Former Georgian president, Soviet FM Shevardnadze dies at 86
Former Georgian President and Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze has died at the age of 86. A spokeswoman said he
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Europe
Defence minister says anti-terrorist operation to continue until Ukraine’s east is reclaimed
Ukraine’s new defence minister Valeriy Heletey praised the Ukrainian army’s conduct in recapturing the former rebel stronghold of Sloviansk on July
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Holocaust memorial in Athens defaced
A Holocaust Memorial was defaced in the Greek capital Athens with graffiti threatening the Jewish community, the European Jewish Press
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Ukraine troops retake rebel stronghold
Ukrainian troops have overtaken the rebel stronghold of Slovyansk in the country’s east in a nighttime offensive, and President Petro
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World Jewish Congress backs call by German FM for European Parliament committee to fight extremists
The World Jewish Congress (WJC) has backed calls for the setting up of a special committee of the newly-elected European
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Latvia wary of Russian moves
Latvia is 1,000 kilometers north of the separatist war in southern Ukraine. But what Latvia and Ukraine shares is a
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Ukrainian forces reclaim critical border crossing
Dozens of spent bullet cartridges strewn across pavement scarred by the tracks of armored vehicles. A café and auto body
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Greece lowers tax to lure oil and gas explorers
A two-day event kicked off in London on July 1 where Greece presented opportunities of oil exploitation in the Ionian and
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US reassures Baltics against Russian threat
At a new NATO-standard airbase in Estonia, four F-16s train over the Baltic Sea, sometimes coming within 100 meters of
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