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[Ticker] Nato and Russia resume ‘normal’ meetings
Nato chief Stoltenberg in Brussels Wednesday said Nato-Russia Council will resume regular meetings, suspended last year over Ukraine, for “political engagement.” Russian FM Lavrov said Nato and EU ties are “returning to normal.” But US top diplomat Kerry said Wednesday EU and US sanctions to stay until Russia fulfils...
Montenegro to join NATO
NATO foreign ministers gave their green light for Montenegro’s accession to the military alliance Wednesday, despite opposition from Russia, which considers the enlargement a “provocation.” The integration of the 29th country into NATO is a “historic achievement,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday in Brussels....
EU-led talks fail to stop Russia sanctions on Ukraine
Russia is preparing trade sanctions on Ukraine after 11th-hour talks in Brussels on Tuesday ended in recriminations. …read more Source:...
No desire for permanent Turkey sanctions, says Russian minister
Russia’s embargo on Turkish tourism and trade is temporary, and the continuation of the sanctions depend in part on whether Russia can find alternatives to Turkish produce, Russia’s economic development minister said Tuesday. “We want to ensure that it is felt by Turkey on the one hand, but on the other hand minimize the risk for...
Putin risks a new Afghanistan, Obama warns
PARIS — Vladimir Putin’s leadership evokes Soviet-style politics and posturing. On Tuesday, President Barack Obama suggested he take lessons from Soviet military history, too. For years, Obama has followed a “laissez-fail” policy for Syria’s Bashar Assad — a hands-off waiting for him to fall from power — that has been driven by what...
Commission registers call for EU sanctions on Hungary
The Orban government’s actions are “antidemocratic, xenophobic” says the “Wake up Europe!” petition. Hungarian commissioner opposes decision to go forward. …read more Source:...
Obama and Putin discuss Turkey, Syria
President Barack Obama met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday on the sidelines of the climate talks in Paris, their second such meeting in a month, discussing the fraught ongoing situations in Ukraine, Syria and the Middle East as a whole. According to a pool report citing a White House official, Obama expressed regret for the deaths...
COP21: who’s who
Each country may have its own delegation, but a lot of the negotiation is dictated by groups of like-minded countries. European Union Made up of the 28 countries tied by laws that already make their 2030 climate pledges binding, regardless of what the COP21 deal says. Miguel Arias Cañete, the EU’s climate and energy commissioner, has been a...
Coal cutoff escalates Russia-Ukraine tensions
KIEV — Russia on Friday stopped coal deliveries to Ukraine, part of an escalating series of tit-for-tat measures sparked by a recent attack on electricity transmission lines that cut off power to Crimea, annexed by Moscow last year. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk conceded that the move had left Ukraine now facing energy blackouts of...
Could U.S.-Russia tensions go nuclear?
The Russian warplane recently shot down inside Turkey’s border with Syria fits a pattern of brinkmanship and inadvertence that is raising tensions and distrust between Russia and U.S.-led NATO. Low-level military encounters between Moscow and Washington are fanning escalatory sparks not witnessed since the Cold War. And there exists a small...
