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    Donetsk residents deal with continued shelling despite truce
    Dec04

    Donetsk residents deal with continued shelling despite truce

    Thursday, December 4 , 2014 - 1:26 (EEST) Section: USA TODAY (USA)

    The Ukrainian government accused Pro-Russia rebels of violating a truce around Donetsk airport on Wednesday. Amid the devastated buildings, fighting could still be heard. Video provided by AFP …read more Source: USA...

    Ukraine says nuclear transformer damage poses no danger
    Dec04

    Ukraine says nuclear transformer damage poses no danger

    Thursday, December 4 , 2014 - 0:41 (EEST) Section: Los Angeles Times (USA)

    Ukrainian authorities said Wednesday that a damaged transformer at a nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia, an industrial center, cut electrical power production for several days but did not pose any danger. …read more Source: Los Angeles...

    Accident reported at Ukrainian power plant
    Dec04

    Accident reported at Ukrainian power plant

    Thursday, December 4 , 2014 - 0:11 (EEST) Section: USA TODAY (USA)

    Ukraine’s Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn says an accident at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in southeast Ukraine poses no danger. Jillian Kitchener reports. Video provided by Reuters …read more Source: USA...

    Putin Under Pressure To Address Russia’s Economic Ills in State of the Union Address
    Dec04

    Putin Under Pressure To Address Russia’s Economic Ills in State of the Union Address

    Thursday, December 4 , 2014 - 0:11 (EEST) Section: Newsweek (USA)

    MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin is under pressure to show he has a prescription to cure Russia’s rapidly growing economic ills in his annual state of the union address on Thursday. Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis, sharp falls in global oil prices and the ruble’s slide against the dollar culminated in an...

    Ukraine nuclear plant accident poses ‘no threat,’ official says
    Dec03

    Ukraine nuclear plant accident poses ‘no threat,’ official says

    Wednesday, December 3 , 2014 - 23:40 (EEST) Section: San Francisco Chronicle (USA)

    MOSCOW — Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk of Ukraine on Wednesday announced that there had been an accident at one of the country’s nuclear power plants, briefly setting off fears of a Chernobyl-like catastrophe. Yatsenyuk, during a session of the new Ukrainian government, disclosed that the accident had taken place at the Zaporizhia...

    Obama Offers Blunt Assessment of US Ties with China, Russia
    Dec03

    Obama Offers Blunt Assessment of US Ties with China, Russia

    Wednesday, December 3 , 2014 - 23:40 (EEST) Section: Voice of America (USA)

    U.S. President Barack Obama has offered his views about the United States’ relations with China and Russia, voicing optimism about U.S. links with Beijing but pessimism about increasingly antagonistic exchanges with Moscow. Obama made his comments Wednesday in an expansive question-and-answer session in Washington with the Business...

    Explosion at Ukrainian Patriot Shop Investigated as Act of Terrorism
    Dec03

    Explosion at Ukrainian Patriot Shop Investigated as Act of Terrorism

    Wednesday, December 3 , 2014 - 23:25 (EEST) Section: Newsweek (USA)

    Patriot, a store that sells symbols of Ukrainian heritage in Odessa, Ukraine, was destroyed in an explosion Tuesday night. The Central Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Odessa region opened a criminal investigation into the explosion on the grounds that it was an “act of terrorism.” It was not immediately clear who was...

    Hungary Objects to McCain Calling Prime Minister a “Neo-Fascist Dictator”
    Dec03

    Hungary Objects to McCain Calling Prime Minister a “Neo-Fascist Dictator”

    Wednesday, December 3 , 2014 - 23:25 (EEST) Section: Newsweek (USA)

    BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s Foreign Ministry summoned the U.S. envoy on Wednesday after U.S. Senator John McCain called Prime Minister Viktor Orban a “neo-fascist dictator.” The United States has become increasingly critical of Orban’s government, accusing him of getting too close to Russia since East-West...

    Landmine Casualties Fall Significantly to 15-Year Low
    Dec03

    Landmine Casualties Fall Significantly to 15-Year Low

    Wednesday, December 3 , 2014 - 22:55 (EEST) Section: Voice of America (USA)

    Fewer people were killed or wounded by landmines over the past year than at any time since recordkeeping began in 1999, and production of the weapons has almost stopped, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines said in a new report on Wednesday. The drop in casualties caused by landmines, victim-activated explosive devices and unexploded...

    Campaigners winning war to wipe out landmines
    Dec03

    Campaigners winning war to wipe out landmines

    Wednesday, December 3 , 2014 - 22:10 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    Washington (AFP) – Global efforts to eradicate landmines are bearing fruit, campaigners said Wednesday, noting that the number of victims injured by the deadly weapons have fallen to the lowest level in 14 years.Nobel winners, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, said in its annual report that last year just 3,308 people were...