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MH17 victims to get Dutch memorial at Schiphol
THE HAGUE: A forest is to be planted in a park close to Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport to commemorate the victims of downed flight MH17, the organisation representing victims’ families announced Thursday. The national monument will comprise 298 trees, one for each of the victims of the ill-fated flight, the MH17 Disaster Foundation said...
Russia seeks economic revenge against Turkey over jet
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin walks past honor guards as he attends a ceremony to receive diplomatic credentials from foreign ambassadors at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, November 26, 2015. REUTERS/Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool Russia threatened economic retaliation against Turkey on Thursday and said it was still awaiting a reasonable...
Russia strikes back at Turkey with economic sanctions
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, center, and army commanders attend an annual meeting of High Military Council in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday. (AP/Prime Minister’s Press Service)Russia plans to retaliate against Turkey for the downing of a warplane by imposing sanctions, cutting economic ties and scrapping major investment...
Different integration frameworks no obstacle to Armenian-Georgian ties
“There are huge perspectives for the development of friendly relations between Armenia and Georgia,” Georgian Foreign Minister Georgi Kvirikashvili told Public Radio of Armenia. “The Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Georgia Edward Nalbandian and Georgi Kvirikashvili participated in the six informal meeting of the Eastern Partnership FMs held in...
Beeline “Call Me +” service subscribers can send messages abroad requesting to call back
Beeline “Call Me +” service gives the opportunity to send a message with request to call back from mobile and fixed networks abroad. As the prees-service of the company reports, Beeline mobile network prepaid subscribers can also send the request when the balance is zero, while postpaid subscribers can do so if the phone is not...
Power blackouts test loyalty to Kremlin in Russian-annexed Crimea
Power blackouts in Crimea orchestrated by anti-Russian saboteurs are stirring discontent a year and a half after Moscow seized the peninsula from Ukraine, threatening to chip away at the pro-Kremlin euphoria many Crimeans felt after annexation. …read more Source: Channel...
Power blackouts test loyalty to Kremlin in Russian-annexed Crimea
SIMFEROPOL, Crimea (Reuters) – Power blackouts in Crimea orchestrated by anti-Russian saboteurs are stirring discontent a year and a half after Moscow seized the peninsula from Ukraine, threatening to chip away at the pro-Kremlin euphoria many Crimeans felt after annexation. …read more Source: The...
Woman jumps off Kievyan Bridge in Yerevan
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Devetzi fails doping
ATHENS: Retired triple jumper Piyi Devetzi, 39, could be stripped of her Olympic silver and bronze medals after Greece’s track and field federation (SEGAS) said on Wednesday that she had failed a doping test. “The international federation (IAAF) informed SEGAS that Piyi Devetzi re-tested positive on a sample taken in 2007,” SEGAS said in a...
Khodorkovsky says Russia’s Putin and West want rapprochement
Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin wants to edge Russia towards a rapprochement with the West after a stand-off over Ukraine brought relations between the two sides to their lowest since the Cold War, former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky said on Thursday. …read more Source: Channel...
