Section: 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...
Pope prays for an end to ‘vile’ attacks in Syria in his Easter address
VATICAN CITY // On the holiest day in Christendom, Pope Francis lamented the horrors generated by war and hatred, delivering an Easter Sunday message that also decried the “latest vile” attack on civilians in Syria.In his balcony address, Francis prayed that God would sustain those working to comfort and help the civilian population...
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 blasts Eurovision for dropping Russia
MOSCOW: Moscow on Friday 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 on Thursday it would not broadcast the event, after rejecting proposals for contestant Yulia Samoilova to take part via video link or be...
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...
Ukraine marks three years of separatist war
Kiev: A bloodied Ukraine marks three years on Thursday since it launched a campaign against Russian-backed eastern separatists that now looks like an interminable conflict whose terms are dictated by the Kremlin. More than 10,000 people have died in Europe’s only war zone in that time – a figure unimaginable when Kiev was riding the...
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...
