Section: Malaysia
Canada, India, Singapore, Egypt eyeing French Mistral warships
© AFP | Cutaway of the Mistral-class warship. PARIS: Canada, India, Singapore and Egypt are “seriously” interested in buying France’s two Mistral warships, a senior official has said, after Paris scrapped a deal to sell the vessels to Russia over the Ukraine crisis. Louis Gautier, an official who advises the prime minister on defence and...
Italy's Berlusconi rubs shoulders with Putin in Crimea
YALTA, Crimea (Reuters) – Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi became the most prominent Western politician to visit Russian-annexed Crimea when he strolled beside the Black Sea on Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin. …read more Source: The...
Kremlin says extension of east Ukraine peace deal possible
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France will agree to roll-over a peace deal for eastern Ukraine if it is not fully implemented this year as intended, the Kremlin’s top foreign policy aide, Yuri Ushakov, said on Friday. …read more Source: The...
Syria will be topic at Saturday meeting of ministers in Berlin
BERLIN (Reuters) – Foreign ministers meeting in Berlin on Saturday to discuss the Ukraine crisis are also likely to touch on the situation in Syria, a spokesman for the German foreign ministry said on Friday. …read more Source: The...
Leaders from EU, Russia, Ukraine to meet in Paris in October – reports
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrianian President Petro Poroshenko will along with the French and German leaders in Paris in early October to discuss peace efforts to resolve the Ukrainian conflict, Russian news agency RIA reported on Wednesday, citing France’s Elysee Palace. …read more Source: The...
NATO concerned by Russian presence in Syria, Ukraine calmer
PRAGUE (Reuters) – Reports of growing Russian military activity in Syria are a cause for concern while the situation in eastern Ukraine seems calmer, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday. …read more Source: The...
Exclusive – Russia building major military base near Ukrainian border
SOLOTI, Russia (Reuters) – Russia has started to build a huge military base housing ammunition depots and barracks for several thousand soldiers near the Ukrainian border, a project that suggests the Kremlin is digging in for a prolonged stand-off with Kiev. …read more Source: The...
Russia accuses Ukraine PM of fighting Moscow in Chechnya
The head of Russia’s powerful investigative body claimed Wednesday that Ukraine’s bespectacled technocrat prime minister fought in Chechya with Islamist insurgents against Moscow. Alexander Bastrykin told Rossiiskaya Gazeta state daily that in the first Chechen war in the mid-1990s, Ukraine’s premier “Arseny Yatsenyuk...
Ukraine ceasefire more respected now, NATO chief says
PRAGUE (Reuters) – A ceasefire in eastern Ukraine is being respected more now than in the past, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine accepts international criminal court jurisdiction from February 2014
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The government of Ukraine has accepted jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court over war crimes committed on its territory beginning in February 2014, the court said on Tuesday. …read more Source: The...
