Section: United Arab Emirates
Four killed, 10 hospitalized in forest fires in eastern Ukraine
Four people died and ten were hospitalized as a series of forest fires swept a large area in the eastern Ukrainian Luhansk region, Ukraine’s emergency service said on Thursday.For all the latest headlines, follow our :UAE set to amend law granting citizenship to expats with certain criteria: ReportToll rises to 16 as more bodies found from...
Kremlin keenly following US presidential campaign, will not make statements
Russia, like many other nations in the world, is closely following US presidential campaign as the United States is one of the world’s top economies, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a daily conference call on Wednesday.“But we do not want to make any statements as this could be viewed as an attempt to intervene (into...
Macron urges Europe to seek a dialogue with Russia to enhance security
French President Emmanuel Macron urged Europe to seek a dialogue with Russia to enhance the continent’s security rather than relying primarily on the NATO military alliance.Speaking on Wednesday in a news conference in Riga, the capital of the Baltic nation of Latvia, Macron said Europeans should be able to rethink their relation with...
World must adapt to new challenges, says al-Marri
HE the Secretary-General and Acting Chairman of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI), Dr Ali bin Smaikh al-Marri, has called for rethinking governance and how to build more participatory and inclusive societies.He was speaking at a virtual high-level panel discussion on the sidelines of the 75th session of the United...
Ukraine leader praises crash survivor as toll climbs to 26
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday praised the only survivor of a military plane crash as the death toll climbed to 26, after another cadet died and three more bodies were found. Zelensky went to the scene of the tragedy near the eastern city of Kharkiv where an Antonov An-26 transport plane carrying 20 cadets and seven officers...
Ukraine’s president orders prompt investigation of military plane crash
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday the causes of a military plane crash which killed 26 people would be investigated promptly and impartially.A military transport plane carrying air force cadets :Downed Ukraine plane victims’ families reject Iran’s black box reportFamilies of MH17 Ukraine plane crash victims want...
Cadets among 22 killed in Ukraine military plane crash
At least two people injured and taken to hospital in a serious condition, and the search continues for others. …read more Source:: Khaleej...
Military plane crashes in Ukraine, killing 22
A Ukrainian military plane carrying aviation school students crashed and burst into flames Friday while landing, killing 22 people, the country’s emergencies service said.Two other people on board were seriously injured and four people were missing. The An-26 crashed while landing at the airport in Chuhuiv, about 400 kilometers east of the...
Iran’s Zarif: World should oppose US sanctions or except to face their own sanctions
The world community should oppose the United States’ use of sanctions to impose its will as a “bully,” or expect to face sanctions itself, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Saturday.US President Donald Trump plans to issue an executive order allowing him to impose US sanctions on anyone who violates a...
Senior Iranian commander blames US for downing of Ukrainian plane
A senior Iranian military commander said Friday that he believed the US was behind the downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane over Tehran in January.“My guess is that it was an electronic war waged by America,” Brig. Gen. Abdolali Poorshaseb, a deputy commander of Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, alleged. The headquarters is Iran’s...
