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EU agrees 1.8 billion euros for Ukraine, to consider more
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU finance ministers agreed on Tuesday to loan Ukraine 1.8 billion euros (1.33 billion pounds) to help save it from bankruptcy, leaving open the option of increasing aid at a later stage. …read more Source: The...
EU leaders likely to decide on new Russia sanctions
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders asked their foreign ministers on Tuesday to consider possible new sanctions on Russia in response to a rebel offensive in eastern Ukraine, but a final decision to impose them is likely to be left to a summit next month. …read more Source: The...
EU foreign ministers to consider new sanction against Russia
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders asked their foreign ministers on Tuesday to consider an appropriate response to renewed fighting in eastern Ukraine, including new sanctions against Russia, when the ministers meet in Brussels on Thursday. …read more Source: The...
Nine Ukrainian soldiers killed, 29 wounded in past 24 hours
KIEV (Reuters) – Nine Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and 29 wounded in fighting in separatist eastern territories in the past 24 hours, Kiev military spokesman Vladislav Seleznyov said on Tuesday. …read more Source: The...
FBI arrests alleged Russian spy in New York
NEW YORK: Federal agents on Monday arrested an alleged Russian spy in New York accused of trying to recruit sources and collect economic intelligence while working as a Manhattan banker, officials said. US prosecutors named the alleged covert intelligence agent as Evgeny Buryakov, 39. He appeared before Judge Sarah Netburn in a Manhattan federal...
Inquiry begins into Russian ex-spy’s radiation death
LONDON: The most sensational spy tale since the Cold War lands in a London court on Tuesday as an inquiry begins to examine alleged Russian state involvement in the radiation poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko. The former agent with Russia’s FSB security service, who was doing work for Britain’s MI6, was killed with Polonium-210...
Last survivors recall Auschwitz, ask if lessons learnt
OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) – Russia’s Vladimir Putin will be absent from the main event marking 70 years since Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, held against a backdrop of hostilities in Ukraine and warnings of a rise in anti-Semitism in Europe. …read more Source: The...
Russia's Putin to Hollande, Merkel – Kiev at fault for east Ukraine violence
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin held phone calls with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, the Kremlin said on Monday, in which he said the flare-up of violence in eastern Ukraine was due to Kiev’s “violent suppression” of the region. …read more Source: The...
EU hawks lead calls for tougher sanctions on Russia
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union hawks on Russia, including Poland and Lithuania, called on Monday for sanctions on Moscow to be stepped up after a new offensive by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, but EU power-broker Germany took a more cautious line. …read more Source: The...
Attackers knowingly targeted civilians in Mariupol, Ukraine – U.N.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Whoever carried out last weekend’s deadly rocket attacks on the government-held port city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine intentionally targeted civilians, which would constitute a war crime, a senior U.N. official said on Monday. …read more Source: The...
