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EU says to consider new Russia sanctions over Ukraine
BRUSSELS – EU leaders have asked ministers to consider a new wave of sanctions against Russia in the wake of a new military campaign by pro-Moscow rebels in eastern Ukraine, a statement said Tuesday.The European Union’s 28 heads of government asked the bloc’s foreign ministers, who meet in Brussels on Thursday, “to assess...
UN says Ukraine attack ‘targeted civilians’ as Putin defiant
A senior UN official told an emergency Security Council meeting that the deadly rocket barrage on the port city of Mariupol came from pro-Russian rebel-controlled territory and sought to strike a civilian population, in violation of international humanitarian law. …read more Source: Channel...
Last survivors recall Auschwitz, ask if lessons learned
OSWIECIM, Poland – Russia’s Vladimir Putin will be absent from the main event marking 70 years since Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, held against a backdrop of hostilities in Ukraine and warnings of a rise in anti-Semitism in Europe.The commemoration on Tuesday at the site in southern Poland where the Nazis...
Putin brands Ukraine army a NATO proxy as fighting flares
President Vladimir Putin on Monday (Jan 26) ridiculed the Ukrainian army as NATO’s “foreign legion”, ignoring Western pressure on the Kremlin to rein in a pro-Russian insurgency that has gone on the offensive across eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Channel...
Shelling briefly traps 500 miners in east Ukraine
The incident occurred in rebel-controlled Donetsk city’s Zasyadko coal mine – one of eastern Europe’s largest and scene of a similar incident on January 11. …read more Source: Channel...
Shelling traps 500 coal miners in war-torn east Ukraine
A pro-rebel regional news site quoted a ministry official as saying that the lives of the miners are not in danger and that the first evacuation had already begun. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine fighting kills 9 as child evacuations planned
Fighting in Ukraine’s war-torn east has killed at least seven soldiers over the last 24 hours, with rebels firing more than a hundred times, the army said Monday (Jan 26). …read more Source: Channel...
UN Security Council to meet on Ukraine crisis after deadly clashes
KIEV – The UN Security Council will hold a special meeting Monday on the violence in eastern Ukraine after a rocket barrage blamed on Kremlin-backed rebels killed 30 and threatened to open up a new front in the war.US President Barack Obama vowed to ramp up pressure on Russia after Saturday’s assault on Mariupol – the main city...
Australia PM in ‘time warp’ as British royal knighted
SYDNEY – Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott marked his country’s national day Monday by honouring Britain’s Prince Philip with a knighthood, sparking criticism from his political opposition of being in a “time warp”.Abbott said Queen Elizabeth II had accepted his recommendation that her husband, the Duke of...
Obama ramps up pressure on Russia after deadly Ukraine blitz
US President Barack Obama vows to ramp up pressure on Russia after rocket attacks blamed on Kremlin-backed Ukrainian rebels kill 30 and injure 95 others. …read more Source: Channel...
