Yearly Archives: 2014

Yanukovych agrees early election

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on Friday announced an early presidential election as one of a package of measures aimed at ending the country’s political crisis. “I am initiating an early presidential election. I am also initiating a return to the 2004 Constitution with the redistribution of powers toward a parliamentary …

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Turkey considering support for EU in CAR

Turkey is considering participating in a European Union force planned to be sent to the violence-hit Central African Republic (CAR), Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said on Thursday. Davutoğlu, addressing an emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on the situation in the Central African Republic in Saudi Arabia, …

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Cameron, Merkel discuss Ukraine

British Prime Minister David Cameron called German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel Thursday afternoon to discuss “the appalling situation” in Ukraine. “They are both extremely concerned by the spiralling violence,” a Downing Street spokesperson said following the phone conversation.

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Ukrainian police to use firearms in limits of the law

Ukraine’s interior ministry announced that anti-government protesters had taken 67 security officials hostage on Thursday. Following several days of relative calm, violence broke out on Tuesday when police stormed the main protester’s camp in Kiev’s Independence

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