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Russia's Putin, Ukraine's Poroshenko discuss meeting – Kremlin
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko have discussed the possibility of meeting, either alone or with the leaders of Germany and France, a senior Kremlin official said on Friday. …read more Source: The...
Oil prices rise on geopolitical concerns
SINGAPORE: Oil prices were mixed in Asia Friday as dealers focused on conflict-wracked Ukraine and US-led airstrikes against jihadists in the Middle East, analysts said. …read more Source: New Straits...
Ukrainian, Russian officials start work to set up 'buffer zone' in east
KIEV (Reuters) – Senior Ukrainian and Russian military officials met on Friday to mark out a proposed ‘buffer zone’ in eastern Ukraine from which government forces and separatists will pull back artillery and other heavy armaments, Ukrainian military officials said. …read more Source: The...
Crew including first woman cosmonaut in 17 years blasts off for ISS
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan: A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts, including the first woman cosmonaut in 17 years, blasted off on schedule Friday, Russian mission control said. The Soyuz-TMA14M spacecraft took off at 12.25am Moscow time (2025 GMT Thursday) from Russia’s Baikonur cosmodrome in...
Exclusive – Ukraine prime minister says Russians 'want us to freeze'
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The prime minister of the Kiev government accused Russia on Thursday of attempting to freeze Ukraine in the coming winter by using natural gas as a weapon to subjugate the former Soviet Republic. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine can’t guarantee access to MH17 crash site
NEW YORK: UKRAINE’S prime minister met Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak on Wednesday but gave no clear commitment on when investigators of crashed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 could re-enter eastern Ukraine before winter to continue their probe. …read more Source: New Straits...
Russian state arms maker to sell plant to bypass Western sanctions
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Rostec, a state-owned conglomerate hit by Western sanctions over Ukraine, will sell a small arms factory to a businessman who is not blacklisted to allow further sales to Europe and the United States, officials and sources said. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine president sets 2020 as EU target date, defends peace plan
KIEV (Reuters) – President Petro Poroshenko proclaimed reforms on Thursday spanning all aspects of life to make strife-torn Ukraine fit for European Union membership, warning his people that without reform they would face a future “alone with Russia.” …read more Source: The...
EU likely to keep sanctions on Russia, for now
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union is likely to keep sanctions on Russia in place for now when ambassadors meet next week to assess progress in implementing Ukraine’s peace process, diplomats said. …read more Source: The...
Georgia eyes economic development, wary of Russia – deputy PM
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Ukraine crisis has refreshed Georgia’s wariness in dealing with Russia, its former Soviet master with whom it fought a five-day war in 2008 that left it with two breakaway regions loyal to Moscow, the country’s deputy prime minister said. …read more Source: The...
