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Europe rebuffs Ukrainian calls for NATO naval action in Russia standoff
European leaders rebuffed calls from Ukraine for greater support against Russia on Thursday, after Kiev urged NATO to send ships into waters disputed with Moscow.German … …read more Source: The Japan...
Trump cancels Putin meeting over Ukraine crisis
US President Donald Trump on Thursday said he was canceling a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin scheduled to take place during the upcoming summit for the Group of 20 industrialized nations in Argentina, citing the current Ukraine crisis. …read more Source:...
Putin sees Ukraine as his colony: Poroshenko
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Thursday accused Russia’s Vladimir Putin of wanting to annex his entire country and called for NATO to deploy …read more Source: The...
Kazakhstan: Jailed former uranium tycoon denied early release
ASTANA (TCA) — The jailed former president of Kazakhstan’s uranium giant Kazatomprom, Mukhtar Dzhakishev, has been denied early release, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reports. A court in the northeastern city of Semei refused to grant early release to Dzhakishev on November 28, his lawyer Nurlan Beisekeev told RFE/RL. According to...
Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko says Vladimir Putin wants his whole country, calling on NATO for help
Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko accused his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, of seeking to annex his entire country and called for NATO and Chancellor Angela Merkel … …read more Source: The Japan...
Putin defends ‘lawful’ seizure of Ukrainian ships
A crew member (left) of one of Ukrainian naval ships, which were recently seized by Russia’s FSB security service, is escorted after a court hearing in Simferopol, Crimea. — Reuters photo MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin has insisted that Russian forces were in the right to seize three Ukrainian ships last weekend, but President Donald...
Putin derides Ukraine’s martial law as political trick
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at an annual VTB Capital “Russia Calling!” Investment Forum in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Nov. 28. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)Kiev, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president donned combat fatigues to implement martial law in much of the country on Wednesday, a move Russia denounced...
Ukraine president asks Nato to send ships to Sea of Azov
Poroshenko visits the 169th training centre ‘Desna’ of the Ukrainian Army ground forces in Chernihiv Region, Ukraine. — Reuters photo BERLIN: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko asked Nato members including Germany yesterday to send naval vessels to the Sea of Azov to back his country in the standoff with Russia. “Germany is one of our...
Who is BB fooling?
The Daily Star November 29, 2018 Who is BB fooling? Central bank fails in a big way as regulator yet shows no sign of embarrassment in patting itself Inam Ahmed Two things come easy in Bangladesh — getting big bank loans and blissfully failing to repay. The money in the vaults seems to be the easiest prey today. In the last ten years, scam after...
Trump cancels Putin meeting in Argentina over Ukraine crisis
Earlier, Trump had said he would probably meet with Putin at a G20 summit in Argentina over the weekend. …read more Source: Daily News &...
