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Football: FIFA sorry for Crimea video blunder
A video launching the World Cup logo had portrayed the Crimean peninsula as a part of Russia. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine will guarantee transit of Russian gas to Europe – PM
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk, speaking after a gas agreement with Russia was nailed down, said on Friday Ukraine would guarantee deliveries of gas through its territory to Europe to make sure Moscow had no room for “blackmailing”. …read more Source: The...
Europe won't recognise vote in eastern Ukraine, Merkel tells Putin
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone that Sunday’s planned elections in eastern Ukraine were illegitimate and would not be recognised by European leaders, a Berlin government spokesman said on Friday. …read more Source: The...
Putin, Poroshenko, European leaders welcome Ukraine gas deal – Kremlin
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, in a telephone call, welcomed an agreement on gas supplies to Ukraine, the Kremlin said. …read more Source: The...
FIFA sorry for Crimea video blunder
GENEVA – FIFA has apologised for an embarrassing diplomatic faux-pas when its video launching the 2018 World Cup logo portrayed the Crimean peninsula as part of Russia. …read more Source: Bangkok...
EU will ‘play its role’ to support Ukraine-Russia gas deal
The European Union will “fully play its role” to implement the gas deal signed by Ukraine and Russia on Thursday (Oct 30), the French and German leaders said in a joint statement. …read more Source: Channel...
FIFA sorry for Crimea video blunder
GENEVA: FIFA has apologised for an embarrassing diplomatic faux-pas when its video launching the 2018 World Cup logo portrayed the Crimean peninsula as part of Russia. …read more Source: New Straits...
Ukraine rebel vote drives further wedge between Russia and West
Ukraine and the West fear the ballot, backed by Moscow, is being staged to drag the Russian-speaking industrial east further from the grip of Kiev’s pro-Western government. …read more Source: Channel...
UK gas prices drop to record low on Ukraine-Russia deal
LONDON (Reuters) – British wholesale gas prices for November and December fell to their lowest ever levels on Friday after Ukraine and Russia signed a deal which will see Moscow resume supplies of gas over the winter. …read more Source: The...
Back to Cold War as Russia probes NATO defences
BRUSSELS – Nuclear-capable Russian bombers in European airspace, NATO intercepts, a foreign submarine in Swedish waters – the fall-out from the Ukraine crisis feels like a return to Cold War days.NATO has intercepted Russian aircraft on more than 100 occasions so far this year, three times more than all 2013, its new head Jens...
