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Fears grow of all-out fight in Ukraine as MH17 families mourn
A pro-Russian gunman stands ensure on Nov 10, 2014 subsequent to tools of a Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 during a pile-up site nearby a encampment of Hrabove (Grabovo), some 80 kms easterly of Donetsk. PHOTO: AFP UKARINE: New unclear armoured columns rumbled toward a pro-Moscow insurgent building of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Monday as fears...
Asian shares firm after sound U.S. data
(Reuters) – Asian shares gained on Monday after U.S. jobs data pointed to solid economic growth, with Hong Kong leading the gains after regulators set a date for a long-awaited trading link between the Hong Kong and Shanghai stock exchanges to open.MSCIs broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS rose 1.2 percent, led...
Rising China, geopolitical tensions take stage at APEC
Beijing (AFP) – World leaders including Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin converge Monday in Beijing for an Asia-Pacific summit against the backdrop of a US-Russian chill and the inexorable rise of the meetings increasingly assertive host.The gathering is the biggest event yet hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping, who took over last year...
Berlin Wall’s tumble 25 years ago an epic blow to tyranny: Merkel
German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks in front of a sketch arrangement Bernauer Strasse in Nov 1989 during a muster opening during a commemorative in Bernauer Strasse in Berlin. PHOTO: REUTERS BERLIN: Germany outlines 25th anniversary of breaching of Cold War. Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday that [it was] a singular resplendent impulse...
Xi, Putin to ‘harvest a fruits’ of deepening ties
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (L) and his Chinese reflection Xi Jinping shake hands during a signing rite during a Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Nov 9, 2014. PHOTO: AFP BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian reflection Vladimir Putin betrothed ever-closer team-work Sunday as they met for a 10th time in...
Thousands of balloons rise to sky to fete Berlin Wall fall
BERLIN (AFP) – Thousands of illuminated balloons sailed into the night sky Sunday from the former route of the Berlin Wall, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel said its fall 25 years ago proved that dreams can come true.The flight of the glowing white orbs through the heart of Berlin marked the climax of a huge open-air party at the...
Gorbachev warns of ‘new Cold War’
Tensions between the major powers have pushed the world closer to a new Cold War, former Soviet leader Mikhail S Gorbachev said Saturday. The 83-year-old accused the West, particularly the United States, of giving in to “triumphalism” after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the communist bloc a quarter century ago. The...
OSCE ‘concerned’ by tanks, convoys in Ukraine
Kiev (AFP) – The OSCE said it is very concerned after its monitors witnessed columns of tanks, howitizers and troop carriers moving through east Ukraine in territory held by pro-Russia separatists.Monitors from the European security organisation said in a statement late Saturday they had observed convoys of heavy weapons and tanks in the...
Ukraine bloodshed rises
Kiev (AFP) – The remains of the last nine victims of flight MH17 may never be recovered from the Ukrainian battlefield where their plane was downed four months ago, the Dutch foreign minister said Saturday, as fighting rumbled on in the east of the country.Foreign Minister Bert Koenders made the grim assessment in the city of Kharkiv, where...
Gorbachev warns ‘world on margin of new Cold War’: Report
Former President of a Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev speaks during a conference on confidence in Europe 25 years after a tumble of a “Wall” in Berlin on Nov 8, 2014. PHOTO: AFP BERLIN: The Soviet Union’s final personality Mikhail Gorbachev warned on Saturday that a universe was on a “brink of a new Cold War” during an eventuality to symbol...
