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AP PHOTOS: Top pictures from Europe and Africa
LONDON (AP) ” Refugee camps continue to grow in Chad with people fleeing Boko Haram violence in Nigeria by boat as the Islamic extremist group steps up attacks, while a methane explosion at a Ukrainian coal mine last week in Donetsk… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine president says arms withdrawal almost complete
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” Ukraine’s president says government and Russian-backed separatist forces have pulled back the bulk of their artillery and rocket launchers from the front line in the east, in compliance with a cease-fire deal.Petro… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukrainian fighters trade in boots for heels
Trading in their combat boots and fatigues for high heels and ball gowns, female rebel fighters who normally fight Ukrainian soldiers took Saturday off to take part in a beauty pageant.The event was organised by self-proclaimed… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Vladimir Putin says plan to take Crimea was hatched before referendum
Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he ordered officials to start work on taking control of Crimea weeks before a referendum which, the Kremlin has asserted until now, prompted the region’s annexation from Ukraine. …read more Source:...
German ambassador: Obama agreed not to send arms to Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) ” A top German diplomat says the United States has agreed not to provide Ukraine with lethal defensive aide for the time being.The German ambassador to the U.S., Peter Wittig, says in an Associated Press interview… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Obama, European Council president meet on Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) ” President Barack Obama and European Council President Donald Tusk are holding an Oval Office meeting to discuss the situation in Ukraine.In brief remarks ahead of their talks, Obama says trans-Atlantic unity is… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Crimea plan hatched before referendum – Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he ordered officials to start work on taking control of Crimea weeks before a referendum which, the Kremlin has asserted until now, prompted the region’s annexation from Ukraine. read more …read more Source: Otago Daily...
Putin reveals secret Crimea plot
Vladimir Putin has admitted for the first time that the plan to annex Crimea was ordered weeks before the referendum on self-determination. …read more Source: Radio New...
NATO: Russia massing weapons in Crimea
Russia has vastly enhanced its military capabilities in Crimea since annexing the peninsula, turning it into a “power projection platform”, a senior NATO general has said. …read more Source:...
Putin describes secret meeting to take Crimea
MOSCOW (AP) ” Russian President Vladimir Putin has described a secret meeting with officials last year when Russia decided it would take Crimea ” the Black Sea region Moscow annexed from Ukraine last March.In a trailer for an upcoming… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
