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Obama, Putin discuss Syria, Ukraine during climate talks
President Barack Obama is urging Russian President Vladimir Putin to decrease tensions with Turkey following the shoot-down of a Russian jet by Turkish forces. … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Obama, Putin discuss Syria, Ukraine during climate talks
LE BOURGET, France (AP) — President Barack Obama is urging Russian President Vladimir Putin to decrease tensions with Turkey following the shoot-down of a Russian jet by Turkish forces. The White House says Obama told Assad that Syrian President Bashar Assad must leave power in the transition to end Syria’s civil war. …read more...
Obama, Putin discuss Syria, Ukraine during climate talks
LE BOURGET, France (AP) — President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin (POO’-tihn) are meeting during global climate talks outside Paris. …read more Source: U.S....
Obama, Putin Discuss Syria, Ukraine During Climate Talks
Obama, Putin discuss Syria civil war, Ukraine tensions on sidelines of Paris climate talks …read more Source: ABC...
Obama, Putin discuss Syria, Ukraine during climate talks
LE BOURGET, France (AP) — President Barack Obama is urging Russian President Vladimir Putin to decrease tensions with Turkey following the… …read more Source:...
Monitors Say Elections In Two Eastern Ukraine Cities Held Properly
A nongovernmental group of international election monitors says delayed local elections on November 29 were conducted in accordance with laws and regulations in the eastern Ukrainian cities of Mariupol and Krasnoarmiisk. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia-Turkey Relations Update: Ukraine Offers To Step In With Fruit And Vegetable Ban
Russia continued to ratchet up sanctions against Turkey Monday announcing a ban on the import of Turkish fruits and vegetables, the Wall Street Journal reported. As sharp words are exchanged between the two trading partners, other countries are already looking to step into the new economic void. …read more Source: International Business...
One Week On, Crimean Blackout Continues
A drive around Simferopol on the evening of November 29 shows the Crimean capital still swathed in darkness, after electricity supplies from Ukraine were disrupted. (RFE/RL’s Tatar-Bashkir Service) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Kyiv Says Agreement With Protesters Needed To Restore Crimea’s Power
Ukraine’s Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn say some electricity deliveries to Crimea can be resumed but that the timing must be agreed with Crimean Tatar activists who are conducting protests along the transmission lines in Ukraine’s Kherson region, just north of the Crimean Peninsula. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe /...
Ukrainian Nationalists March On Oligarch’s Office
Riot police prevented a crowd of angry Ukrainian nationalists breaking into the offices of Rinat Akhmetov, one of the country’s most powerful oligarchs. The protesters accuse him of being in league with pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
