UK to send ‘battle group’ to Poland for exercises amid Ukraine crisis
The UK is planning to send more than 1,300 British troops to take part in a forthcoming major NATO exercises
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Ukrainian official: Black boxes show MH17 was downed by ‘massive, explosive decompression’ from shrapnel
Ukrainian security service spokesman Andrei Lysenko said on July 28 that data recorders recovered from Malaysia Airlines flight 17 show
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US: Images prove Russia fired rockets into Ukraine
United States officials have released satellite images (see below) that, they say, show that Russia has fired rockets against Ukrainian
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MH17 crash investigators hampered by fighting in Ukraine
A team of international crash investigators and police officers was forced to cancel a visit to the site of the
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US, Europe demand harsher Russia sanctions
A senior British official is calling for the 2018 World Cup to be moved from Russia as punishment for the
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International police postpone MH17 crash site visit
Police monitors from Australia and the Netherlands postponed plans Sunday to visit the Malaysian airliner crash site in eastern Ukraine,
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Greeks remain pessimistic about the economy and labour market
Sixty-seven per cent of Greeks and 31 per cent of Europeans characterise the condition of their household poor to very
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Turkey feeling strain from hosting Syrian refugees
Turkey has maintained an open door policy for people fleeing the conflict in neighboring Syria, but recent violent protests in
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European court condemns Poland for hosting secret CIA prisons
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France ruled Thursday that Poland violated the European human rights convention by
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