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Sberbank says sanctions hit global finance
Russia’s largest lender says its partial blocking from European capital markets under new EU sanctions would do nothing to ease Ukraine crisis …read more Source: Financial...
Fighting near site of downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 leaves 14 dead
Deaths shatter brief lull across war-torn region as international experts head to wreckage of downed planeFourteen people have been killed, including at least 10 Ukrainian soldiers, in fighting overnight close to the crash site of downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, a Ukrainian military spokesman has said.”In total it is known that 14...
North Atlantic Drilling signs Rosneft deal
A $4.25bn deal between the world’s largest offshore drilling group and Rosneft appears unaffected by the latest EU sanctions on Russia …read more Source: Financial...
A century on, the first world war is still being played out | Timothy Garton Ash
From Ukraine to Syria these wars are a legacy of the 1914 clash of empires and the patchwork territories left behindThere is war in Europe. No, Im not using the historic present tense to evoke August 1914 (and rile John Humphrys). Im talking about August 2014. What is happening in eastern Ukraine is war ambiguous war, as a British parliamentary...
Ukraine: Separatist Attack ‘Leaves 14 Dead’
Pro-Russian rebels launch an offensive some 15 miles from the crash site of MH17, where investigators have now arrived. …read more Source: Sky...
Rebels ambush convoy in east Ukraine
Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine kill at least 10 soldiers in an ambush near where flight MH17 crashed, as forensic experts get to work. …read more Source:...
Western sanctions do not help to de-escalate Ukraine crisis: Russian official
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Western sanctions against Russia are not helping to de-escalate the situation in Ukraine, state-run Itar-Tass news agency quoted Russia’s envoy to the European Union as saying on Friday. …read more Source:...
Russia bans Polish fruit and veg
Russia imposes a sweeping ban on imports of fruit and vegetables from Poland, as EU sanctions on Russia over Ukraine start to bite. …read more Source:...
VIDEO: Civilians in Ukraine flee fighting
Civilians from towns around the area of Eastern Ukraine where flight MH17 was shot down are continuing to flee heavy fighting. …read more Source:...
US diplomat faces questions over strategy
Critics say Victoria Nuland, senior American official in Europe, has no plan to end Ukraine crisis beyond forcing Putin to capitulate …read more Source: Financial...
