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Monitors fear rising violence in eastern Ukraine
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said there was a “rising” risk that unrest in the war-torn region would get worse amid fears of a return to all-out fighting. …read more Source: Channel...
Merkel says EU not planning new sanctions against Russia
[BERLIN] German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday that the European Union was not planning new sanctions against Russia over a fresh spike in violence in Ukraine. …read more Source: The Business...
West confronts Putin at Asia-Pacific summit
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday (Nov 11) had a close-up brush with Western anger over the Ukraine crisis and the downing of Flight MH17, as the White House warned that his sanctions-hit government was staring at “isolation”. …read more Source: Channel...
Dutch team in fresh bid to recover MH17 wreckage
About a dozen Dutch investigators accompanied by armed rebels arrived in a convoy of cars near the MH17 crash site in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday (Nov 11) hoping to recover debris from the doomed airliner, but were not permitted to enter the zone. …read more Source: Channel...
Obama and Putin meet amid tensions: White House
Relations between Washington and Moscow are at their lowest since the Cold War, with Russia under US-backed Western sanctions over its seizure of the Crimea this year and its role in the separatist war in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Channel...
Obama and Putin are odd couple at Beijing summit
BEIJING – A couple of brief encounters between Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin during an Asia-Pacific summit in China on Tuesday spoke volumes about the chilly state of relations between the United States and Russia.With the two men crossing paths twice this week, first in Beijing and later at a G20 summit in Brisbane, Australia, there was...
Biden warns Russia over Ukraine
US Vice President Joe Biden spoke to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko by telephone, with the pair agreeing it was “critical” for Russia to honor its commitments to a ceasefire agreement signed in September. …read more Source: Channel...
Biden warns Russia over Ukraine
WASHINGTON – US Vice President Joe Biden warned Russia over Ukraine after new columns of tanks, trucks and heavy artillery rumbled towards the pro-Moscow rebel stronghold of Donetsk on Monday.The West has repeatedly expressed concern at Ukrainian claims that Russian military reinforcements are being sent in, while Moscow denies that it is...
Fears grow of all-out war in Ukraine as MH17 families mourn
New unidentified armoured columns rumbled toward the pro-Moscow rebel stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Monday (Nov 10) as fears grew of a return to all-out fighting in the war-torn region. …read more Source: Channel...
Fears grow of all-out war in Ukraine as MH17 families mourn
November 10, 2014 10:13 PMSHAKHTARSK, Ukraine (AFP) – New unidentified unarmoured columns rumbled toward the pro-Moscow rebel stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Monday as fears grew of a return to all-out fighting in the war-torn region. …read more Source: The Straits...
