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UN presses Yemen militia to cede power
SANAA (AFP) – The United Nations Security Council on Sunday urged Yemens Huthis to cede power, release President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi and negotiate in good faith, after the Shiite militia vowed to defy the bodys threats.Yemen is a traditional US ally in the fight against Al-Qaeda, but the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country has...
Ukraine ceasefire comes into force
YENAKIEVE, Ukraine – Fighting dropped sharply across eastern Ukraine on Sunday but there was still sporadic shelling after a ceasefire came into force, the first step in a fragile peace plan aimed at ending 10 months of conflict. AFP journalists heard occasional artillery fire coming from the direction of the flashpoint town of Debaltseve,...
Poland to spend billions on defence
WARSAW: Looking east to the bloody conflict gripping Ukraine, Nato-member Poland has kicked off an unprecedented military spending spree worth billion …read more Source: The News...
Netanyahu calls on European Jews to immigrate to Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday reiterated his call on European Jews to immigrate to Israel, hours after an attack on a synagogue in Danish capital Copenhagen. “Jews have been murdered again on European soil only because they were Jews and this wave of terrorist attacks – including murderous anti-Semitic attacks – is expected...
Ukraine rebels disavow ceasefire at encircled town
Ukraine’s rebels disavowed a new truce on Sunday hours after it took effect, saying it did not apply to the town where most fighting has taken place in recent weeks. Guns fell abruptly silent at midnight across much of eastern Ukraine in line with the ceasefire agreement, reached after a week of marathon diplomacy led by France and Germany....
Guns fall silent in Ukraine’s Donetsk
Moscow- Shelling suddenly stopped at midnight in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk after President Petro Poroshenko gave the order to government forces to halt firing in line with a ceasefire agreement reached last Thursday. Poroshenko, wearing the uniform of the armed forces supreme commander, said in a televised address in the capital Kiev...
Softwood Log Imports to China Slowed in the 4Q/14
SEATTLE (AP) – China continued to dominate global log trade and was setting a new record high in the consumption of imported softwood logs in 2014. The seemingly endless increase in demand for wood raw-materials from the manufacturers of wood products in China has resulted in year-over-year import increases in eight of the past ten years....
Shelling stopped abruptly at mid-night in the city of Donetsk as the ceasefire started
In Eastern Ukraine, the ceasefire brokered by Germany and France has gone into effect from Sunday. Shelling stopped abruptly at mid-night in the city of Donetsk after President Petro Poroshenko ordered government forces to halt firing in line with the ceasefire to end the country’s bloody conflict. Petro said there was still alarm over the...
Ukraine ceasefire begins after fierce fighting in besieged town
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – An agreed ceasefire in Ukraine went into effect Sunday under a cloud of mistrust, after fighting raged until the last minute and Kiev and the US accused Russia of fuelling a final push by rebels to gain territory.President Petro Poroshenko ordered troops to abide by the truce from midnight (2200 GMT), in line with...
Carry on if you want to die in Ukraines battleground town
ON ROAD TO DEBALTSEVE, Ukraine: The east Ukraine town of Debaltseve was the epicentre of fighting in the hours ahead of Sunday s ceasefire, amid non-s …read more Source: The News...
