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    Fighting in eastern Ukraine flares after winter lull
    Apr14

    Fighting in eastern Ukraine flares after winter lull

    Intense fighting flared in eastern Ukraine over the last three days, shattering a cease-fire that held for two months while winter snow dampened the year-old conflict and the early spring thaw mired the would-be combatants in vast expanses of mud. …read more Source: Los Angeles...

    Fighting In East Ukraine Intensifies As Foreign Ministers Talk Peace Deal
    Apr14

    Fighting In East Ukraine Intensifies As Foreign Ministers Talk Peace Deal

    Intense fighting continued to rock areas around the east Ukrainian city of Donetsk and the port city of Mariupol on Monday night, resulting in the death of six Ukrainian soldiers, the highest toll since the ceasefire agreement known as Minsk II came into force, on Feb. 15. …read more Source: International Business...

    Ukraine hits ‘dead end’ as lasting peace deal eludes leaders
    Apr14

    Ukraine hits ‘dead end’ as lasting peace deal eludes leaders

    The foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine on Monday called for incremental steps to de-escalate the fighting in eastern Ukraine. But the two sides have yet to agree on a long-term political settlement. …read more Source: Christian Science...

    G7 Foreign Ministers Meet on Key World Issues
    Apr14

    G7 Foreign Ministers Meet on Key World Issues

    Foreign ministers of the Group of Seven industrialized countries are meeting in Luebeck, Germany, to discuss issues ranging from Ebola to arms control as they prepare for the G7 summit in June. The agenda for this gathering is daunting – Libya, Yemen, Boko Haram, Syria, Ukraine and the Islamic State group, just to name a few items. The...

    European Agency: Military Jets Putting Civilian Aircraft at Risk
    Apr14

    European Agency: Military Jets Putting Civilian Aircraft at Risk

    Military jets that fly over Europe without identifying themselves pose a high risk to civilian aircraft, aviation safety officials said in a report published Tuesday, following a spate of near-collisions involving Russian warplanes. The European Commission asked the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) to investigate after recent reports of the...

    Where Does Hillary Clinton Stand on China and Russia?
    Apr14

    Where Does Hillary Clinton Stand on China and Russia?

    Hillary Clinton in Hong Kong (Tyrone Siu/Reuters) In a recent Bloomberg View column on the policy positions Hillary Clinton will likely take in the 2016 presidential campaign, veteran political chronicler Al Hunt included a head-scratcher of a passage on international affairs: On foreign policy, she’ll take a tough line on Russia; President...

    Ukrainian President Poroshenko Dismisses Envoy To U.S.
    Apr14

    Ukrainian President Poroshenko Dismisses Envoy To U.S.

    Ukraine’s president did not explain the dismissal in his April 14 decree relieving Ambassador Oleksandr Motsyk of his post as Ukraine’s envoy to the United States, …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    EU Commissioner To Hold Talks In Minsk With Lukashenka
    Apr14

    EU Commissioner To Hold Talks In Minsk With Lukashenka

    Brussels recently praised Belarus for its role in facilitating a cease-fire agreement that has eased the fighting in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    New clashes in eastern Ukraine threaten cease-fire (+video)
    Apr14

    New clashes in eastern Ukraine threaten cease-fire (+video)

    At least seven soldiers were killed amid shelling overnight near rebel-held Donetsk. The flare-up comes as foreign ministers from Ukraine, Russia, France, and Germany meet in Berlin to address the violence. …read more Source: Christian Science...

    Could It Have Been Otherwise?
    Apr14

    Could It Have Been Otherwise?

    Did the West bungle its relations with Russia after the Cold War? Was there a better way? This debate, now a quarter of a century old, will doubtless be with us for decades. The sides don’t seem to change much, nor do their arguments. Those who opposed the enlargement of NATO in the 1990s treat the war in Ukraine as proof that they were...