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Canada’s new human rights museum shares oral histories
innipeg (Canada) (AFP) – A new museum in Canadas western prairies has amassed a unique collection of personal stories from genocide survivors, human rights defenders and others, and wants to share them.Dedicated to the 60-year-old notion of human rights, a singular but intricate ideal, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg,...
Russia central bank in surprisingly big rate hike
MOSCOW (AP) – Russias central bank has raised its main interest rate by more than anticipated as it tries to stem the rubles fall.The bank on Friday lifted its main rate from 8 percent to 9.5 percent in a move reflecting the banks concern over the plummeting currency. The ruble fell to an all-time dollar low of 43.4 earlier this week, but...
Russia: Natural gas will flow after Ukraine pays
MOSCOW (AP) – Russia will resume shipping natural gas to Ukraine after Kiev pays off its first debt installment for past supplies of gas next week, officials said Friday.Alexei Miller, chief of Russias state-controlled Gazprom natural gas giant, made the statement hours after Russia, Ukraine and the European Union thrashed out a $4.6...
Ukraines rebels prepare for war
LUKOVE, Ukraine: As winter approaches in Ukraine s eastern countryside, pro-Russian rebels and Kiev forces eye each other uneasily across a ragged fro …read more Source: The News...
Total’s new boss promises stability after CEO death
London (AFP) – French energy major Totals new chief executive promised continuity at his first public appearance on Thursday as Russia charged a second person over the plane crash that killed his predecessor.My objective is mainly continuity and stability, Patrick Pouyanne said at the Oil and Money conference in London after being nominated...
Ukraine, Russia, EU agree gas supply deal: EU source
Brussels (AFP) – Russia agreed to resume gas deliveries to Ukraine through the winter in an EU-brokered deal reached by the three parties in Brussels on Thursday, an EU source said.The details will be outlined by European Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso as well as the Russian and Ukrainian energy ministers during a press conference...
WhatsApp founders own nearly $9B in Facebook stock
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -WhatsApp founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton received 116 million shares of Facebook stock currently worth nearly $9 billion when they sold their unprofitable messaging service to the social networking leader earlier this month.The breakdown of the big winners in Facebook Inc.s $22 billion acquisition emerged Wednesday in a...
NATO leaders united against Russia over Ukraine crisis
NEWPORT- NATO leaders will aim Thursday to show unity against Russia over the conflict in Ukraine, after France suspended delivery of a warship to Moscow despite a surprise peace plan put forward by the Kremlin. (Source: DN) Ukraine and the new threats posed by Islamic extremists in Iraq, Syria and beyond will dominate the two-day summit in...
NATO- ‘Over 1,000 Russian troops’ present in Ukraine
MONS, Belgium – A senior NATO official said on Thursday that “well over a thousand” Russian troops were operating inside Ukraine. (Source: DN) “They support separatists, fighting with them and fighting amongst them,” the official said on condition of anonymity, adding that the supply of arms by Russia had increased in both “volume and quality”....
Russia pushes aid into Ukraine after much wait
DONETSK- Russia pushed the first trucks of a massive aid convoy into war-torn eastern Ukraine on Friday after saying it was tired of reassuring Kiev that it was not being used to smuggle in weapons to pro-Kremlin insurgents. (Source: DN) The decision appeared to have also been taken without the authorisation of an International Committee of the...
