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/

NATO's top military commander, General Philip Breedlove, said on Tuesday the defense alliance was looking at beefing up its exercises in the Baltic Sea region in response to a surge in Russian military maneuvers there late last year.

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

German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone on Saturday that a four-way summit to discuss the situation in eastern Ukraine would not take place until there was real progress on the Minsk peace plan.

• Date: 11.01.2015  |  Published on EGF: 11.01.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Ukraine's prime minister blamed Russian intelligence on Thursday for a hacker attack against German government websites, for which a pro-Russian group claimed responsibility.

• Date: 08.01.2015  |  Published on EGF: 08.01.2015  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Iran denied on Saturday that it had reached an agreement with the United States to ship its surplus enriched uranium to Russia under new concessions aimed at clinching a comprehensive nuclear deal with six world powers.

• Date: 05.01.2015  |  Published on EGF: 05.01.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Iran denied on Saturday that it had reached an agreement with the United States to ship its surplus enriched uranium to Russia under new concessions aimed at clinching a comprehensive nuclear deal with six world powers.

• Date: 03.01.2015  |  Published on EGF: 03.01.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Hamas authorities in the Gaza Strip prevented on Sunday a group of Palestinian children who lost parents in the July-August war with Israel from making a rare goodwill visit to the Jewish state, organizers of the trip said.

• Date: 28.12.2014  |  Published on EGF: 28.12.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/