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      Russia says small military mission in east Ukraine at Kiev’s request: RIA
      Dec10

      Russia says small military mission in east Ukraine at Kiev’s request: RIA

      MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian general said on Wednesday a small Russian military mission in eastern Ukraine is there at the invitation of Kiev and is assisting the OSCE security group in efforts to secure peace, RIA news agency reported. …read more Source:...

      IMF: Ukraine needs additional assistance of $15 bln
      Dec10

      IMF: Ukraine needs additional assistance of $15 bln

      Ukraine will require about $15 billion in additional assistance to prevent the country’s financial collapse in 2015. …read more Source:...

      Powerful explosion hits volunteer office in Odessa
      Dec10

      Powerful explosion hits volunteer office in Odessa

      A powerful blast has hit an office in Odesa used by volunteers helping the Ukrainian army, Ukrainian media reported on Wednesday. …read more Source:...

      Duel: Should we scrap the Human Rights Act?
      Dec10

      Duel: Should we scrap the Human Rights Act?

      Our panellists Dominic Grieve (right, no) and Martin Howe (left, yes) Should we scrap the Human Rights Act? The United Kingdom ratified the European Convention on Human Rights in 1953, and the Human Rights Act 1998 incorporated it into domestic law, saying that British courts must “take into account” the decisions made at Strasbourg. But UK...

      The big ideas of 2015
      Dec10

      The big ideas of 2015

      What ideas will shape Britain and the world in the coming year? © David Ryle We live in extraordinary times. This makes a nonsense of the term “developed world”—implying that the story, in the countries of the west, is all told. That notion is confounded by the scale of the change through which we are living, in politics, economics and...

      Big ideas of 2015: friends in strange places
      Dec10

      Big ideas of 2015: friends in strange places

      The rise of Islamic State has thrown foreign policy in the Middle East into turmoil Read the rest of our big ideas of 2015 The turmoil in the Middle East and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have done strange things to alliances, not least to the ones that gelled—sort of—after the collapse of the Soviet Union a quarter of a century ago. Hopes...

      Big ideas of 2015: the year of two pivots
      Dec10

      Big ideas of 2015: the year of two pivots

      Russia is beginning to turn East, towards China Read the rest of our big ideas of 2015 2015 will be a year of two pivots. Russia is performing the first, turning east towards China, away from Europe. Sanctions imposed by the west after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the plunging oil price, have hit the Russian economy hard. In November,...

      Record Numbers Dying To Reach European Shores
      Dec10

      Record Numbers Dying To Reach European Shores

      The UN calls for more protection for those crossing seas to escape the conflicts in Libya, Ukraine, Syria and Iraq. …read more Source: Sky...

      Ukrainian troops to continue observing truce: Kiev military
      Dec10

      Ukrainian troops to continue observing truce: Kiev military

      KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian government forces will continue to observe a truce in the country’s east after a significant reduction in shelling by separatists on Tuesday’s “Day of Silence”, a Kiev military spokesman said on Wednesday. …read more Source:...

      Airlines body calls for U.N. to regulate anti-aircraft weaponry
      Dec10

      Airlines body calls for U.N. to regulate anti-aircraft weaponry

      GENEVA (Reuters) – Global airlines body IATA has called on the UN to regulate anti-aircraft weaponry in a similar way to chemical weapons following the shooting down of a commercial airliner over Ukraine earlier this year. …read more Source:...