The Mauthausen Committee Austria has refused to allow delegations from Russia and Belarus to participate in the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi-run concentration camp in Mauthausen, the Russian embassy in Austria said on Thursday.
Under the guise of foreign assistance the US Agency for International Development has been used to promote US foreign policy and regime change throughout the world.
A negotiated settlement to end the conflict between Ukraine and Russia is both possible and desirable, the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft said on Friday.
On Thursday, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) -which owns and operates Eurovision -announced that they had conducted a review and made the decision to allow Israel to participate.
While there are some difficulties regarding finalization of a final APEC statement due to the frictions over the Ukraine issue, the members still aim for a release of a consensus statement at the end of the leaders summit this week in San Francisco, US ambassador Matt Murray told reporters on Monday.