Section: United Arab Emirates
Rouble to feel extra pressure as central bank returns to market
Russia will resume buying dollars next week for the first time since a brief burst in 2015, but sources told Reuters the purchases will go ahead only after a reluctant central bank won assurances it could distance itself from the operations. People involved in discussions of the planned purchases said the bank had feared investors would regard...
Is martial law just a matter of time?
President Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte won the presidency hands down by 39% plurality and 16.6 million votes. His closest rival, Mar Roxas, got 23.4%, which is only 9.9 million votes. Not only did Duterte win the presidency, he also took control of the House of Representatives when a vast majority of congressmen from other parties – there were only...
Ukraine’s president appeals for help against Russia
Avdiivka: Ukraine’s president appealed for more global pressure against Russia on Thursday as Moscow-backed rebels and government forces clashed around a frontline town for a fifth day in a surge of fighting that has claimed a reported 21 lives. The sworn foes have been exchanging mortar and rocket fire around the flashpoint eastern town of...
Ukraine clashes flare for fifth day despite global concern
Ukraine’s military began distributing food on Thursday to crowds of local residents in a frontline town battered by five days of violence that has sparked global condemnation and concern. Government forces and Russian-backed separatists have been exchanging mortar and rocket fire around the flashpoint eastern town of Avdiivka that sits just...
Russia stripped of London relay silver for doping
Russia’s 4x400m women’s relay team was stripped of its London 2012 silver medal yesterday after the IOC named one of its athletes as a doping cheat. Using new technology the International Olympic Committee is retesting hundreds of stored samples from the 2012 and Beijing 2008 Games as part of its drive to clean up the drug-tainted...
Ukraine fighting claims more lives
AVDIIVKA: Fighting between government troops and Russia-backed separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine escalated on Tuesday, killing at least eight people overnight, injuring dozens and briefly trapping more than 200 coalminers underground, the warring sides reported. The European Union (EU) said on Tuesday that an upsurge in fighting between...
EU’s Tusk warns of Trump govt ‘threat’
EU chief Donald Tusk warned yesterday that US President Donald Trump’s administration was a “threat” facing the bloc, along with China, Russia, and radical Islam.In a strongly-worded letter to EU leaders ahead of a summit in Malta, Tusk said the bloc must take “spectacular steps” to stay together and should take advantage of Trump’s...
Ukraine, Russia trade blame over surge in fighting
Ukraine and Russia blamed each other yesterday for a surge in fighting in eastern Ukraine in recent days that has led to the highest casualty toll in weeks and cut off power and water to thousands of civilians on the front line.The Ukrainian military and Russian-backed separatists accuse each other of launching offensives in the government-held...
Clashes in Ukraine flashpoint town rage for third day
Fighting has claimed the lives of at least 13 civilians and fighters on both sides since Sunday …read more Source: Gulf...
Ukraine fighting claims six more lives, toll hits 11
Ukraine: A surge in clashes between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed rebels despite a supposed truce left at least six people dead on Monday in Ukraine’s war-scarred east. The overall death toll for the past two days rose to 11 after the bloodiest outburst of violence since Ukraine and its foes agreed an “indefinite” ceasefire in...
