Gunfire rang out in Crimea’s main city of Simferopol on Tuesday, even as hundreds partied on the central Lenin Square to celebrate an agreement to incorporate their Black Sea peninsula into Russia. Two people were reported killed and two injured in…
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Canada’s long-time finance minister announced his resignation Tuesday, after steering the G7 nation through the Great Recession and back to a balanced budget forecast for next year. Jim Flaherty, 64, said he informed Prime Minister Stephen Harper on…
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President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a decree formally recognising Crimea as an independent state following its vote to secede from Ukraine and join Russia, news agencies quoted a Kremlin statement as saying. Russian news agencies quoted the decree…
Seal-hunters must have the same rights as fishermen, Canada’s Environment Minister Leonoa Aglukkaq insisted Monday, as her country battled a Brussels’ trade ban at the WTO. Speaking on the sidelines of a World Trade Organization appeal hearing on the…
The United States and Europe targeted Vladimir Putin’s inner circle on Monday, slapping sanctions on senior officials to pressure the Kremlin to abandon moves to annex Crimea. The move came after the breakaway Ukrainian region voted to join Russia,…
THE MISSING Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 could be a victim of the world’s first cyber-hijacking, a former member of the Home Office has claimed. Speaking to The Express, British anti-terrorist expert and former Home office scientific adviser Dr Sally…
15 March 2014 – With nearly 13 million Syrians uprooted from their homes, senior United Nations officials warn that without…
14 March 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today appealed yet again for the international community to help bring the rival…
14 March 2014 – The Security Council today extended for another year the United Nations mission assisting Libya, as preparations…
15 March 2014 – Owing to the negative vote of one of its permanent members, the United Nations Security Council…
14 March 2014 – United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Ivan Šimonovic, announced today the immediate deployment of a…
13 March 2014 – The United Nations continued efforts on multiple fronts to de-escalate tensions in Ukraine, with a senior…
Malaysia confirmed Friday that the search for a missing Malaysia Airlines plane had been expanded into the Indian Ocean, but declined to comment on US reports that the jet had flown for hours after going missing. “The aircraft is still missing, and…
Top US diplomat John Kerry arrived in London Friday on an 11th-hour mission to head off a possible Russian annexation of Crimea on the heels of a breakaway vote by the Ukrainian region. With the clock ticking down to Crimea’s Sunday referendum, Kerry…
13 March 2014 – The United Nations and Arab League Joint Special Representative for Syria today appealed to the Security…
12 March 2014 – A group of independent United Nations human rights experts today expressed alarm at the ongoing spike…
12 March 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said that the international community cannot afford to lose focus or turn…
12 March 2014 – The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today stressed that decisive…
12 March 2014 – The rampant destruction of Syria’s cultural heritage – including ancient cities, houses and temples – is…