Section: The Star (Malaysia)
Germany's foreign minister eyes regulation to keep Ukraine ceasefire in weeks
OSLO (Reuters) – German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Sunday he hoped a new regulation aimed at maintaining a fragile ceasefire in eastern Ukraine could be completed soon by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). …read more Source: The...
Crimean dissident says psychiatric detainment a risk to his health
SIMFEROPOL, Crimea (Reuters) – A Crimean dissident undergoing enforced psychiatric testing by Russian authorities is being held in a dilapidated medical facility and says the poor conditions are a danger to his physical health. …read more Source: The...
EU and neighbouring states join global aviation emissions pact
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union and 16 surrounding countries including Turkey, Ukraine and Georgia, said on Saturday they would join the first phase of a UN-brokered deal to limit carbon emissions from international flights, following a similar pledge by China and the United States. …read more Source: The...
Lithuania says it supplies ammunition to Ukraine for first time in two years
VILNIUS (Reuters) – Lithuania says it has supplied lethal weaponry to Ukraine for the first time since 2014. …read more Source: The...
EU's Mogherini says 'back-to-school' ceasefire holding in east Ukraine
BRATISLAVA (Reuters) – The European Union’s top diplomat said on Friday that a “back-to-school” ceasefire seemed to be holding in eastern Ukraine where Russia-backed fighters took up arms against Kiev troops in April, 2014, a conflict that has killed more than 9,500 people. …read more Source: The...
U.S. blacklists dozens over Ukraine conflict
WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) – The United States added dozens of people and companies, including separatists and Russian firms operating in Crimea, on Thursday to its sanctions blacklist over their actions in Ukraine, the region annexed by Russia in 2014. …read more Source: The...
Hollande, Merkel say back Ukraine ceasefire deal – Elysee statement
PARIS (Reuters) – President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel support a deal struck by the trilateral contact group in Ukraine for a general ceasefire which must be implemented by the start of the school year, an Elysee statement said on Thursday. …read more Source: The...
Factbox: The deadly legacy of cluster bombs
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – More than 400 people were killed by cluster bombs in 2015, most of them in conflict-hit Syria, Yemen and Ukraine, according to the Cluster Munition Coalition. …read more Source: The...
Cluster bombs kill more than 400 people, over a third of them children
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – More than 400 people were killed by cluster bombs in 2015, most of them dying in Syria, Yemen and Ukraine, which have not signed up to a treaty banning the weapon, an international anti-cluster bomb coalition said on Thursday. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine successfully relaunches new online income register – official
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine has successfully relaunched a new online income declaration system, a spokesman for the state anti-graft agency said on Thursday – a key condition for the disbursement of a long-delayed tranche of International Monetary Fund loans. …read more Source: The...
