Section: Oman
220,000 children threatened by mines in Ukraine’s east: UN
The agency warned that the explosive weapons also put at risk vital infrastructure such as water, electricity and gas facilities. …read more Source: Muscat...
220,000 children threatened by mines in Ukraine’s east: UN
The agency warned that the explosive weapons also put at risk vital infrastructure such as water, electricity and gas facilities. …read more Source: Muscat...
Putin assassination plot suspect wounded, wife killed in Ukraine
The apparent assassination was the latest involving high-profile figures in Ukraine who bitterly opposed Russia. …read more Source: Muscat...
EU ready to retaliate if needed to US-Russia sanctions
The EU and US imposed the sanctions in the wake of Russia’s annexation of Crimea in March 2014 as the Ukraine crisis deepened after the ouster of a pro-Moscow government. …read more Source: Muscat...
US vacates Russia compounds targeted over sanctions
Tensions between Russia and the US have soared to their highest point since Moscow seized the Crimea peninsula from Ukraine in 2014. …read more Source: Muscat...
Ukraine’s first wheelchair model breaks taboos
When Alexandra Kutas headlined a recent fashion show in Kiev it was not just a personal dream come true but also a victory for disabled people in her homeland Ukraine. …read more Source: Muscat...
Russia’s envoy to United Nations Vitaly Churkin dead at 64
Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, who for years fended off Western criticism and defended Moscow’s actions in Ukraine and Syria, died on Monday in New York. He was 64. …read more Source: Muscat...
New Ukraine truce due to come into force Monday
A truce between government forces and pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine will come into force Monday, Moscow and Kiev said, though some separatists were already labelling it unfeasible. …read more Source: Muscat...
Dutch police seizes MH17 debris from reporter
Dutch police has seized from a journalist, several items that he found at the crash site of flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine, including possible human remains, prosecutors said on Sunday. …read more Source: Muscat...
Safety pins: a pointed show of solidarity after Trump election
People have long used ribbons, flowers, colors or badges to symbolize political causes, from the carnations of Portugal’s 1974 revolution to the orange ribbons of Ukraine’s 2004 revolution to the gel wristbands now worn to promote almost any charity. …read more Source: Muscat...
