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Ukraine set to begin talks on joining NATO
Ukraine plans to begin discussions with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in an
effort to join the alliance, President Petro Poroshenko said Monday. 2017-07-10 20:19 3KB
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U. S. Navy ships to participate in Black Sea exercises
Two guided-missile ships have arrived at the Ukrainian port city of Odessa July 10 to
participate in the Sea Breeze 2017 maritime exercises. 2017-07-10 21:20 2KB
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3 1.9 Video: Ukrainian immigrant’s sister screams for her
brother after CMPD officer shoots
The body camera footage was released Monday afternoon by the CharlotteMecklenburg Police Department. The officer who shot Iaroslav Mosiiuk, 25, won’ t be
charged. 2017-07-10 21:01 2KB www.charlotteobserver.com
4 0.3 White House points collusion-seeking reporters
toward the Democratic National Committee
The White House said Monday that the real collusion with a foreign power during the
campaign was between the Democratic National Committee and Ukraine.
2017-07-10 20:33 4KB www.washingtontimes.com
5 1.3 Tillerson: Sanctions remain until Russia takes "1st
steps" in Ukraine
Days after Trump-Putin meeting, diplomat bluntly calls on Russia to reign in separatists
it has " complete control over" 2017-07-10 18:41 5KB www.cbsnews.com
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Chiefs set to rest All Blacks trio
The Chiefs are set to rest Brodie Retallick, Sam Cane and Anton Lienert-Brown for the
Super Rugby clash with the Brumbies on Saturday. 2017-07-10 17:29 2KB
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Ukraine set to begin talks on joining NATO
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July 10 (UPI) -- Ukraine plans to
begin discussions with the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization in an
effort to join the alliance, President
Petro Poroshenko said Monday.
Poroshenko
met
with
NATO
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
in Kiev, Ukraine.
"Ukraine has clearly defined its
political future and its future in the
sphere of security, " Poroshenko
said
to
reporters
alongside
Stoltenberg. "Today we clearly
stated that we would begin a discussion about a membership action plan and our proposals for
such a discussion were accepted with pleasure."
Stoltenberg said he welcomed Ukraine moving toward meeting NATO standards with political,
economic and defense reforms, regardless of membership.
"These reforms are essential to ensure security and prosperity for all Ukrainians and to bring
Ukraine closer to NATO, " Stoltenberg said .
But any decision on membership is up to the 29 alliance members, Stoltenberg said.
The secretary general was joined in Kiev by all delegates to the North Atlantic Council, NATO's
policymaking body.
He delivered a speech at the Verkhovna Rada, the first NATO chief to stand in front of the
Ukrainian parliament.
Ukraine used to be part of the old Soviet Union.
But since 2014, Ukraine has battled a Russian-backed insurgency sparked by Moscow's forced
annexation of the Crimean Peninsula. Poroshenko defeated then-President Viktor Yanukovych,
who had been publicly pro-Russia.
During the news conference, the NATO secretary general also called on Russia to withdraw
"thousands of soldiers" from Ukraine. Kiev has accused Moscow of being behind a massive
ransomware attack last month that quickly reached Ukraine's borders.
Stoltenberg announced the alliance would be supplying hardware to protect Ukraine's
computers from cyberattacks.
Russia has repeatedly opposed NATO's expansion in eastern Europe, including Ukraine
becoming a member.
"For many years Russia has been worried by NATO's military infrastructure moving closer to our
borders, potentially this could be the next step, " Russian government spokesman Dmitry
Peskov said.
"It will not boost stability and security in the European continent."
In 1999, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland became the first former Warsaw Pact
countries to gain NATO membership. Other members of the Warsaw pact to join NATO were
Albania in 2009, and Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania in 2004.
Two others countries that were part of Yugoslavia joined NATO -- Slovenia in 2004, Croatia in
2009 and Montenegro earlier this year.
Ukraine Recommits To
NATO Membership Over
Moscow's Objections: The
Two-Way: NPR
npr.org
NATO: We're supplying new
cybersecurity equipment to
Ukraine
cbs46.com
2017-07-10 20:19 www.upi.com
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U. S. Navy ships to participate in Black Sea exercises
July 10 (UPI) -- Two
guided-missile ships have
arrived at the Ukrainian
port city of Odessa July 10
to participate in the Sea
Breeze
2017
maritime
exercises, the U. S. Navy
announced on Monday.
The
Ticonderoga-class
cruiser USS Hue City and
the Arleigh Burke -class
destroyer USS Carney will play active roles in the exercises, which involve air, naval and land
forces from 17 nations.
Sea Breeze 2017 is an annual multinational exercise that focuses on joint training in maritime
interdiction, air defense, anti-submarine operations, search and rescue and amphibious
warfare.
"This is our first visit to Ukraine and we are excited to see Odessa. Sea Breeze 2017 will kick-off
here, " Carney's commanding officer, Cmdr. Peter Halvorsen, said in a press release.
"This is a great opportunity to meet Sailors from all over the region and for us to train together.
This exercise, which is co-hosted by Ukraine, exemplifies our collective resolve to upholding
international law, and to maintaining peace and stability in the Black Sea."
Hue City is part of the USS George H. W. Bush carrier strike group. The Black Sea area of
responsibiliy falls under the U. S. 6th Fleet, whose primary mission is maintaining peace and
freedom of navigation in the region along with bolstering ties with allied nations. This is the 17th
year of the Sea Breeze 2017 exercise.
2017-07-10 21:20 www.upi.com
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Video: Ukrainian immigrant’s sister screams for her
brother after CMPD officer shoots
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Moments
after
CharlotteMecklenburg Police Officer Brian
Walsh
shot
a
Ukrainian
immigrant outside a north
Charlotte house, the man’s sister
can be heard screaming on
Walsh’s body camera footage.
“My brother! Please don’ t shoot
him!” she yelled.
But Iaroslav Mosiiuk, 25, had
already fallen to the ground. He
was declared dead the same day
from the gunshot wound.
Video of the March 8 shooting from two officers’ body cameras was released Monday by CMPD.
The district attorney’s office announced Thursday that Walsh won’ t be charged in connection
with the shooting.
Police were called to the scene because Mosiiuk appeared to be having a mental breakdown,
his sister Olesya Tabaka told a 911 operator.
Walsh’s body camera video shows another CMPD officer, Michael Dezenzo, knocking on the
door of Tabaka’s house.
“Police department, ” Dezenzo said calmly, before yelling “Gun! gun! gun!”
In an interview with investigators after the shooting, Dezenzo said he saw Mosiiuk on the other
side of the door with a rifle at that point. Dezenzo’s own body camera footage shows high
windows in the door, so the scene on the other side is not clearly visible in the video.
Walsh’s body camera footage shows he raised his own pistol after Dezenzo yelled. Walsh ran
toward a CMPD vehicle down the street near Tabaka.
“He doesn’ t have the part, ” Tabaka said in the video, before Walsh fired.
What Tabaka meant became clear later. An investigation determined that the rifle Mosiiuk
carried was a bolt-action rifle missing its bolt.
Mecklenburg County District Attorney Andrew Murray wrote on Thursday that since Walsh could
not have known for sure whether the gun worked, it was reasonable for him to assume that it did.
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2017-07-10 21:01 By Jane www.charlotteobserver.com
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White House points collusion-seeking reporters toward
the Democratic National Committee
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The White House said
Monday
that
the
real
collusion with a foreign
power during the campaign
was between the Democratic
National Committee and
Ukraine.
“If you are looking for an
example of a campaign
coordinating with foreign
country or a foreign source,
look no further than the DNC
which actually coordinated
opposition research with the Ukrainian embassy, ” said White House principal deputy press
secretary Sarah Sanders.
Fending off questions about Donald Trump Jr. meeting with a Russian lawyer during the
presidential race, Mrs. Sanders noted at the daily White House press briefing that the DNC ’s
work with Ukraine was well documented.
DNC operatives worked with officials at the Ukraine embassy in an effort to spread dirt on
Donald Trump during the campaign.
“This is not an accusation. That is an on-the-record action that they took, ” Mrs. Sanders said.
“No one in this room to my knowledge really had a problem with that, ” she said.
Mrs. Sanders also objected to the continued insinuations in the news media that the Trump
campaign colluded with Russia, which she said was being used to delegitimize the Trump
presidency.
“There was absolutely no collusion, ” she said.
The New York Times first reported the meeting between President Trump ’s eldest son and the
Kremlin-connected lawyer.
The younger Mr. Trump, who worked on his father’s campaign, said the lawyer claimed to have
damaging information about the Clinton campaign but then focused on restarting a defunct
program for U. S. adoptions of Russian babies.
The meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016 with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya was also
attended by Mr. Trump ’s son-in-law and top adviser Jared Kushner and Trump campaign
chairman Paul J. Manafort.
The younger Mr. Trump and not previously disclosed the meeting. However, Mr. Kushner and
Mr. Manafort had disclosed the meeting on federal forms, which were described to the
newspaper and provided a basis for the story.
The younger Mr. Trump said that during the meeting Ms. Veselnitskaya claimed to have
information that “individuals connected to Russia were funding the Democratic National
Committee ” and supporting Mrs. Clinton.
“No details or supporting information was provided or even offered, ” the younger Mr. Trump
said in a statement. “It quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information.”
He said no details or supporting information was ever offered, and that his father was unaware
of the meeting.
The president’s opponents in the U. S. seized on the story as fresh evidence of possible
collusion. The FBI has uncovered no evidence of collusion after a yearlong investigation, but
investigations continues, including a Justice Department special counsel probe that began in
May.
2017-07-10 20:33 By www.washingtontimes.com
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Tillerson: Sanctions remain until Russia takes "1st
steps" in Ukraine
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KIEV, Ukraine -- U. S.
Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson has told Russia it
must take the first steps to
reduce tensions in eastern
Ukraine and that American
and European sanctions
would remain in place until
Moscow reversed course in
the region.
In
surprisingly
blunt
language just two days
after Presidents Donald
Trump and Vladimir Putin met in Germany, Tillerson said Russia should use its influence with
separatists in Ukraine's east to fully restore an oft-violated truce, end harassment and attacks on
international monitors and pull back heavy weaponry to lines agreed upon under a 2-year-old
accord known as the Minsk Agreement. He said a primary goal of the United States "is to restore
Ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty" and that would be "required in order for the U. S.
and Russia to improve our relationship."
"It is necessary for Russia to take the first steps to de-escalate the situation in the eastern part of
Ukraine, " Tillerson told reporters at a joint news conference in Kiev with Ukrainian President
Petro Poroshenko. "This is necessary for us to make any movement."
"We do call on Russia to honor its commitments that were made under the Minsk accords and to
exercise influence over the separatists in the region that they have complete control over, " he
said, adding later: "The U. S. and E. U. sanctions on Russia will remain in place until Moscow
reverses the actions that triggered these particular sanctions."
Tillerson's tough talk clearly pleased Poroshenko, who has long complained about Russian
interference in his country's east and has watched nervously as the Trump administration has
sought to improve ties with Moscow. He thanked Tillerson for the continued U. S. commitment to
Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity and expressed deep appreciation for his "symbolic
and timely visit immediately after the meetings at the G-20 in Hamburg" where Trump met with
Putin.
Poroshenko was especially complimentary of Tillerson's decision last week to appoint a special
envoy for Ukraine negotiations, former U. S. ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker, who is widely
considered to be a hawk on Russia.
Volker will oversee U. S. efforts to press Ukraine and Russia to fully comply with the Minsk
Agreement, which lays out a roadmap for reducing the conflict that has claimed some 10,000
lives over the past three years. The accord was reached in early 2015 in the capital of Belarus
by the leaders of France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia but has yet to be implemented. Under
the Obama administration, the U. S. had taken a hands-off approach to Minsk, allowing the
Europeans to take the lead.
"We are disappointed by the lack of progress under the Minsk process and that's why we are
appointing a special representative, " Tillerson said.
Poroshenko, who said Volker would remain in Ukraine for the next several days, maintained that
a resolution to the crisis "needs only the political will of Moscow."
"Kiev did not plan, did not start this war, " he said. "It was planned and started in Moscow. That's
why the keys to peaceful settlement are in Moscow."
Russia denies charges that it is actively involved in the insurgency, but has said that in order for
peace to take hold, Kiev must agree to political reforms that would give the east greater
autonomy. The Ukrainian government contends that political reform depends on an end to the
violence.
Tillerson and other U. S. officials for some time have been pushing Ukraine to press ahead with
reforms that would curb corruption and improve governmental transparency.
Speaking to a group of reform advocates at the U. S. ambassador's residence, Tillerson praised
Ukraine's progress in combating graft but made clear that more must be accomplished.
"Ukraine has come a long way, " he said. "We want to acknowledge that, (but) we still have more
to do, " he said. "This is all about securing Ukraine's future: making the place attractive for
investors, being attractive to their European neighbors."
After a meeting later Sunday with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres,
Poroshenko called on the world body to take a more active role in addressing Ukraine's
problems.
"We came to agreement with the secretary-general that Ukraine and the whole world today need
strong and decisive actions by the U. N. like never before, " Poroshenko said.
2017-07-10 18:41 AP www.cbsnews.com
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Chiefs set to rest All Blacks trio
Cape Town - The
Chiefs are set to rest Brodie Retallick, Sam Cane and
Anton
Lienert-Brown for the Super Rugby clash with the
Brumbies on Saturday.
The trio featured in three intense Tests for the All
Blacks against
the British and Irish Lions and are being rested as the
Chiefs resume
Super Rugby action in Hamilton.
Fellow All Blacks squad members Nathan Harris, Tawera Kerr-Barlow,
Aaron Cruden and Damian McKenzie are likely to start as Harris and
Cruden were restricted to bench roles for the Lions series while
Kerr-Barlow and McKenzie saw no action.
But Chiefs coach Dave Rennie is eager to have Retallick, Cane and Lienert-Brown as fresh as
possible for the playoffs.
"Sometimes you've got to ignore that and do what's best for them, and
best for the team, " he said. "And we just want them fizzing come
playoff time.
"Not all of them will play this week, we'll see how Sam and Anton and
Brodie shape up, but we could potentially leave them out of the mix and
give them a chance to get their bodies right for the playoffs.
"So if that's the decision we make that's what it'll be based on."
The All Blacks contingent were given training off on Monday except for Harris who went in to
keep tabs on the lineout.
"We told them all to stay away, they've had a pretty intense three
weeks, " added Rennie. "We want them to clear their heads a little bit.
"We got a lot of hard work done, but (were) just making sure the
group's really tight heading into the business end of the year, " he
said. "It's where we want to be - in contention to launch - so we've
achieved that."
2017-07-10 17:29 www.sport24.co.za
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