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Shell kills two young footballers amid crumbling Ukraine ceasefire
November 06, 2014 2:24 AMDONETSK, Ukraine (AFP) – Ukraine’s tattered ceasefire came under new strain on Wednesday as shelling killed two teenagers playing football in rebel-held Donetsk and President Petro Poroshenko said he was deploying reinforcements to face a threatened separatist offensive. …read more Source: The Straits...
Putin beats Obama again in Forbes power ranking
NEW YORK – For a second year in a row, Russian President Vladimir Putin has beaten Barack Obama to the title of world’s most powerful leader as ranked by Forbes.In a year in which Russia annexed Crimea, stoked a conflict in Ukraine and clinched a multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline deal with China that Forbes called the world’s...
Ukraine peace plan hangs by a thread
UKRAINE – The ceasefire in Ukraine hung by a thread Wednesday after President Petro Poroshenko accused pro-Russian rebels of endangering the peace process and ordered troop reinforcements to eastern cities.In another sign of how far apart the two sides are drifting, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced he was cutting the rebel-held...
Ukraine peace plan hangs by a thread
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko accused pro-Russian rebels of endangering the peace process and ordered troop reinforcements to eastern cities to guard against a “possible offensive in the direction of Mariupol, Berdyansk, Kharkiv and Lugansk”. …read more Source: Channel...
McCain could shake up US defence in powerful new Senate role
WASHINGTON – Senator John McCain’s voice just got a whole lot louder.One of President Barack Obama’s noisiest detractors, McCain is expected to take the helm of the powerful Armed Services Committee in the new Republican-controlled US Senate when the US Congress convenes in January.The Arizona senator, a critic of the $399...
No Obama-Putin meetings on sidelines of APEC and G20: Kremlin
MOSCOW – No bilateral meetings between Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin are scheduled during the APEC and G20 summits next week, a Kremlin spokesman said Wednesday.”No bilateral meeting is planned for the moment,” spokesman Dmitri Peskov said, according to the RIA Novosti news agency. He added that informal contacts...
Malaysia, Netherlands keep pressing for access to MH17 site
PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia – The leaders of Malaysia and the Netherlands vowed on Wednesday to keep pressing for access to the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 and to bring to justice those responsible for downing the plane in Ukraine.RELATED STORIESDowning of MH17: All the latest reportsPrime Minister Najib Razak met with his visiting...
Obama, post-midterm loss, must re-energize presidency
WASHINGTON – Six years after sweeping into the White House on the slogan “Yes We Can,” Barack Obama, whose Democratic party has lost control of both houses of Congress, must now find a new can-do spirit.Floundering in the polls and shunned by his own party’s candidates, as Obama moves into the final two years of his term...
Bone by bone, Ukraine identifies its dead
ZAPORIZHIA, Ukraine – Before the war, Ms Oksana Biryukova’s lab helped investigators connect criminals to crime scenes. Now her equipment is buzzing around the clock trying to identify the charred remains of Ukrainian soldiers.The DNA laboratory in the south-eastern city of Zaporizhia is the only one in the country charged with...
Bone by bone, Ukraine identifies its dead
November 05, 2014 10:46 AMZAPORIZHIA, Ukraine (AFP) – Ms Oksana Biryukova’s lab is buzzing around the clock trying to identify the charred remains of Ukrainian soldiers. The DNA laboratory in the south-eastern city of Zaporizhia is the only one in the country charged with creating genetic profiles for the unidentified bodies of...
