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      Latvia’s Rinkēvičs calls for UN peacekeepers in Ukraine
      May20

      Latvia’s Rinkēvičs calls for UN peacekeepers in Ukraine

      Minister of Foreign Affairs, Edgars Rinkēvičs, used a visit to the United Nations 18 May 2018 in New York, to call for the deployment of UN-backed peacekeepers in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...

      John McCain’s last fight
      May20

      John McCain’s last fight

      John McCain always said he’d go down fighting, and so he has, dickering from his deathbed over CIA nominee Gina Haspel and pre-emptively uninviting President Donald Trump from his funeral, then leaving as a legacy some fierce final words for the leader of his party, who is now a political enemy. All Trump displays is “a reality-show...

      News in Digest: We’ll take the moral high ground
      May19

      News in Digest: We’ll take the moral high ground

      The biggest question doing the rounds in Eurovision circles isn’t about cultural appropriation. No, we’ll leave that to Anti-Semites and bad losers the world over. It’s who on earth makes up these juries, because the gulf between their scores and those of the public couldn’t be wider on Saturday night, and Denmark was...

      Estonian tennis star Annett Kontaveit beats Wozniacki to reach Rome semis
      May19

      Estonian tennis star Annett Kontaveit beats Wozniacki to reach Rome semis

      Highest ranked Estonian tennis player Anett Kontaveit defeated top Danish player and number two in the world according to the World Tennis Association (WTA), Caroline Wozniacki, 27, in the quarterfinals of the WTA Rome masters on Friday, booking herself a place in the the semifinals. The 22-year-old from Tallinn won the match convincingly in two...

      Vladimir Putin’s politics of victimhood
      May19

      Vladimir Putin’s politics of victimhood

      Putin paints Russia as the underdog to keep his citizens, like those of Oceania in Nineteen Eighty-Four, in a permanent sense of crisis. When George HW Bush stood to deliver his State of the Union speech in January 1992, he could be excused a swagger in his step. “In the past 12 months, the world has known changes of almost biblical proportions,”...

      Putin and Merkel Talk In Sochi about Iran, Ukraine and Nord Stream 2
      May19

      Putin and Merkel Talk In Sochi about Iran, Ukraine and Nord Stream 2

      Russian President Vladimir Putin has held wide-ranging talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel over the Ukraine conflict, Europe’s response to the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, and the construction of a pipeline bringing gas from Russia to Germany. Putin said Russian natural gas may still flow to neighboring Ukraine even...

      Putin and Merkel defend Nord Stream pipeline
      May19

      Putin and Merkel defend Nord Stream pipeline

      Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel put on a rare show of unity Friday defending the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, criticised by Ukraine and threatened by US sanctions. …read more Source: The Local...

      Estonian tennis star Annett Kontaveit beats Woniacki to reach Rome semis
      May19

      Estonian tennis star Annett Kontaveit beats Woniacki to reach Rome semis

      Highest ranked Estonian tennis player Anett Kontaveit defeated top Danish player and number two in the world according to the World Tennis Association (WTA), Caroline Wozniacki, 27, in the quarterfinals of the WTA Rome masters on Friday, booking herself a place in the the semifinals. The 22-year-old from Tallinn won the match convincingly in two...

      Mueller probes Ukrainian who pitched peace plan to White House
      May19

      Mueller probes Ukrainian who pitched peace plan to White House

      KIEV — Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has been meeting over the last year with a Ukrainian lawmaker at the center of a controversial plan to end his country’s conflict with Russia, pressing him for details about interactions with Trump administration officials. Andrii Artemenko told POLITICO that FBI agents had peppered him...

      Germany walks delicate line in its bilateral relations with Russia
      May18

      Germany walks delicate line in its bilateral relations with Russia

      Under fire from some for “enabling” Vladimir Putin with the Nordstream gas pipeline projects, Angela Merkel went to the Sochi summit demanding guarantees for Ukraine. …read more Source:...