Section: Asia
- Afghanistan (54)
- Armenia (2,395)
- Azerbaijan (1,400)
- Bangladesh (459)
- China (1,817)
- India (3,608)
- Indonesia (807)
- Japan (1,436)
- Kazakhstan (682)
- Kyrgyzstan (667)
- Laos (3)
- Malaysia (6,377)
- Myanmar (25)
- Nepal (712)
- Pakistan (3,592)
- Philippines (1,081)
- Singapore (4,460)
- South Korea (305)
- Taiwan (190)
- Tajikistan (42)
- Thailand (1,124)
- Uzbekistan (33)
- Vietnam (614)
NATO Ministers Chart Course on Ukraine, Afghanistan
NATO Foreign Ministers met in Brussels today aiming to plot a new course after a “year of aggression” from Ukraine to the Middle East and the end of the alliance’s combat mission in Afghanistan. …read more Source:...
Foreign technocrats given Ukrainian citizenship before cabinet vote
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday granted citizenship to three foreign technocrats nominated for cabinet positions in a new government hoping to tackle severe economic and defence threats. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine's Poroshenko nominates foreign, defence ministers for new terms
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Tuesday he had nominated Pavlo Klimkin to stay on as foreign minister and Stepan Poltorak to remain defence minister in a new government. …read more Source: The...
Ukrainians feel the pinch as winter closes in
KIEV (Reuters) – Every day, Yevgenia gets up before dawn to travel to the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital Kiev to sell five bottles of fresh milk from her village cows for around 66 U.S. cents a litre. …read more Source: The...
Ceasefire at Donetsk airport in east Ukraine agreed: rebel leader
DONETSK (UKRAINE) – Ukraine and pro-Russian separatist leaders on Tuesday agreed a truce around the airport in the eastern rebel stronghold of Donetsk that has been the focus of fighting for months. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Ukraine, pro-Russian rebels agree new truce
Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels have “agreed in principle” on a ceasefire in the eastern war-torn region of Lugansk, one of the state’s two separatist provinces. …read more Source: Channel...
Russia predicts recession in 2015 on sanctions, oil slump
The Russian economy ministry on Tuesday slashed its economic forecast for 2015, announcing a contraction of 0.8 percent due to the pressure of Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis combined with falling oil prices.Russia scraps EU gas link in favor of Turkish deliveriesRussia accuses NATO of destabilizing northern Europe -InterfaxObama...
US to discuss possible new Russia sanctions with European allies
[BRUSSELS] US Secretary of State John Kerry will talk to European allies this week about imposing further sanctions on Russia if pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine do not halt violence, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday. …read more Source: The Business...
NATO, Ukraine condemn Russian military build-up in Crimea
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Foreign ministers from the 28 NATO countries and Ukraine condemned on Tuesday a Russian military build-up in Crimea and what they called Russia’s “deliberate destabilisation” of eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
NATO ministers chart course on Ukraine, Afghanistan
BRUSSELS – NATO foreign ministers met in Brussels Tuesday aiming to plot a new course after a “year of aggression” from Ukraine to the Middle East and the end of the alliance’s combat mission in Afghanistan.New chief Jens Stoltenberg said as he arrived that US Secretary of State John Kerry and other ministers from the...
