Germany's Angela Merkel said on Wednesday she hoped a new round of talks with Ukraine and Russia in Berlin could help implement an elusive ceasefire in eastern Ukraine but warned against expecting too much, given another upsurge in the violence.

• Date: 21.01.2015  |  Published on EGF: 21.01.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Ukraine on Tuesday accused pro-Russian separatists of taking advantage of a ceasefire deal signed last September to seize more territory in the east and said Kiev would demand its return in any future peace talks.

• Date: 20.01.2015  |  Published on EGF: 20.01.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

China on Monday lodged a protest with Tokyo after Japanese media quoted Japan's foreign minister as saying that a disputed border region between China and India belonged to India, in the latest source of friction between the two Asian rivals.

• Date: 19.01.2015  |  Published on EGF: 19.01.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu accused his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday of terrorism and said Israeli "provocations" such as the bombardment of Gaza were contributing to radicalization in the Muslim world.

• Date: 17.01.2015  |  Published on EGF: 17.01.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russia is working to develop within a few years the capability to threaten several neighbors at once on the scale of its present operation in Ukraine, a senior American general said.

• Date: 16.01.2015  |  Published on EGF: 16.01.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russian is concerned that a rotation by Kiev of front-line forces in eastern Ukraine could undermine peace efforts, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.

• Date: 16.01.2015  |  Published on EGF: 16.01.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Lithuania is publishing a manual to advise its citizens on how to survive a war on its soil as concerns grow that Russia's intervention in Ukraine heralds increased assertiveness in its tiny Baltic neighbors.

• Date: 15.01.2015  |  Published on EGF: 15.01.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Shelling hit a passenger bus in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people, and fighting intensified around the international airport in the city of Donetsk as separatists tried to oust government forces.

• Date: 13.01.2015  |  Published on EGF: 13.01.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/