Washington expressed concern over the Russian military build-up in Syria and put pressure on countries nearby to deny their air space to Russian flights to the country.
Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko said Ukraine will use the saved 20 per cent to spend it on social issue and national defence. Earlier this month, Yuriy Biriukov, an adviser to Ukraine’s defense minister, said in a televised interview that the ministry needs to raise its...
The possibility of a new peace deal agreement that could improve the situation in Eastern Ukraine is off the table, says Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko, as a contact group meeting in Minsk ended with a proposal to ensure a stable ceasefire.
Sen. Tim Kaine reiterated his support for President Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran, on Tuesday, the same day two of his Democratic colleagues announced their support for the deal as well. Chris Coons of Delaware and Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, who said they’d...
With only two Democrats opposing the deal, the odds are looking better by the hour that Democrats may be able to block the resolution in the Senate. Reps. Donna Edwards and Chris Van Hollen, both Democrats who are seeking the Senate seat that will be left open by Mikulski’s...
“I renew my heartfelt appeal, so that the commitments undertaken to achieve pacification are respected, and with the help of organizations and people of good will, the humanitarian emergency in the country is responded to”, Francis told tens of thousands of people...
Poroshenko will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande in Berlin on Monday in a bid to end a new wave of violence in east Ukraine between Russian-backed rebels and Ukraine’s armed forces.
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to the media in Sevastopol, Crimea, after plunging below the waves aboard a submersible craft into the Black Sea, in Sevastopol, Crimea, Tuesday, August 18, 2015.
August 21 Two brothers belonging to President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle lobbied for the appointment of Deputy Transport Minister Oleg Belozerov as the new head of Russia’s vast state railway monopoly, the newspaper Vedomosti reported on Friday, citing anonymous sources.