Section: United Arab Emirates
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 says he respects ‘killer’ Putin
PALM BEACH: 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...
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...
Top Ukrainian rebel official killed in car bomb
KIEV: The top military official of a self-proclaimed separatist republic in eastern Ukraine was killed by car bomb on Saturday, the latest victim of a string of similar attacks, local media reported. Oleg Anashchenko, head of the military department of the Lugansk People’s Republic, died in a car explosion, the pro-Russian rebels’...
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...
More lives lost in Ukraine as US presses Russia
AVDIIVKA: Clashes between Ukrainian forces and Moscow-backed rebels left two more dead in a flashpoint town on Friday and five 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 32 — a...
