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New push for diplomacy as Ukraine urges calm over Russia threat
Jan 28, 2022 (AFP)
In a call that lasted more than an hour, French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian leader Vladimir Putin likewise agreed on the need for de-escalation, with ...
US, NATO boost Eastern European deployments
Jan 28, 2022 (AFP)
"I'll be moving troops to Eastern Europe and the NATO countries in the near term. Not too many," Biden told reporters on return to Washington from a speech in P...
Ukraine separatists urge Russia to send modern weapons
Jan 27, 2022 (AFP)
Denis Pushilin spoke after Russia's ruling party urged the Kremlin to start arming the separatist-held regions with tensions soaring between Moscow and the West...
US rejects Russia demand on Ukraine but talks see new life
Jan 27, 2022 (AFP)
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he would speak again in the coming days to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, as a separate initiative by France bro...
Amid Ukraine crisis with Russia, NATO needs new strategy now
Jan 27, 2022 (UPI)
Why? First, Russia has shown it is prepared to use its military in anger and certainly as a threat. And it has modernized its conventional and nuclear forces. N...
Russia ruling party urges leadership to arm Ukraine separatists
Jan 26, 2022 (AFP)
In a statement broadcast on Russian state television Vladimir Vasilyev, head of the United Russia faction in parliament's lower house, the State Duma, said: "We...
US fighter jets arrive in Estonia for training
Jan 26, 2022 (AFP)
The F-15E jets arrived at the Amari base in northwest Estonia to take part in an exercise along with four Danish jets due to arrive in Lithuania on Thursday. "T...
US embassy in Ukraine tells citizens to 'consider departing now'
Jan 26, 2022 (AFP)
"The US embassy urges US citizens in Ukraine to consider departing now using commercial or other privately available transportation options," the embassy said i...
NATO chief says reaching out to Russia but 'prepared for worst'
Jan 26, 2022 (AFP)
"We are now reaching out to Russia once again to try to pursue a path of dialogue and find a political solution," he said, after the alliance sent Moscow a writ...
Russia launches new military drills in south, Crimea
Jan 25, 2022 (AFP)
The southern military district described the live-fire drills as a combat readiness check, as tensions rage between Moscow and the West over Crimea. "Units will...
US puts troops on alert over Ukraine, Biden calls allies
Jan 24, 2022 (AFP)
The European Union, meanwhile, urged allies to avoid a "nervous breakdown" in the face of fears that Russia could stage a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Despit...
NATO sending planes, ships to eastern Europe
Jan 24, 2022 (AFP)
"NATO will continue to take all necessary measures to protect and defend all Allies, including by reinforcing the eastern part of the Alliance. We will always r...
Cold War flashbacks in Russia-US talks in Geneva
Jan 22, 2022 (AFP)
There is a heavy whiff of the 20th-century East-West power struggles in the Swiss capital, a flashback to the tense period between World War II and the Soviet U...
NATO eyes shoring up southern flank as Russia demands withdrawal
Jan 21, 2022 (AFP)
Fears that Moscow is preparing for an invasion by massing 100,000 troops on its border with Ukraine -- itself not a NATO member -- have made bolstering the Atla...
Biden, Japan's Kishida vow to 'push back' on China
Jan 21, 2022 (AFP)
In a video meeting that lasted about one hour and 20 minutes, Biden also agreed to travel to Japan in late spring of this year for an official visit and summit ...
Romania, Bulgaria say Russia demand for troop removal 'unacceptable'
Jan 21, 2022 (AFP)
"Such a demand is unacceptable and cannot be part of a negotiation," Romania's foreign ministry said in a press release. Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, who is...
US warship's South China Sea passage sparks Beijing warning
Jan 20, 2022 (AFP)
The American navy said the USS Benfold "asserted navigational rights and freedoms in the vicinity of the Paracel Islands, consistent with international law". Th...
Baltic states authorised to rush US-made weapons to Ukraine
Jan 20, 2022 (AFP)
A State Department official in Berlin, where Secretary of State Antony Blinken is holding crisis talks on Ukraine, said Washington was "expediting authorised tr...
Russia to hold naval drills in Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Mediterranean
Jan 20, 2022 (AFP)
The war games will involve "more than 140 warships and support vessels, more than 60 aircraft, 1,000 pieces of military equipment, and about 10,000 servicemen,"...
Romania ready to host French troops: president
Jan 20, 2022 (AFP)
Macron on Wednesday expressed France's "readiness to go further, and within the framework of NATO to commit to new missions ... in particular in Romania". "I wa...
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