President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday Russia would use its influence with separatists in east Ukraine to allow a full investigation into the downing of a Malaysian airliner, but said the West must put pressure on Kiev to end hostilities.

• Date: 22.07.2014  |  Published on EGF: 22.07.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

The European Union should impose harder-hitting sanctions on Russia after the downing of a Malaysian airliner in Ukraine, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday, advocating an EU ban on future sales of military equipment to Moscow.

• Date: 21.07.2014  |  Published on EGF: 21.07.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russia's Severstal CHMF.MM said it would sell two U.S. steel plants for $2.3 billion, withdrawing from the U.S. market at a time of rising tension between Russia and the West and turning its focus to its domestic business.

• Date: 21.07.2014  |  Published on EGF: 21.07.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Israeli tanks and bulldozers dug in across a mile-wide strip of Gaza's eastern frontier on Saturday, and Palestinian officials said military strikes had killed more than 300 people, most of them civilians.

• Date: 19.07.2014  |  Published on EGF: 19.07.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Germany's foreign minister said on Saturday now may be Moscow's last opportunity to prove it is serious about peace in Ukraine as Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterated her call on Russia's Vladimir Putin to use his influence over pro-Moscow separatists.

• Date: 19.07.2014  |  Published on EGF: 19.07.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Israel intensified its land offensive in Gaza with artillery, tanks and gunboats on Friday and warned it could "significantly widen" an operation Palestinian officials said was killing ever greater numbers of civilians.

• Date: 18.07.2014  |  Published on EGF: 18.07.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

World leaders demanded an international investigation into the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner with 298 people on board over eastern Ukraine in a tragedy that could mark a pivotal moment in the worst crisis between Russia and the West since the Cold War.

• Date: 18.07.2014  |  Published on EGF: 18.07.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

At least six Ukrainian soldiers were killed in renewed attacks on government military posts and checkpoints by pro-Moscow separatists near the border with Russia, the Ukrainian military said on Tuesday.

• Date: 15.07.2014  |  Published on EGF: 15.07.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/