Section: Gulf News (United Arab Emirates)
Heavy artillery and tank fire returns to the front lines in Ukraine
Five soldiers killed and 16 wounded during daylong battle marked by thousands of explosions …read more Source: Gulf...
Ukraine takes over its largest bank; president urges calm
Ukraine took over its largest bank yesterday in a move backed by Kiev’s international donors to protect the country’s financial system and accompanied by an appeal from President Petro Poroshenko for calm and assurances to depositors. In one of the biggest shake-ups of the war-torn country’s banking system since Ukraine plunged...
EM currencies gain ground against dollar; stocks drop
Emerging market currencies gained ground against a weaker dollar while stocks hit a two-week low, still feeling the impact of last week’s Federal Reserve meeting. Ukrainian dollar-bonds soared after the country moved to privatise its biggest lender. MSCI’s emerging market index weakened 0.3% in its fourth straight day in the red with...
Ukraine’s renowned ex-prisoner Savchenko booted out
The Ukraine conflict’s most renowned prisoner, pilot Nadiya Savchenko, has been kicked out of her political party, state news agency Ukrinform reported on Friday. Savchenko was released from Russian custody earlier this year and went on to serve as a lawmaker in the Ukrainian parliament. The Fatherland Party, controlled by former prime...
Leipzig knock down Bayern from the top with Hertha triumph
Goals either side of the break by striker Timo Werner and burly centre-back and captain Willi Orban seal Leipzig’s win and put them back on track after last Saturday’s shock 1-0 defeat at Ingolstadt which ended their 13-match unbeaten run RB Leipzig knocked Bayern Munich, who they meet in five days’ time, off the top of the...
US must recognise Russia as a direct threat to global order
Allegations that the Russian government tried to influence America’s election are extraordinarily serious – “the political equivalent to 9/11,” according to Michael Morell, the former acting director of the CIA. The coming congressional investigation should be bipartisan and bicameral, and should focus not just on the election allegations...
No big breakthrough in Japan-Russia isles row
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin wrapped up two days of talks, with numerous economic deals but no big breakthrough on a territorial row that has overshadowed ties since World War II.Putin was heading home with promises of economic co-operation after appearing to achieve what experts said was a key objective...
Abe, Putin end summit, but no breakthrough on isles
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin wrapped up two days of talks on Thursday, with numerous economic deals but no big breakthrough on a territorial row that has overshadowed ties since World War Two. Putin was due to head home with promises of economic cooperation after appearing to achieve what experts said...
Japan, Russia ‘may revive’ security talks after summit
Japan and Russia will likely revive security talks and keep discussing a territorial row that has kept them from signing a peace treaty formally ending World War II, Russia’s foreign minister said yesterday, as the countries’ leaders met.Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks at a hot spring...
The Manchurian cabinet
US president-elect Donald Trump seems determined to revive a forgotten Hollywood genre: the paranoid melodrama. Perhaps the greatest film in this genre, The Manchurian Candidate, concerns a communist plot to use the brainwashed son of a leading right-wing family to upend the American political system. Given the fondness that Trump and so many of...
