Section: Gulf News (United Arab Emirates)
Seventeen Chinese, Ukrainian seamen kidnapped off Cameroon
Nine Chinese and eight Ukrainian seamen were abducted in attacks on two merchant ships off Cameroon, in the latest act of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, sources said Friday. The attacks took place on Thursday in Cameroonian waters off the port of Douala, located at the apex of a gulf that has become a hotspot of seaborne crime. A Douala official...
Russians hail ‘hero’ pilot after emergency landing
A Russian pilot was hailed as a hero yesterday for safely landing an Airbus carrying more than 230 people in a Moscow corn field after a bird strike.The Ural Airlines A321 flying to Crimea hit a flock of seagulls shortly after take-off from Moscow’s Zhukovsky airport early yesterday, the Rosaviatsia air transport agency said in a...
Halep survives scare, Barty beats Sharapova
Top seeded Ashleigh Barty overcame a slow start to defeat Maria Sharapova 6-4, 6-1, while Simona Halep battled past Ekaterina Alexandrova 3-6, 7-5, 6-4 in the second round of the Cincinnati Masters on Wednesday.French Open champion Barty double faulted to give Sharapova a 2-1 lead in the first set and it looked like an upset could be brewing in...
Russian pilots land plane in cornfield, earn Kremlin praise
* Plane hits flock of birds during take-off * Pilots land plane in cornfield outside Moscow * Russians hail miracle after nobody killed * Kremlin promises state awards for pilots Two Russian pilots safely landed an airliner carrying 233 people in a cornfield outside Moscow after striking a flock of birds, prompting the Kremlin to hail them as...
Ajax, Red Star through as Celtic and Porto crash out
Former European Cup winners had mixed fortunes in Champions League qualifying as Ajax Amsterdam and Red Star Belgrade squeezed into the playoff round while Celtic and Porto were eliminated after a dramatic evening on Tuesday.Ajax, semi-finalists last season, came from behind to beat PAOK 3-2 for a 5-4 aggregate win while Red Star knocked out FC...
Thousands defy crackdown to rally in Moscow
Tens of thousands of Russians staged yesterday what a monitoring group called the country’s biggest political protest for eight years, defying a crackdown to demand free elections to Moscow’s city legislature.Police rounded up scores of people after the demonstration in Moscow and at another rally in Saint Petersburg, and detained a...
Serena powers past No 1-bound Osaka, Halep retires hurt
Serena Williams won the rematch on Friday, dominating Naomi Osaka 6-3, 6-4 to ensure the Japanese star won’t leave Toronto with a title to go with her number one world ranking.Williams fired 12 aces and didn’t face a break point as she beat Osaka for the first time in three games— avenging her shock loss in last year’s...
Serena storms into third round in Toronto
Serena Williams made a solid start to her first US Open tune-up with a 6-3 6-3 victory over Elise Mertens on Wednesday while Naomi Osaka took a step closer to regaining her world No 1 ranking by reaching the last 16 of the Rogers Cup.Three-times champion Williams, playing her first match since falling to Simona Halep in the Wimbledon final,...
Ukrainian president says asked Putin to curb separatists
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday said he had asked his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to put pressure on separatist fighters in the east, after four Ukrainian soldiers were killed in a grenade attack. “I called him urgently. I told him that this brings us no closer to peace,” Zelensky said during a briefing,...
Four soldiers killed in eastern Ukraine grenade attack
Four Ukrainian soldiers were killed in a grenade attack in the war-torn east of the country on Tuesday, Kiev said, the highest daily casualty toll over the past two weeks. The troops died in a rocket-propelled grenade attack near the village of Pavlopil close to the Kiev-controlled port city of Mariupol, said Oleksandr Danylyuk, secretary of the...
