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Ukraine Foreign Minister Casts Doubt on Russia Ceasefire
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin on Tuesday cast doubt on hopes that a UN-backed truce with pro-Russian rebels will stick, as he called for an expansion of international monitoring. …read more Source:...
Three Ukrainian soldiers killed in past 24 hours – Ukraine military source
KIEV (Reuters) – Three Ukrainian servicemen were killed and nine were wounded in the last 24 hours in the country’s east where government troops are fighting with pro-Russian rebels, a Ukrainian military source told Reuters on Tuesday. …read more Source: The...
Military source says rebels shelled Ukrainian positions twenty two times over the past day.
In Ukraine, three security officials have been killed and nine injured in shelling of pro-Russian rebels in the east of the country on Tuesday. Military source told that rebels shelled Ukrainian positions twenty two times over the past day. …read more Source: Radio...
Three Ukrainian soldiers killed in past 24 hours – Ukraine military source
Three Ukrainian servicemen were killed and nine were wounded in the last 24 hours in the country’s east where government troops are fighting with pro-Russian rebels, a Ukrainian military source told Reuters on Tuesday. …read more Source: Channel...
Nemtsov murder witness says blocked from leaving Moscow
MOSCOW: The Ukrainian model girlfriend of slain Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov complained Monday she was being blocked from leaving Moscow, as authorities vowed to solve the most shocking political assassination of Vladimir Putin’s rule. The funeral for Nemtsov, a 55-year-old former deputy prime minister, longtime Putin critic and...
Moscow funeral for slain Kremlin critic Nemtsov
MOSCOW – Mourners for slain Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov prepared to gather for his funeral in Moscow Tuesday, as Polish and Latvian officials said they had been barred from entering Russia on the eve of the ceremony in retaliation for EU sanctions over Ukraine.The funeral for Nemtsov, a 55-year-old former deputy prime minister,...
Obama says Iran must halt key nuclear work for at least a decade
WASHINGTON: Iran must commit to a verifiable freeze of at least 10 years on sensitive nuclear activity for a landmark atomic deal to be reached, but the odds are still against sealing a final agreement, US President Barack Obama told Reuters on Monday. Interviewed at the White House, Obama moved to dial back tensions over Israeli Prime Minister...
China state media seen stepping-up anti-Western rhetoric
BEIJING: Western values are a “ticket to hell,” a newspaper published by China’s Communist Party said in a recent editorial that held up Ukraine and some Arab countries as examples of outside ideas causing turmoil. …read more Source: New Straits...
Nemtsov murder witness blocked from leaving Russia
MOSCOW – The chief witness to the murder of Russian protest leader Boris Nemtsov, a Ukrainian model by his side when he was shot dead, complained Monday of being kept under guard in Moscow. Ganna Duritska, 23, said she had given all the information she could to investigators but that they were preventing her from leaving Russia “for...
US, Russia in ‘hopeful’ Ukraine talks
GENEVA – The US and Russian foreign ministers expressed cautious optimism after holding talks in Geneva Monday to end fighting in Ukraine, where the UN says more than 6,000 people have died in less than a year. The meeting between John Kerry and Sergei Lavrov in Geneva was just one of several attempts at mediation on the conflict Monday, as...
