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    Russia Calls For Emergency UN Security Council Meeting As Troops Fortify On The Border
    Aug05

    Russia Calls For Emergency UN Security Council Meeting As Troops Fortify On The Border

    Tuesday, August 5 , 2014 - 21:33 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    Russia has called for emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday over what it called an urgent humanitarian situation in Ukraine, according to a report from the Russian news agency ITAR-TASS. “We are convening an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the humanitarian situation in...

    Stocks Are Sliding And Traders Are Blaming The Latest On Russian Troop Movements
    Aug05

    Stocks Are Sliding And Traders Are Blaming The Latest On Russian Troop Movements

    Tuesday, August 5 , 2014 - 21:03 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    Stocks are sliding. The Dow was down as much as 150 points to 16,420. The S&P 500 was off 19 points, nearly 1%, to 1,920. The NASDAQ was off 33 to 4,351. Intel was down 3% on major volume. Target also fell after profits missed forecasts. Headlines about Russian troop movement near the border of Ukraine is one possible explanation for...

    Russian tourists stranded abroad as crisis deepens
    Aug05

    Russian tourists stranded abroad as crisis deepens

    Tuesday, August 5 , 2014 - 20:23 (EEST) Section: The Bismarck Tribune

    In this Tuesday, June 10, 2014 photo ground staff load up luggage on board Boeing of Russian low-cost airline Dobrolet in Simferopol airport, Crimea. In July and August, tens of thousands of R… …read more Source: The Bismarck...

    UN Says At Least 285,000 Flee Ukraine Crisis
    Aug05

    UN Says At Least 285,000 Flee Ukraine Crisis

    Tuesday, August 5 , 2014 - 20:03 (EEST) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    The UN refugee agency says at least 285,000 people have fled their homes because of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, as Russia called for an emergency UN Security Council meeting on the crisis. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Ukraine fighting reaches rebel-held Donetsk
    Aug05

    Ukraine fighting reaches rebel-held Donetsk

    Tuesday, August 5 , 2014 - 19:53 (EEST) Section: Boston Herald (USA)

    DONETSK, Ukraine — Fighting in eastern Ukraine reached the main rebel stronghold of Donetsk on Tuesday as separatists and government troops exchanged rocket fire in neighborhoods on the edge of the city.In a western district of Donetsk, rockets apparently fired from a government position landed in the courtyard of a one-story house, killing...

    Russian tourists stranded abroad as crisis deepens
    Aug05

    Russian tourists stranded abroad as crisis deepens

    Tuesday, August 5 , 2014 - 19:43 (EEST) Section: San Francisco Chronicle (USA)

    Tour operators, some of whom are among the nation’s oldest, say they have experienced an unprecedented slump in demand, which they blame on the bad political climate and the depreciation of the ruble, which has lost up to 10 percent against the dollar since January. The move, which authorities justified as an attempt to keep government...

    NATO: More Russian troops at border
    Aug05

    NATO: More Russian troops at border

    Tuesday, August 5 , 2014 - 18:23 (EEST) Section: CNN (USA)

    Russia now has some 20,000 troops stationed by its border with conflict-torn eastern Ukraine, a NATO official told CNN Tuesday. …read more Source:...

    Ukrainian troops edge closer to rebel-held Donetsk
    Aug05

    Ukrainian troops edge closer to rebel-held Donetsk

    Tuesday, August 5 , 2014 - 18:13 (EEST) Section: The Bismarck Tribune

    A couple sleep in a bomb shelter as they hide from night shelling, in Petrovsky district in the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, late Monday, Aug. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) …read more Source: The Bismarck...

    Spain suspends arms sales to Israel over Gaza operation
    Aug05

    Spain suspends arms sales to Israel over Gaza operation

    Tuesday, August 5 , 2014 - 18:05 (EEST) Section: Jewish Telegraphic Agency (USA)

    (JTA) — The Spanish government “provisionally suspended” arms sales to Israel over its operation in Gaza. The country’s Interministerial Regulatory Board on Foreign Trade and Defense made the decision last week in Madrid, the Spanish daily El Pais reported Monday. Spanish arms sales to Israel are limited, and were more...

    Dutch UN Ambassador pleads for access to Malaysia Airlines crash site
    Aug05

    Dutch UN Ambassador pleads for access to Malaysia Airlines crash site

    Tuesday, August 5 , 2014 - 18:05 (EEST) Section: New York Daily News (USA)

    THE Netherlands told the UN Security Council Monday that the focus of its investigation in the shootdown of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in the eastern Ukraine is the recovery of victims’ remains. …read more Source: New York Daily...