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Israel eavesdropped on John Kerry’s phone calls
The German news magazine, Der Spiegel, reported that they possessed evidence that Israeli official had been eavesdropping on the US Secretary of State, John Kerry’s telephone conversation. The entire spying operation allegedly took place last year, while Kerry ... read entire article »Ukraine’s PM not allowed to resign
Ukraine’s Prime Minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, has his resignation intention rejected by the Parliament. Yatsenyuk wanted to step down as politicians declined his proposed budget, which included rather drastic measures meant to boost the country’s military ... read entire article »US says Russia breached Cold War weapon treaty
The US has made a formal accusation that Russia has been intentionally breaching a 1987 arms control treaty that helped put an end to the cold war. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev prohibits the use of ... read entire article »Israel’s Netanyahu criticizes Hamas over 24h truce
Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu harshly criticized how the events developed during a 24-hour truce the two sides of the Gaza conflict previously agreed upon. The Gaza-based Hamas group rejected but then agreed on a 24-hour truce to allow ... read entire article »Ukrainian PM quits amid failing party coalition
Ukraine’s Prime Minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, decided it was time for him to step down from his function after two parties pulled out of the governing coalition. ‘I am announcing my resignation in connect with the collapse of the coalition,’ said Yatsenyuk ... read entire article »Ukrainian PM about jets, Russia and satellite footage
The Ukrainian Prime Minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, made the first statements following the downing of two military fighter jets on Wednesday. He said that, while one was shot down by land-to-air missile, the other was brought down from another aircraft in an ... read entire article »UN to investigate human rights crimes in Gaza
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has harshly criticized both sides of the Israel - Gaza conflict after several reports that claim the Red Cross and other defense authorities have repeatedly been shelled and attacked when they tried to reach ... read entire article »John Kerry neglects ban, flies to Israel
US Secretary of State, John Kerry, defied the flight ban over Israel and landed today at the Tel Aviv airport. He is to hold talks for a ceasefire with Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Palestine’s President, Mahmoud Abbas. Meanwhile, Israel ha ... read entire article »Fighting in the Ukrainian parliament over war allegations
Chaos erupted in the Ukrainian parliament after a politician accused Kiev of waging war on the Ukrainian people and commented on accusations brought to Russia for allegedly downing the MH17 Malaysian plane. The politician, Mykola Levchenko, supporter of former ... read entire article »Moscow blames Ukraine for downing the plane
Moscow has switched from being silent about the Malaysian airplane crash to making accusation and throwing the blame on the Ukrainian military. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, their radars had detected a Ukrainian Air Force plane that was flying within ... read entire article »The EU and the US prepare new sanctions for Russia
The European Union is preparing a third round of sanctions for Russia, following allegations that the country was involved in downing the Malaysian passenger flight above eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people aboard. The events following the plane crash also ... read entire article »Merkel and Putin agree on an immediate investigation
As if the tensions in Ukraine were not enough, the tragedy involving MH 17 flight only made it worse. World leaders immediately jumped in and accused Russia for not intervening properly. German chancellor Angela Merkel spoke with the Russian president on the ... read entire article »Putin makes first declarations after the plane crash
After being harshly criticized for being involved in the downing the MH17 Malaysian plane that killed all of the 298 people aboard, Russian President Vladimir Putin made his first comments on the situation. He called for an international investigation and ... read entire article »Merkel not upset by US spying on her
Another month comes with another set of US spying on German officials allegations. However, Chancellor Angela Merkel calmed the waters after saying, during a conference, that although Germany and the US have different opinions when it comes to data protection ... read entire article »Ukrainian officials release Russian phone call about Malaysian plane crash
Both the Ukrainian government and pro-Russian separatists are accusing each other of shooting down a passenger Malaysian aircraft that crashed on Thursday in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 passengers aboard. To back up their accusations, Ukrainian security ... read entire article »Austria is making sure spying incidents stay away
The recent spying incident between Germany and USA made everyone more aware of the threat. Being so close to Germany, Austria is trying to prevent such incidents and set up a meeting with US counterparts. Taking advantage of the fact that US Secretary of State ... read entire article »US and EU impose biggest sanctions yet on Russia
Russia now has to deal with the toughest sanctions it has received yet from the EU and the USA, following accusations that it failed to de-escalate the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine. After NATO announced that satellite images show around 1,200 troop ... read entire article »Italy's Prime Minister visits Africa
Italy's Prime Minister began yesterday a three day official visit in Africa. After meeting officials with Mozambique presidency, Matteo Renzi will stop in the Republic of Congo and in his last day on the continent he will stop in Angola. One of his focus point ... read entire article »Al-Assad takes Syria’s lead for third term
After a very controversial election poll, Syria’s Bashar al-Assad took the presidency for a third consecutive term with an astounding 88.7 percent of the vote. Critics described the election held last month only in the government held areas of the country as a ... read entire article »