Not Ukraine related but still...
More from our news desk on signing the cease-fire agreement:
Representatives of Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels have signed an agreement for a cease-fire to start at 1700 Prague time on September 5, Russian and Western news agencies reported.
"A protocol has been signed on a cease-fire from 1800 (Kyiv time) on Friday," the Interfax news agency quoted a source close to talks in Minsk, whom it did not identify, as saying.
"The protocol has 14 points that include all aspects of monitoring, prisoner exchange and other issues."
Reuters reported that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) had confirmed a cease-fire agreement was signed.
The talks follow a telephone conversation between Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin on September 3 in which they discussed ways to end the conflict that has killed more than 2,600 people in eastern Ukraine since April.
This just in from our News Desk:
The Interfax news agency cites a source close to talks in Minsk as saying representatives of Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels have signed an agreement for a cease-fire.
"A protocol has been signed on a cease-fire from 1800 (Kyiv time) on Friday," Interfax quoted the source, whom it did not identify, as saying.
"The protocol has 14 points that include all aspects of monitoring, prisoner exchange and other issues."
AFP news agency cited Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk as saying the cease-fire deal must win EU and U.S. support to work.
The talks follow a telephone conversation between Ukrainian President Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin on September 3 in which they discussed ways to end the conflict that has killed more than 2,600 people in eastern Ukraine since April.
Reports of a cese-fire agreement coming out of Minsk:
Here is today's map of the military situation in eastern Ukraine, per the National Security and Defense Council:
Pressure is being put on non-Orthodox religious communities in Crimea by the Russian-installed authorities there, Forum 18 reports:
All but five of 23 Turkish imams and religious teachers invited by the Crimean Muftiate under a 20-year-old programme have been forced to leave Crimea as Russia's Federal Migration Service refused to extend their residence permits. The rest will have to leave when their residence permits expire. "We can't invite anyone now as they say we have no legal status," Jemil Bibishev of the Muftiate lamented to Forum 18 News Service. "If they want to begin mission work in Crimea they will have to get a visa from the Russian embassy in Turkey in accordance with Russian law," Yana Smolova of the Federal Migration Service insisted to Forum 18. Representatives of a range of religious communities have told Forum 18 that they are under surveillance by the FSB security service. Greek Catholic priest Fr Bogdan Kostetsky has been summoned several times. Among the questions were some about his attitude to Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky, who led the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church until his death in 1944. The duty officer at the Yevpatoriya FSB told Forum 18 he had never heard that Fr Kostetsky had been summoned.