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The 10 most important things in the world right now
Good morning! Here’s what you need to know for Monday. 1. An Australian journalist for Al Jazeera English who had been serving a 7-year jail sentence in Egypt on charges of aiding a terrorist organisation was released and deported on Sunday after spending 400 days in prison. 2. At least 8,000 pro-democracy protesters marched through the...
Fierce fighting rages for key Ukraine town
Debaltseve (Ukraine) (AFP) – Battles raged Sunday between government forces and pro-Russian rebels for control of a strategic transport hub as the death toll mounted in east Ukraine following the collapse of ceasefire talks. Intense artillery fire thundered around the Kiev-controlled town of Debaltseve, a key position between the rebel...
Cancer movie wins top prize at Sundance
Los Angeles (AFP) – “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,” a moving drama about a teenager who befriends a classmate with cancer, won the top prize at the Sundance Film Festival Saturday.Sundance winners regularly go on to critical and awards success at Hollywood’s main prize-giving ceremonies. Last year’s top winner,...
Ukraine peace talks end without agreement: Kiev envoy
Kiev (AFP) – Peace talks to thrash out a truce agreement between pro-Russian rebels and Ukraine ended without a deal Saturday, Kiev’s representatives at the talks in Minsk said.Former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma told Interfax Ukraine news agency that the summit had “broken up in failure” after top rebel leaders...
Fifteen Ukrainian soldiers killed in latest fighting
Kiev (AFP) – Fighting between pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian forces in the east of the country has left 15 government soldiers dead and 30 wounded over the past 24 hours, Ukraine’s defence minister said Saturday. “In the last day, 15 soldiers died and 30 more were wounded. That is the figure for the whole frontline,”...
Kiev hopes for stalled truce talks despite separatist vow
Kiev (AFP) – Kiev’s pro-Western leaders hope to hold truce talks on Saturday with pro-Russian separatists despite the rebels’ vow to push their latest offensive in eastern Ukraine if the negotiations should fail.The urgent new round of negotiations in Minsk that had been agreed for Friday under pressure from European envoys was...
Putin is playing out his childhood nightmare
The Russian president is stepping up both the war in Ukraine and his confrontational rhetoric against NATO and the West In a book of interviews published when he first became Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin told a story of his early scares: a rat he had cornered had nowhere to go and jumped out at him. Having pushed himself into a...
This map shows the arms sales race between the US and Russia
They say the Cold War is over, but Russia and the U.S. remain the leading supplier of weapons to countries around the world and are the two biggest military powers. Lately, tensions have been pretty high, too. The U.S. supplies much of NATO and Middle Eastern allies like Turkey, Israel, and Saudi Arabia. Russia supplies other BRIC nations, as...
This chart shows all of the versions of Russia’s fifth-generation fighter jet
The US and Russia have been competing arms exporters since the dawn of the Cold War. Although the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the deep-seated rivalry between the US and Russia never fully died out and is now stronger than it’s been in decades thanks the Russian annexation of Crimea and the war in Ukraine. The same goes for the...
Russian bank boss: sanctions are economic war against Russia
The head of one of Russia’s largest banks likened the EU’s decision to extend the sanctions imposed on Russia to an act of economic war. “We have quite a strong opinion on sanctions. Sanctions, in other words, are economic war against Russia,” Andrey Kostin, the CEO of VTB bank, told CNBC in Moscow on Thursday....
