Section: Singapore
EU leaders seek climate deal, but are divided over costs
BRUSSELS – European leaders aim to agree a new decade of energy policy to cut climate-warming gas emissions out to 2030 at an EU summit on Thursday, though sharp differences over sharing the cost means a deal could elude them.The 28 member states want to set the pace for a global pact to be hammered out in Paris next year with industrial...
At Berlin Wall, Kerry warns against Cold War redux
BERLIN – Surrounded by relics of the Cold War, United States Secretary of State John Kerry and his German counterpart yesterday warned against a return to the bitter divide between East and West over the current crisis in Ukraine. Under gloomy skies and… …read more Source:...
Russia spy plane intercepted in NATO airspace
NATO fighter jets intercepted a Russian spy plane over the Baltic Sea after it breached Estonian airspace, the alliance said Wednesday in the latest of such incidents amid tensions with Moscow over Ukraine. …read more Source: Channel...
Russia-Ukraine gas talks falter, new meeting next week
European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger however said “significant progress” was made after the talks broke up between the Ukrainian and Russian energy ministers, Yuri Prodan and Alexander Novak. …read more Source: Channel...
Poland’s speaker backs down from claim Putin proposed dividing Ukraine
October 22, 2014 2:48 AMWARSAW (REUTERS) – The speaker of Poland’s parliament, Radoslaw Sikorski, said on Tuesday he had mis-remembered when he told an interviewer that Russian President Vladimir Putin had proposed that Warsaw and Moscow occupy Ukraine and divide it between them. …read more Source: The Straits...
Ukraine vote candidate survives gun and grenade attack: Party
KIEV – A Ukrainian election candidate allied to the prime minister was shot at and came under a grenade attack as he left his home late on Monday, and only survived because he was wearing body armour, his party said.Volodymyr Borysenko, from Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk’s People’s Front party, was being treated in hospital...
Total CEO de Margerie killed in Moscow business jet accident
RUSSIA – The chief executive of French oil major Total, Christophe de Margerie, was killed when a business jet collided with a snow plough during takeoff at Moscow’s Vnukovo International Airport, the company and airport officials said.The collision occurred late on Monday, just minutes before midnight Moscow time, the airport said in...
Polish ex-minister quoted saying Putin offered to divide Ukraine with Poland
Poland’s parliamentary speaker, Radoslaw Sikorski, has been quoted as saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to Poland’s then leader in 2008 that they divide Ukraine between themselves.Sikorski, who until September served as Poland’s foreign minister, was quoted telling US website Politico that Putin made the...
Russia’s Vladimir Putin offered to divide Ukraine with Poland – Polish ex-minister
October 21, 2014 4:00 AMWARSAW (REUTERS) – Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to Poland’s then leader that they divide Ukraine between themselves as far back as 2008, Poland’s parliamentary speaker Radoslaw Sikorski said in an interview published by the US Politico website. …read more Source: The Straits...
Russian’s Vladimir Putin offered to divide Ukraine with Poland – Polish ex-minister
October 21, 2014 4:00 AMWARSAW (REUTERS) – Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to Poland’s then leader that they divide Ukraine between themselves as far back as 2008, Poland’s parliamentary speaker Radoslaw Sikorski said in an interview published by the US Politico website. …read more Source: The Straits...
