Section: United Arab Emirates
Ukraine accuses Russia of plotting unrest amid Crimea tensions
Ukraine on Friday accused Russia of planning to stoke further unrest as the international community sought to ease tensions …read more Source: Al...
Ukraine troops put on ‘high alert’
KIEV: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko put his troops on the border with Russian-held Crimea and in the country’s eastern regions on “high alert” after he warned that Vladimir Putin is seeking to reignite conflict in the disputed territories. The command came a day after the Russian president said Ukrainian agents had engaged in...
1.5 million Captagon amphetamine tablets seized in Kuwait
Kuwaiti authorities: drugs concealed inside hardwood charcoal sacks shipped from Ukraine …read more Source: Gulf...
Drug smuggling bid foiled at Kuwait-Saudi border
The pills were concealed in bags of charcoal coming from Ukraine …read more Source: Al...
Putin accuses Ukraine of ‘terror’ over alleged Crimea raids
Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday accused Ukraine of waging “terror” over alleged attempted incursions into annexed Crimea that Kiev has fiercely denied. Russia’s security agency announced it had thwarted “terrorist attacks” in Crimea by Ukrainian military intelligence and beaten back an armed assault, claims that have...
Book review: Daniel Beer’s The House of the Dead tells a history of Siberian exile
The news is all too familiar. A small country on the edge of Europe revolts against Russian authoritarianism, its young, pro-western leaders quickly becoming the toast of liberal cocktail parties from London to New York. The British press calls for military intervention to shore up the rebels: “How long will Russia be permitted”,...
Back in Ukraine, freed pilot launches new hunger strike
Kiev: A Ukrainian pilot released from a Russian jail in May launched a fresh hunger strike on Tuesday in protest over Kiev’s failure to secure the return of other prisoners of war in the separatist east. A Russian court sentenced the 35-year-old army helicopter navigator Nadiya Savchenko to 22 years in prison in March over the 2014 killing...
Egypt’s GASC gets offers from nine firms in wheat tender – trade
The lowest offer was at $167.60 a tonne, free-on-board, for 55,000 tonnes of Ukrainian wheat. …read more Source:...
Journalist killed in Kiev car bombing buried in Belarus
Minsk: Thousands of mourners in Belarus on Saturday bid farewell to prominent independent journalist Pavel Sheremet, killed by a car bomb in Kiev, as he was buried back in the homeland where he clashed with the authorities. Sheremet — who was born in Minsk but took Russian citizenship — was blown up while driving near his home in the heart of the...
Top independent reporter dies in Kiev car bomb
Kiev: A car bomb in Kiev on Wednesday killed a pro-Western reporter from a news site whose founder was beheaded 16 years ago after probing the alleged crimes of Ukrainian leaders. The killing of 44-year-old Pavel Sheremet — a Russian national born in Belarus — added a new degree of uncertainty and fear to a country struggling with a pro-Moscow...
