Section: AL JAZEERA (Qatar)
Is Russia really a threat to the Baltic states?
Since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, relations between NATO and Russia appear to have reached an all-time low. …read more Source: AL...
Inside Ukraine’s ‘amber mafia’
Amber trade booms in northwestern Ukraine, but a shadowy criminal network largely benefits over thousands of miners. …read more Source: AL...
Ukraine detains Frenchman over ‘Euro 2016 attack plot’
Authorities say the unnamed man was planning to carry out 15 attacks during the European football tournament in France. …read more Source: AL...
Deadly fire rips through Ukrainian home for elderly
At least 17 killed after blaze tears through makeshift shelter for the elderly in capital Kiev, emergency officials say. …read more Source: AL...
Nadezhda Savchenko calls on Russians to defy regime
Nadezhda Savchenko, jailed over deaths of two Russian journalists, returns to Ukraine after prisoner swap. …read more Source: AL...
For Crimean Tatars, it is about much more than 1944
As Crimean Tatars mark the anniversary of their mass deportation, they also remember Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea. …read more Source: AL...
Who owns Ukraine’s media?
There is a war being waged in Ukraine and it is playing out on television sets and in the minds of viewers. …read more Source: AL...
Ukraine’s Jamala wins Eurovision contest with 1944
Song by Jamala about strangers coming to “kill you all” seen as allusion Stalin’s deportation of Tartars from Crimea. …read more Source: AL...
Ukraine crisis: Troops killed in east despite truce
Clashes leave two soldiers dead and four wounded, just hours after truce approved by both sides in Minsk takes effect. …read more Source: AL...
Week in pictures: From India’s drought to Syria carnage
Nepal marked the anniversary of the devastating quake while Ukraine remembered victims of 1986 Chernobyl disaster. …read more Source: AL...
