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      Steinmeier on Brexit: Sad day for Europe and UK
      Jun24

      Steinmeier on Brexit: Sad day for Europe and UK

      German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has commented the results of the British referendum, where the majority of voters supported the country`s exit from the EU.”News from the UK is sobering. Looks like this is a sad day for Europe and the UK,” German Foreign Ministry quoted Steinmeier on Twitter.As UNIAN reported earlier, on Thursday,...

      Spain to seek co-sovereignty on Gibraltar after Brexit: Reuters
      Jun24

      Spain to seek co-sovereignty on Gibraltar after Brexit: Reuters

      Spain will seek co-sovereignty on Gibraltar following Britain`s vote to leave the European Union, acting foreign minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said on Friday, saying the vote completely changed the outlook on the future of the peninsula, Reuters reports.”It`s a complete change of outlook that opens up new possibilities on Gibraltar not...

      ISIS changes tactics: 1st attack in Jordan – media
      Jun24

      ISIS changes tactics: 1st attack in Jordan – media

      Having achieved success in fighting against government forces in Iraq and the army of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the militants of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization for the first time conducted an attack in Jordan, Al Jazeera reports.Tens of thousands of Syrians refugees, trapped at the border with Jordan, are left without water, food...

      Russia probing Savchenko`s lawyer for extremism
      Jun24

      Russia probing Savchenko`s lawyer for extremism

      Nadia Savchenko`s lawyer Mark Feygin is being checked for extremism.”There`s yet another appeal to prosecute me for extremism. For my Twitter,” Feygin tweeted. The lawyer promised to share the details later.”A detective from the Department of Internal Affairs in the Moscow`s district of Khamovniki said that some man named Schukin had accused me...

      EP to meet in extraordinary session Tuesday to adopt resolution over Brexit: Schulz
      Jun24

      EP to meet in extraordinary session Tuesday to adopt resolution over Brexit: Schulz

      The European Parliament has decided to meet on Tuesday morning to adopt a resolution assessing the outcome of the UK referendum and describing the necessary steps of the European institutions, European Parliament Martin Schulz has told the reporters following the extraordinary Conference of Presidents, an UNIAN correspondent in Brussels...

      Oil falls 6% on UK referendum data
      Jun24

      Oil falls 6% on UK referendum data

      World oil prices have lost more than 6% on the results of the referendum in the UK on EU membership, Russian business news agency PRIME has reported with reference to trading data.”As of 06:48 GMT, Brent crude futures` August front-month contract fell by 6.52%, to $47.58 a barrel, while U.S. crude futures` August contract fell by 6.69%, to $46.75...

      Russia seen putting new nuclear-capable missiles along NATO border by 2019 – Reuters
      Jun24

      Russia seen putting new nuclear-capable missiles along NATO border by 2019 – Reuters

      Russia is likely to deploy advanced nuclear-capable missiles in its European exclave of Kaliningrad by 2019, casting the move as a reply to a U.S.-backed missile shield, and may one day put them in Crimea too, sources close to its military predict, according to Reuters. Mikhail Barabanov, a senior research fellow at the Moscow-based Centre for...

      Pro-Russian forces in Donbas attack Ukraine 50 times in past day
      Jun24

      Pro-Russian forces in Donbas attack Ukraine 50 times in past day

      The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 50 times in the past 24 hours, including 33 times in the Mariupol sector, 15 times in the Donetsk sector and twice in the Luhansk sector, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters.In the Mariupol sector, the occupiers...

      Bucharest to ”reset” relations with Kyiv – Romania Envoy
      Jun24

      Bucharest to ”reset” relations with Kyiv – Romania Envoy

      Romania is revising its relations with Ukraine because Russia is threatening security in the entire Black Sea region, according to Cornel Ionescu, Romania`s Ambassador to Ukraine, Ukraine Today reported.Such a comment was given during the panel discussion ”Foreign Policy Audit: Ukraine-Romania” on June 23, which was also attended by experts from...

      Ukraine, Poland to enhance cooperation in Higher Education, Research – Education Ministry
      Jun24

      Ukraine, Poland to enhance cooperation in Higher Education, Research – Education Ministry

      Ukraine and Poland will develop an agreement on deepening cooperation in the fields of academic integrity and inter-university mobility, as agreed during the meeting between Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Lilia Hrynevych and Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Research and Higher Education of Poland Jaroslaw Gowin, the press service of...