Section: Gulf News (United Arab Emirates)
Iran to analyse black box after missile blamed for crash
* Iran says probe may take one or two years * Ukraine says missile strike not confirmed * Plane crashed after Iranian strikes on US targets * Iran denies missile brought down aircraftIran said on Friday it wanted to download black box recordings itself from a Ukrainian airliner that crashed, killing all 176 people aboard, after Canada and others...
Russian natural gas flows to Europe bear the brunt of LNG boom
The unprecedented wave of liquefied natural gas hitting Europe has the region’s dominant pipeline supplier of the fuel taking evasive action like never before.Gazprom PJSC has this year dramatically curbed supplies to the region as prices linger near their lowest in a decade on a seasonal basis. Brimming gas stores, no sign of a cold snap...
Iran not to give crashed Ukrainian airliner’s black box to Boeing
Iran will not give the black box of the crashed Ukrainian airliner to planemaker Boeing, the head of Tehran’s civil aviation organisation was quoted as saying on Wednesday.Ali Abedzadeh also said it was not clear which country Iran would send the box to so that its data could be analysed, semi-official Mehr news agency reported.A Ukraine...
Bridal party, academics among Canadian plane crash victims in Iran
A newlywed couple that had traveled to Iran to get married were among the 63 Canadians killed when their Ukrainian Airlines flight crashed early Wednesday, according to a community leader in the western Canadian city where 30 victims came from. All 176 people on board the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737 were killed when the plane...
Russia gas flows to Europe drop as new Ukraine deal takes over
Russian natural gas flows to Europe via the crucial transit point at Velke in Slovakia dropped to near zero as demand remained muted and a new transit deal potentially curbed shipments.Flows via Ukraine fell last Wednesday after the two former Soviet allies late on Monday agreed on a last-minute deal to keep sending the fuel to Gazprom...
Senate returns, no deal yet on Trump impeachment trial
The US Senate’s top Republican yesterday swatted aside Democratic demands related to the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, as the warring sides failed to agree on a start date for the historic action.Resuming work after a holiday break with no signs of a crack in the stalemate, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell assailed...
Putin’s pipelines to power
Over the last year, predictions of serious struggles for Russian President Vladimir Putin – or even his political demise – have been increasingly frequent. A recent article in The Economist, “An awful week for Vladimir Putin,” is just one example. But it is Putin biographer and New York Times correspondent Steven Lee Myers whose assessment rings...
US Secretary of State Pompeo postpones Ukraine trip to focus on Iraq
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday postponed a trip to Ukraine so he could focus on the situation in Iraq after demonstrators attacked the US embassy. Supporters of Iranian-backed Iraqi paramilitary groups stormed the US embassy’s perimeter and hurled rocks in two days of protests. They withdrew on Wednesday after Washington...
Ukraine completes all-for-all prisoner swap with pro-Russian separatists
* Swap initiated by Russian, Ukrainian leaders * Fighting erupted in eastern Ukraine in 2014 * Exchange gives fragile hope for resolution of conflict * But serious differences between Moscow and Kiev remain Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine completed a full prisoner swap on Sunday after bussing remaining...
Russia raids anti-graft offices of Kremlin critic Navalny
Russian security officials searched yesterday the offices of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s anti-corruption foundation, with his team calling the raid a new bid to disrupt their work.“What’s happening is part of the co-ordinated campaign against the anti-corruption foundation,” Navalny, 43, told reporters, adding however that...
