Section: The Star (Malaysia)
Proximity along contact line in east Ukraine raises violence risks – OSCE
BERLIN (Reuters) – International monitors want Ukrainian government forces and Russia-backed separatists to pull further apart along the line of contact in east Ukraine, a senior official with Europe’s main security and rights watchdog said on Monday. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine President sees Yaresko as possible PM – spokesman
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko sees Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko as possibly taking over as prime minister, his spokesman said on Monday, having repeatedly urged the government to resign saying that it had lost the trust of the people. …read more Source: The...
France says time to act on Libya, will push for EU sanctions
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s foreign minister on Thursday said there was no time to waste in forming a Libyan government that would pave the way for action against Islamic State and he would push for sanctions against individuals at a European meeting next week. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine's Yaresko says rumours fuelling political crisis
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko on Thursday deflected questions about her chances of becoming prime minister if the government collapsed and said such speculation was fanning the flames of the country’s political crisis. …read more Source: The...
European Union extends Russian asset freezes over Ukraine
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union governments extended on Thursday sanctions on Russians and Ukrainians targeted in 2014 over the conflict in eastern Ukraine, keeping asset freezes and travel bans in place until mid-September. …read more Source: The...
Hunger-striking Ukrainian pilot Savchenko starts consuming liquids – lawyer
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Hunger-striking Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, who faces up to 25 years in a Russian jail, has started consuming liquids, her lawyer Nikolai Polozov said on his Twitter page on Thursday. …read more Source: The...
Russia's Lavrov, Ukraine's Klimkin hold phone call on pilot case
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Ukrainian counterpart Pavlo Klimkin discussed the case of hunger-striking Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko in a phone call on Wednesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. …read more Source: The...
Back me or sack me, Ukraine PM tells lawmakers
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk urged lawmakers on Wednesday to back him, sack him or force snap elections as lawmakers held talks with potential replacements. …read more Source: The...
Hunger-striking Ukrainian pilot could die before Russia sentences her – lawyer
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A hunger-striking Ukrainian pilot on trial in Russia over the killing of two Russian journalists could die before a Russian court sentences her as the state of her health is worsening, her lawyer said. …read more Source: The...
Locals eating radioactive food 30 years after Chernobyl – Greenpeace tests
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Economic crises convulsing Russia, Ukraine and Belarus mean testing in areas contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster has been cut or restricted, Greenpeace said, and people continue to eat and drink foods with dangerously high radiation levels. …read more Source: The...
