Current Affairs Global - 12 September 2014 1. The European Union imposed new set of economic sanctions on Russia over Ukraine to put pressure on Russia over the annexation of Crimea. The restrictions include financing for some Russian state-owned companies and asset freezes on leading Russian politicians. Sanctions included asset freezes and travel bans on Igor Lebedev, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, other deputy speakers of the Russian lower house of parliament, and a number of leaders of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. After European Union, The US has also imposed some new sanctions on Russia. As per new sanction, US citizens are now not allowed to provide loans of longer than 30 days to Sberbank, Russias biggest bank. It will also affect Russian technology and Oil firms. 2. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged USD 50 million to support emergency efforts to contain the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Nearly 2000 people are killed in the worst outbreak of the virus in history and more than 10000 are infected with the deadly virus.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 17:47:36 +0000
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