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U.S.'s Kerry to visit Ukraine next week – State Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Kiev on Thursday for talks with President Petro Poroshenko and other Ukrainian officials, the U.S. State Department said on Friday. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine rebels vow to continue offensive if talks fail
KIEV (AFP) – Pro-Russian insurgents vowed on Friday to push their east Ukrainian offensive if new talks with the pro-Western leaders in Kiev fail to achieve results.Should the negotiations collapse… the Donetsk and Lugansk Peoples Republics reserve the right to pursue their offensive until the entire Donetsk and Lugansk regions are...
Russian activist charged with treason after phoning Ukrainian embassy
VYAZMA, Russia (Reuters) – Nine months after Russian activist Svetlana Davydova called the Ukrainian embassy in Moscow to warn that Russian soldiers were making their way to Ukraine, an investigator with an order for her arrest showed up at her door. …read more Source: The...
NATO set to create new joint units in eastern Europe
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO defence ministers are expected to agree next week to set up command units, staffed with national and NATO soldiers, in six eastern European allies as part of a new strategy in response to the Ukraine crisis, NATO’s chief said on Friday. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine peace talks aborted as civilians die in east
DONETSK, Ukraine/MINSK (Reuters) – Civilians were killed on both sides in heavy fighting in eastern Ukraine on Friday, while an attempt to reopen peace talks in neighbouring Belarus was aborted before it began. …read more Source: The...
Russia opens fresh case against Ukrainian pilot – lawyers
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Nadezhda Savchenko, a Ukrainian army pilot under arrest in Moscow, said through her lawyers on Friday that Russia had opened a fresh case against her alleging that she had illegally crossed the border from Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
France, Poland tell Russia to end ‘all support to separatists’
January 30, 2015 11:44 PMPARIS (AFP) – French President Francois Hollande and Polish Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz on Friday called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, and for Russia to stop supporting separatists fighting in the country’s east. …read more Source: The Straits...
New Greek PM to visit Cyprus on first foreign trip
NICOSIA (AFP) – Greeces new Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is to travel to close ally Cyprus on Monday for his first visit abroad since his election victory, Cypriot officials said.On a brief visit to Greeces fellow bailed-out EU member state, Tsipras is to meet with President Nicos Anastasiades and address parliament in Nicosia.Government...
France, Poland tell Russia to end ‘all support to separatists’
PARIS (AFP) – French President Francois Hollande and Polish Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz on Friday called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, and for Russia to stop supporting separatists fighting in the countrys east.We urgently call for Russia to contribute to a political solution and to put an end to all forms of support to the...
Dollar set to end January with record run
LONDON – The dollar was poised to end January with its longest run of gains since it was floated in 1971 while European shares were set for their best monthly performance in three years, despite sagging slightly on Friday.The dollar, bolstered by expectations the US Federal Reserve will be the first major central bank to raise interest...
