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Kiev orders all territories of Ukraine to be on high alert – PM Yatseniuk
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Monday the government had ordered all territories to be on high alert due to the escalating conflict in separatist eastern areas of Luhansk and Donetsk. …read more Source: The...
‘Sense of duty’: Litvinenko’s widow hopes for answers
LONDON (AFP) – The memories still bring tears to Marina Litvinenkos eyes, over eight years after the horrific killing of her former secret agent husband by radiation poisoning under the glare of the worlds media.As a public inquiry into Alexander Litvinenkos death is to begin in London on Tuesday, his widow said her campaign for answers...
Phone calls prove rebels attacked city
KIEV (AP) ― Ukraine’s president said Sunday that intercepted radio and telephone conversations prove that Russia-backed …read more Source: The Korea...
Moscow strives for Ukrainian peace process
Moscow is taking efforts to revive the peaceful process in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday. …read more Source: China Internet Information...
Poland calls on EU to tighten sanctions against Russia
WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski called on the European Union on Monday to consider imposing tougher sanctions on Russia over an escalation of hostilities in Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
Shelling traps 500 coal miners in war-torn east Ukraine
A pro-rebel regional news site quoted a ministry official as saying that the lives of the miners are not in danger and that the first evacuation had already begun. …read more Source: Channel...
NATO holds ‘extraordinary’ Ukraine commission meeting
BRUSSELS (AFP) – NATO said it will hold an extraordinary meeting of the alliances Ukraine Commission later Monday, after an upsurge in fighting between pro-Russian rebels and Kiev left dozens of people dead.Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will separately meet with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini Monday as the deepening crisis...
Shelling traps 500 miners in east Ukraine coal shaft
DONETSK (AFP) – Nearly 500 coal miners in Ukraines war-torn east were trapped on Monday after their pit lost power when a shell hit an electricity substation.The accident occurred in rebel-controlled Donetsk citys Zasyadko coal mine — one of eastern Europes largest, where the same type of incident briefly trapped 300 miners on January...
Moscow hosts Syria talks, little hope of breakthrough
MOSCOW (AFP) – Syrian opposition figures met in Moscow on Monday as part of a new Russia-coordinated bid to wind down the war in Syria, but few held out any hope of a breakthrough.Several prominent opposition figures have refused to join the four-day talks and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has also cast doubt on the Moscow initiative...
German Foreign minister – nobody desperate to impose more sanctions on Moscow
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Monday nobody was blindly set on imposing further sanctions on Moscow over its stance in eastern Ukraine, ahead of a meeting of European foreign ministers in Brussels on Thursday. …read more Source: The...
