Gennady Kernes, who is the mayor of Kharkiv, spoke to journalists, on March 15 about unrest in the city amid pro-Russia protests. The Kharkiv city council said the mayor of Ukraine's second largest city, which has largely managed to fend off the unrest that has engulfed other parts of the east, was shot today by ... read entire article »
The private residence of the late Romanian dictator - Nicolae Ceausescu - in Bucharest has been put on sale because the state no longer has any use for it. The luxury mansion is called "Spring Palace". The authorities said it became a burden for the state ... read entire article »
MANILA, Philippines – US President Barack Obama arrived in Manila on Monday afternoon, for his two-day state visit in the country. Mr. Obama arrived on Air Force One at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport at 1:26 p.m., a couple of hours after the Enhanced ... read entire article »
KIEV, Ukraine - During a speech that was broadcast live today (Friday, April 25), Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk accused Moscow of acting like a "gangster" and said that Russian politicians want to start World War III. Yatsenyuk didn’t mince hi ... read entire article »
Enda Kenny, the Irish prime minister finds himself under unexpected attack for a series of avoidable blunders. In December, the poll ratings of the two ruling parties (Fine Gael and Labour) briefly soared. That reflected public recognition of the government’ ... read entire article »
Jerusalem - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced yesterday that Israel is suspending its involvement in peace talks and planning a series of sanctions against the Palestinians. “The government of Israel will not negotiate with a Palestinian ... read entire article »
The pre-election silence ahead of Sunday's general and presidential elections began on Friday, overshadowed by opposition allegations of election fraud and threats that it may not recognise the result. Campaigning is halting in Macedonia ahead of Sunday' ... read entire article »
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang met with the British Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt for cultural discussions. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, on Wednesday, praised the progress of China-UK cultural exchanges, urging joint efforts from both sides to expand people-to-people ... read entire article »
If it was an Olympic competition for the bravest country in the world, the gold medal would go to Moldova, determined not to succumb to the Russian President Vladimir Putin, who could transform it into the next Ukraine, says an editorial published by the New York ... read entire article »
Romanians appears even less interested than usual about this year European's elections. This all due to sanding MEPs and other friends and relatives of the elite, who are playing a major role. With one month to go before European elections in Romania, the ... read entire article »
China's role is "capital" in deterring North Korea to continue its nuclear program, said Thursday in Tokyo, the U.S. President Barack Obama. "The participation of China in pushing North Korea into a different direction is paramount," said the U.S. president ... read entire article »
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said yesterday he would start doing community service with the elderly next week, as part of a one-year tax fraud sentence. He is one of Italy's richest men, but he must spend four hours a week in a Catholic old ... read entire article »
The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan unveiled condolences to Turkey's "grandchildren of the Armenians killed in 1915" during the massacres against the community, committed during the Ottoman Empire. In a statement, the head of the Turkish ... read entire article »
After two men, one a local politician, were "tortured to death", Ukraine's acting president has ordered the relaunch of military operations against pro-Russian militants in the east. Olexander Turchynov said the body of politician Vladimir Rybak was found near ... read entire article »
A number of 150 U.S. military, stationed at Vicenza in Italy, will arrive on Thursday to Poland, to participate in joint military exercises, said recently the Pentagon spokesman John Kirby. He said that Washington will send a total of 600 American troops in ... read entire article »
(CNN) - President Barack Obama embarked, on Tuesday, on a four-country tour of the region in the hopes of convincing Pacific allies the United States remains focused on them. The trip itself - with stops in Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines - is a ... read entire article »
The Belarusian President, Alexander Lukashenko talked, on Tuesday, about the worsening crisis in Ukraine, urging its population to defend "by all means" the state independence, according to AFP. "I don't live on an isolated island in the ocean. All the ... read entire article »
While speaking at a joint news briefing in Kiev with Ukraine's acting Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, US Vice-President Joe Biden declared that the US didn't recognize Russia taking over Crimea and that the US are standing with a united Ukraine. Mr Biden also ... read entire article »
The number of Syrian refugees in Turkey welcomed the onset of the conflict in Syria has reached the threshold of one million, announced, on Tuesday, the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "The number of our Syrian brothers who arrived in Turkey ha ... read entire article »
The Crimean Tatar leader, Mustafa Djemilev, has been banned for five years on the territory of Ukraine that joined Russia in March, announced Medjlis, the congregation of Tatars from Crimea. Crimea leaving to go to Kiev Tuesday morning's Djemilev was handed a ... read entire article »
