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4 killed as passenger bus hits mine in east Ukraine
Four people were killed today when a passenger minibus hit a mine in eastern Ukraine during a relative calm in fighting, officials said. An AFP reporter at the scene saw pools of blood and personal belongings of the victims scattered near a checkpoint at Marinka – a flashpoint village of about 10,000 people that witnessed heavy battles...
Russia's Lavrov, Germany's Steinmeier discuss Syria, Ukraine by phone
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier held a telephone conversation on Wednesday to discuss Syria and Ukraine, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said. …read more Source: The...
What makes Russian diplomats tick?
“WHY don’t you influence me, then?” I asked a Russian diplomat engaged in Asian affairs, after “an unnecessary discussion” about my column in The Malaysian Reserve. I mean, it is easy to just find fault in anyone’s work, but it is not as easy to pick the right subject when you begin to piece your column, especially one that is of the...
US spy chief: US and Russia could spiral into new Cold War
WASHINGTON: Russia is “paranoid” about being challenged by NATO and its efforts to rival American power could push it into a new Cold War, the head of US intelligence said Tuesday. “They’re greatly concerned about being contained,” the director of national intelligence, James Clapper, told the Senate Armed Services Committee. Clapper said...
Over 180 swine flu deaths in Ukraine since September
More than 180 people have died of swine flu in Ukraine since late September, the health ministry said today, adding that three of the victims were children. The war-scarred former Soviet country has been swept by a general flu epidemic that overall has claimed 220 lives since September 28, when the first illness was recorded, the ministry…...
5 Czech skiers killed in Austrian Alps avalanche
VIENNA: Five skiers from the Czech Republic were killed Saturday in an avalanche in the Austrian Alps that also engulfed 17 other people, police said. Two of the skiers were injured, but not critically, they added. The five fatalities, men and women, belonged to two groups of off-piste skiers in a valley south of Innsbruck in western Austria....
Dutch 'no' on Ukraine pact would force rethink, minister says
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Dutch government would be obliged to reconsider its position on an EU pact establishing closer ties with Ukraine if it loses an upcoming referendum on the issue, the country’s foreign minister said, but he stopped short of saying a “no” vote would scupper the treaty. …read more Source: The...
EU sanctions on Russia at risk without Ukraine reforms -Denmark
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Ukraine must uphold its part of a peace deal with Russia by modernising the country or risk a collapse of support for EU sanctions against Moscow, Denmark’s foreign minister said on Friday. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine needs new-look government, says outgoing economy minister
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine needs a new technocratic government led by the present finance minister to have any hope of pushing through long-promised reforms, the outgoing economy minister told Reuters on Friday, two days after his shock resignation. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine wants UN Security Council to visit war zone
Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations wants to invite the Security Council to visit war-wracked eastern Ukraine in the coming months. Ambassador Volodymyr Yelchenko told reporters yesterday that “ideally” the visit to the Donetsk region would take place in the summer. The envoy said Russia was “quite...
