Alarm in Ukraine as Putin puts Russian troops on alert (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin put Russian combat troops on high alert for war games near Ukraine on Wednesday, the Kremlin’s most powerful gesture...
(Reuters) – Enver Mehmedovic spends his days behind an iron gate, guarding the factory he used to work in from its owner. Production lines that once produced ‘Dita’ detergent used in households up and...
‘Prepared to Die': The Right Wing’s Role in Ukrainian Protests (Photo: Getty Images) Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich appears bent on crushing the protest movement but the opposition won’t go quietly. A right-wing nationalist party...
(Reuters) – Ukraine is borrowing another $2 billion from Russia on the same terms as a $3 billion Eurobond sold in December, in a sign that Moscow is pushing on with a $15 billion...
Ukraine’s parliament repealed controversial laws aimed at curbing political protests Tuesday, hours after the country’s Prime Minister submitted his resignation in a pair of moves aimed at calming violent unrest across the country. In...
(Reuters) – At one end of Kiev’s protest zone, just inside a makeshift barricade, protesters have set up a mock jail with an effigy of President Viktor Yanukovich sitting in a striped convict’s tunic,...
Ukrainian riot police withdraw after overnight move on demonstrators (Reuters) – Battalions of Ukrainian riot police withdrew on Wednesday from a protest camp after moving against demonstrators overnight in the authorities’ biggest attempt yet...
The trial of Egypt’s ousted president Mohammed Morsi has been adjourned until January next year – the former leader is in court on charges of inciting the killing of protesters in December last year....
Hundreds of protesters demonstrating for the right to affordable housing clashed with police in central Rome on Thursday. The protesters demanded local authorities stop evictions in the Italian capital, and use more public funds...
