Section: Egypt
Russia returns to Africa amid increasing isolation
A recent announcement by Uganda’s Oil Ministry that a Russian company – RT Global Resources – won the bid to build a $3bn oil refinery highlights the Kremlin’s attempts to return as a major player in Africa. RT Global Resources is a subsidiary of Russia’s largest state-backed corporation Rostec whose CEO, Sergey...
War in Ukraine Leaves Many Elderly in a Vulnerable Position
DEBALTSEVE—In eastern Ukraine, the elderly are left especially vulnerable by the conflict between government forces and Russian-backed separatists. In the wrecked suburbs of Debaltseve, 77 year-old Ukrainian pensioner Lydia Stepanovna is trying to come to terms with the events of the last few months. She’d lived here quietly for 16 years...
Obama, EU Chief Meet in Washington for Talks on Ukraine
U.S. President Barack Obama is meeting Monday in Washington with the head of the European Council for talks on strategy aimed at countering Russian efforts to redraw the borders of Ukraine. Ahead of the meeting, the White House accused Moscow and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine of blocking European truce observers from fully monitoring...
Putin Recounts How He Gave Orders to ‘Save’ Yanukovych, ‘Return’ Crimea
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he ordered security officials in February 2014 to make plans to “save the life” of Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine’s then-president, and to start planning for Russia’s annexation of Crimea. In a trailer aired Sunday on state television channel Rossiya-1 for an upcoming documentary, Putin...
Nemtsov friend says Islamist motive for Moscow killing is nonsensical
A colleague of Boris Nemtsov, the Russian opposition figure shot dead near Moscow’s Red Square, said suggestions he was killed by Islamists were nonsensical and useful for the Kremlin because they deflected accusations that officials were involved.Speculation about an Islamist link strengthened after investigators charged a man from the...
Germany’s Merkel Reminds Japan to Face Wartime Past
TOKYO—German Chancellor Angela Merkel said during her visit to Japan on Monday that Russia’s actions in Eastern Ukraine are jeopardizing the free world order but said diplomacy could still resolve the situation. “But this free world order is anything but a matter of course, rather it is in jeopardy. Through the annexation of Crimea in...
Juncker calls for EU army, says would deter Russia
The European Union needs its own army to face up to Russia and other threats as well as restore the bloc’s foreign policy standing around the world, EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told a German newspaper on Sunday.Arguing that NATO was not enough because not all members of the transatlantic defense alliance are in the EU,...
Report: two charged with Nemtsov killing include Chechen officer
Moscow authorities have charged two men with involvement in the murder of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov, one of whom served in a police unit in the Russian region of Chechnya according to a law enforcement official. A total of five men were frogmarched into a Moscow courtroom on Sunday, forced by masked security officers gripping their bound arms...
Ukraine’s Mariupol still on edge as fighting wanes
Mariupol, Ukraine – Glowing red sparks burst and skitter across the concrete floor around a giant furnace as men at Ilyich Iron & Steel Works monitor the rolling of glowing slabs. The works are cavernous, so big it feels like a skyscraper could be built here on its side. Here and there a surprisingly small number of steelworkers pass...
EU Ministers Discuss Ukraine Cease-fire
European Union foreign ministers met for a second day in the Latvian capital of Riga on Saturday, devoting most of their time to the … …read more Source:...
