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Ukraine’s President Hails First Full Overnight Truce In Rebel East
(Adds report of soldier killed, military comments on truce status) KIEV, Dec 16 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s separatist east passed the night into Tuesday without any shooting, President Petro Poroshenko said, hailing the first such stretch of calm as a positive signal for the next steps in a peace plan. Army chief of staff Viktor Muzhenko...
Court Orders Autopsy on German Lawmaker Who Criticized Russia
A German court has ordered an autopsy on a conservative member of parliament who was a prominent critic of Russia’s Vladimir Putin in order to rule out any link between his death and his hardline stance toward the Kremlin, state prosecutors said. Andreas Schockenhoff, a deputy parliamentary floor leader for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s...
PRESENTING: The Worst Performing Currencies of 2014
2014 has been a terrible year for a few economies and currencies. Latin American currencies have suffered from rampant inflation while Eastern Europe currencies have been slammed by geopolitical turmoil-induced economic slowdown. Meanwhile, falling oil prices have been miserable for oil currencies like Russia’s ruble and Norway’s...
Russia’s Ruble Slides To Historic Lows
MOSCOW (AP) — A massive interest rate hike by Russia’s Central Bank on Tuesday failed to stem the selling pressure on the ruble, which slid another 20 percent to new historic lows. The surprise Central Bank decision to raise the rate to 17 percent from 10.5 percent came in the middle of the night on Tuesday and represented a desperate...
Russian ruble down sharply despite rate hike
MOSCOW — The Russian ruble has regained some ground after declining by a whopping 20 percent earlier Tuesday.The ruble extended Monday’s collapse — when it declined by 10 percent — despite the pre-dawn interest rate increase to 17 to 10.5 percent by the country’s central bank.It traded at 72 per dollar late Tuesday afternoon — more...
Reporters Without Borders: 66 journalists killed in 2014 as attacks grow more ‘barbaric’
KIEV, Ukraine – Reporters Without Borders said Tuesday that at least 66 journalists were killed over the course of the year as the number of reporters’ kidnappings soared in 2014. While the number of journalists’ deaths dropped slightly from 71 in 2013, the high-profile beheadings of Western reporters at the hands of Islamic State...
Chevron suspends Ukrainian shale efforts
Daniel J. GraeberKIEV, Ukraine, Dec. 16 (UPI) — U.S. energy company Chevron said it was still looking for opportunities in Ukraine, but opted to shelve a contract to tap the country’s shale gas potential. …read more Source: United Press...
Ruble Slides Again Despite Central Bank Rate Hike
MOSCOW— A massive interest rate hike by Russia’s Central Bank on Tuesday failed to stem the selling pressure on the ruble, which slid another 14 percent Tuesday to new historic lows. The surprise Central Bank decision to raise the rate to 17 percent from 10.5 percent came in the early hours on Tuesday in a desperate attempt to prop up the...
AP PHOTOS: Top pictures from Europe and Africa
LONDON (AP) — The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India drew widespread attention to their causes: protecting children from slavery, extremism and forced labor. Yousafzai, 17, the youngest-ever Nobel Prize winner, was shot in the head by the Taliban two years ago for speaking out for the...
Russia’s Currency Keeps on Crashing
The rout in emerging markets continued Tuesday with Russia again to the fore, as an emergency interest rate hike by the central bank failed to stop panic selling of the local currency, stocks and bonds. Selling across emerging markets has intensified and spread out this week as fears about tighter U.S. monetary policy, slowing global growth and...
