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Putin berated at summit, but unrepentant
BRISBANE – President Vladimir Putin weathered a barrage of criticism from world leaders at a summit in Australia, repeatedly facing them down with the same line – Russian troops are not operating in Ukraine. Leaving the Group of Twenty (G20) summit in… …read more Source:...
New Video of MH17 Downing Shows Alarm in Ukraine
Four months after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine, The Associated Press has obtained video that shows how close the burning passenger jet came to hitting vill… …read more Source:...
Local Emergency Services Recover MH17 Wreckage in Ukraine
Local emergency services have recovered human remains, aircraft parts and personal belongings from the site where Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed in eastern Ukraine in July, Dutch authorities sa… …read more Source:...
Heavy shelling rocks rebel-held Donetsk in east Ukraine
DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Fresh volleys of artillery fire were heard across many parts of the separatist stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, a Ukrainian government statement said, after Kiev warned again of rebel preparations for a fresh offensive. …read more Source: The...
MH17 disadvantage dismissal starts in easterly Ukraine
Members of a Dutch trade group watch as tools of a disadvantage of a Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 are private and installed on a lorry during a pile-up site circuitously a encampment of Grabove in eastern Ukraine, on Nov 16 2014. PHOTO: AFP GRABOVE, UKRAINE: Work started Sunday to mislay a disadvantage of Malaysia Airlines moody MH17 from...
German economy minister rejects tougher sanctions on Russia
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Sunday he does not believe tighter sanctions against Russia will help resolve the Ukraine crisis even though Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday the European Union is considering further sanctions. …read more Source: The...
Putin yawns off Western baiting at G20
Vladimir Putin Abbott insists having robust discussions with Russian president on summit sidelines BRISBANE, Australia: A weary Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday shrugged off a new barrage of Western fire over Ukraine at a G20 summit where the world’s most powerful leaders vowed to heat up the cooling global economy. Host Tony...
Ukraine cuts off rebel east as fighting rumbles on
KIEV: Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko issued a decree Saturday ordering the withdrawal of all state services from rebel-held eastern regions, a further acknowledgement that the Kremlin-backed statelets are effectively breaking away. The latest move towards splintering the war-torn ex-Soviet country came after fresh clashes between...
Removal of MH17 wreckage starts in rebel-held east Ukraine
Members of the Dutch investigation team watch as parts of the wreckage of the MH17 are removed and loaded onto a truck at the crash site near the village of Grabove in eastern Ukraine. — AFP photo GRABOVE, Ukraine: Work began yesterday to remove the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 from rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine, four...
Clash within civilisations
Was Huntington wrong? When Samuel P Huntington in the year 1996 proposed the idea of ‘clash of civilisations’, it, though being controversial, became immensely popular in political and academic circles. He presented the idea that conflicts in post-Cold War world order would be on the basis of civilisational differences. Huntington defined...
