Section: The United Kingdom
Trump to ask Merkel for advice on Ukraine conflict, Putin: U.S. officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump will ask German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her views on how the United States can help resolve the conflict in eastern Ukraine when they meet next week, senior Trump administration officials said on Friday. …read more Source:...
Dutch voters’ anger is fuelling populism
GEENPEIL (“no poll”) is a new Dutch political party that has the unusual distinction of having no programme. Instead it promises to ask its members how to vote on every bill, via an online interface. Its founder, Bart Nijman, thinks this will help solve the biggest problem in Dutch politics: the sense many citizens have that they are ruled by an...
Germany warns of dangers of new arms race with Russia as conflict in Ukraine intensifies
GERMANY’S foreign minister has warned of the dangers of engaging in a new arms race with Russia, calling on all sides to work together to end the violence in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Germany’s Gabriel, in Moscow, warns of risk of new arms race
MOSCOW (Reuters) – German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel on Thursday warned about the danger of a new arms race spiral with Russia and called on all sides to work to end the violence in eastern Ukraine as a first step towards broader disarmament efforts. …read more Source:...
Pro-Russian Montenegro MPs push for poll to bar Nato
Pressure for referendum in Balkan state reflects Moscow’s strategy in Crimea …read more Source: Financial...
Misha Mengelberg obituary
One of the most creative jazz pianists to emerge in the first phase of Europe’s breakaway from American styles in the 1960sIn his last years the Dutch pianist, composer and improviser Misha Mengelberg, who has died aged 81, would sometimes whistle and sing in conversation with visiting friends when advancing Alzheimer’s disease made...
Ukraine rail blockade creates headache for Kiev
Move to halt trade with separatists could cost country $3.5bn and up to 75,000 jobs …read more Source: Financial...
Ukraine accused of seeking to litigate Crimea annexation
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Russia accused Ukraine on Tuesday of taking it to court under false pretences, using allegations of financing terrorism and ethnic discrimination as a front to litigate Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula three years ago. …read more Source:...
Russia: World court has no jurisdiction in Ukraine case
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Ukraine sues Russia in International Court of Justice for ‘financing terrorism’
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