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Merkel takes centre stage in EU’s year of crises
BERLIN: In a year of crises for Europe, from the Ukraine war to Greece’s debt turmoil to the historic refugee influx, Germany’s Angela Merkel emerged as the continent’s de facto leader, drawing more praise and fire than ever. Whether spearheading EU diplomacy with Moscow, bargaining with Athens over tough bail-out terms or...
Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Dec. 28, 2015
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Times of Central Asia presents to its readers Stratfor’s Global Intelligence, a weekly review of the most important events that happened in the world — from Europe to Middle East to Russia to Central Asia to Afghanistan to China and the Americas. The Week That WasAs the year comes to an end and the holiday lull leaves...
Ukraine parish turns into battlefield amid conflict with Russia
PTYCHA (UKRAINE) – The quiet village of Ptycha has become an unlikely battleground for the Orthodox faithful in western Ukraine, where the divide between pro- and anti-Moscow factions plays out far from the eastern front of the war-torn country. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Ukrainian soldier, elderly civilian killed: military
A Ukrainian soldier and an elderly woman have been killed as government forces and separatists clashed in the first violation of a holiday truce, a Ukraine military spokesman said Sunday. …read more Source: Global...
Ukraine parish turns into battlefield amid conflict with Russia
The quiet village of Ptycha has become an unlikely battleground for the Orthodox faithful in western Ukraine, where the divide between pro- and anti-Moscow factions plays out far from the eastern front of the war-torn country.Armed with sticks, spades and Molotov cocktails, the Orthodox faithful in the Ukrainian-speaking village this month moved...
Red flags over Turkey-China weapons deal
As tensions in West Asia and Ukraine rose in recent years, Turkey moved to jointly manufacture a sophisticated missile defence system. The $3.4 billion plan would have given Turkey’s military more f… …read more Source: The...
Ukraine’s Chernivtsi marks 140th anniversary of Armenian church
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Russia’s Vladimir Putin orders several counter-terrorism units to be set up on coasts
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered counter-terrorism operational headquarters to be set up in several coastal areas, the state-run RIA news agency quoted the Kremlin as saying on Saturday. The units are to be set in Kaspiysk on the Caspian Sea, Murmansk in Russia’s north-west and in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk...
Vitali Klitschko operates tractor to see if Kyiv is ready for snow
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Turkey welcomes Meskhetian Turks from east Ukraine
Over 300 Meskhetian Turks from the Turkish-speaking minority in eastern Ukraine have arrived in eastern Turkey’s Erzincan province where they will live under the country’s recently-adopted asylum measures, Anadolu Agency reports. …read more Source:...
