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  • OCSE observers turned away from Crimea

    Date: 2014-03-07 14:08:12 GMT - Austria - World - SN:72 - ID:595553

    VIENNA, March 7 (MENA) - Gunmen prevented a group of 40 European observers on a fact-finding mission from entering Crimea on Thursday, Euro News reported on Friday. They were traveling by road from Odessa, a port on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast, ....

  • Canada decides to expel 9 Russian soldiers

    Date: 2014-03-07 12:33:09 GMT - Canada - World - SN:52 - ID:595308

    OTTAWA, March 7 (MENA) - Nine Russian soldiers participating in military exercises in Canada have been expelled from the country. Six of the soldiers were in Saint-Jean, Que., where they were learning English and French. Another two soldiers were ....

  • India navy ship blast kills officer

    Date: 2014-03-07 12:31:53 GMT - India - World - SN:51 - ID:595330

    NEW DELHI, March 7 (MENA) - An Indian navy officer has been killed in an accident on board a ship being built at a dockyard in Mumbai, naval officials told the BBC Friday. The destroyer had been undergoing mechanical trials when a blast on board ....

  • Russia allegedly decided to break off diplomatic relations with Ukraine

    Date: 2014-03-07 12:16:04 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:47 - ID:595309

    KIEV, March 7 (MENA) - Russia has allegedly decided to break off diplomatic relations with Ukraine, UN sources were quoted by the Ukrainian news agency as saying Friday. The agency reported that the Permanent Representative of the Russian ....

  • Ukraine crisis: US sends fighter jets to Baltic and increases pressure on Vladimir Putin

    Date: 2014-03-07 08:49:58 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:18 - ID:594826

    LONDON, March 7 (MENA) - America will deploy 12 F-16 fighters to Poland next week as part of a military training exercise expanded in response to the Russian incursion in Ukraine, according to Daily Telegraph. The US bolstered its military forces ....

  • Crimean Supreme Council delegation to visit Moscow shortly

    Date: 2014-03-07 07:48:36 GMT - Russia - World - SN:11 - ID:594744

    MOSCOW, March 7 (MENA) - Crimea’s Supreme Council delegation led by speaker Volodymyr Konstantinov will visit Moscow shortly, ITAR-TASS quoted chairman of the State Duma Committee for the CIS Affairs Leonid Slutsky as saying. “The Crimean ....

  • Japan signals readiness to offer financial aid to Ukraine

    Date: 2014-03-07 07:37:39 GMT - Japan - World - SN:9 - ID:594734

    TOKYO, March 7 (MENA) - The Japanese government is ready to provide financial assistance to Ukraine and will determine the concrete amount of this aid on the basis of consultations with the International Monetary Fund, ITAR-TASS quoted Japanese ....

  • Ukraine crisis: Obama urges Putin to pursue diplomacy

    Date: 2014-03-07 07:12:39 GMT - USA - World - SN:7 - ID:594676

    WASHINGTON, March 7 (MENA) - US President Barack Obama has urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to seek a diplomatic solution to the crisis in Ukraine, in a lengthy telephone call. In their hour-long conversation, the Russian leader said ....

  • Cameron urges Russian-Ukrainian talks

    Date: 2014-03-06 23:00:02 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:187 - ID:594441

    LONDON, March 6 (MENA) - British Prime Minister David Cameron called Thursday for soon talks between Moscow and Kiev to end the current crisis. Speaking to reporters at a press conference in Brussels, Cameron warned Russia that it would face ....

  • UK helps Kiev to recover stolen Ukrainian assets

    Date: 2014-03-06 21:51:42 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:173 - ID:594499

    LONDON, March 6 (MENA) - A team of British investigators left London Thursday heading to Ukraine to help recovering theft state assets, the UK Foreign Office said Thursday. "UK experts in financial intelligence, money laundering and tracing ....

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