Section: United Arab Emirates
Savchenko’s return heralds new turmoil in Ukraine
MOSCOW: After being freed from a Russian jail, Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko stands to emerge as a wild new force in Ukraine’s already volatile politics. Savchenko’s adamant defiance of Russian authorities and the Russian justice system has made her a national icon, a widely revered symbol of courage and perseverance for a nation...
Woman Ukrainian pilot returns home
MOSCOW: When war broke out in eastern Ukraine, pilot Nadezhda Savchenko left her hometown to join the fight against Russia-backed separatists. Nearly two years after she was captured, then tried and convicted in Russia, she returned home to a rapturous welcome in Kiev. Over the past two years, Savchenko became both Ukraine’s national hero...
Freed pilot Savchenko arrives in Ukraine to hero’s welcome
Kiev and its Western allies view Savchenko as the latest pawn in Moscow’s broader aggression against Ukraine …read more Source: Gulf...
Fight against doping
The World Boxing Council (WBC), under its president Mauricio Sulaiman, must be commended for the lead role it has played in exposing the ills of performance enhancing drugs and inspiring the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to take action against cheats. The WBC some months ago joined forces with VADA, the Voluntary Anti Doping Agency under...
Seven Ukrainian soldiers killed in war-torn east
Kiev: Seven Ukrainian soldiers have died in the war-torn east over the past 24 hours, the biggest casualty toll in a single day this year, Kiev said on Tuesday. The latest violence came as the leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine called for the implementation of a peace deal in the separatist east during late-night talks Monday. “As a...
European leaders call for ‘immediate’ peace in Ukraine
The call comes as a Ukrainian soldier was killed and three others injured in a mortar attack by pro-Russian insurgents in the country’s east …read more Source: Al...
Australian firm names Russia, Putin in MH17 compensation claim -report
The jetliner crashed in Ukraine in pro-Russian rebel-held territory on July 17, 2014, killing all 298 people on board …read more Source: Gulf...
MH17 victim families sue Putin, Russia
SYDNEY: Families of victims of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which was shot down over Ukraine in 2014, are suing President Vladimir Putin and Russia for Aus$10 million each in the European Court of Human Rights, The Sydney Morning Herald reported on Saturday. The compensation claim was filed with the Strasbourg-based court by Sydney legal firm...
Nato to hold talks with Russia before alliance summit
BRUSSELS: Nato said on Friday it will hold formal talks with Russia before a landmark July summit in Warsaw endorses the alliance’s biggest military build-up since the end of the Cold War, to counter a more assertive Russia. In April, the Nato Russia Council (NRC) held its first meeting since June 2014 but the talks ended in “profound...
All should avoid new arms race, says Nato
Brussels: Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday called for avoiding a new arms race, as the US-led alliance pushes ahead with its biggest military revamp since the Cold War to counter a more assertive Russia. Russian intervention in Ukraine and its 2014 annexation of Crimea stung Nato leaders into action after years of complacency and defence...
