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Farewell ceremony for volunteers
Jan04

Farewell ceremony for volunteers

Relatives react in the center of Kiev on January 3, 2014 during a farewell ceremony for volunteers of the Azov battalion, leaving to the east of the country to take part in anti-terrorists operation (ATO). …read more Source: The...

Ukraine TV lands in hot water over Russian pop songs
Jan03

Ukraine TV lands in hot water over Russian pop songs

KIEV (AFP) – One of Ukraines biggest TV networks faced the threat Friday of being taken off air for filling its highly-rated New Years Eve show with Russian pop songs beamed live from Moscow.The culture minister called the festive if at-times gaudy programme anti-Ukrainian. The national security and defence council chief saw it as part of a...

Recovery teams narrow AirAsia search
Jan02

Recovery teams narrow AirAsia search

PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia (AFP) – Indonesian recovery teams narrowed the search area for AirAsia Flight 8501 Friday, hopeful they were closing in on the planes crash site, with a total of 30 bodies and more debris recovered from the sea.French and Singaporean investigators joined the hunt for the Airbus A320-200, which disappeared from radar...

Searchers hopeful in AirAsia search
Jan02

Searchers hopeful in AirAsia search

PANGKALAN BUN (AFP) – Indonesian recovery teams narrowed the search area for AirAsia Flight 8501 Friday, hopeful they were closing in on the planes crash site, with a total of 16 bodies and more debris recovered from the sea.French and Singaporean investigators with equipment for detecting the signal from the planes black boxes were set to...

Kerry, Lavrov discuss Ukraine and Middle East crises
Jan02

Kerry, Lavrov discuss Ukraine and Middle East crises

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Top US diplomat John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov spoke Thursday to discuss the crises in the Middle East and Ukraine, officials said.Secretary Kerry and Foreign Minister Lavrov spoke by phone today. They discussed the situation in the Middle East and Ukraine, according to a senior State Department...

Thousands of Ukraine nationalists march in Kiev
Jan01

Thousands of Ukraine nationalists march in Kiev

KIEV (AFP) – Thousands of Ukrainian nationalists held a torchlight procession across Kiev on Thursday in honour of a World War II anti-Soviet insurgent dismissed by Moscow as a Nazi collaborator.The march on what would have been Stepan Banderas 106th birthday moved along the same streets on which masses rallied for three months last winter...

118 journalists killed in 2014: IFJ
Jan01

118 journalists killed in 2014: IFJ

BRUSSELS (AFP) – One hundred and eighteen journalists and media staff were killed around the world in 2014, with Pakistan and Syria the deadliest countries, the International Federation of Journalists said Wednesday.The IFJ said those killed, 13 more than in 2013, were either targeted for their work or caught in the cross-fire while another...

Indonesia vows ‘all-out effort’ in search for AirAsia victims
Jan01

Indonesia vows ‘all-out effort’ in search for AirAsia victims

Pangkalan Bun (Indonesia) (AFP) – Indonesian searchers promised an all-out effort Thursday to locate bodies from AirAsia Flight QZ8501 as international investigators joined the hunt for the ill-fated plane.Seven bodies have so far been retrieved in the search for the Airbus A320-200, which crashed into the Java Sea with 162 people on board...

Lithuania joins eurozone to seal ties with West
Jan01

Lithuania joins eurozone to seal ties with West

Vilnius (AFP) – Lithuania switched over to the euro on Thursday, becoming the last Baltic nation to adopt Europes single currency in a bid to boost stability despite fears of inflation and eurozone debt woes.Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius withdrew his first 10-euro bill ($12) from a Vilnius cash machine after midnight, as the euro...

Annexation of Crimea a historic landmark: Putin
Jan01

Annexation of Crimea a historic landmark: Putin

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has used his New Year s speech to hail his country s annexation of Ukraine s Crimea Peninsula as an achieveme …read more Source: The News...