Section: The Straits Times (Singapore)
Russia launches ‘year of friendship’ with North Korea
March 12, 2015 2:20 AMMOSCOW (AFP) – Russia on Wednesday said it was kicking off a “year of friendship” with totalitarian North Korea as ties with the West languish over Ukraine. …read more Source: The Straits...
US slaps sanctions on Ukrainian rebels, Russian bank
March 11, 2015 10:35 PMWASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The United States on Tuesday placed sanctions on eight Ukrainian separatists and a Russian bank, warning that recent attacks by rebels armed by Russia violated a European-brokered ceasefire in the war-torn country. …read more Source: The Straits...
Ukraine’s women rebels don evening gowns for glam night
March 09, 2015 1:08 AMDONETSK, Ukraine (AFP) – Yana Manuilova cuts an imposing figure in combat fatigues as a gun-toting rebel in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: The Straits...
Russia’s exclusion from Swift a last resort ‘nuclear weapon’: Polish, British ministers
March 06, 2015 7:39 PMWARSAW (AFP) – Excluding Russia from the Swift banking system would be a measure of last resort if the crisis in Ukraine escalates, the British and Polish foreign ministers said Friday. …read more Source: The Straits...
Russia doesn’t want Ukraine’s economy to collapse, says IMF chief Lagarde
March 05, 2015 12:52 AMWASHINGTON (AFP) – Russia does not want to sink Ukraine’s economy, as shown by its willingness to continue selling gas to the country, International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde said Wednesday. …read more Source: The Straits...
Some 12,000 Russian soldiers in Ukraine supporting rebels, says US commander
March 04, 2015 4:51 AMBERLIN (REUTERS) – The US military estimates around 12,000 Russian soldiers are supporting pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine, US Army Europe commander Ben Hodges said on Tuesday. …read more Source: The Straits...
Bereaved view MH17 wreckage at Dutch base
March 04, 2015 12:05 AMGILZE-RIJEN AIRBASE, Netherlands (AFP) – The first of around 500 relatives of those killed in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine visited the wreckage at a Dutch airbase on Tuesday, investigators said. …read more Source: The Straits...
Nemtsov murder witness Ganna Duritska says blocked from leaving Russia
March 03, 2015 12:22 AMMOSCOW (AFP) – The chief witness to the murder of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov – the Ukrainian model who was his girlfriend and was at his side when he was shot – complained Monday of being kept under guard in Moscow. …read more Source: The Straits...
Moscow denounces Charlie Hebdo cartoon on Ukraine as abominable
March 02, 2015 10:10 AMMOSCOW (AFP) – The head of the Russian parliament’s foreign affairs committee Alexei Pushkov denounced a cartoon published in the latest issue of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on the truce in Ukraine as “abominable”. …read more Source: The Straits...
Ukrainian journalist killed as a result of shelling in east: Ukraine military
March 01, 2015 12:11 AMKIEV (REUTERS) – Ukraine’s military said on Saturday a Ukrainian journalist had been killed as a result of shelling in east Ukraine despite a ceasefire deal. …read more Source: The Straits...
