Section: Today (Singapore)
Moscow is bankrolling Ukraine rebels: ex-separatist official
MOSCOW – A former senior official from breakaway eastern Ukraine said Russia directly finances pensions and public sector salaries in the two pro-Russian regions there. The assertion by former separatist minister Alexander Khodakovsky… …read more Source:...
Ukraine warns citizens against traveling to Russia
KIEV – Ukraine warned its citizens on Wednesday against traveling to Russia, saying they were at risk following an increase in harassment and detentions of Ukrainians by Russian security services. The move is further testimony to the breakdown… …read more Source:...
Germany says no proposals for sanctions against Russia over Syria
BERLIN – There are no international proposals to impose sanctions on Russia over its role in Syria, a spokesman for Germany’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday, shortly before officials from a group of Western countries meet in Berlin to discuss the crisis. … …read more Source:...
France says time to act on Congo, EU sanctions possible
PARIS – France said on Tuesday it was time to prevent the political situation worsening in Democratic Republic of Congo and consider imposing European Union sanctions. The United States imposed sanctions on a general and a former senior police… …read more Source:...
Ukraine plans to deliver world’s largest jet to China
KIEV – Ukraine said on Wednesday (Sept 7) it may deliver the world’s largest jet – originally developed for the Soviet Union’s abandoned space shuttle programme – to China within the next five years. The first AN-225 Mriya (Dream) six-engine heavy lifter was… …read more Source:...
Ukraine’s karate kids strike blow at Down’s syndrome stereotypes
KIEV – Little Vova Tkachuk has difficulty speaking because of Down’s syndrome but still loves practising devastating elbow strikes on the gym floor. The six-year-old boy has bravely overcome the inherent genetic disease and become one of Ukraine’s latest… …read more Source:...
Ukraine marks 30 years since Chernobyl disaster
KIEV – Ukraine prepared on Tuesday to mark the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which permanently poisoned swathes of eastern Europe and highlighted the shortcomings of the secretive Soviet system. In the early hours of April 26, 1986, a… …read more Source:...
Economy, security crises in focus as Obama arrives in Germany
HANOVER, Germany – U.S. President Barack Obama arrived in Germany on Sunday to hold talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, one of his closest allies in dealing with a shaky global economy and security crises in the Middle East and Ukraine. It will be the… …read more Source:...
World has slipped into ‘new Cold War’: Russian PM
MUNICH – Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said today (Feb 13) that strains between Russia and the West have plunged the world into a “new Cold War”. With tensions high over the Ukraine conflict and Russia’s backing of the Syrian regime, Mr Medvedev… …read more Source:...
IT experts say Ukraine blackout caused by a cyberattack
KIEV – A power failure that plunged parts of western Ukraine into the dark last month was caused by a cyberattack, IT experts said yesterday (Jan 5), and one source called it a world first. The blackout, which hit a large part of the western region of… …read more Source:...
