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      Russia’s Lavrov says fighting in east Ukraine abating
      Apr20

      Russia’s Lavrov says fighting in east Ukraine abating

      Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday he believed a surge in ceasefire violations in east Ukraine had passed, adding Moscow would work to prevent violence escalating again. Moscow stands accused by the West and Kiev of driving the separatist pro-Russian rebellion in east Ukraine, providing it with troops and arms, training and...

      Russia’s Lavrov says fighting in east Ukraine abating
      Apr20

      Russia’s Lavrov says fighting in east Ukraine abating

      Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday he believed a surge in ceasefire violations in east Ukraine had passed, adding Moscow would work to prevent violence escalating again. …read more Source: Channel...

      Russia's Lavrov says fighting in east Ukraine abating
      Apr20

      Russia's Lavrov says fighting in east Ukraine abating

      MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday he believed a surge in ceasefire violations in east Ukraine had passed, adding Moscow would work to prevent violence escalating again. …read more Source: The...

      Truce tenuous as Ukraine leader tackles economy, oligarchs
      Apr20

      Truce tenuous as Ukraine leader tackles economy, oligarchs

      President Petro Poroshenko is using the breathing space from a ceasefire with separatists to push reforms and rein in super-rich ‘oligarchs’ whose influence he says must be curbed for Ukraine to have a future in Europe. …read more Source: Channel...

      Armed with new law, Ukraine targets its shadowy banks
      Apr20

      Armed with new law, Ukraine targets its shadowy banks

      KIEV (Reuters) – For the first time in its post-Soviet history, Ukraine now has a law to prosecute bank owners who use their lenders as little more than personal piggy banks. …read more Source: The...

      US starts training Ukrainians to fight pro-Russia forces
      Apr20

      US starts training Ukrainians to fight pro-Russia forces

      YAVORIV, Ukraine – US paratroopers Monday began training Ukrainian government forces who will fight pro-Russian separatists in the east, angering Moscow as the deadly conflict rumbles on in the ex-Soviet country.Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko welcomed troops from the US 173rd Airborne Brigade in a rain-soaked ceremony at a military base...

      Truce tenuous as Ukraine leader tackles economy, oligarchs
      Apr20

      Truce tenuous as Ukraine leader tackles economy, oligarchs

      KIEV (Reuters) – President Petro Poroshenko is using the breathing space from a ceasefire with separatists to push reforms and rein in super-rich ‘oligarchs’ whose influence he says must be curbed for Ukraine to have a future in Europe. …read more Source: The...

      US starts training Ukraine forces to fight pro-Russian militants
      Apr20

      US starts training Ukraine forces to fight pro-Russian militants

      YAVORIV: US paratroopers launched a training mission Monday for Ukrainian government forces who will fight pro-Russian separatists in the east, angering Moscow as the deadly conflict rumbles on. President Petro Poroshenko welcomed troops from the US 173rd Airborne Brigade for Operation Fearless Guardian in a rain-soaked ceremony at a military...

      US starts training Ukraine forces to fight pro-Russian militants
      Apr20

      US starts training Ukraine forces to fight pro-Russian militants

      YAVORIV: -US paratroopers launched a training mission Monday for Ukrainian government forces who will fight pro-Ru …read more Source: Geo...

      Oskar Groning: Auschwitz guard, 93, on trial for complicity in murder of 300,000
      Apr20

      Oskar Groning: Auschwitz guard, 93, on trial for complicity in murder of 300,000

      He watched his fellow SS men kill children with their bare hands and saw Jews being herded into the gas chambers of Auschwitz, but former death camp guard Oskar Gröning has always denied ultimate responsibility for the genocide committed during the Nazi Holocaust, according to the Guardian. The 93-year-old “bookkeeper of Auschwitz” will go on...