PARIS – Here is a panorama of world events in 2014:February18: UKRAINE: Security forces crack down on pro-European protestors in Kiev’s central Independence Square, or Maidan. More than 100 people die.On May 25 a pro-Western billionaire, Petro Poroshenko, is elected president.March8: MALAYSIA: Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people aboard, disappears.16: UKRAINE: The Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea votes to join Russia. Days later Russia annexes the region.In April, a separatist insurrection erupts in eastern Ukraine. Since then more than 4,700 people have been killed, according to UN figures, and peace efforts have stalled.April14: NIGERIA: …read more
Source: AsiaOne
