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Ukraine crisis threat to European earnings
Companies are sounding a note of caution over recovery predictions as old concerns such as currencies and new ones such as Russian sanctions manifest …read more Source: Financial...
Nine civilians killed in fighting in east Ukraine
KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Nine civilians were killed in new fighting between government forces and pro-Russian separatists around the cities of Luhansk and Donetsk in east Ukraine, local officials said on Sunday. …read more Source:...
Ukraine crisis: Rebels in Donetsk say discipline is good after they carried out executions to ‘prevent chaos’
Rebels fighting in the bloody conflict in eastern Ukraine are reported to have carried out executions to “prevent chaos”. …read more Source: The...
If it is hard for the west to confront Russia, it can still support Ukraine
Moscow would come off worse in any round of sanctions. But offering aid and trade to Kiev might send a stronger messageRelations between Russia and the west are at their lowest ebb since the end of the cold war a quarter of a century ago. Europe and America say missiles supplied by the Kremlin to separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine were...
Dark shadow of the Great War: Tomorrow marks 100 years since Europe plunged into the war to end all wars. But as this brilliant analysis argues, we are still living with its appalling legacy in Ukraine and Gaza
The shockwaves from the First World War are still reverberating today in the Middle East, the former Soviet Union, what was the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the world as in 1914 is a very dangerous place. …read more Source: Daily...
MH17: second day of search reveals more human remains
Mortar fire forces some OSCE investigators to leave a village where debris liesInternational experts with sniffer dogs on Saturday recovered the remains of more victims and personal belongings from the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash site in east Ukraine, despite shelling limiting access.Seventy Dutch and Australian police investigators spent...
Ukraine’s rebels prepare to defend Donetsk to the death
Government troops close to surrounding rebel capital and cutting it off from its supply lines to the east …read more Source: The...
The 20 photographs of the week
The conflict in Gaza and Israel, daily life in North Korea the Commonwealth Games in Scotland and a human tower in Spain the best photography in news, culture, nature and sport from around the world this week … …read more Source: The...
Crimean football clubs to join Russian league
Ukraine disputes move of SKChF, Zhemchuzhina and TSK into second division of Russia’s Professional Football LeagueThree football clubs based in Crimea will play the 2014-15 season in Russia’s football league in the wake of its annexation of the peninsula from Ukraine in March.The Russian Football Union has accepted the football clubs...
Ukrainian military closes in on pro-Russia rebels in Donetsk
Kiev’s forces capture two towns just outside the rebels’ stronghold, as Russia and the west step up their war of wordsGovernment forces tightened the noose around the main stronghold of pro-Russia rebels in eastern Ukraine on Saturday, as Moscow and the west stepped up their war of words.The seizure of Krasnogorovka and...
