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    Rocket fire hits east Ukraine port city of Mariupol, official says 10 killed
    Jan24

    Rocket fire hits east Ukraine port city of Mariupol, official says 10 killed

    Saturday, January 24 , 2015 - 12:08 (EEST) Section: FOX News (USA)

    Ukrainian officials say the strategically important coastal city of Mariupol has come under rocket fire, and one says 10 people were killed. …read more Source: FOX...

    Heavy rockets hit government-held Ukraine port of Mariupol
    Jan24

    Heavy rockets hit government-held Ukraine port of Mariupol

    Saturday, January 24 , 2015 - 11:07 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    Kiev (AFP) – Pro-Russian rebels on Saturday fired volleys of heavy Grad rockets on a residential district of the government-held port of Mariupol after vowing to step up their campaign against the Kiev government, officials said.The administration of the southeastern Sea of Azov city of nearly 500,000 said the long-range rockets hit a...

    Russia Bans 5 Ukrainian Nationalist Organizations In Its Territory
    Jan24

    Russia Bans 5 Ukrainian Nationalist Organizations In Its Territory

    Saturday, January 24 , 2015 - 9:08 (EEST) Section: International Business Times (USA)

    The Russian Ministry of Justice announced Friday that the government has added five Ukrainian nationalist organizations to the list of non-profit organizations, whose activities are prohibited in Russia. …read more Source: International Business...

    Sizzling Serena joins sister Venus in Australian Open last 16
    Jan24

    Sizzling Serena joins sister Venus in Australian Open last 16

    Saturday, January 24 , 2015 - 8:23 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    Melbourne (AFP) – World number one Serena Williams took time to wake up before sizzling into the Australian Open fourth round on Saturday, joining resurgent sister Venus and the dangerous Agnieszka Radwanska.The American top seed, vying for a sixth Australian title and the first since 2010, was slow to get in the groove against 26th ranked...

    Pro-Russian rebels reject peace deal, launch new offensive
    Jan24

    Pro-Russian rebels reject peace deal, launch new offensive

    Saturday, January 24 , 2015 - 7:08 (EEST) Section: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (USA)

    DONETSK, Ukraine — Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine rejected a previously signed peace deal Friday and launched a new multi-pronged offensive against Ukrainian government troops, upending recent European attempts to mediate an end to the fighting. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...

    Ukraine headache grows for IMF
    Jan24

    Ukraine headache grows for IMF

    Saturday, January 24 , 2015 - 5:07 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    Washington (AFP) – The International Monetary Fund is far from being done with Ukraine, its latest mega-bailout client.A new aid plan for Kiev — larger and longer — is under discussion and raises the risk for the global crisis lender as Ukraine sinks deeper into war against pro-Moscow separatists.Less than a year ago, the IMF...

    Why Yemen’s Collapse Dooms Obama’s Foreign Policy Legacy
    Jan24

    Why Yemen’s Collapse Dooms Obama’s Foreign Policy Legacy

    Saturday, January 24 , 2015 - 1:52 (EEST) Section: Foreign Policy (USA)

    Look at a map of the Arabian Peninsula and the surrounding region while taking into account recent headlines and you’ll see that both sides in the war between Shiite and Sunni radicals are defeating the United States. That is, radical Islamist forces (both sets of them) are winning and the United States is losing. We are in one of the most...

    With Obscure Treaties, Moscow Pulls Breakaway Regions Into Its Orbit
    Jan24

    With Obscure Treaties, Moscow Pulls Breakaway Regions Into Its Orbit

    Saturday, January 24 , 2015 - 1:07 (EEST) Section: Foreign Policy (USA)

    Russia has many ways to influence events in country’s on its periphery, both subtle and not. In Ukraine, that influence-peddling has taken the form of outright warfare. In Georgia, that effort is far less conspicuous, and this week Russia took yet another step to more closely bind that country’s breakaway republics to Moscow. On...

    Civilians’ Blood Stain Donetsk’s Streets
    Jan24

    Civilians’ Blood Stain Donetsk’s Streets

    Saturday, January 24 , 2015 - 1:07 (EEST) Section: The Daily Beast (USA)

    Increasing violence in Ukraine’s east means civilians have fewer and fewer places where they can feel safe. …read more Source: The Daily...

    Note to Ukraine: Stop Whitewashing the Political Record
    Jan24

    Note to Ukraine: Stop Whitewashing the Political Record

    Saturday, January 24 , 2015 - 0:38 (EEST) Section: The Huffington Post (USA)

    Listen too much to Kremlin pronouncements, and one might get the impression that the Ukrainian government in Kiev is comprised of nothing less than a malevolent and sinister fascist junta. In light of Putin’s own authoritarian tendencies, not to mention Russia’s support for Ukrainian separatists, such talk is highly ironic and that is...