Section: Gulf News (United Arab Emirates)
Cargo ship with 12 crew sinks in Black Sea
A cargo vessel with 12 crew members aboard sank on Wednesday morning off Russia’s Black Sea coast, authorities said as they searched for some of the seamen who are still missing. The cargo ship — which was transporting grain from Russia’s southern Rostov region to Turkey — went missing from radars in the Kerch Strait,...
Pope urges end to Syria ‘horror’ at Easter mass
Pope Francis urged yesterday an end to “horror and death” in Syria and implored God to bring peace to the Middle East as he delivered the traditional Easter Day mass in Rome.The Easter mass, the highlight of the Christian calendar began under a cloudy sky where worshippers had gathered since the early hours to gain access amid tight...
The second Year of Europe
More than four decades ago, US National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger declared 1973 to be “The Year of Europe.” His aim was to highlight the need to modernise the Atlantic relationship and, more specifically, the need for America’s European allies to do more with the United States in the Middle East and against the Soviet Union in...
Kremlin raps Eurovision for dropping Russia this year
Moscow has denounced the decision by Eurovision Song Contest organisers to drop Russia from this year’s contest, following a row with hosts Ukraine.Russia’s state-run Channel One said yesterday that it would not broadcast the event, after rejecting proposals for contestant Yulia Samoilova to take part via video link or be replaced,...
Trump steps into Putin’s Syrian backyard
Last week’s chemical attack on the rebel-held Syrian city of Khan Sheikhoun compelled US President Donald Trump to strike for the first time at Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.With the bombing of an air base in western Syria, the Trump administration stepped into a gaping power vacuum in the Middle East.But what, if...
Hopes fade for those trapped in Ukraine war
After three years of war, Irina and her husband Arkady have all but lost hope of ever seeing the day the big guns fall silent and Ukraine becomes whole again. The middle-aged couple live in the shelled-out northern outskirts of the Russian-backed separatist rebels’ de-facto capital city of Donetsk in the eastern industrial heartland of the...
Bloodied Ukraine marks three years of separatist war
More than 10,000 people have died in Europe’s only war zone in that time …read more Source: Gulf...
US, Russia still far apart as Syria haunts talks
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin hosted US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the Kremlin yesterday but the rival powers failed to bridge a deep gap of trust. In the wake of the meeting Russia then vetoed a US-backed resolution at the UN demanding the Syrian government co-operate with an investigation of a suspected chemical attack that...
Kharkiv joins network of Turkish Airlines
Turkish Airlines has added Kharkiv as its 297th destination, across 120 countries, with the inaugural flight taking place recently. By launching flights to Kharkiv, the carrier “demonstrated its efforts to further enhance its expansion strategy”, the airline said in a press statement. From March 30, Kharkiv flights are being operated four times a...
Populism at the barrel of a gun?
So far, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Polish Law and Justice (PiS) party Chairman Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s “illiberal” counterrevolution has meant cracking down on the independent judiciary, public media, and – in the case of Orban’s government – even private universities, such as Budapest’s Central European University....
