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Lagarde: Ukraine will get funding
Ukraine is set to receive about $40-billion in funding over the next four years – nearly half of which will come from the IMF. ||| Brussels – Ukraine is set to receive about $40-billion in funding over the next four years, nearly half of which will come from the International Monetary Fund, IMF chief Christine Lagarde said in Brussels...
Ukraine peace talks drag on
Ukraine said on Thursday there was no good news yet after 14 hours of tortuous talks between Kiev, Moscow, Berlin and France, as the Kremlin was posing “unacceptable conditions” on ending the 10-month conflict in the ex-Soviet country. …read more Source:...
Press freedom: SA is 39th on world list
Freedom of the press is good in Finland. It’s terrible in Eritrea. How well does South Africa fare? ||| Paris – Media freedom suffered a “drastic decline” worldwide last year in part because of extremist groups such as Islamic State and Boko Haram, the watchdog group Reporters Without Borders said in its annual evaluation released on...
Leaders at the Minsk talks on the conflict in Ukraine to reach agreement
On February 11, 2015, started the peace talks in Minsk between President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and French President Francois Hollande. The meeting has been held through all the night and ended in the morning on February 12. The negotiations has been continuing more than 12...
Greece minister enters lions’ den
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis headed for a showdown with euro zone finance ministers yesterday after his new leftist-led government won a parliamentary confidence vote for its refusal to extend an international bailout. ||| Costas Pitas and Alastair Macdonald Athens and BrusselsGreek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis yesterday began...
Asia’s stocks fall as Greek uncertainty saps confidence
Asian stocks and the euro fell on Thursday as markets erred on the side of caution over the ongoing Greek debt negotiations. ||| Tokyo – Asian stocks and the euro fell on Thursday as markets erred on the side of caution over the ongoing Greek debt negotiations amid conflicting headlines on progress in the talks. MSCI’s broadest index...
Greece, euro zone fail to agree on debt
Greece’s new leftist government and its international creditors failed to agree on a way forward after seven hours of talks. ||| Brussels – Greece’s new leftist government and its international creditors failed to agree on a way forward on the country’s unpopular bailout and will try again on Monday, with time running out...
The peace talks in Minsk has begun
On February 11 has started the meeting between President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and French President Francois Hollande in Minsk, Belarus. As the Ambassador of Ukraine to Belarus Myhaylo Ezhel stated after the peace talks must be signed the official document: “According...
National Security and Defense Council:OSCE identifies the direction from which Kramatorsk was shelled
Kyiv, February 11, 2015. Pro-Russian militants conducted another atrocity yesterday. They shelled Kramatosk with “Smerch” multiple rocket launchers. Militants targeted airfield in the vicinity of the city, as well as the industrial and residential areas nearby. According to intelligence report, the shelling was conducted from Horlivka area...
Ukraine’s Fate Hangs in the Balance in Minsk, Once Again
The leaders of France, Germany, Russia, and Ukraine are set to meet in Belarus’ capital Minsk on February 11 to hammer out a deal to end the fighting in eastern Ukraine. The meeting takes place against a backdrop of a worsening conflict as Russian-backed separatists made a push to take new territory and consolidate their strongholds in what...