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Civilians flee Ukraine hotspot by bus after truce agreed
DEBALTSEVE (AFP) – Terrified civilians piled onto a convoy of buses Friday as they took advantage of a brief truce to flee the east Ukraine battleground town of Debaltseve.Clutching the few possessions they could carry, residents gathered in small groups on the shrapnel-scarred main square to seize the window of a few hours to flee the...
Fighting traps children underground in east Ukraine
DONETSK (AFP) – As the shelling came closer to 10-year-old Artyoms neighbourhood, he was forced to swap his local playground for a bunker — just like children across rebel-held east Ukraine.Whenever the boom of artillery bombardments echoes over the separatist stronghold of Donetsk, Artyoms grandmother Lyudmila Tarasova quickly grabs...
Obama wants US to have ‘strategic patience’
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama believes the United States must resist the temptation to over-reach in its foreign policy and have strategic patience when it comes to tough international problems.In a strategy document released Friday, Obama made the case for a more deliberative, cautious and restrained US foreign policy.The...
German Chancellor: Germany, France to use ‘all power’ for Ukraine peace
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she and French President Francois Hollande will use all our power on their visit to Moscow to try and stop the bloodshed in eastern Ukraine.Speaking Friday before flying to Russia for talks with President Vladimir Putin, Merkel said she couldnt speculate on whether she and Hollande, who...
Popular ‘dashcams’ catch everything from scammers to disasters
PARIS (AFP) – The terrifying footage of a plane clipping a bridge in Taiwan and crashing into a river this week was a reminder that dashcams have become an increasingly standard piece of kit in cars around the world.The TransAsia crash, which killed at least 31 people on Wednesday, was filmed by at least two cars each carrying a dashboard...
Popular ‘dashcams’ catch everything scammers to disasters
PARIS (AFP) – The terrifying footage of a plane clipping a bridge in Taiwan and crashing into a river this week was a reminder that dashcams have become an increasingly standard piece of kit in cars around the world.The TransAsia crash, which killed at least 31 people on Wednesday, was filmed by at least two cars each carrying a dashboard...
Merkel, Hollande take Ukraine peace plan to Putin
Moscow (AFP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande were due in Moscow Friday after getting Kievs tentative backing for a crunch peace plan aimed at ending surging violence in Ukraine.Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said talks with Merkel and Hollande late Thursday raised hope for a ceasefire after the...
NATO agrees to boost defences after Russian ‘aggression’
BRUSSELS (AFP) – NATO agreed Thursday to dramatically boost its defences with six command centres in eastern Europe and a spearhead force of 5,000 troops, to counter what the alliance called Russian aggression in Ukraine.Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg insisted that the increase approved by defence ministers in Brussels was purely...
US not seeking conflict with Russia: Kerry
KIEV: US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday Russian aggression in the east was the greatest threat to Ukraine and that Washington, while s …read more Source: The News...
Ukraine peace plan initiated by Europe’s core powers
KIEV- The leaders of Germany and France announced a new peace plan for Ukraine today, flying to Kiev with a proposal they would then take on to Moscow. The importance of reaching a deal was demonstrated by a dramatic collapse in Ukraine’s hryvnia currency, which lost nearly a third of its value after the central bank halted daily auctions...
