President Barack Obama faced criticism over his foreign policy from both Democratic and Republican lawmakers on Sunday as he wrestled with crises in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Ukraine.
President Barack Obama faced criticism over his foreign policy from both Democratic and Republican lawmakers on Sunday as he wrestled with crises in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Ukraine.
Ukraine said Russian tanks had flattened a small border town and pro-Russian rebels had made fresh gains in its east, as EU leaders signaled on Saturday they would threaten more sanctions against Moscow over the crisis.
Germany's economy ministry will approve the sale of utility RWE's (RWEG.DE) oil and gas unit DEA to a Russian investor despite tensions between Russia and the West over theUkraine crisis, two people familiar with the matter said.
According to the sources cited by the Associated Press, the new measures would include a ban on the sale of dual use and sensitive technologies and an arms embargo. The measures were clearly geared to restrict Russia's defense and energy industries, of which both have proven lucrative for the country.
Without mentioning China, the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations said in a statement yesterday that all parties involved in the territorial claim disputes in Asia should adopt self-restraint to avoid escalating tensions.
As the US pursues national legal acceptance of gays, Russia and Uganda are on the opposite with their harsh, anti-gay laws that come with lifetime imprisonment and even death penalty, Bloomberg said in a report.
The five permanent UN Security Council members met again on Thursday to discuss the appropriate response to last week's chemical attack. The meeting lasted for just under an hour. US, British, French, Chinese and Russian diplomats declined to comment to reporters after it.
The suspects were identified to The Associated Press as coming from Chechnya, which has been plagued by an Islamic insurgency from separatist wars. A law enforcement intelligence bulletin obtained by the AP identified the surviving bomb suspect as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old who had been living in Cambridge.
The exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky has been found dead at his home in Surrey on Saturday, the BBC News reported,and his family has confirmed. It is not yet known how the 67-year-old has died, though suicide is what has been first suspected as the cause. He has been a wanted man in Russia for quite some time. In the past years, he survived numerous assassination attempts.
