The German and French foreign ministers on Thursday made their first visit to Ukraine’s war-torn east since the beginning of the conflict between government forces and pro-Russian rebels in April 2014. Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault arrived in Kramatorsk, a city controlled by the Ukrainian army. Both ...
Turkey’s foreign minister suggested Wednesday Ankara was ready to calm a row over a German parliamentary resolution labeling the Ottoman massacre of Armenians a genocide but warned against treating Turkey as a “second-class country”. The bitter dispute has seen Turkey barring German lawmakers from visiting their nation’s troops at the ...