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Ukraine PM Yatseniuk tenders resignation
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk tendered his resignation on Sunday in a televised broadcast. …read more Source: Channel...
NATO envoys, Russia to hold special council in Brussels – statement
The NATO-Russia Council, which has not met since 2014, will convene in the next two weeks in Brussels to discuss the Ukraine crisis, the Western military alliance said on Friday, saying both sides had agreed to hold talks at the level of ambassadors. …read more Source: Channel...
Russia-NATO Council may meet within weeks – agencies cite deputy foreign minister
A meeting of the Russia-NATO Council may take place within weeks for the first time since the Ukraine crisis erupted in 2014, Alexey Meshkov, a deputy Russian foreign minister, was cited as saying on Friday by Russian news agencies. …read more Source: Channel...
Dutch vote highlights EU’s problem with voters, UK beware
The European Union’s long-running problem with voters just got a little worse after the Dutch rejected an agreement on closer EU ties with Ukraine, highlighting the difficulties of further European integration. …read more Source: Channel...
Dutch voters overwhelming reject Ukraine-EU treaty
Dutch voters have overwhelmingly rejected a Ukraine-European Union treaty on closer political and economic ties, in a rebuke to their government and to the European Union establishment. …read more Source: Channel...
Poroshenko: Ukraine to continue moving towards EU despite Dutch vote
Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko said on Thursday his country will continue moving towards the European Union despite a resounding rejection by Dutch voters of a treaty on closer ties between the European body and Ukraine. …read more Source: Channel...
Dutch snub EU-Kiev pact in blow to leaders
Dutch voters on Wednesday rejected a key European pact with Ukraine in a people’s referendum seen as a barometer of anti-EU feeling, media predictions said, dealing an embarrassing blow to the government. …read more Source: Channel...
Dutch voters snub EU-Kiev pact, but exit polls cast doubt on turnout
Dutch voters on Wednesday rejected a key EU pact with Ukraine in a referendum seen as a barometer of anti-EU feeling, but low turnout cast doubts on whether the ballot was valid, exit polls showed. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine adds Russian oil import ban to growing trade war
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said on Wednesday he intended to introduce a ban on oil product imports from petro-giant Russia as part of Kiev’s festering trade war with Moscow. …read more Source: Channel...
In Chernobyl nuclear zone, animals thrive without humans
What happens to the environment when humans disappear? Thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, booming populations of wolf, elk and other wildlife in the vast contaminated zone in Belarus and Ukraine provide a clue. …read more Source: Channel...
