Section: The United Kingdom
Merkel offers German investment if Ukraine tackles corruption
BERLIN (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel pressed Ukraine on Saturday to tackle corruption and roll back the influence of oligarchs, saying German businesses are ready to invest there if the right conditions are in place. …read more Source:...
Polio in Ukraine: nationwide vaccination campaign needs to start straight away
With two WHO-confirmed cases of polio in Ukraine in September, vaccinating the country’s 1.8 million children needs to start as soon as possibleNext week a nationwide polio vaccination campaign should start in Ukraine. I say should because we’ve been here before. The campaign should have actually started weeks ago.Ukraine’s...
Kiev and Moscow tussle over $3bn debt
IMF’s $17.5bn loan programme to Kiev risks becoming compromised in highly politicised case …read more Source: Financial...
Egypt, Japan, Senegal, Ukraine, Uruguay win U.N. council seats
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Egypt, Japan, Senegal, Ukraine and Uruguay were elected unopposed on Thursday to the United Nations Security Council for a two-year term starting Jan. 1, 2016. …read more Source:...
Muddling through
In Crimea, Russia has mucked it up SOME find it relaxing to be covered head to toe in black, smelly mud. Others become a bit gloomy, particularly when the spa is half-empty and is in disputed territory. The job of Lieutenant Doctor Igor Aleksandrovich Dovgan, director of the gracelessly named Saki Military Clinical Sanatorium N.I. Pirogov, is to...
The TTIP of the spear
IT IS becoming hard to remember a time when Europe was not in crisis. The European Union doused the Greek fire (though the embers still glow) only to be confronted with flows of refugees it could not manage. Relations with Russia, already gravely wounded by the invasion of Ukraine, are now further complicated by the Kremlin’s deployment in...
Crash course
ELSEMIEK DE BORST was 17, about to enter her final year of secondary school. She enjoyed playing the piano and worked part-time at a pancake house near her father’s home outside The Hague; she dreamt of one day becoming an architect. But first came the summer holidays. On July 17th 2014 she packed her suitcase (purple, with red flowers) and...
Joseph Conrad and the lure of solitude
The sceptical doubt that infuses Conrad’s work – particularly his last great novel, Victory – has to do with the human world, which he believed was moved by illusions. “It was the very essence of his life to be a solitary achievement, accomplished not by hermit-like withdrawal with its silence and immobility, but by a system of restless...
Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Thursday 15 Oct 2015
US troops to tackle Boko Haram in Cameroon Barack Obama has revealed the US has deployed troops to Cameroon to help fight the terror group Boko Haram. The force, which will eventually total 300 troops, will provide intelligence and reconnaissance and will remain in country until “no longer needed”, the president said. Boko Haram is also active in...
