Section: United Arab Emirates
Ukraine army deaths soar in July
Kiev: Ukraine’s army suffered its deadliest month since August 2015 as international diplomacy fails to stem more than two years of fighting in the nation’s east. Seven soldiers were killed and 14 wounded in the past 24 hours, the biggest daily death toll since May, military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said on Tuesday. That brings the...
Seven Ukraine troops die in worst clashes in two months
Fighting marks the bloodiest clashes with pro-Russian separatists …read more Source: Gulf...
France falls silent for Nice victims as politicians play blame game
NICE // France fell silent on Monday for the victims of the Nice lorry attack, but the mourning was overshadowed by politicians tearing into each other over the massacre.A sea of people thronged the Nice promenade for the emotional minute’s silence, just days after a Tunisian attacker drove a lorry into a crowd at the same place, killing 84...
Ukrainian villagers and relatives mourn MH17 crash victims on second anniversary
Petropavlivka: Villagers held a vigil on Sunday at the site in eastern Ukraine where Flight MH17 was shot down two years ago, as bereaved relatives marked the anniversary with emotional memorial services. The Malaysia Airlines passenger jet was hit by a surface-to-air missile on July 17, 2014, during heavy fighting between Kiev’s armed...
Two more held as details emerge on France lorry attacker
NICE // French investigators arrested two more people on Sunday as they pieced together details about the motives and planning of the Tunisian man who rammed a lorry into a crowd watching Bastille Day fireworks, killing 84 people.Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel staked out the Nice promenade with his rented lorry twice in the two days before his attack...
Preliminary results from Flight MH17 forensic probe expected later this year – minister
The Boeing 777 was shot down over eastern Ukraine by a Russian-made Buk missile …read more Source: Gulf...
Death revisits France on Bastille Day
Nice // In its heart of hearts, France had a good idea something like the Nice massacre was bound to happen sooner or later.Atrocities in Madrid, London, Paris, Brussels and elsewhere in Europe in recent years, as well as in Lebanon, Iraq, Mali, Kenya, Bangladesh among so many locations targeted by terrorists, have produced a new state of painful...
Death in France on Bastille Day
Nice // In its heart of hearts, France had a good idea something like the Nice massacre was bound to happen sooner or later.Atrocities in Madrid, London, Paris, Brussels and elsewhere in Europe in recent years, as well as in Lebanon, Iraq, Mali, Kenya, Bangladesh among so many locations targeted by terrorists, have produced a new state of painful...
France’s national day turns into a day of grief as Tunisian rams lorry into crowds
Nice // France begins three days of mourning on Saturday after a gunman drove a 19-tonne lorry into crowds lining the seafront of the Riviera resort of Nice for a Bastille Day fireworks display, killing 84 people and leaving many of more than 200 injured in a critical condition.The suspect, a 31-year-old French-Tunisian, Mohamed...
UN sees possible war crimes in Ukraine
Kiev: The United Nations (UN) on Thursday said Ukraine’s forces had indiscriminately shelled residents while pro-Russian insurgents and Kiev battalions had summarily killed civilians in what may have constituted “war crimes.” The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) study painted a bloody picture of inhumane treatment...
