Section: Gulf News (United Arab Emirates)
Scorning talk of peace, Ukraine fighters battle on
The Minsk II accord of February 2015 was meant to halt fighting between Kiev and the Kremlin-backed insurgents through a complex road map to peace …read more Source: Gulf...
Trump to attend Nato summit in unfinished HQ
Nato will host a summit of leaders including US President Donald Trump in May at its new Brussels headquarters, even though it will not be ready by then, sources said on Thursday. Security and IT systems at the $1.2bn headquarters in the Belgian capital are behind schedule and so the transatlantic military alliance will only properly move in come...
Putin meets Volkswagen CEO, offers help in Russia
President Vladimir Putin met Volkswagen Chief Executive Matthias Mueller in Moscow on Wednesday and said he was ready to help the German car giant develop its business in Russia at a time of sliding sales and weak demand. Putin said he understood the challenges the car maker faced in Russia, where the country’s once-booming auto market has...
Netanyahu seeks Britain sanctions against Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged “responsible nations” to join new sanctions against Iran yesterday during a visit to London, but Britain defended a nuclear deal sealed between major powers and Tehran. Ahead of his talks with British Prime Minister Theresa May, Netanyahu said other nations should follow new US President Donald...
Trump respects ‘killer’ Putin
President Donald Trump has rebuffed calls for a tougher stance on Russia, playing down political assassinations inside the country and Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.Trump – now two weeks into his four-year term – showed no signs of yielding to demands from within his own Republican Party to distance himself from President Vladimir Putin.“I...
Poll gap closes between Merkel’s conservatives, Social Democrats
The lead in voter support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative alliance over the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) shrank to a multi-year low of four percentage points, an opinion poll showed yesterday.The SPD, which a week ago appointed Martin Schulz as leader, scored 29% in the survey published in newspaper Bild am Sonntag...
Serbs demolish wall in Kosovo’s divided city
Local Serbs in Kosovo used bulldozers yesterday to demolish a wall they built in the ethnically-divided city of Mitrovica, following weeks of tension over the issue between Kosovo and Serbia.The Serbs, who do not recognise Kosovo as a state, started constructing the wall in December, saying that it was to protect against a landslip, but the...
Calm returns to flashpoint Ukraine town as Trump pledges to help
Ukrainian military said in the morning that no soldiers had been killed in the past 24 hours for the first time since fighting over the blue-collar town of Avdiivka soared last week …read more Source: Gulf...
Bloodied Ukrainian town waits for guns to fall silent
Fighting that began on Sunday claimed to have killed 35 people in the eastern war zone …read more Source: Gulf...
Nine more killed in Ukraine fighting
Clashes between Ukrainian forces and Moscow-backed rebels left two more dead in a flashpoint town yesterday and seven others elsewhere in bloodshed that has prompted the US to condemn Russia’s “aggressive” stance.The latest reports from both sides take the death toll in fighting since Sunday in the eastern war zone to 34 – a level not seen...
