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Ukraine PM Yatseniuk tenders resignation
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk tendered his resignation on Sunday in a televised broadcast. …read more Source: The...
Kerry arrives in Japan for landmark Hiroshima visit
HIROSHIMA, Japan: John Kerry arrived in Japan on Sunday for a Group of Seven meeting in Hiroshima, marking the first-ever visit to the atomic-bombed city by a US secretary of state. Kerry landed at a US military base west of Hiroshima from Afghanistan for the two-day G7 gathering set to discuss a host of global issues though the symbolism of his...
NATO envoys, Russia to hold special council in Brussels – statement
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The NATO-Russia Council, which has not met since 2014, will convene in the next two weeks in Brussels to discuss the Ukraine crisis, the Western military alliance said on Friday, saying both sides had agreed to hold talks at the level of ambassadors. …read more Source: The...
Russia-NATO Council may meet within weeks – agencies cite deputy foreign minister
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A meeting of the Russia-NATO Council may take place within weeks for the first time since the Ukraine crisis erupted in 2014, Alexey Meshkov, a deputy Russian foreign minister, was cited as saying on Friday by Russian news agencies. …read more Source: The...
Hiroshima in focus as top US diplomat, G7 foreign ministers meet
TOKYO: When John Kerry joins his fellow G7 foreign ministers for talks this weekend in Hiroshima, the city’s symbolism as the first ever target of an atomic attack will take centre stage. Kerry will become the first ever US secretary of state to visit Hiroshima, obliterated by an American atomic bomb in 1945, with his trip seen as possibly...
France, Germany to back Ukraine pact despite Dutch 'No' – Hollande
METZ, France (Reuters) – France and Germany will continue to back an EU agreement on closer ties with Ukraine, French President Francois Hollande said on Thursday after Dutch voters rejected the pact in a referendum. …read more Source: The...
Dutch vote highlights EU's problem with voters, UK beware
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union’s long-running problem with voters just got a little worse after the Dutch rejected an agreement on closer EU ties with Ukraine, highlighting the difficulties of further European integration. …read more Source: The...
EU's Juncker saddened by Dutch vote on Ukraine
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker was saddened by the outcome of a Dutch referendum that overwhelmingly rejected a Ukraine-European Union treaty on closer political and economic ties, the Commission said on Thursday. …read more Source: The...
Dutch referendum results displays EU's attitude to Ukraine – Russian PM
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A rejection by Dutch voters of a treaty on closer ties between the European Union and Ukraine in an advisory referendum shows Europe’s attitude to Ukraine’s political system, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on his Twitter account. …read more Source: The...
Dutch voters overwhelming reject Ukraine-EU treaty
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch voters have overwhelmingly rejected a Ukraine-European Union treaty on closer political and economic ties, in a rebuke to their government and to the European Union establishment. …read more Source: The...
