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Germany and France agree with Putin to work towards Ukraine ceasefire
BERLIN (Reuters) – The leaders of Germany and France proposed at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday to draw up a possible joint document to implement the Minsk agreement and bring an end to the fighting in Ukraine, a German government spokesman said. …read more Source: The...
Moscow talks on Ukraine 'substantial and constructive' – French source
PARIS (Reuters) – The leaders of France and Germany had “substantial and constructive” talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the Ukraine crisis on Friday, a French presidential source said. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine talks end without any word of an agreement
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The leaders of Germany and France ended more than five hours of talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin without any word of an agreement to resolve the crisis in Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
NATO's top general wants "all tools" used to help Ukraine
MUNICH (Reuters) – NATO’s top military commander, U.S. General Philip Breedlove, said on Friday the West should be ready to use “all tools in the tool bag” to help Ukraine fight pro-Russian separatists, though he did not specify if that should include arming Kiev. …read more Source: The...
Fighting traps children underground in east Ukraine
Artyom, 10, poses near his drawings hanging on the walls of a shelter in Donetsk’s Kiyevski district, on February 5, 2015 -© AFP / by Simon Valmary DONETSK (UKRAINE): As the shelling came closer to 10-year-old Artyom’s neighbourhood, he was forced to swap his local playground for a bunker — just like children across rebel-held east...
Echoes of the 1990s in Ukraine as financial crisis bites
KIEV (Reuters) – A crippling financial crisis in Ukraine is turning the clock back to the 1990s, when people kept dollars in their socks rather than at banks and smuggled cars to sell them on the black market and avoid the tax man. …read more Source: The...
‘Dashcams’ catching everything from scammers to disasters
PARIS: The terrifying footage of a plane clipping a bridge in Taiwan and crashing into a river this week highlighted the popularity of “dashcams” that are capturing everything from crime to natural disasters through the windscreen. The TransAsia accident, which left least 35 people dead and several others still missing, was filmed by at least two...
Putin, Merkel and Hollande start Ukraine talks in Kremlin
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leaders of Germany and France began talks in the Kremlin on the Ukraine crisis on Friday, Russian news agencies quoted Putin’s spokesman as saying. …read more Source: The...
Merkel arrives in Kremlin for Ukraine talks
MOSCOW (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in the Kremlin on Friday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Francois Hollande on the Ukraine crisis, the Kremlin press office said. …read more Source: The...
Arming Ukraine could backfire – German minister
MUNICH (Reuters) – Germany’s defence minister warned on Friday that arming Ukrainian troops to help them fight pro-Russian separatists risked exacerbating the conflict and stood little chance of success against rebels who had “potentially unlimited” supplies of weapons from Moscow. …read more Source: The...
