Section: Singapore
German foreign minister says Ukraine peace summit ‘not sure yet’
February 09, 2015 6:36 PMBRUSSELS (AFP) – German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said it was not certain a four-way Ukraine peace summit on Wednesday in Minsk will go ahead, with much work still to be done. …read more Source: The Straits...
Nine more Ukrainian servicemen killed in the east
Nine Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and 26 wounded in fighting with Russian-back separatists in Ukraine’s eastern regions in the past 24 hours, Kiev military spokesman said on Monday. …read more Source: Channel...
Four-way emergency Ukraine summit planned for Wednesday
The leaders of Ukraine, Germany, France and Russia discussed the meeting in a phone call Sunday as part of their efforts to achieve a “comprehensive settlement” in the conflict between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels, Berlin said. …read more Source: Channel...
Obama hosts Merkel amid deepening Ukraine crisis
WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama hosts Angela Merkel at the White House on Monday, as worsening violence in Ukraine confronts them with a choice between throwing more weapons into the war and risky peace talks.The German chancellor will visit the Oval Office for a tete-a-tete as divisions grow over how to stop bloody fighting between...
Ukraine sees echoes of the 1990s as financial crisis bites
A CRIPPLING financial crisis in Ukraine is turning the clock back to the 1990s, when people kept dollars in their socks rather than at banks and smuggled cars to sell them on the black market and avoid the tax man. …read more Source: The Business...
Russia's Putin says Kiev on "dead-end track" in east Ukraine
[MOSCOW] Russian President Vladimir Putin said Kiev must stop its military operation in east Ukraine and cease exerting economic pressure on rebel-held regions, warning that it was on a “dead-end track fraught with … catastrophe”. …read more Source: The Business...
Emergency Ukraine summit planned for Wednesday
FRENCH, German and Ukrainian leaders are planning a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in a frantic bid to halt escalating bloodshed in east Ukraine. …read more Source: The Business...
Leaders scramble to avert “dramatic spiral” in in bloodshed in Ukraine
February 09, 2015 3:55 AMMUNICH (REUTERS) – The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France agreed to meet in Belarus on Wednesday to try to broker a peace deal for Ukraine amid escalating violence there and signs of cracks in the transatlantic consensus on confronting Vladimir Putin. …read more Source: The Straits...
Leaders scramble to avert ‘dramatic spiral’ in Ukraine
The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France agreed to meet in Belarus on Wednesday to try to broker a peace deal for Ukraine amid escalating violence there and signs of cracks in the transatlantic consensus on confronting Vladimir Putin. …read more Source: Channel...
Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine mull Feb 11 summit in Minsk
February 08, 2015 7:47 PMBERLIN (AFP) – A summit between France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine is being planned for Wednesday in Minsk in an effort to halt escalating violence in eastern Ukraine, Berlin said. …read more Source: The Straits...
