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    Battered Ukraine airport is the war prize everyone wants
    Feb12

    Battered Ukraine airport is the war prize everyone wants

    …More about Russia, Us World, Politics, Ukraine, and Eastern Ukraine …read more Source:...

    ECB Raises Pressure on Greece as Tsipras Meets EU Peers
    Feb12

    ECB Raises Pressure on Greece as Tsipras Meets EU Peers

    The European Central Bank raised the pressure on Greece to extend an international bailout deal on Thursday, as new leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told EU leaders austerity was killing his economy and an alternative had to be found. After euro zone finance ministers failed to agree a joint statement about a way forward on Greece’s...

    Way Station for War
    Feb12

    Way Station for War

    KIEV — On the second floor of Kiev’s central train station, in a cavernous waiting room full of red leather couches, Nina, a portly 57-year-old retiree, sat with all of her worldly belongings packed up in a mountain of bags at her feet. Nina (who didn’t want to share her last name) hails from Horlivka, a town in Donetsk Oblast that is...

    ‘Glimmer of Hope’ for Ukraine After Deal at Minsk Peace Summit
    Feb12

    ‘Glimmer of Hope’ for Ukraine After Deal at Minsk Peace Summit

    Expectations were low going into the Ukraine peace talks in Minsk, Belarus but on Thursday… the welcome news from German Chancellor Ankela Merkel that rebels had agreed to a ceasefire starting midnight Sunday. …read more Source: The Boston...

    Cease-fire Reached for East Ukraine
    Feb12

    Cease-fire Reached for East Ukraine

    A cease-fire is to take effect in battle-scarred eastern Ukraine Saturday night, after 16 hours of all-night talks involving the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany. But officials acknowledge the accord left many disputes unresolved. VOA’s Al Pessin reports from London on the complexities and implications of the agreement....

    Is the International Community Abandoning the Fight Against Impunity?
    Feb12

    Is the International Community Abandoning the Fight Against Impunity?

    Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and more than a decade after the establishment of the International Criminal Court, shockingly little is being done to stop massive human rights abuses. The prospects of victims receiving justice, let alone bringing perpetrators to account, seems ever more remote. In recent days, we have...

    A Flawed Deal In Minsk
    Feb12

    A Flawed Deal In Minsk

    It might stop the fighting in Donbas. But the agreement reached in Minsk does little to address the real issue at the heart of the conflict in Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Kiev, rebels sign cease-fire, but Ukraine’s path to peace remains steep
    Feb12

    Kiev, rebels sign cease-fire, but Ukraine’s path to peace remains steep

    The deal, backed by leaders from Russia, Ukraine, France, and Germany, includes a withdrawal of heavy weapons and a prisoner exchange. But it also retains the problems that led to the collapse of a similar deal in September. …read more Source: Christian Science...

    Dutch court: Israeli rabbi suspected of sex crimes can be extradited
    Feb12

    Dutch court: Israeli rabbi suspected of sex crimes can be extradited

    THE HAGUE, Netherlands (JTA) — An Israeli rabbi who fought his extradition from the Netherlands for alleged sex crimes may be turned over to Israeli authorities, a Dutch court ruled. The ruling on Eliezer Berland, the founder of the Shuvu Bonim seminary, was made by a Haarlem tribunal on Thursday at the request of Dutch justice officials who...

    A New and Unimproved Ceasefire
    Feb12

    A New and Unimproved Ceasefire

    Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko followed by Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Minsk (Grigory Dukor/Reuters/The Atlantic) There are plenty of reasons to be pessimistic about the new Ukrainian ceasefire that was signed in Minsk, Belarus, on Thursday morning after nearly 17 hours of negotiations....