Section: FOX News (USA)
IMF approves $17.5B loan program for Ukraine
The International Monetary Fund signed off on a $17.5 billion four-year loan program for Ukraine Wednesday, Reuters reported. …read more Source: FOX...
Poland to test resilience to attack, due to armed conflict in neighboring Ukraine
Poland’s President Bronislaw Komorowski says that an exercise will be held to test the nation’s resilience to a “crisis” like the conflict in neighboring Ukraine. …read more Source: FOX...
Ukraine expects $5B loan from IMF in ‘coming days’ as economy struggles to stay afloat
Ukraine’s finance minister says the country is expecting to receive $5 billion in credit from the International Monetary Fund in the coming days — the first in a sought-for series of bailout loans the government hopes will keep Ukraine from an economic meltdown. …read more Source: FOX...
NATO chief Stoltenberg insists cease-fire monitors must get full access in eastern Ukraine
NATO’s secretary-general is insisting international observers be given the freedom of movement and the protection they need to monitor the cease-fire in Ukraine. …read more Source: FOX...
US lifts sanctions on Belarus energy company as animosity thaws on cooperation over Ukraine
The United States is lifting sanctions on a Belarus energy company, underscoring a thaw in relations in the wake of Minsk’s key role in negotiations over Ukraine. …read more Source: FOX...
Ukraine president says heavy weapons withdrawal in the east almost complete
Ukraine’s president says government and Russian-backed separatist forces have pulled back the bulk of their artillery and rocket launchers from the front line in the east, in compliance with a cease-fire deal. …read more Source: FOX...
Vladimir Putin describes secret meeting when Russia decided to take Crimea
Russian President Vladimir Putin has described a secret meeting with officials last year when Russia decided it would take Crimea — the Black Sea region Moscow annexed from Ukraine last March. …read more Source: FOX...
Ukraine hopes to get its industry connected with global market, but faces isolation and crisis
Volodymyr Kuzovkin’s office is less than 50 miles from the European Union, but for him and his factory, the EU is a world away. …read more Source: FOX...
Rebel beauty pageant: Female Ukrainian rebels trade in combat boots for high heels
Trading in their combat boots and fatigues for high heels and ball gowns, female rebel fighters who normally fight Ukrainian soldiers have taken the day off to take part in a beauty pageant. …read more Source: FOX...
Ukraine claims it is completing weapons pullback; rebels say they’re already done
Ukraine’s military says it is completing its pullback of heavy weapons under the terms of a peace agreement aimed at ending the war with separatist rebels that has killed more than 6,000 people. …read more Source: FOX...
