Section: Philippines
EU leaders say Russia-Germany gas line could break EU rules
European Union leaders raised objections to a massive new pipeline project that would pump natural gas directly from Russia to Germany, claiming that the scheme would break EU laws. The Nord Stream 2 project would expand the current Nord Stream pipeline under the Baltic Sea which directly links Germany to natural gas reserves in Siberia. The...
6 Pinoy crew missing after Danish ship sinks near Indonesia
Batam, Indonesia – Six Filipino crewmen were missing Thursday after their cargo ship collided with a chemical tanker and sank off western Indonesia, officials said. Six other people were rescued. The Danish cargo ship Thorco Cloud collided with the chemical tanker Stolt Commitment about 13 kilometers off Indonesia’s Batam island late...
Ukraine says it won’t repay $3-B debt to Russia
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk says his country won’t repay their $3-billion debt owed to Russia due this weekend. Yatsenyuk announced at a televised government session a “moratorium” on any debt repayments to Russia. That effectively means that Ukraine is defaulting on the debt. He did not indicate when Ukraine would be ready...
Migrant crisis, Britain dominate European summit
BRUSSELS: European leaders tackled the migration crisis and Britain’s reform demands at a summit on Thursday, twin challenges threatening the unity of the EU as one of the toughest years in its history draws to a close. Germany and several other nations are meeting with the Turkish prime minister before the full summit to discuss a plan to...
US, Russia agree to push ahead with Syria talks
MOSCOW: The United States and Russia agreed to plough on with efforts to halt Syria’s brutal civil war, with a fresh round of international crisis talks set for this week in New York. After a three-hour meeting in Moscow between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US Secretary of State John Kerry, the two sides appeared to be a step closer...
Kerry in Moscow to push Syria peace plan
by Dave Clark Moscow, Russia | AFP — US Secretary of State John Kerry brought his campaign to end the Syrian civil war to Moscow on Tuesday, where a meeting with President Vladimir Putin could decide the fate of peace talks. Kerry first held talks with his usual sparring partner Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, but the success of his trip will...
Russia warns Turkey over Aegean warship incident
Russian destroyer Smetlivy leaves the harbour at the Crimean port of Sevastopol September 12, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer Russia on Sunday warned Turkey to stop staging what it called provocations against its forces in or near Syria after one of its warships fired warning shots at a Turkish vessel in the Aegean to avoid a collision. The Russian...
Russia: UN’s Ukraine meeting shouldn’t discuss human rights
Samantha Power, the United States United Nations Ambassador and President of the UN Security Council for December, addresses the security council on the situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015, at UN headquarters in New York. The U.N. human rights chief has told the Security Council it is “essential”...
IMF accused of bowing to political pressure in Ukraine support
WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund has been accused of giving in to political pressure in dropping a long established rule on prudential lending so that it can proceed with assistance for Ukraine. That follows similar charges that the fund, the world’s essential backstop in financial crises, bent its rules to support a bailout of...
Germany’s Angela Merkel wins Time’s Person of the Year
Time magazine Wednesday, December 9, named German Chancellor Angela Merkel as its “Person of the Year 2015,” hailing her leadership during Europe’s debt, refugee and migrant crises, as well as Russia’s intervention in Ukraine. The magazine said the German chancellor had “stepped in” every time a serious crisis...
