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Ukraine wants to seek NATO membership: PM
Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said on Friday (Aug 29) that the government is seeking to join NATO and is submitting a relevant bill to parliament to end the country’s official ‘non-bloc’ policy. …read more Source: Channel...
Tongue-in-cheek online jabs on Russia-Ukraine border
BRUSSELS: Canadian and Russian diplomats in Brussels have traded online jibes after the Canadian mission to NATO posted a tongue-in-cheek guide for Russian soldiers unclear about the Russia-Ukraine border. …read more Source: New Straits...
Nato chief urges Russia to halt ‘illegal military actions’ in Ukraine
Russian forces are engaged in direct military operations inside Ukraine in a blatant violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, Nato Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Friday. …read more Source: South China Morning...
‘The Audacity of Taupe’: Obama Suit Creates Sartorial Stir
US President Barack Obama holds a press conference at the White House in Washington, DC, August 28, 2014 (AFP Photo/Saul Loeb) Washington. The subjects were serious enough at President Barack Obama’s impromptu press conference Thursday, but many viewers and the collective press corps seized on something more immediately visible: his tan...
Lavrov ridicules claims of Russian soldiers in Ukraine
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has ridiculed Western claims of a Russian military incursion in Ukraine.“We are hearing such speculation not for the first time and we have never been present… …read more Source: The...
Russia warns of high risk to gas deliveries to Europe this winter
Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak warned on Friday (Aug 29) of high risks of disruptions to supplies of Russian gas to Europe as international tensions over Ukraine mounted. …read more Source: Channel...
UN chief ‘gravely concerned’ by Ukraine crisis
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday (Aug 29) expressed grave concerns about the intensifying conflict in Ukraine after Kiev and the West said Russian troops were actively involved in fighting in the country’s east. …read more Source: Channel...
Putin hails Ukraine separatists as NATO holds crisis talks
KIEV – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday hailed the advances of pro-Kremlin fighters in eastern Ukraine as Western alarm spiralled over what Kiev has branded a Russian invasion. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Nearly 2,600 killed in east Ukraine conflict: UN
KIEV – The conflict in eastern Ukraine has killed nearly 2,600 people since mid-April, the United Nations said Friday in their latest report, explaining the sharp increase by fighting in densely populated areas between Kiev’s army and pro-Russian rebels. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Separatists say will allow ‘trapped’ Ukrainian forces to withdraw
Pro-Moscow rebels fighting in Ukraine said on Friday they would comply with a request from the Kremlin and open up a ‘humanitarian corridor’ to allow the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops they have encircled. …read more Source: The Times of...
