Section: Gulf News (United Arab Emirates)
Italy seizes air-to-air missile, guns in raids on neo-Nazis
Italian police have seized a large arsenal of weapons, including an air-to-air missile, in raids on neo-Nazi sympathisers, they said on Monday. Elite police forces searched properties across northern Italy following an investigation into Italians who had fought alongside Russian-backed separatist forces in eastern Ukraine, a police statement...
Ukraine investigates grenade attack on Kiev TV station
Ukrainian authorities said on Saturday they were investigating an attack on a Kiev television station owned by an opposition election candidate, which caused damage but injured no one. An unknown assailant fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the 112 TV channel building in western Kiev at 0340 a.m. (0040 GMT), police said in a statement, adding...
Halep between Serena and record Slam haul
Simona Halep is the last woman standing between Serena Williams and achieving her long held ambition of equalling Margaret Court’s Grand Slam title record after both recorded easy victories in their Wimbledon semi-finals yesterday.Seven-time champion Williams made short work of plucky unseeded Czech Barbora Strycova, whose experience of her...
Merkel has third bout of shaking, says she is fine and ‘working through’ issue
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was “working through” a bout of shaking that first occurred in mid-June and struck for the third time yesterday, though she insisted she was fine and that “just as it happened one day, so it will disappear”. Earlier, Merkel shook back and forth as she stood outside and looked uncomfortable while watching a...
Visa Application Centre for visas to Ukraine opens in Qatar
* Managed and operated by VFS Global, the centre is accepting visa application submissions from residents and citizens of Qatar since July 1 Citizens and expatriate residents of Qatar can apply for visas to Ukraine at a new visa application centre jointly launched by the embassy of Ukraine in Qatar and VFS Global, a leading outsourcing and...
Serena battles through, Halep storms back to reach semis
Seven-time champion Serena Williams is just two wins away from equalling Margaret Court’s Grand Slam titles record of 24 but she wobbled several times in her Wimbledon quarter-final against Alison Riske yesterday.The 37-year-old, who recorded her 97th success at Wimbledon to move second on the women’s all-time list, came under...
Ukraine’s Zelenskiy offers to meet Putin for talks
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has offered to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for their first talks, calling for Western leaders to mediate. “Now I want to address the Russian President Vladimir Putin. We need to talk? We do. Let’s do it,” Zelenskiy said in a video address. The former comic actor who was elected...
Fallout runs deep as Salah, Egypt flop at Cup of Nations
After his tale of redemption with Liverpool this season, Mohamed Salah was instead left in disbelief once more as Egypt crashed out of their own Africa Cup of Nations, an exit that triggered an immediate clearout within the country’s football association.While Salah helped lead his club to a sixth European Cup triumph in June, a year on...
Djokovic into last 16 as Gauff extends magical run
Defending champion Novak Djokovic went level with Boris Becker’s mark of 12 appearances in the Wimbledon fourth round yesterday as 15-year-old sensation Cori Gauff saved two match points to continue her magical debut at the All England Club.Teen sensation Gauff showed remarkable resilience in saving two match points to reach the fourth...
Iran threatens British shipping in retaliation for tanker seizure
* Gibraltar says crew being interviewed as witnesses* Incident draws Britain into US-Iranian standoff* Iran acknowledges cargo is Iranian oilAn Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander threatened on Friday to seize a British ship in retaliation for the capture of an Iranian supertanker in Gibraltar by Royal Marines.”If Britain does not...
