ukraine home for elderly
View of Independence Square in Kiev. AFP File Photo Seventeen people died when a makeshift home for elderly people outside the Ukrainian capital Kiev caught fire in the early hours of Sunday, the emergencies service said. “The bodies of 17 people have been found at the site of the fire,” the head of Ukraine’s state emergencies service,...
Sixteen killed in house fire in village near Kiev
KIEV (Reuters) – Sixteen people have been killed and one is missing after a fire broke out in a residential building housing elderly people in a village near Kiev, Ukraine’s state emergency service said in a statement on Sunday. …read more Source: The...
Progress on Ukraine reforms can boost case for Russia sanctions – Rasmussen
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine will find it easier to persuade European Union countries to renew sanctions against Russia this summer if it shows progress in pushing reforms and tackling corruption, the former chief of NATO told Reuters on Saturday. …read more Source: The...
