Wall Street Journal

Russia said Feb. 9 that President Vladimir Putin would not tolerate any ultimatums over Ukraine after a report said Germany had given him until Wednesday to agree a peace plan or face new sanctions.
      
"We've already said everything about the tone of the negotiations," Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Russian radio.        

According to Wall Street Journal report, Greece is in danger of running out of cash in weeks.

As WSJ indicates, if Eurozone officials didn’t make the above decision then Greece would have been able to take a breather for about 4-6 months, which is enough according to the Greek Government to conclude negotiations.

The Pentagon confirmed Jan. 23 that it has begun training 3,600 Iraqi and Kurdish forces, but has yet to begin recruiting and actively vetting their Syrian counterparts.

In Iraq, the U.S. and coalition partners have begun training forces at four sites across the country, including al-Assad, Camp Taji in Baghdad Governorate, Bismaya and Erbil.

Eight of the twenty-three analysts surveyed by business channel CNBC-e expect the Central Bank of Turkey (CBT) to cut its policy rate of 8.25 percent at the monetary policy committee?s rate-setting meeting on Jan. 20.

Mogherini "should participate in Kosovo dialogue"

PRIŠTINA -- Kosovo Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci says EU High Representative Federica Mogherini should be included in the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina.

By Nikos Roussanoglou

Greek shipowners have invested a total of 1.44 billion euros in acquiring 11 liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers so far this year, according to a report in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal.

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has called on Russia not to involve Southeast Europe in the Moscow-Brussels dispute over the Ukraine crisis.

Mogherini's comments come after Russia announced earlier this week it was scrapping the South Stream gas pipeline project, citing Bulgaria's reluctance to unfreeze construction.

The United States on Dec. 1 played down the idea of creating a buffer zone along the Syria-Turkish border after a media report cited it as a possible concession to Turkey in return for use of bases to launch attacks on Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants in Syria.

The United States and Turkey are closing in on a deal that will allow the U.S. military and allied forces to use Turkish air bases in their campaign against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants in Syria, the Wall Street Journal reported Dec. 1.

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