Section: United Arab Emirates
Ukraine’s new police force battles corrupt prosecutors
Relieved Ukrainians turn new patrol police into internet stars …read more Source: Gulf...
Book review: Teffi’s Memories tell of the Russian white flight and fight to survive
A hundred years ago, Teffi (the nom de plume of Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Lokhvitskaya) was one of Russia’s most popular and admired writers. The breadth of her talent – Symbolist poems, satirical sketches, feuilletons, stories and even songs – was equalled only by that of her audience: as her biographer Edythe Haber explains in...
Ukrainian soldier killed after failed peace talks
Kiev: A Ukrainian soldier was killed in a fresh upsurge of fighting with pro-Russian separatists after high-profile peace talks failed to bring any results, the Kiev military said on Monday. The latest casualty came after talks to settle the 25-month conflict floundered in Berlin last week, with Moscow and Kiev saying they could not agree on...
Eurovision win lifts spirits in Ukraine
KIEV/MOSCOW: Ukrainians hailed their country’s unexpected victory in the Eurovision song contest as a Europe-wide endorsement of Ukraine in its smouldering conflict with Russia, while Moscow said the contest had been hijacked by politics. Jubilant Ukrainians erupted in celebration on Sunday across the country. Susana Jamaladinova, a...
Sore Russian officials bash Ukraine Eurovision win
Moscow // Russian lawmakers on Sunday reacted angrily at arch-rival Ukraine’s “political” victory in the Eurovision song contest, as one pro-Kremlin paper insisted Moscow’s entrant was robbed.Ukraine’s Jamala struck a surprise gold in the glitzy Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday with her ballad 1944 about the...
Eurovision winning entry: 1944, a harrowing family tale about Stalin’s deportation of Muslim Tatars
KIEV // “When strangers are coming, they come to your house, they kill you all and say, ‘we’re not guilty, not guilty’.”Those are the harrowing opening words of war-scarred Ukraine’s winning entry for the Eurovision song contest — a flamboyant and festive occasion more normally associated with laughs than...
EU sanctions mooted amid DR Congo crackdown
Britain warned it may seek EU sanctions over “acts of repression” in the Democratic Republic of Congo …read more Source: Al...
Oman takes steps to control spread of haemorrhagic fever
The Crimean — Congo Haemorrhagic Fever has claimed five lives in 2016 so far …read more Source: Gulf...
Russia showcases Syria hardware in Red Square military parade
MOSCOW // Russia rolled out an air defence missile system of the kind used to protect its base in Syria and some of the Russian jets flying missions there screamed overhead as it showcased its military war machine on Moscow’s Red Square on Monday.The annual Victory Day parade – marking the 71st anniversary of the Soviet Union’s...
Oman issues warning about tickborne disease
Residents told not to slaughter livestock with Crimean — Congo haemorrhagic fever …read more Source: Gulf...
