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Svitolina upsets Kerber to meet Wozniacki in final
DUBAI — Seventh seed Elina Svitolina of Ukraine bundled out top seed Angelique Kerber of Germany 6-3, 7-6 (7-3) Friday to set up a final with Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark at the Dubai Tennis Championships. Wozniacki, former world No. 1 and currently 15th, took just 90 minutes to beat her Latvian opponent Anastasija Sevastova 6-3, 6-4 and move...
Austria court orders release of Ukraine oligarch
An Austria judge Friday ordered the release of Dmytro Firtash, one of Ukraine’s richest men who was detained earlier this week over alleged links to organised crime in Spain …read more Source: The Daily...
Poland’s right-wing govt ousts top military generals
NATO has started deploying troops in Poland and the Baltic states following Moscow’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. …read more Source: World...
Egypt to import wheat from Russia, Ukraine
Egypt’s General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) has signed an agreement to import 360,000 tons of Russian and Ukrainian wheat, a statement by the Egyptian Ministry of Supply revealed on Thursday. The statement added that the move aimed to boost the country’s wheat stock allocated for subsidised bread production. The contracted...
Wozniacki storms into semis
DUBAI — Caroline Wozniacki reached her sixth career Dubai Tennis Championships semifinals when she defeated Catherine “Cici” Bellis 6-3, 6-2 Thursday. Wozniacki, who won the Dubai title in 2011, reached the Doha final last week. She’s played nine matches in the last nine days. Bellis, the youngest player in the draw at 17, scored the...
Ensuring Euro-Atlantic security
The chasm between Russia and the West appears to be wider now than at any point since the Cold War.But, despite stark differences, there are areas of existential common interest.As we did during the darkest days of the Cold War, Americans, Europeans, and Russians must work together to avoid catastrophe, including by preventing terrorist attacks...
Three deadly viruses that could spawn pandemic
Bird flu is back.Chinese authorities are closing live poultry markets as H7N9 courses through the country, infecting 192 and killing 79 in January alone.So far, this strain of avian flu appears to have been transmitted only through contact with live poultry, but there’s always a fear it will mutate and start passing between...
Kidnapped Ukrainian MP found unharmed, attackers detained: prosecutor
A Ukrainian lawmaker kidnapped in the southern city of Odessa earlier Thursday has been found unharmed and his attackers have been detained, the local prosecutor’s office said. …read more Source: The Daily...
Opec needs to prolong cuts to eliminate glut: Total CEO
Opec and Russia will need to prolong their six-month deal to cut oil output if they plan to trim the global inventory glut that has kept a lid on prices, said Total chief executive officer Patrick Pouyanne.“If they want really to have an impact on the market, which means to have the inventories going down because inventories are quite high, it...
OSCE head Lamberto Zannier discusses the Ukraine crisis
Secretary General Lamberto Zannier discusses the future of the Organization for Security Cooperation in Europe. …read more Source: AL...
