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Five-star Kiev end Everton’s bid to restore English pride
Paris (AFP) – Dynamo Kiev shattered Everton’s hopes of restoring English pride with a ruthless 5-2 demolition of the Premier League side in the Europa League last 16 on Thursday.After Arsenal and Manchester City were eliminated from the Champions League this week, Everton went into the second leg in Kiev as the only English club still...
More proof that a Russian BUK missile shot down passenger plane MH17
A metal fragment from the crash site of the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 matches a Russian surface-to-air BUK rocket, reports Dutch broadcaster RTLNieuws on Thursday. Despite a mountain of evidence that pro-Russian separatists shot down the commercial flight, Russia blames the West and continues to deny any involvement. The fragment was...
More proof that a Russian BUK missile shot down passenger plane MH17
A metal fragment from the crash site of the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 matches a Russian surface-to-air BUK rocket, reports Dutch broadcaster RTLNieuws on Thursday. Despite a mountain of evidence that pro-Russian separatists shot down the commercial flight, Russia blames the West and continues to deny any involvement. The fragment was...
The US mission to NATO just called out Putin’s Crimea narrative
After a year of denying Russian encroachment on the Crimean peninsula, Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted in a television interview that all along he did have a plan to take the region from Ukraine. The US mission to NATO outlined Putin’s narrative over the past year: Putin and Crimea: an evolution of views? You can be the judge....
Putin to Russian business leaders: Bring your money back or else you may not get to use it
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged a gathering of Russia’s billionaires and business leaders to return their capital to Russia and suggested that funds kept abroad could be frozen. In an apparent reference to the possibility of further U.S. and European Union sanctions on Russia for its involvement in the Ukraine...
Why have English football teams flopped in Europe?
London (AFP) – Despite their new eye-watering multi-billion television rights deal, the blanket failure of Premier League clubs in the Champions League has left England looking like Europe’s poor relation.After Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal fell, Manchester City’s elimination by Barcelona on Wednesday left England with no...
10 things you need to know before European markets open
Good morning! Here are the 10 things you need to know about in markets today. The Fed lost patience. The Fed dropped “patient” from its Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) statement after the two-day meeting ended on Wednesday. Analysts were looking for that to signal a June or September rate hike. But the dollar got crushed. The Fed...
Greece, Ukraine to dominate EU summit
Brussels (AFP) – Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will plead with European counterparts at a summit in Brussels Thursday to release vital funds to help his debt-laden country stave off a looming cash crunch.European Union leaders will also debate whether to extend economic sanctions against Russia over the conflict in Ukraine...
Bloomberg, Gates launch anti-tobacco industry fund
Abu Dhabi (AFP) – Billionaire philanthropists Michael Bloomberg and Bill Gates launched a joint fund in Abu Dhabi Wednesday to help developing countries pass tobacco-control laws in their legal battle with industry giants.The Anti-Tobacco Trade Litigation Fund, backed by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,...
Putin just cemented a new land grab
President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty with Georgia’s rebel South Ossetia region on Wednesday that almost completely integrates it with Russia, alarming Georgia and the West a year after Moscow took over Crimea. Tbilisi described the “alliance and integration” treaty as a “move aimed at annexation” and the United...
