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Davos elite gather in shadow of attacks
DAVOS, Switzerland – The world’s political and business elite gather for their annual meeting in the glitzy Swiss ski resort of Davos from Wednesday, with the shadow of recent attacks in France and ongoing global conflicts looming large.French President Francois Hollande and US Secretary of State John Kerry will be among the 2,500...
A father buries his 4-year-old son and curses Ukraine’s war
DONETSK, Ukraine – Vladimir Bobryshchev was returning home early on a recent morning after a long night of work when a rocket ripped through the sky, falling straight toward his home.He saw it hit his house, and he rushed over to save his two sons and his wife. This week, he stood in a cemetery in the rebel bastion of Donetsk burying his...
AIDS crisis brewing in Crimea and east Ukraine: United Nations
January 21, 2015 8:29 AMPARIS (AFP) – A lethal health crisis is brewing in Russian-annexed Crimea and war-torn eastern Ukraine, where injecting drug users have lost access to therapy to wean them off heroin, the UN’s AIDS envoy said Wednesday. …read more Source: The Straits...
World has duty to ensure Ukraine’s success: EU
The European Union has not forgotten Crimea, the bloc’s foreign policy chief insisted Tuesday, stressing the world’s “first duty” to Ukraine was to ensure it becomes a success. …read more Source: Channel...
Upsurge in Ukraine violence prompts new peace push
A massive assault by Russian-backed insurgents on a Ukrainian force hanging on to a ruined airport near the rebels’ main stronghold prompted Germany on Tuesday (Jan 20) to announce urgent new peace talks. …read more Source: Channel...
Russian forces attack Ukraine troops in separatist east: Kiev
January 21, 2015 1:37 AMKIEV (AFP) – Ukraine on Tuesday accused Russian forces of attacking its soldiers fighting pro-Kremlin insurgents in the former Soviet republic’s separatist east. …read more Source: The Straits...
New Ukraine talks to dampen flare-up in fighting
The foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France are set to meet on Wednesday (Jan 21) in Berlin in a bid to stem fresh fighting in Ukraine, Germany said. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukrainian nationalists hurt in grenade attack, stokes anti-Russian feeling
Six people were treated in hospital for injuries on Tuesday after what police said was a grenade attack on a group of Ukrainian nationalists in the eastern city of Kharkiv which several officials blamed on pro-Russian forces.The explosion, the latest in a spate of mystery blasts targeting Kharkiv and other Ukrainian cities, occurred on Monday...
Huge anti-Charlie Hebdo rally in Chechnya as global protests rumble on
GROZNY, Russia – The furious backlash against French magazine Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed rumbled on Monday with a huge rally in Chechnya, Afghan protesters burning the French flag and Gazans levelling threats against France.Hundreds of thousands of people flooded into the centre of Grozny, the capital of...
EU agrees to stick to Russia sanctions policy
[BRUSSELS] EU foreign ministers agreed on Monday there would be no change in the bloc’s Russia policy, including sanctions, as the union’s diplomatic chief warned the Ukraine situation had got “much worse” in recent weeks. …read more Source: The Business...
