Section: South Korea
Hoax Letter to Russian Media Seeks to Tie U.S. Senator to Ukraine
A forger sent a hoax letter to Russian media in an apparent bid to convince journalists that a senior U.S. lawmaker, Senator Richard Durbin, was trying to tell Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk how to run his government, Durbin’s office said on Monday. The hoaxer wrote to Yatsenyu… …read more Source: The Chosun...
EU Extends Russia Sanctions for 6 Months
European Union foreign ministers formally agreed Monday to extend economic sanctions against Russia for an additional six months in response to the country’s role in neighboring Ukraine. The move came during a meeting of the 28-member bloc’s foreign ministers in Luxembourg. EU envoys… …read more Source: The Chosun...
EU Agrees to Extend Russia Sanctions Over Ukraine
European Union governments have reached preliminary agreement to extend sanctions against Russia for six months for its role in the Ukraine crisis, triggering Kremlin warnings that Moscow will retaliate. The decision, reached by EU envoys Wednesday in Brussels, is expected to be formally a… …read more Source: The Chosun...
EU said to extend Russia sanctions amid elusive peace in Ukraine
European Union governments struck a preliminary accord to extend sanctions against Russia by six months to the end of Ja …read more Source: The Korea...
G7 Leaders Affirm Russia Sanctions
The leaders of seven of the world’s most powerful countries agreed on Monday to toughen sanctions on Russia, if necessary, to press for a political solution to the conflict in eastern Ukraine. At the annual Group of Seven (G7) summit, the leaders said current sanctions will remain in place… …read more Source: The Chosun...
Russia’s Putin to Visit Pope Francis at the Vatican
Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Pope Francis on June 10 at the Vatican, with conflicts in Syria and Ukraine likely to top the Holy See’s agenda. Putin last called on Francis on Nov. 25, 2013. The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said Thursday the meeting… …read more Source: The Chosun...
Russian missile maker: MH17 shot down by Ukrainian missile
The Russian maker of the Buk air defense missile system said Tuesday that it has concluded that Malaysian Airlines fligh …read more Source: The Korea...
More than 6,400 killed amid ‘tremendous hardship’ in Ukraine says U.N.
GENEVA (AFP) – The United Nations said Monday that more than 6,400 people had been killed in conflict-wracked Ukraine, a …read more Source: The Korea...
U.S., Russia Talk Cooperation, but No Breakthroughs
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in their first meeting since the Kremlin’s annexation of Crimea and support for rebels fighting in east Ukraine sparked the worst tensions with the West since the Cold War. But, the tone of Tuesday’s meeting was con… …read more Source: The...
Kerry to meet Russia’s Putin amid Ukraine, Syria tensions
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Russia to meet President Vladimir Putin with an eye on easing badly strained re …read more Source: The Korea...
