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At least 60 journalists killed in 2014
NEW YORK— At least 60 journalists around the world were killed in 2014 while on the job or because of their work, and 44 percent of them were targeted for murder, the Committee to Protect Journalists said. An “unusually high proportion,” or about one-fourth, of those killed were international journalists, though the overwhelming number of...
International journalist deaths soar in 2014
NEW YORK (AFP) – The gruesome murders of foreign journalists by the Islamic State group contributed to 2014 being a particularly deadly year for international correspondents, an annual review by the Committee to Protect Journalists reported Tuesday.The CPJ study found that an unusually high proportion of the 60 journalists who died...
From Baltic to Asia, East-West aerial confrontations heat up
NEW YORK – From the skies of the Baltic to the South China Sea, a new era of confrontation with Russia and China is pitting US and allied pilots against their counterparts on a scale not seen since the Cold War era.It is, current and former officials say, a major shift for air crews who by and large have spent more than a decade flying...
International journalist deaths soar in 2014: press watchdog
NEW YORK – The gruesome murders of foreign journalists by the Islamic State group contributed to 2014 being a particularly deadly year for international correspondents, an annual review by the Committee to Protect Journalists reported Tuesday.The CPJ study found that an “unusually high proportion” of the 60 journalists who died...
Crisis-hit Russia’s main allies moving closer to Ukraine
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev followed his Belarusian counterpart to Ukraine on Monday as Moscow’s old allies reassessed their reliance on Russia in the heat of its financial malaise. Both visits were ostensibly made to kickstart stalled peace talks between Kiev and the two Russian-speaking regions of eastern Ukraine that rebelled...
Kazakhstan to supply coal to Ukraine
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Ex-minister Kudrin warns of ‘full-fledged crisis’ in Russia
Russia’s government has pushed the country into an economic crisis by not tackling its financial problems fast enough, former finance minister Alexei Kudrin said on Monday, as evidence mounted of trouble spreading through the economy.The central bank bailed out its first victim of the collapsing currency, authorities announced a tax on...
Kazakhstan to provide $384k humanitarian aid to Ukraine
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Obama invited to WWII commemorations in Moscow
MOSCOW: Russia has invited US President Barack Obama (pix) to Moscow next year to mark the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, a Kremlin advisor said. Asked by reporters whether Obama was on the guest list for the May 9 commemorations, Yuri Ushakov, one of President Vladimir Putin’s top...
Putin, Poroshenko, Hollande, Merkel discuss Ukraine crisis
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