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U.S. says to discuss possible new Russia sanctions with Europe
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will talk to European allies this week about imposing further sanctions on Russia if pro-Moscow separatists in Ukraine do not halt violence, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine peace talks delayed but ceasefire largely holds
DONETSK (UKRAINE) – Planned peace talks between Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels were postponed on Tuesday but a ceasefire appeared to be largely holding along the frontline in the ex-Soviet republic’s war-shattered east. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Netherlands gets wreckage from Ukraine plane crash
AMSTERDAM (AP) — A convoy of eight trucks carrying wreckage from the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster arrived at a Dutch military base Tuesday, as the official investigation into the cause of the crash continues nearly five months after the plane went down in eastern Ukraine.Flight 17 was shot down on July 17 over territory held by...
Dutch to begin assembling MH17 wreckage for investigation
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Crash investigators were to begin reconstructing the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 shot down over eastern Ukraine in July, killing all 298 people on board, after wreckage arrived by truck at a Dutch air force hangar on Tuesday. …read more Source: The...
MH17 wreckage arrives at Dutch base for reconstruction
Netherlands – A convoy carrying wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 arrived at a Dutch airbase on Tuesday where it will be reconstructed as part of a probe into the shooting down of the doomed plane.Around 50 relatives of some of the 298 people killed when the plane was blown out of the sky over war-torn Ukraine in July were allowed...
Ukrainian troops halt hostilities in east: Kiev
Ukrainian forces on Tuesday suspended hostilities against independence-seeking insurgents in the country’s eastern regions, the government said. …read more Source:...
Every Ukraine military deal is tainted with corruption, anti-graft chief says
It must rank as one of the world’s most daunting jobs: tackling corruption in Ukraine’s military. But with support from the president, a patriotic volunteer unit and a polygraph machine, one man thinks he has the answer. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Ukraine president says cease-fire with pro-Russian rebels holding
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Merkel says will continue to press for diplomatic solution in Ukraine
COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel accused Russia of violating international law with its actions in eastern Ukraine but said she would do all in her power to achieve a diplomatic solution to the conflict. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko Says ‘Ceasefire Holding’
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Tuesday a ceasefire along the front line in the east of his country appeared to be holding after Kiev declared a “day of silence” in the war with pro-Russian … …read more Source:...
