Section: Oman
Obama pushes for calm in angry Russia-Turkey row
Obama also offered the prospect of rolling back sanctions if Russia fully implemented Minsk peace accords signed in February over the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source: Muscat...
Putin to be notable absence from Ukraine crisis talks in Berlin
Ukrainian insurgency leaders have also dismissed the Berlin gathering as meaningless because it fails to include Putin. …read more Source: Muscat...
Ukraine rebels withdraw from key frontline village
Pro-Russian fighters have withdrawn from a strategic frontline village, Ukraine’s military reported on Friday. …read more Source: Muscat...
Russia slams EU sanctions renewal as pointless ‘blackmail’
The measures will last until June 2016, the 28-nation bloc decided, condemning the “illegal annexation” of the Black Sea peninsula. …read more Source: Muscat...
Fuel depot blazes in Ukraine, three firemen missing
The fire burned overnight and by morning had spread to at least 16 tanks, most of them storing petro …read more Source: Times of...
G7 summit opens with tough line on Ukraine
The leaders of Germany and the United States hammered home a tough line on Russia on Sunday at the start of a G7 summit dominated by crises in Ukraine and Greece. …read more Source: Muscat...
UN urges ceasefire in Ukraine as fighting flares
The latest flareup in east Ukraine has left at least 28 dead and sparked fears that the escalation will derail the hard-won ceasefire brokered by France and Germany four months ago. …read more Source: Times of...
Russia slams EU ‘witch hunt’ against its diplomats
The move came in retaliation for a travel ban imposed by Moscow on 89 Europeans over the Ukraine crisis which Russia bills as its answer to EU sanctions. …read more Source: Muscat...
Russian missile maker says BUK rocket downed MH17
Ukraine and the West have accused pro-Moscow rebels of shooting down the plane with a BUK missile supplied by Russia. …read more Source: Muscat...
German woman, 65 and mother of 13, has quadruplets
A 65-year-old German woman, who is already has 13 children, has given birth to quadruplets after undergoing an artificial insemination procedure in Ukraine, RTL television reported early on Saturday …read more Source: Times of...
