Russia has moved troops closer to the border with Ukraine and continues to support rebels in the country's east, NATO's chief said on Tuesday, after an election held by the pro-Russian separatists and condemned by Kiev and Western leaders.

• Date: 04.11.2014  |  Published on EGF: 04.11.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

China will dispatch an elite unit of the People's Liberation Army to help Ebola-hit Liberia, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday, responding to U.N. calls for a greater global effort to fight the deadly virus in West Africa.

• Date: 31.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 31.10.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests have escalated into a national security issue threatening Chinese sovereignty over the Asian financial center, a delegate to China's rubber-stamp parliament said on Thursday.

• Date: 30.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 30.10.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

parliamentary election in Ukraine offers a chance for peace in the country's east, a deputy Russian foreign minister said on Monday but warned that "nationalists" in the chamber could undermine the process.

• Date: 27.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 27.10.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

The burnt-out remains of dozens of tanks and armored vehicles in fields near this small village bear witness to the ferocity of a battle that turned the tide of the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

• Date: 23.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 23.10.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Waiting for a lull in fighting between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian rebels, Nikolai Batyshchev ventures out with his chainsaw and wheelbarrow to collect firewood to fend off the damp autumn chill.

• Date: 21.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 21.10.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Christophe de Margerie, the charismatic and outspoken chief executive of the French oil company Total (TOTF.PA), was killed when his private jet hit a snow plow as it was taking off from Moscow's Vnukovo airport on Monday night.

• Date: 21.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 21.10.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency has concluded that pro-Russian rebels are to blame for the downing of Malaysia Airline MH17 in Ukraine in July, Der Spiegel weekly reported on Sunday, the first European agency to say so.

• Date: 19.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 19.10.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/