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3 European states move to block Yanukovych assets
Date: 2014-02-28 21:06:04 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:132 - ID:582742
BERN, Feb 28 (MENA) - Three Alpine nations moved Friday to block assets that Ukraine's fugitive president Viktor Yanukovych and some of his associates might have stashed away there, and Swiss authorities opened a money-laundering investigation into ....
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'No takeover' at Crimean capital airport
Date: 2014-02-28 20:28:44 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:130 - ID:582704
MOSCOW, Feb 28 (MENA) – Crimeans capital's airport announced closed airspace Friday after self-defense squads raided the airport at night, Russia Today reported. The self-defense squads that raided Simferopol International Airport during the ....
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UN to celebrate anti-discrimination day
Date: 2014-02-28 18:45:21 GMT - Austria - World - SN:125 - ID:582609
VIENNA, Feb 28 (MENA) - The United Nations said Saturday is scheduled to be the first time to celebrate a global day and to launch an international campaign to support diversity and reject discrimination. This year, for the first time, 1 March ....
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Putin reassures Cameron in call on Ukraine
Date: 2014-02-28 18:19:18 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:119 - ID:582543
LONDON, Feb 28 (MENA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin reassured British Prime Minister David Cameron in a phone call Friday that he respects Ukraine's sovereignty and said military exercises near the border were pre-planned, Cameron's office ....
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Putin orders government to work with partners on Ukraine
Date: 2014-02-28 18:18:08 GMT - Russia - World - SN:118 - ID:582557
MOSCOW, Feb 28 (MENA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his government to continue talks with Ukraine on economic and trade relations and to consult foreign partners including the IMF and the G8 on financial aid, The BBC News cited a ....
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I didn't give order to shoot protesters - Ukraine's Yanukovych
Date: 2014-02-28 15:40:26 GMT - Russia - World - SN:92 - ID:582374
ROSTOV, Feb 28 (MENA) - Ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich said on Friday he had not ordered police to shoot at protesters before he was forced out of power and the responsibility for bloodshed in Kiev lay with the demonstrators, the Voice ....
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Yanukovych: I'm still Ukraine's President, will fight for its future
Date: 2014-02-28 15:14:13 GMT - Russia - World - SN:89 - ID:582294
ROSTOV, Feb 28 (MENA) - Ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych gave a defiant performance on Friday in Russia, as he insisted that he remained the country's legitimate elected leader and was not giving up yet, CNN reported. "I intend to ....
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Ukraine National Security Council considers possibility of state of emergency in Crimea
Date: 2014-02-28 14:20:23 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:79 - ID:582183
KIEV, Feb 28 (MENA) - Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council is considering a possibility of introduction of the state of emergency in Crimea, council secretary Andriy Parubiy told Itar Tass. "It's one of the options of possible ....
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Ukrainian chief of staff sacked
Date: 2014-02-28 13:49:21 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:71 - ID:582055
KIEV, Feb 28 (MENA) - Ukrainian acting president Oleksandr Turchynov has signed a decree sacking the country's head of the armed forces general staff, Russia Today reported on Friday. Admiral Yuriy Ilyin had been appointed on February 19 by ....
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N. Korea rejects call for release of S. Korean missionary
Date: 2014-02-28 13:30:30 GMT - south korea - World - SN:67 - ID:582029
SEOUL, Feb 28 (MENA) - North Korea rejected Seoul's call for the release of a South Korean Christian missionary who has been held in the communist country for more than four months, Yonhap quoted officials as saying on Friday. South Korea had ....
