Section: FOX News (USA)
Ukraine’s neighbor Romania to host Portuguese troops for NATO policing mission in May
Four Portuguese F-16 fighter jets and 150 Portuguese troops and civilians will be sent to Ukraine neighbor Romania in May and June to participate in NATO aerial policing missions, Romania’s top defense body said Tuesday. …read more Source: FOX...
MH17 next of kin visit Dutch air base to view wreckage of downed flight
Relatives of people killed when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was downed over eastern Ukraine last year have visited a Dutch air base to view wreckage of the plane. …read more Source: FOX...
Ukraine hikes benchmark interest rate to 30 percent in bid to halt devaluation, inflation
Ukraine’s central bank has sharply hiked its benchmark rate to 30 percent, from 19.5 percent, as financial authorities seek to reverse the rapid devaluation of the national currency. …read more Source: FOX...
Romanian parliament approves new spy chief, who says Ukraine cyber safety among his priorities
The Romanian parliament has approved a new spy chief who has named the fight against corruption and cyber security in Ukraine as his priorities. …read more Source: FOX...
Under Xi, Chinese state media step-up anti-West rhetoric with attacks on Western values
Western values are a “ticket to hell,” a newspaper published by China’s Communist Party said in a recent editorial that held up Ukraine and some Arab countries as examples of outside ideas causing turmoil. …read more Source: FOX...
Russia, Ukraine hold emergency gas talks in Brussels as Moscow threatens imminent cutoff
Russia and Ukraine’s energy ministers are holding emergency talks in Brussels as Russian gas giant Gazprom threatens to cut off deliveries to Ukraine for lack of payment. …read more Source: FOX...
Ukraine’s leader pushes for intl peacekeeping mission to ensure cease-fire in war-torn east
Ukraine’s president has a signed a decree opening the way to a formal request for international peacekeepers to be stationed in eastern regions where government forces are battling Russian-backed separatists. …read more Source: FOX...
Death toll in eastern Ukraine conflict tops 6,000, UN human rights office says
More than 6,000 people have died in eastern Ukraine since the start of the conflict almost a year ago that has led to a “merciless devastation of civilian lives and infrastructure,” the U.N. human rights office said Monday. …read more Source: FOX...
UN rights office says death toll in eastern Ukraine passes 6,000, cites Russian involvement
The U.N. …read more Source: FOX...
Kerry, Russian FM meet in Geneva amid Ukraine rancor, talk of new sanctions
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is meeting his Russian counterpart for likely highly contentious talks amid continuing tensions over Ukraine and American calls for a full probe into the murder of a prominent opposition figure in Moscow. …read more Source: FOX...
