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Ukraine’s state energy firm announces a day earlier it was suspending gas purchases from Russia.
Russian has halted gas supplies to Ukraine after a breakdown on pricing talks. The Russian gas firm Gazprom confirmed that it halted the supply because Ukraine did not make an advance payment for July’s delivery. Ukraine’s state energy firm Naftogaz announced a day earlier it was suspending gas purchases from Russia. The two countries...
Russia halts gas supplies to Ukraine
MOSCOW – Russian gas company Gazprom said on Wednesday it was halting all natural gas supplies to Ukraine after Kiev announced the immediate suspension of Russian gas purchases the day earlier. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Russia and US agree on Iran nuclear deal for most part
FILE- US Secretary of State John Kerry, right, meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Geneva. (Source: AP) Russia-US relations are at a post-Cold War low just about everywhere, except at the Iran nuclear talks. Despite a chill over the Ukraine crisis that has spread to almost every element of their relationship, Moscow and...
Two MH17 victims’ remains ‘unlikely’ to be found: Dutch minister
The wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on July 19, 2014, two days after it crashed in a sunflower field near the village of Rassipnoe, in rebel-held eastern Ukraine -© AFP/File THE HAGUE: Chances of finding human remains of the last two victims of last year’s MH17 air crash in Ukraine were “unlikely”, Dutch Justice Minister Ard van...
Ukraine needs 1.2 bln USD for post-conflict recovery: deputy PM
Kiev hopes to raise about 300 million dollars from the United Nations(UN)to start reconstruction works in Donbas,he said,adding that the remaining 900 million dollars from the planned recovery fund will be allocated from the state budget or absorbed as loans from international banks s. …read more Source:...
Two MH17 victims’ remains ‘unlikely’ to be found: Dutch minister
THE HAGUE: Chances of finding human remains of the last two victims of last year’s MH17 air crash in Ukraine were “unlikely”, Dutch Justice Minister Ard van der Steur said Tuesday. International investigators have so far matched identities with the remains of 296 of the 298 victims on board the Malaysia Airlines flight. The jetliner was...
Dutch confident MH17 prosecution will succeed
ROTTERDAM: The Dutch prosecutor leading the investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine last year said on Tuesday he was confident of concluding his investigation successfully but was not yet ready to issue arrest warrants. The plane with 298 passengers on board, two-thirds of them Dutch, was shot down in July and...
Author Warns U.S. Military to Focus on China
WASHINGTON— Peter Singer, one of Washington’s pre-eminent futurists, is walking the Pentagon halls with an ominous warning for America’s military leaders: World War III with China is coming. In meeting after meeting with anyone who will listen, this modern-day soothsayer wearing a skinny tie says America’s most advanced fighter...
Ukraine suspends Russian gas purchases in new price row
KIEV – Ukraine announced on Tuesday the immediate suspension of all Russian gas purchases following a breakdown of price negotiations aimed at keeping supplies running for the next three to six months. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Dutch Prosecutors Probe ‘Persons of Interest’ in MH17 Crash
Dutch prosecutors said today that they have identified many “persons of interest” in their probe into the shooting down of flight MH17 over Ukraine, but no definite suspects. …read more Source:...
