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Russia aid convoy stalled amid Ukrainian skepticism
An aid convoy comprising some 260 Russian trucks on its way to rebel-held eastern Ukraine remains at a standstill in southwestern Russia. Moscow has rejected Ukrainian skepticism about the vehicles’ contents as “absurd.” …read more Source: Deutsche...
Opinion: Russia’s deceptive game with Ukraine’s woes
Ukraine has good reasons why it won’t allow a Russian aid convoy into the country. Moscow appears to refuse cooperation even on humanitarian issues, DW’s Bernd Johann says. …read more Source: Deutsche...
NATO nears agreement on beefing up presence in eastern Europe: Poland
WARSAW (Reuters) – NATO member states are close to reaching consensus over steps to beef up the alliance’s military presence in eastern Europe in response to Russia’s intervention in Ukraine, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said on Wednesday in an interview. …read more Source:...
Alleged Russian aid convoy closes in on Ukrainian border
A snaking Russian convoy that the Kremlin says is carrying humanitarian aid is closing in on the country’s border with Ukraine. The 280 vehicle… …read more Source:...
“60 people die every day in clashes in Ukraine”
The death toll from clashes in eastern Ukraine has doubled in the last 15 days, spokeswoman of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Cecile Pouilly says.The United Nations on July 26 estimated that 1,129 people had been killed in the conflict in Ukraine, while the latest report put the figure at 2,086. …read more Source:...
Ashton calls emergency meeting of EU foreign ministers
Catherine Ashton, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, has called an emergency meeting of EU foreign ministers on Friday (15 August). France and Italy have been pushing for an urgent meeting to discuss the worsening situation in Iraq, where militant group the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has taken over vast swathes of the...
Ukraine: Red Cross Urged To Reject Russia Convoy
Diplomats fear Russia is using the aid convoy as a way of deepening its involvement in the civil war, Sky exclusively reveals. …read more Source: Sky...
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[Ticker] EU to call emergency meeting on Iraq and Ukraine
A spokesman for EU foreign relations chief Ashton has said she is to call an emergency foreign ministers meeting on the crises in Iraq and Ukraine “as early as this week” or early next week. The meeting could signal more Russia sanctions or EU military aid to Iraqi Kurds. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Ukraine refuses entry to Russian aid convoy
The BBC reports a Russian aid convoy has stopped 300km from the Ukraine border after Kiev said it cannot enter, describing the initiative as “provocation by a cynical aggressor”. The Red Cross has also called on Russia to give details of what the convoy is carrying. …read more Source:...
EU prepares for more bad news on GDP
Eurostat, the official statistics agency of the European Union, will tomorrow (14 August) publish data on economic growth in the eurozone during the second quarter of 2014, amid fears that the European economy is about to slip back into recession. Today Eurostat said that industrial production in the eurozone fell for a second consecutive month...
