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NATO, Ukraine officials to meet: source
Feb 25, 2014 (AFP)
NATO defence ministers will meet a delegation from Ukraine on Thursday to discuss the situation in the country after the ouster of president Viktor Yanukovych, ...
Longest-serving US congressman to retire
Feb 24, 2014 (AFP)
The longest-serving member of the US Congress called it quits after 58 years in office Monday, drawing the curtain on a career that began before President Barac...
Russia transfers anti-Olympics activist to penal colony: group
Feb 24, 2014 (AFP)
Russian authorities have transferred a leading critic of the environmental cost of the Sochi Olympics to a penal colony after ordering him to serve a three-year...
NATO praises Ukraine army for staying out of crisis
Feb 23, 2014 (AFP)
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Sunday praised Ukraine's army for staying out of the political crisis rocking the "close partner" of the Western...
Protestors march for press freedom in Hong Kong
Feb 23, 2014 (AFP)
Protestors took to Hong Kong streets on Sunday to march for press freedom, in a demonstration organised by journalists as fears grow that free expression is bei...
India's Modi targets China in election speech
Feb 22, 2014 (AFP)
India's opposition leader Narendra Modi, favourite to win this year's polls, on Saturday warned neighbour China to shed its "expansionist mindset" as he toured ...
Ukraine army to stay in barracks, minister tells US
Feb 21, 2014 (AFP)
Ukraine's defense minister has told his US counterpart that the country's army would not use force against protesters in Kiev, a Pentagon spokesman said Friday....
Turkey abolishes special military tribunals
Feb 21, 2014 (AFP)
Turkey's parliament passed a law Friday abolishing specially appointed courts that have convicted hundreds of military officers for coup plotting. The conciliat...
US says 'outraged' that Ukrainian forces shot protestors
Feb 20, 2014 (AFP)
The White House said Thursday it was "outraged" that Ukrainian forces had turned automatic weapons on demonstrators as a short-lived truce shattered in Kiev. In...
Violence in Kiev 'completely outrageous': White House
Feb 19, 2014 (AFP)
The White House on Wednesday called the deadly violence on the streets of the Ukrainian capital "completely outrageous" and renewed its appeal to President Vikt...
Algeria's Bouteflika slams moves to 'undermine army'
Feb 18, 2014 (AFP)
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika hit out Tuesday against what he said were moves to undermine his office and the army, suggesting both were falling prey ...
EU, NATO deplore escalation of violence in Kiev
Feb 18, 2014 (AFP)
The European Union and NATO deplored Tuesday's deadly protests in Kiev, where at least five people were killed and scores hurt in clashes between protesters and...
Putin backs Sisi's 'run' for Egyptian presidency
Feb 13, 2014 (AFP)
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday endorsed Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's undeclared bid to head the strife-torn North African nation as ...
Fears for Hong Kong press freedom as China flexes muscle
Feb 13, 2014 (AFP)
Hong Kong's status as a bastion of press freedom is being eroded by creeping self-censorship under pressure from Beijing and media bosses loath to lose business...
Russian environmentalist who criticised Sochi projects jailed
Feb 12, 2014 (AFP)
A leading Russian activist who campaigned against environmental damage caused by preparations for the Winter Olympics in Sochi was sentenced to three years in a...
Retired Algeria general urges Bouteflika to step down
Feb 12, 2014 (AFP)
A retired senior Algerian general has called on President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to step down "with dignity" and not run for a fourth term in April, in an intervi...
HK democracy should meet people's aspirations: British FM
Feb 11, 2014 (AFP)
British Foreign Secretary William Hague on Tuesday said Hong Kong's universal suffrage must meet the "aspirations" of the people, in remarks likely to anger Bei...
Algeria president backs army after party chief tirade
Feb 11, 2014 (AFP)
Ailing Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika strongly backed the army Tuesday following demands from the ruling party leader that the veteran military intelli...
Protest-hit Bosnia mourns Ottoman archives lost in riots
Feb 10, 2014 (AFP)
Historic documents from the Ottoman era have been damaged in Bosnia's recent riots, officials said Monday, as demonstrators pressed on with protests against cor...
Split blows open in Algeria ruling party as election looms
Feb 08, 2014 (AFP)
A split has blown open within Algeria's ruling party ahead of an April presidential election, after its leader accused the powerful intelligence chief of opposi...
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