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NATO Chief: 4 Battalions Going to Baltic States, Poland
NATO’s chief announced Monday that the alliance will agree this week to send four multinational battalions to the Baltic states and Poland to boost their defenses against Russia. Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO secretary-general, said alliance defense ministers will formally approve the deployment plan drafted by NATO military planners at a...
Tale of Trump and Partner in Azerbaijan Real Estate Project
Six months before he entered the presidential race, Donald Trump announced a new real estate project in Baku, Azerbaijan. His partner was the son of a government minister suspected by U.S. diplomats of laundering money for Iran’s military and described as “notoriously corrupt.” Eighteen months later, and only weeks after...
Freed Ukrainian Pilot Returns Home After 2 Years in Russia
Russia freed Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko on Wednesday after holding her for nearly two years, with President Vladimir Putin pardoning her as part of a swap for two Russian servicemen jailed in Ukraine. The Ukrainian president sent his plane to pick up Savchenko in Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia and bring her home to Kiev, where she...
Putin, Obama discuss Syria
U.S. President Barack Obama discussed the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine with Russian President Vladimir Putin. REUTERS PHOTO/KEVIN LAMARQUE MOSCOW – Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama have held a telephone conversation about the Syrian war and the unresolved conflict in Ukraine. A White House statement said the conversation between the Russian and...
NATO agrees to deter Russia
Baltics, Poland say they need more protection A NATO defense ministers meeting was held at the Alliance’s headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, Wednesday. REUTERS/Yves Herman BY ROBIN EMMOTT AND PHIL STEWART Reuters BRUSSELS – NATO agreed on Wednesday to its boldest steps yet to deter Russia from any attack in the Baltics or eastern Europe,...
Economy head quits in Ukraine
Abromavicius steps down citing corruption Ukraine’s Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavicius, a Lithuanian former asset-manager, resigned Wednesday. REUTERS PHOTO/VALENTYN OGIRENKO BY NATALIA ZINETS Reuters KIEV, Ukraine – Ukrainian Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavicius quit on Wednesday saying his ministry was being hijacked by corrupt vested...
No status for east Ukraine
Ukraine celebrates the anniversary of its unifying statehood in 1919. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko BY NATALIE ZINETS Reuters KIEV, Ukraine – Ukraine will not give its eastern regions greater autonomy until a lasting ceasefire with pro-Russian separatist rebels is in place, President Petro Poroshenko said on Sunday, in comments that could antagonize...
NATO cannot limit defenses
Russia insists North Korea defenses are a threat BY ROBIN EMMOTT Reuters BRUSSELS – NATO allies cannot agree to Russian demands to limit their missile defenses because of the threat posed by North Korea, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Tuesday. North Korea’s claim last week to have tested a hydrogen bomb, which would...
Merkel hardens migrant stance
Chancellor pledges to cut refugee numbers German Chancellor Angela Merkel, leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), speaks in Karlsruhe, Germany, Dec. 14. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach BY PAUL CARREL AND NOAH BARKIN Reuters KARLSRUHE, Germany – German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended her refugee policies at a congress of her conservative party...
NATO invites Montenegro
BY PETAR KOMNENIC AND ROBIN EMMOTT Reuters PODGORICA/BRUSSELS – Sixteen years after NATO bombed Montenegro in the Kosovo war, the Western military alliance is poised to invite the ex-Yugoslav republic to join its ranks over the opposition of Russia which sees its accession as “confrontational.” NATO diplomats said the Adriatic state of 650,000...
