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Egypt suspends tourism promotional campaign due to Russian plane incident
The Ministry of Tourism has suspended Egypt’s promotional campaign indefinitely in six major countries that export tourists to the country, until investigations into the Russian plane crash incident are completed. Sources at the ministry said Russia, Germany, Italy, Poland, Ukraine, and France, are the countries that export the most...
Police raids Crimean Tatar TV channel, journalist homes
Raids target those linked to Crimean Tatar businessman, public figure Lenur Islyamov, who recently organized economic blockade of Russia-occupied Crimea …read more Source: World...
Russian police raids Crimean Tatar TV channel, journalist homes
Persons targeted by raids are employees at enterprises of Crimean Tatar businessman, public figure Lenur Islyamov, who recently organized economic blockade of Russia-occupied Crimean peninsula …read more Source: World...
Russian police raids Crimea Tatar TV channel, journalist homes
Russian police searched the offices of a Tatar TV channel in Crimea early Monday as well as homes of its employees, its deputy director told AFP, the latest raid against the once popular network which was forced to go off air in April …read more Source: The Daily...
Flight recorders show crashed Russian jet not struck from outside – investigator (Update 1)
By Lin Noueihed The Russian plane that crashed in Egypt was not struck from the outside and the pilot did not make a distress call before it disappeared from radar, a source in the committee analysing the flight recorders said on Monday. The source declined to give more details but based his comments on the preliminary examination of the black...
Bodies of Egypt crash victims arrive in Russia
SAINT PETERSBURG // A plane carrying the remains of 144 people killed when a Russian airliner crashed in Egypt landed in Saint Petersburg early on Monday, hours after investigators probing the doomed flight said it had broken up in the air.The emergency Russian plane, the first to bring back the bodies of those who died when the A-321 plummeted...
Police raids homes of major Crimean Tatar figures
Persons targeted by raids are employees at enterprises of Crimean Tatar businessman, public figure Lenur Islyamov, who recently organized economic blockade of Russia-occupied Crimean peninsula …read more Source: World...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko: Arrest of oligarch ally just ‘the start’
Guennadi Korban, 45, a businessman and right-hand man of billionaire Igor Kolomoyski, was arrested Saturday as part of a probe into organised crime and corruption …read more Source: World...
UAE carriers re-route flights over Egypt’s Sinai
CAIRO/MOSCOW — Russia has grounded Airbus A321 jets flown by the Kogalymavia airline, Interfax news agency reported on Sunday, after one of its fleet crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board. The A321, operated by the Russian airline under the brand name Metrojet, was carrying holidaymakers from the Red Sea resort...
‘Exchanges of fire’ at east Ukraine airport flashpoint
Donetsk airport was for several months scene of fierce fighting between Ukraine army and pro-Moscow… …read more Source:...
