Ukraine government resigns, parliament scraps anti-protest laws amid crisis

2014-01-28 Ukraine government resigns, parliament scraps anti-protest laws amid crisis

 

2014-01-28 Ukraine government resigns, parliament scraps anti-protest laws amid crisis

 

2014-01-29  Ex-president warns Ukraine 'on brink of civil war'

 Ukraine's first post-independence president has warned the country is on the "brink of civil war" as parliament debates an amnesty for protesters.

Leonid Kravchuk, president from 1991 to 1994, opened the debate in parliament by urging everyone involved to "act with the greatest responsibility".
President Viktor Yanukovych wants any amnesty to be conditional on protesters leaving official buildings - a proposal rejected by the opposition.
Opponents want Mr Yanukovych to resign.
Hundreds of anti-government protesters - many wearing helmets and carrying baseball bats and other makeshift weapons - have taken to the streets in Kiev again, a BBC correspondent in the city reports.
They won significant concessions on Tuesday after parliament scrapped a controversial anti-protest law and Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and his cabinet resigned.

 

100 hotspots-2

1. Stalingrad Volgogrand
    2013-12-29&30 

2. Congo 

    2013-12-30


3.Egypt 

  2013-12-30 
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4.Syria-Lebanon 

   2013-12-30 

5. Syria 
2013-12-30


6. SouthSoudan 
   2013-12-30

7. Turkey   
  2013-12-31


8. Somalia 
   2014-01-01  6 killed by car bombs in Somali capital
   2014-01-02  11 killed Hotel in Somali capital Mogadishu hit by car bombs

 

 9.  Kenya 

2014-01-02 Injuries in grenade attack at Kenya's Diani resort BBC

 

10. Lebanon

    2014-01-02 Beirut blast kills at least five in Hezbollah stronghold BBC

        
       2014-01-04  Al-Qaeda's commander in Lebanon Majid al-Majid 'dies'

11. Bangladesh

  2014-01-04 Bangladesh polling stations torched on eve of election

 

12. Armenia - Azerbaizan

 2014-01-27  Azeri Troops Clash With Armenia Forces

 

13.  Ukraine 

2014-01-28 Ukraine government resigns, parliament scraps anti-protest laws amid crisis

2014-02-19  Ukraine: Deadly clashes around parliament in Kiev

2014-02-19  Ukraine Puts ‘Extremists’ on Notice After Deadly Clashes

 

 14. Bosnia - Erzegobina

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15. Venezuela 

2014-02-14  Anti-Maduro protests persist in Venezuela, dozens jailed

 

 

 

 

 

Armenia Azerbaijan

2014-01-27  Azeri Troops Clash With Armenia Forces

Azeri Troops Clash With Armenia Forces as Foreign Ministers Meet

By Zulfugar Agayev and Sara Khojoyan Jan 24, 2014 1:30 AM PT

Azerbaijan said its troops clashed with Armenian forces near the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region as the countries’ foreign ministers prepared to meet.
An Armenian unit attacked Azeri positions this morning and was forced to retreat after a brief exchange of fire, the Defense Ministry in the Azeri capital, Baku, said on its website. Foreign Ministers Eduard Nalbandian of Armenia and Elmar Mammadyarov of Azerbaijan will meet today in Paris to continue talks after the two nations’ presidents met in November in Vienna for the first time in two years.
Escalating border skirmishes have killed at least two soldiers and left two civilians wounded in the past four days. Armenia took over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous enclave about the size of Rhode Island, and seven adjacent districts from Azerbaijan in a war after the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. More than 30,000 people were killed and more than a million displaced before Russia brokered a cease-fire in 1994.
Azerbaijan, which last month signed $45 billion contracts with a BP Plc-led group to pipe natural-gas to Europe, has repeatedly threatened to use force to regain control of the territory should peace efforts fail.
To contact the reporters on this story: Zulfugar Agayev in Baku at zagayev@bloomberg.net; Sara Khojoyan in Yerevan at skhojoyan@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Hellmuth Tromm at htromm@bloomberg.net

Bangladesh

2014-01-04 Bangladesh polling stations torched on eve of election

Lebanon

2014-01-02 Beirut blast kills at least five in Hezbollah stronghold BBC

2014-01-04  Al-Qaeda's commander in Lebanon Majid al-Majid 'dies'

Kenya

2014-01-02 Injuries in grenade attack at Kenya's Diani resort BBC

Somalia

2014-01-01  6 killed by car bombs in Somali capital

 

2014-01-02  11 killed Hotel in Somali capital Mogadishu hit by car bombs