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    Ukraine’s Conflict Tops Agenda Of EU Foreign Ministers In Riga
    Mar06

    Ukraine’s Conflict Tops Agenda Of EU Foreign Ministers In Riga

    Friday, March 6 , 2015 - 9:38 (EEST) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    The Ukraine conflict is high on the agenda of two days of informal talks between European Union foreign ministers who are gathering in Latvia’s capital, Riga. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    MH 370: Malaysia Airlines Struggles to Salvage Its Image One Year On
    Mar06

    MH 370: Malaysia Airlines Struggles to Salvage Its Image One Year On

    Friday, March 6 , 2015 - 9:24 (EEST) Section: Time (USA)

    The past year has been a terrible one for Malaysia Airlines. On March 8, 2014, Flight 370 from Kuala Lumpur bound for the Chinese capital Beijing lost contact with air traffic controllers less than an hour after takeoff, and vanished from radar screens shortly thereafter. What followed was an unprecedented multinational search across over a...

    Scribbled note shows Nemtsov on trail of Russian deaths in Ukraine
    Mar06

    Scribbled note shows Nemtsov on trail of Russian deaths in Ukraine

    Friday, March 6 , 2015 - 7:09 (EEST) Section: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (USA)

    MOSCOW — It may have been the last note that Boris Nemtsov ever wrote, a hurried scrawl in blue pen on a plain white sheet of letter-size paper. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...

    Boeher, Congressional Leaders Call On Obama To Provide ‘Lethal Defensive Weapons’ To Ukraine
    Mar06

    Boeher, Congressional Leaders Call On Obama To Provide ‘Lethal Defensive Weapons’ To Ukraine

    Friday, March 6 , 2015 - 4:53 (EEST) Section: International Business Times (USA)

    House Speaker John Boehner and a bipartisan group of senior Congressional figures have written to President Obama, urging him to provide “lethal defensive weapons” to Ukraine in order to help the country defend itself from pro-Russian rebels. …read more Source: International Business...

    U.S. Sanctions Hit Two Russian Banks Hardest
    Mar06

    U.S. Sanctions Hit Two Russian Banks Hardest

    Friday, March 6 , 2015 - 1:23 (EEST) Section: The Wall Street Journal (USA)

    Banks controlled by three billionaire friends of President Vladimir Putin have seen about $640 million of assets frozen in the U.S. as retaliation for the Kremlin’s actions in Ukraine, according to Treasury documents. …read more Source: The Wall Street...

    Leading House Lawmakers Urge Obama to Arm Ukraine
    Mar06

    Leading House Lawmakers Urge Obama to Arm Ukraine

    Friday, March 6 , 2015 - 1:08 (EEST) Section: The Washington Free Beacon (USA)

    A bipartisan group of leading House lawmakers led by Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) urged President Barack Obama on Thursday to send lethal aid to Ukraine’s beleaguered military. In a letter to Obama, the lawmakers called the Russian invasion of Ukraine “a grotesque violation of international law, a challenge to the West, and an assault on...

    Russia calls U.S. military trainers in Ukraine a ‘provocation’
    Mar06

    Russia calls U.S. military trainers in Ukraine a ‘provocation’

    Friday, March 6 , 2015 - 0:54 (EEST) Section: San Francisco Chronicle (USA)

    MOSCOW — Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday called the arrival of U.S. military trainers in western Ukraine a “provocation” and warned Ukrainians and their leaders that they should rethink the consequences of hosting the Western forces. The Pentagon had previously announced that as many as 300 soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 173rd...

    Washington’s Mixed Messaging on Arming Ukraine Continues
    Mar06

    Washington’s Mixed Messaging on Arming Ukraine Continues

    Friday, March 6 , 2015 - 0:38 (EEST) Section: Foreign Policy (USA)

    An array of powerful House Democrats and Republicans sent a new letter to President Barack Obama calling for arming Ukraine, the latest example of the months of mixed messages coming out of Washington as Ukraine’s fragile pro-Western government tries to gauge its level of American support in the fight against Russian-backed separatists in...

    Republicans and Democrats push Obama to provide lethal aid to Ukraine
    Mar06

    Republicans and Democrats push Obama to provide lethal aid to Ukraine

    Friday, March 6 , 2015 - 0:24 (EEST) Section: PBS (USA)

    WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner and a group of top Democrats and Republicans stepped up the pressure on President Barack Obama to provide lethal, defensive weapons to Ukraine in its fight against Russian-backed separatists. In a letter to the president on Thursday, the 11 lawmakers wrote that Russia’s actions are more than an attack...

    Boehner, bipartisan group pressure Obama on Ukraine
    Mar06

    Boehner, bipartisan group pressure Obama on Ukraine

    Friday, March 6 , 2015 - 0:08 (EEST) Section: Townhall (USA)

    WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner and a group of top Democrats and Republicans stepped up the pressure on President Barack Obama to… …read more Source:...