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Rupiah depreciates to 11,777 per dollar Friday morning
Rupiah interbank trade rate depreciated by 27 basis points on Friday morning to Rp 11,777 per US dollar.”External sentiment, particularly from the US, which records better economic data, has put pressure on the rupiah. The market players see that this condition will encourage the US central bank to immediately increase the Federal Reserve...
NATO to sanction Russia as Ukraine heads into peace talks
NATO leaders are expected to announce a raft of fresh sanctions against Russia on Friday (Sep 5) over its actions in Ukraine, although hopes remain that a ceasefire can be forged at peace talks in Minsk on the same day. …read more Source: Channel...
NATO to offer comprehensive, tailored support to Ukraine
NATO has established “a comprehensive and tailored package of measures” to help Ukraine, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Thursday during the ongoing NATO summit in Newport. …read more Source: China...
Ukrainian president, insurgents say ready for conditional cease-fire
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Thursday that he was ready to order a cease-fire with independence-seeking insurgents if international mediators agree on it during their meeting in Minsk on Friday. …read more Source:...
Russia urges Kiev to show goodwill for Putin’s plan to end conflict in eastern Ukraine
Russia hopes authorities of Kiev to show goodwill for President Vladimir Putin’s plan on the settlement of conflict in Ukraine, said Valentina Matviyenko, chairwoman of the upper house of Russian parliament Thursday. …read more Source:...
NATO to offer comprehensive, tailored support to Ukraine: NATO chief
NATO has established ‘a comprehensive and tailored package of measures’ to help Ukraine, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Thursday during the ongoing NATO summit in Newport, southeast Wales of Britain. …read more Source:...
Russia ready to send second humanitarian convoy to Ukraine
“People want clean water and food, so the convoy has been filling with those stuff,” deputy minister Vladimir Artamonov said, adding that there is no secret of the content of the aid, he added. …read more Source: China...
Russia ready to work with OSCE to de-escalate Ukraine crisis
Moscow is ready to take practical steps toward the de-escalation of the conflict in Ukraine in line with the plan proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday. …read more Source: China...
World › NATO leaders accuse Russia, aid Ukraine
NATO leaders on Thursday accused Russia of failing to take “a single step toward peace” in Ukraine even as President Petro Poroshenko voiced “careful optimism” about forging a ceasefire with pro-Moscow rebels. The leaders gathered at a summit of the Western military alliance in Newport, Wales agreed to set up… …read...
EU considers travel ban on Russian defense minister
The European Union (EU) may impose a travel ban on Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu as part of a new package of sanctions over the crisis in Ukraine, sources said Thursday. The 28-nation bloc is set to decide by Friday … …read more Source: ANTARA...
