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Putin’s spokesman says Ukraine talks over
MOSCOW: (AP) – A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin says talks with Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande on a peace proposal for Ukraine have ended.Dmitry Peskov said early Saturday that the next step in the process would be a telephone call between Putin, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and the German and French leaders on...
Merkel, Hollande arrive for Ukraine talks with Putin: Official
The French president arrived in Moscow minutes after Merkel’s plane touched down at Vnukovo airport and they headed straight to see Putin. …read more Source: The Times of...
Putin hosts Merkel, Hollande for crunch Ukraine peace talks
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande met Russian leader Vladimir Putin in a bid to avoid a further escalation of violence in Ukraine. …read more Source: Channel...
Ahead of Ukraine Talks Combatants Allow Civilians to Evacuate
KYIV, UKRAINE – Ukrainian forces and pro-Russia rebels have begun evacuating civilians from Debaltseve, a strategic city where fighting recently intensified. The cease-fire comes as French … …read more Source: Japan Herald...
Civilians Flee Ukraine Hotspot By Bus After Truce Agreed
Terrified civilians piled onto a convoy of buses today as they took advantage of a brief truce to flee the east Ukraine battleground town of Debaltseve. …read more Source:...
NATO's top general wants "all tools" used to help Ukraine
MUNICH (Reuters) – NATO’s top military commander, U.S. General Philip Breedlove, said on Friday the West should be ready to use “all tools in the tool bag” to help Ukraine fight pro-Russian separatists, though he did not specify if that should include arming Kiev. …read more Source: The...
Merkel, Hollande take Ukraine peace plan to Putin
Moscow: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande head to Moscow on Friday to secure …read more Source: Geo...
Fighting traps children underground in east Ukraine
Artyom, 10, poses near his drawings hanging on the walls of a shelter in Donetsk’s Kiyevski district, on February 5, 2015 -© AFP / by Simon Valmary DONETSK (UKRAINE): As the shelling came closer to 10-year-old Artyom’s neighbourhood, he was forced to swap his local playground for a bunker — just like children across rebel-held east...
Echoes of the 1990s in Ukraine as financial crisis bites
KIEV (Reuters) – A crippling financial crisis in Ukraine is turning the clock back to the 1990s, when people kept dollars in their socks rather than at banks and smuggled cars to sell them on the black market and avoid the tax man. …read more Source: The...
‘Dashcams’ catching everything from scammers to disasters
PARIS: The terrifying footage of a plane clipping a bridge in Taiwan and crashing into a river this week highlighted the popularity of “dashcams” that are capturing everything from crime to natural disasters through the windscreen. The TransAsia accident, which left least 35 people dead and several others still missing, was filmed by at least two...
