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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 ....
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Italy does not officially fund Renaissance Dam: Egypt's amb. in Rome
Date: 2014-02-28 12:56:04 GMT - Italy - World - SN:59 - ID:581920
ROME, Feb 28 (MENA) – Egyptian Ambassador to Italy Amr Helmy has stressed that the Italian government has not officially provided any funding to Ethiopia's Renaissance Dam. The remarks were made on the sidelines of 32nd UN Food and Agriculture ....
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Swiss government freezes assets of 20 Ukrainian officials
Date: 2014-02-28 12:49:05 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:58 - ID:581925
GENEVA, Feb 28 (MENA) - The Swiss government announced Friday it is freezing the assets of 20 Ukrainian officials, VOA reported. Swiss authorities said the asset freeze would come into force on Friday at noon. The prosecutor's office in Geneva ....
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Ukraine asks Russia to extradite Yanukovych
Date: 2014-02-28 12:27:48 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:51 - ID:581900
KIEV, Feb 28 (MENA) - Ukraine’s chief prosecutor asked Russia to extradite deposed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on Friday, Ria Novosti reported. The statement, posted on the Prosecutor’s Office website, said Ukraine “intends to raise the ....
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Blair faces probe into his role in IRA scandal
Date: 2014-02-28 12:05:13 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:45 - ID:581812
LONDON, Feb 28 (MENA) – Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair could be called to give evidence about so-called ‘get out of jail free’ letters for IRA terrorists after David Cameron set up an independent inquiry into the scandal, The Daily Mail ....
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Russia: NATO should not have any role in settling crisis in Ukraine
Date: 2014-02-28 10:15:40 GMT - Russia - World - SN:29 - ID:581545
MOSCOW, Feb 28, (MENA) - NATO has no role and should not have any role in efforts to settle the crisis in Ukraine, Alexander Grushko, Russia's Permanent Representative at NATO told the Russian Itar-Tass at the close of a meeting of the Defence ....
