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      Village 24 km from Ukraine`s strategic port city remains hottest spot in Donbas war
      Jul12

      Village 24 km from Ukraine`s strategic port city remains hottest spot in Donbas war

      The village of Shyrokyne, located some 24 km from the Ukrainian-controlled strategic port city of Mariupol at the Sea of Azov, remains the hottest spot in the Donbas war, being shelled by Russian proxies from banned 120mm mortars, grenade launchers and large-caliber machine guns, according to the press service of the Anti-Terrorist Operation...

      Ukraine to seek investors for construction of Kyiv toll roads, route to Odesa
      Jul12

      Ukraine to seek investors for construction of Kyiv toll roads, route to Odesa

      Ukraine`s Ministry of Infrastructure will invite private investors to participate in the construction of a concession-based toll ring road around Kyiv, as well as the Kyiv – Odesa highway, the ministry`s press service reported, citing Minister Volodymyr Omelyan.”Ukraine plans to offer concession projects and introduce toll highways to...

      Venezuela seizes U.S. factory after closure due to lack of raw materials
      Jul12

      Venezuela seizes U.S. factory after closure due to lack of raw materials

      Venezuela`s government has seized a factory belonging to Kimberly-Clark Corporation after the U.S. personal care giant said it was halting production as it was unable to obtain raw materials, according to Euronews.President Nicolas Maduro announced the nationalisation in a televised address saying the closure was illegal and it had re-opened ”in...

      Oil prices rise on Iraq loading worries; bearish investors cap gains – Reuters
      Jul12

      Oil prices rise on Iraq loading worries; bearish investors cap gains – Reuters

      Oil futures rose on Tuesday as an interruption in Iraqi crude loadings at Basra threatened to tighten supplies, but prices held close to two-month lows hit in the previous session as investors continued to slash their bullish bets, Reuters reported. Brent crude oil futures LCOc1 were trading at $46.39 per barrel at 0320 GMT, up 14 cents from...

      Bloomberg: Ukraine bonds trade like Crimea never happened amid yield hunt
      Jul12

      Bloomberg: Ukraine bonds trade like Crimea never happened amid yield hunt

      The yield on the country`s three-year dollar debt fell below 8% on Monday, July 11, for the first time since January 2014, when pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych was still clinging to power and the Crimean peninsula was part of Ukraine, according to Bloomberg.Yields have tumbled more than four percentage points and the local currency has...

      Reuters: Images show high level of activity at North Korea nuclear site
      Jul12

      Reuters: Images show high level of activity at North Korea nuclear site

      Recent satellite images show a high level of activity at North Korea`s nuclear test site but it is unclear whether this was for maintenance or preparation for a fifth nuclear test, a U.S.-based North Korea monitoring project said on Monday, according to Reuters.A report on the 38 North website said the commercial satellite imagery from July 7 was...

      Slovakia helps Ukraine get rid of gas dependence on Russia – expert
      Jul11

      Slovakia helps Ukraine get rid of gas dependence on Russia – expert

      Due to gas supplies via the reverse flow, Slovakia has helped Ukraine get rid of gas dependence on Russia, that`s according to Maryna Vorotnyuk, lecturer of the Comenius University in Bratislava, who commented on Slovakia`s presidency in the EU Council for the next six months,Ukraine Today reported citing the Ukrainian media.”In fact, through...

      Poroshenko: Ukraine, Canada begin consultations on visa liberalization for Ukrainians
      Jul11

      Poroshenko: Ukraine, Canada begin consultations on visa liberalization for Ukrainians

      President Petro Poroshenko informed that the issue of visa liberalization for Ukrainians had been discussed during today`s Ukraine-Canada negotiations in Kyiv, according to the president`s press service.”We have agreed to start immediate consultations on the visa regime liberalization. I am grateful to the Canadian side for the beginning of this...

      Quasi-Russian protectorate in Donbas to never be integrated into Ukraine – Klimkin
      Jul11

      Quasi-Russian protectorate in Donbas to never be integrated into Ukraine – Klimkin

      Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin stressed that the Minsk agreements were ”not in a dead end,” an UNIAN correspondent reported from the minister`s Kyiv briefing.”Firstly, it`s not the Minsk agreements which are in a dead end. We have a problem with Russia`s reluctance to fulfill any agreements on security issues,” said Klimkin.”Russia does...

      Euromaidan Leaders Launch New Party in Ukraine. Can It Succeed?
      Jul11

      Euromaidan Leaders Launch New Party in Ukraine. Can It Succeed?

      As Europe lurches in the direction of populism, xenophobic anti-immigrant attitudes, and anti-EU posturing, Ukraine appears to be tilting the other way. Located largely outside European discourse for the last twenty-five years, Ukraine is now odd man out, with pro-EU sentiments running high, xenophobic attitudes largely absent, and not one but...