Section: Lebanon
Russia Says Yet to Receive Response on Ukraine’s Planned Missile Launches near Crimea
Russia said on Tuesday it has not yet received a response from Kiev on the Ukrainian military’s plan to fire missiles in airspace above Crimean territorial waters in the Black Sea this week. “So far we did not receive official statements, but there is still time,” Russian Minister of Transport Maxim Sokolov told reporters. The missile...
Leading Merkel ally urges sanctions against Russia over Syria
The head of Germany’s foreign affairs committee, an ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, called Monday for Berlin to impose sanctions on Russia because of its supporting role in the war in Syria. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine’s Yanukovich blames radicals for bloodshed at Maidan protests
Ukraine’s former president Viktor Yanukovich Monday blamed armed nationalist radicals for fomenting violence in the 2014 Maidan protests that led to scores of protesters being killed and ultimately prompted him to flee into exile. …read more Source: The Daily...
Norway resumes high-level trade talks with Russia after two-year break
Norway has resumed high-level talks with Russia on trade and economic cooperation that were broken off after Moscow annexed Crimea in 2014, the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries said in a statement Monday. …read more Source: The Daily...
Saakashvili urges Ukrainians to rise up against government
Some 2,000 people gathered in central Kiev on Sunday to support a call by ex-regional governor Mikheil Saakashvili – also a former president of Georgia – to rise up against the Ukrainian government. …read more Source: The Daily...
Czech aid group says evicted from eastern Ukraine’s Doneck by separatists
Czech humanitarian organization Clovek v Tisni (People in Need, PIN) has been banned from the Doneck area in eastern Ukraine by separatist authorities, the aid group said in a statement. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine’s missile test plans near Crimea heat up row with Russia
Moscow protested against Ukraine’s plans to carry out missile tests near Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014 following the toppling of a pro-Russian Ukrainian president, raising the temperature in the dispute between the two countries. …read more Source: The Daily...
Spain issues arrest warrant for Ukraine oligarch
Spanish police have announced an international arrest warrant against a powerful Ukrainian oligarch, identified by media Friday as controversial gas magnate Dmytro Firtash. …read more Source: The Daily...
France’s Fillon, Buoyed by Debate, Heads for Finish Line
Conservative French presidential frontrunner Francois Fillon holds a final rally in Paris Friday as he seeks to clinch the nomination for the centre-right Republicans in a primary vote this weekend. Fillon, whose surge has taken commentators and pollsters by surprise, gave an assured performance in a televised debate on Thursday night against his...
Russia detains former Navy official in Crimea for spying for Ukraine – Interfax
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained a former Russian navy official in Crimea who is accused of spying for the Ukrainian military, Interfax news agency cited the FSB as saying on Thursday. …read more Source: The Daily...
