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Obama ramps up pressure on Russia after deadly Ukraine blitz
KIEV – US President Barack Obama vowed on Sunday to ramp up pressure on Russia after rocket attacks blamed on Kremlin-backed Ukrainian rebels killed 30 and injured 95 more.Saturday’s surprise assault on the strategic eastern Ukrainian port of Mariupol threatened to open a new front linking separatist territory near the Russian border...
Lavrov tells Kerry Ukraine violence due to ‘constant firing’ by Kiev troops
MOSCOW – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking to his US counterpart John Kerry on Sunday, blamed the latest upsurge in fighting in eastern Ukraine on Ukrainian government forces who he said were “constantly” shelling towns.”Sergei Lavrov pointed out that an escalation of the situation is a result of Ukrainian...
Moscow ready to push for peaceful solution in eastern Ukraine: Russia’s Sergei Lavrov
January 25, 2015 9:51 PMMOSCOW (REUTERS) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told United States Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday that Moscow was ready to do everything it can to encourage rival sides warring in east Ukraine to seek a peaceful solution to the conflict. …read more Source: The Straits...
Saudi capital goes quiet for day of mourning
RIYADH – The normally gridlocked streets of the Saudi capital were quiet on Sunday after King Salman declared a day of mourning for his predecessor Abdullah, and more foreign leaders made their way to the kingdom.Singapore’s Home Affairs Minister Teo Chee Hean arrived, and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was on his way to offer...
US will consider additional steps to rein in Russia over Ukraine: Obama
January 25, 2015 8:17 PMNEW DELHI (REUTERS) – United States President Barack Obama said on Sunday that Russian support was behind the latest ceasefire breakdown in Ukraine and said the US would consider all additional options short of military action to rein-in Moscow over its neighbour. …read more Source: The Straits...
Pressure mounts on Russia as Ukraine rebels launch bloody offensive
January 25, 2015 7:45 PMMARIUPOL, Ukraine (AFP) – World leaders Sunday ramped up pressure on Moscow to stop pro-Kremlin rebels from pursuing a major new Ukrainian offensive after rockets killed 30 people in a strategic government-held port. …read more Source: The Straits...
Survivors, royalty, presidents mark Auschwitz liberation 70 years on
WARSAW – Seventy years after it was liberated, 300 Auschwitz survivors – most now in their nineties – will on Tuesday return to the former Nazi death camp, the site of the largest single number of murders committed during World War II.Between 1940-45 some 1.1 million people, including one million Jews, perished in the twin death...
Russia blocks UN statement on Ukraine as fighting escalates
UNITED NATIONS – Russia blocked a UN Security Council statement on Saturday that would have criticised a pro-Russian Ukrainian rebel leader and condemned a recent upsurge in violence that has claimed dozens of lives in eastern Ukraine, council diplomats said.The latest failure of the council to weigh in on the war came as pro-Russian rebels...
Russia blocks UN statement criticising violence in eastern Ukraine’s Mariupol
January 25, 2015 10:50 AMUNITED NATIONS (REUTERS) – Russia blocked a UN Security Council statement on Saturday that would have criticised a pro-Russian Ukrainian rebel leader and condemned a recent upsurge in violence that has claimed dozens of lives in eastern Ukraine, council diplomats said. …read more Source: The Straits...
EU, NATO call on Russia to end support of Ukraine rebels
The EU and NATO called on Russia to end its support for rebels in Ukraine, with Brussels mulling an emergency meeting after a major escalation of the fighting. …read more Source: Channel...
