Section: The United Kingdom
Week in pictures: 8 – 14 March
From riders at Cheltenham racecourse to Zoolander and Hansel on the catwalk at Paris Fashion Week Gallery Sunday, March 15, 2015 – 6:30am Cheltenham Ferguson Kate Middleton England cricket world cup Gaza Istanbul Charlize Theron …read more Source: The...
Ukraine creditors form negotiating bloc
Blackstone squares up to Lazard in repeat of Greek debt negotiations …read more Source: Financial...
Biden, Poroshenko call on Russia, separatists to implement ceasefire deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko spoke by phone on Saturday and both called on Russia and pro-Russian separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine to implement the Minsk ceasefire agreements, the White House said. …read more Source:...
Germany wants Russia to comply with Ukraine peace deal before sanctions eased: sources
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany and other countries want European Union leaders to endorse a declaration saying that EU sanctions on Russia will not be eased unless Moscow complies with a Ukraine ceasefire deal, two officials said on Saturday. …read more Source:...
Nemtsov Ukraine report ‘due soon’
A report on Russia’s role in the Ukraine conflict – compiled by murdered opposition politician Boris Nemtsov – will be released in April, his ally tells the BBC. …read more Source:...
NATO Chief: Ukraine Not Our Responsibility
NATO is “counting” on the UK maintaining its military contributions, Jens Stoltenberg tells Sky News. …read more Source: Sky...
Oligarchs at war: Claims of murder among Ukrainian billionaires in High Court case
Some of the most extraordinary allegations of violence, murder and corruption ever seen in a London commercial legal dispute have emerged in High Court documents. …read more Source: The...
Big Question: what should our armed forces do?
An RAF Chinook helicopter flies over London during a commemoration service for the Afghanistan conflict. © Carl Court/AP/Press Association Images A debate has opened up in recent weeks about the amount Britain’s government should spend on defence—Conservative MPs and members of the British and American armed forces have queued up to demand...
UK’s nuclear weapons data and other sensitive internet traffic accidentally sent through Ukraine
Internet data from the UK’s Atomic Weapons Establishment and other sensitive information was being sent through Ukraine, by mistake, all last week. …read more Source: The...
Crimea still erasing its Ukrainian past a year after Russia’s takeover
Little has outwardly changed in Crimea one year on from its annexation by Russia, but a harsh crackdown on voices of dissent is underwayThe district court in the suburbs of Crimea’s capital, Simferopol, has changed little in appearance since Russia took over the peninsula. It has the same shabby corridors, the same prefabricated wooden...
