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Implement Ukraine deal for EU to lift curbs, Russia told
SAINT PETERSBURG: European Union (EU) Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker warned Russia on Thursday that the 28-nation bloc will only lift its sanctions if the Kremlin fully implements a Ukraine peace deal. “The next step is clear, full implementation of the agreement − no more, no less,” Juncker told Russia’s main economic forum in Saint...
Ukrainian steel pipe producer eyes growth in Qatar
DOHA: Ukrainian steel producer ‘Interpipe’, which currently supplies 50 percent of seamless steel pipes in Qatar, plans to significantly enhance its presence in the market over the next five years, as the country transforms its infrastructure to meet growing demand ahead of the 2022 Fifa World Cup.Interpipe, one of the world’s...
Nato eyes Baltics, Poland deployment
Brussels: Nato will deploy four international battalions to Poland and the three Baltic states as part of the wider pushback against Russia’s intervention in Ukraine, alliance head Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday. “We will agree to deploy by rotation four robust multi-national battalions in the Baltic states and Poland,” Stoltenberg told a...
Crimea unveils gun-toting statue to celebrate Russian annexation
Simferopol: The authorities in Crimea on Saturday unveiled a bronze statue of a heavily armed Russian soldier to celebrate the peninsula’s 2014 annexation from Ukraine. The slightly larger-than-life sculpture in Crimea’s main city of Simferopol shows a soldier carrying a Kalashnikov and wearing rounds of ammunition on his chest. A...
OSCE says staff member missing in Ukraine
KIEV: A local staffer for European monitors observing Ukraine’s flaring separatist conflict was returned on Wednesday, a day after going missing in the country’s pro-Russian east. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said a member of its Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) did not return from a planned vacation...
‘Situation in the war zone is worsening’
KIEV: A local staffer for European monitors observing Ukraine’s flaring separatist conflict was returned on Wednesday, a day after going missing in the country’s pro-Russian east. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said a member of its Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) did not return from a planned vacation...
Euro 2016 kick-off in France marred by fears of terrorism and labour strikes
MARSEILLE // Euro 2016 kicks off at the Stade de France on Friday night, with the international football tournament marred by fears of terrorism and disruptive strikes.France has been in a self-declared state of emergency since ISIL attacks killed 130 people in the capital on November 13 last year.Terror suspects have been arrested in both...
Frenchman held in Ukraine ‘planned Euro 2016 attacks’
PARIS // Ukraine said on Monday it had arrested a suspected far-right French extremist with a huge arsenal of weapons who allegedly planned to attack the European Championships in France this week.The announcement came as French rail unions held make-or-break talks with employers on Monday to try to end a six-day strike that threatened to disrupt...
Frenchman planning Euro 2016 attacks detained on Ukraine-Poland border
Man was detained with stockpile of weapons and explosives …read more Source: Gulf...
Russia backs arming monitors in Ukraine
MOSCOW: Moscow on Saturday said for the first time it would agree to foreign monitors observing the separatist conflict in east Ukraine to carry arms. Kiev has been pushing for an armed observer mission in the area where the existing unarmed monitors of the fragile ceasefire between government forces and Russia-backed separatists have reported an...
