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‘White House on lockdown after loud bang’
The White House was put on lockdown on Saturday after a loud noise was heard on the South Lawn moments before President Barack Obama and his family were due to take off by helicopter, a White House pool report said on Saturday. It said the noise prompted Secret Service agents to move the press back into the briefing room, lock the doors and put...
Germany downplays report of rift with NATO over Breedlove comments
BERLIN/RIGA (Reuters) – German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier downplayed a magazine report on Saturday of tensions with NATO over hawkish comments about Ukraine made by the Western alliance’s supreme allied commander. …read more Source: The...
In EU foreign policy, strength through unity hard to come by
RIGA, Latvia: (AP) – It was enough even for the normally unflappable European Union President Donald Tusk to start losing his cool. He stuttered, staggered his sentences, as he assessed what Russian President Vladimir Putin was doing to the EUs brittle sense of unity.One of the most important goals for President Putin today is to divide...
Germany Says Russia Backs Europe’s Peace-Keeping Organization Unlimited Access in East Ukraine
Russia has agreed that the Organization for Security and Co-operation or OSCE should have unlimited access to monitor the latest ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, including the withdrawal of heavy weapons… …read more Source:...
Pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine say withdrawl of their heavy weapons is complete
Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine claimed on Saturday to have completed their end of a February deal with government forces to withdraw heavy weapons from the frontline as part of a truce. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Russia: 2 suspects detained in murder of Boris Nemtsov
Two suspects have been detained in the killing a week ago of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, the head of Russia’s federal security service said Saturday, an announcement received with both skepticism and reserved satisfaction by some of Nemtsov’s comrades.Alexander Bortnikov, in comments shown on state television, said the two...
EU shows little appetite for more Russia sanctions
EU foreign ministers showed little appetite on Saturday for stepping up pressure on Russia over Ukraine, preferring to give a fragile ceasefire a chance before deciding whether to apply more sanctions or even to extend existing ones. …read more Source: Channel...
EU shows little appetite for more Russia sanctions
RIGA (Reuters) – EU foreign ministers showed little appetite on Saturday for stepping up pressure on Russia over Ukraine, preferring to give a fragile ceasefire a chance before deciding whether to apply more sanctions or even to extend existing ones. …read more Source: The...
Russia: 2 suspects detained in murder of Boris Nemtsov
…read more Source: The Indian...
Russia arrests two over Nemtsov killing
MOSCOW: Two suspects have been arrested over the killing of Russian opposition activist Boris Nemtsov, who was gunned down last week near the Kremlin in a brazen assassination that shocked the country, the state security agency said Saturday. “Two suspects were arrested today in connection with this crime, they are Anzor Gubashev and Zaur...
