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Nine bodies retrieved from Donetsk mine – regional administration
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The bodies of nine miners have been found at a coal mine in the eastern Ukrainian rebel stronghold of Donetsk where a blast trapped dozens of people, the regional administration said. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine security crisis weighs down economic reforms – IMF's Lagarde
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde said on Wednesday that an infusion of financial support for Ukraine and its impact largely hinges on how the security crisis over Russia’s actions in Ukraine is resolved. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine crisis prompts EU to shake up stance on neighbours
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union launched a review of the way it handles neighbouring nations on Wednesday after its policy of offering closer ties to former Soviet republics led it unwittingly into confrontation with Russia. …read more Source: The...
EU ready with sanctions if Ukraine ceasefire violated, Merkel says
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Russia on Wednesday that any serious violation of the current ceasefire in east Ukraine – which she described as “fragile” – would prompt Europe to impose further sanctions on Moscow for supporting the separatists. …read more Source: The...
French court approves Kazakh tycoon Ablyazov's extradition
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s highest appeals court paved the way on Wednesday for the extradition to either Russia or Ukraine of jailed Kazakh tycoon Mukhtar Ablyazov, accused of embezzling up to $6 billion (3.9 billion pounds) from his former bank BTA. …read more Source: The...
Russia's Putin says he doesn't want rerun of gas rows with Ukraine
MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that he did not want a gas conflict with Ukraine similar to ones that took place in the past, and that Kiev only had enough pre-paid gas from Russia to last two days. …read more Source: The...
In Putin’s Russia, West blamed for Nemtsov murder
MOSCOW: Kremlin opponent Boris Nemtsov’s blood was barely dry on the Moscow sidewalk before powerful Russians came up with a startlingly clear conclusion: that the West was to blame. The West stands accused of an increasing number of outrages in President Vladimir Putin’s Russia. All-powerful state television networks, cowed...
MH17: Next of kin finally view wreckage of downed flight
GILZE-RIJEN AIR BASE, (Netherlands): Relatives of those killed when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was downed over eastern Ukraine visited a Dutch air base Tuesday to view the wreckage of the plane. …read more Source: New Straits...
More than 30 killed in mine blast in rebel east Ukraine
DONETSK: An early morning mine blast in the eastern Ukrainian rebel stronghold of Donetsk killed more than 30 people and injured 14, a local official said on Wednesday. Approximately 70 people were working underground at the time of the explosion, a local emergencies ministry official told the Donetsk separatist press service as saying....
Violence in east Ukraine kills one government serviceman – military source
KIEV (Reuters) – One Ukrainian government serviceman was killed and another was wounded in eastern Ukraine despite a ceasefire deal with pro-Russian rebels who have taken up arms there, a military source said on Wednesday. …read more Source: The...
