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EU to look into extending Russia sanctions next week – sources
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU envoys to Brussels are due to discuss extending sanctions on Russia over its role in the conflict in Ukraine on June 21 and the bloc’s ministers will approve their decision three days later, diplomatic sources said on Monday. …read more Source: The...
EU to look into extending Russia sanctions next week – sources
EU envoys to Brussels are due to discuss extending sanctions on Russia over its role in the conflict in Ukraine on June 21 and the bloc’s ministers will approve their decision three days later, diplomatic sources said on Monday. …read more Source: Channel...
Nato to deploy 4 ‘robust’ battalions in Baltics, Poland
BRUSSELS: Nato will deploy four international battalions to Poland and the three Baltic states as part of the wider pushback against Russia’s intervention in Ukraine, alliance head Jens Stoltenberg said Monday. “We will agree to deploy by rotation four robust multi-national battalions in the Baltic states and Poland,”...
Germany defence must get better despite victory
Germany may have won their opening Euro 2016 game against Ukraine 2-0 on Sunday, with talismanic captain Bastian Schweinsteiger scoring late, but the victory also highlighted the need for defensive repairs. …read more Source:...
Brexit: Dutch PM Mark Rutte urges ‘seafaring’ UK to stay in EU
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Monday he hoped British voters would decide in a June 23 referendum to stay in the EU, saying the bloc needed such a strategically important country with its strong trading and “seafaring” traditions. The chances that Britain will vote to leave the EU increased sharply on Monday to 36 percent,...
OSCE PA calls for confidence building-measures to avoid further hostilities in Karabakh conflict zone
Pointing to a loss of trust between OSCE countries in recent years, the rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly’s political affairs and security committee, Margareta Cederfelt (MP, Sweden), has authored a report and draft resolution geared towards strengthening international dialogue and improving co-operation to meet common challenges...
In Georgia detained 178 kilo of heroin from Azerbaijan
Tbilisi/13.06.16/Turan: The Georgian officials revealed 178 kilo of heroin in a truck coming from Azerbaijan. According to the Customs Authority of Georgia, the drugs were hidden in a specially equipped place in a truck. The drugs were packed in 356 bricks. The cargo was going from Iran to the Netherlands through Azerbaijan, Georgia and Ukraine....
Nervous Baltics on war footing as NATO tries to deter Russia
Leaders in the Baltic countries and Poland fear the force NATO plans to deploy on their territory is too small and symbolic to deter an attack by Russia, whose 2014 annexation of Crimea is fresh in the memories of the former Soviet-bloc states. They will this week press other ministers of the western military alliance to help them build an air...
NATO to deploy 4 ‘robust’ battalions in Baltics, Poland
BRUSSELS – NATO will deploy four international battalions to Poland and the three Baltic states as part of the wider pushback against Russia’s intervention in Ukraine, alliance head Jens Stoltenberg said Monday. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Football fans tried in France but Russian hooligans ‘evade arrest’
MARSEILLE, June 13, 2016 (AFP) – Ten men will be tried in France Monday over the violence between English and Russian football fans in Marseille, but prosecutors said 150 extremely well-trained Russian hooligans had evaded arrest.England captain Wayne Rooney and manager Roy Hodgson made a public appeal to England fans to behave after UEFA...
