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Russia will not scale back ties with Europe, America: Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday (Dec 4) pledged that Russia would not scale back its ties with the West despite bitter ongoing confrontation over the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source: Channel...
Putin says West uses sanctions to undermine Russia
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday the West had used the Ukraine crisis and the annexation of Crimea as a pretext to slap sanctions against Russia. …read more Source: Channel...
70 rebel attacks in east Ukraine: military
Efforts to bring a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine are slim as rebel attacks around the airport in the city of Donetsk continue, according to the military, and also in Lugansk. …read more Source: Channel...
Putin under pressure to show he can cure Russia’s economic ills
President Vladimir Putin is under pressure to show he has a prescription to cure Russia’s rapidly growing economic ills in his annual state of the union address on Thursday.Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis, sharp falls in global oil prices and the rouble’s slide against the dollar culminated in an acknowledgement by...
Proposed U.S. ban on Russian rocket engine puts premium on replacement
A proposed ban on purchases of a Russian-made rocket engine to launch US military satellites will speed up the development of an American-made replacement, the head of United Launch Alliance, a Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing Co joint venture, said on Wednesday.A compromise defence policy bill in Congress would bar the purchase of more...
Ukraine nuclear plant short circuit adds to power woes
Ukraine’s power crisis deepened as an electrical fault at a nuclear plant caused a shutdown that further crimped supplies. …read more Source: Channel...
Topless Salvini woos Italy’s voters from bedroom
ROME – Matteo Salvini, the 41-year-old leader of the anti-euro Northern League party, chose a bare-chested, bedroom photoshoot in a weekly magazine on Wednesday to underline his status as the newest sensation in Italian politics.Despite the gimmick, Salvini, who took over his party last year after a financial scandal brought down its...
Ukraine minister says ‘no threat’ from nuclear plant accident
KIEV – Ukraine’s energy authorities said on Wednesday that an accident at a nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhya in the south-east of the country posed no danger and the plant would return to normal operations on Dec. 5.”There is no threat … there are no problems with the reactors,” Energy Minister Volodymyr...
Ukrainian PM reports accident at nuclear power plant
KIEV – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Wednesday an accident had occurred at the Zaporizhye nuclear power plant (NPP) in south-east Ukraine and called on the energy minister to hold a news conference.”I know that an accident has occurred at the Zaporizhye NPP,” Yatseniuk said, asking new energy minister...
Obama settles on Ashton Carter as Pentagon chief, sources say
WASHINGTON – Can a career Washington technocrat break into US President Barack Obama’s tight-knit inner circle and oversee the world’s most powerful military?It looks like former Pentagon official Ashton Carter is about to find out.Administration sources said on Tuesday that Obama has settled on the 60-year-old Carter as his...
