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Russia bars 89 EU citizens
STOCKHOLM: European politicians who discovered they were on a previously confidential Russian travel blacklist said Saturday they were proud of being included, as EU governments led by Germany criticised the entry bans. The 89-strong list, formerly undisclosed but revealed to European diplomats on Thursday, includes past and serving...
Ukraine names Georgia's Saakashvili as governor of Black Sea hotspot
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s Petro Poroshenko has appointed former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to be governor of Ukraine’s southern Odessa region, in a surprise move that is certain to raise hackles in Moscow. …read more Source: The...
EU criticizes 'unjustified' Russian travel blacklist
BERLIN (Reuters) – Russia has imposed an entry ban on 89 European politicians and military leaders, according to a list seen by Reuters, a move that has angered Europe and worsened its standoff with the West over Moscow’s role in the Ukraine conflict. …read more Source: The...
Russian aircraft head off U.S. destroyer in Black Sea – RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian military aircraft were scrambled to head off a U.S. warship that was acting “aggressively” in the Black Sea, state news agency RIA reported on Saturday, citing an anonymous source in Russia’s armed forces in Crimea. …read more Source: The...
Finland not afraid to criticize Russia – new foreign minister
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland’s government aims to maintain good relations with neighbouring Russia, but it condemns the annexation of Crimea and will comply with European Union positions on the Ukraine crisis, its new foreign minister said. …read more Source: The...
Report: Top suspect of Nazi war crimes dies in Canada
MONTREAL: One of the top suspects of Nazi war crimes during the Second World War has died at the age of 93, the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail reported. A Canadian of Ukrainian descent, Vladimir Katriuk, was listed as the second most wanted Nazi this year by the US-based Simon Wiesenthal Center that focuses on war criminals. Katriuk died...
Special Report – Russian fighters, caught in Ukraine, cast adrift by Moscow
KIEV (Reuters) – From his hospital bed in the Ukrainian capital, Russian fighter Alexander Alexandrov feels abandoned by his country, its leaders and even the local Russian consul. …read more Source: The...
One Ukrainian servicemen killed in east Ukraine
KIEV (Reuters) – One Ukrainian serviceman has been killed and six other have been wounded in attacks by Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, a Kiev military spokesman said on Friday. …read more Source: The...
Bomb damages sweet shop belonging to Ukraine president's Roshen chain
KIEV (Reuters) – A bomb exploded outside a sweet shop in Kiev that is owned by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s Roshen chain, police said on Friday. …read more Source: The...
Hashtag named Oxford University press children’s word of the year
LONDON: Oxford University Press (UOP), one of the world’s leading guardians of the English language, on Thursday revealed the children’s word of the year. It is not even a word but the hashtag symbol #. Increasing numbers of children are using the hashtag symbol as an expression of drama or comment, Xinhua news agency reported. It...
