Section: United Arab Emirates
France urges EU sanctions against Libya ‘spoilers’
Head of the Tripoli parliament and prime minister of the Tripoli Salvation government are in EU’s sights …read more Source: Gulf...
Two Ukrainian soldiers killed in separatist east
KIEV: Two Ukrainian soldiers were killed in clashes between government forces and pro-Russian rebels over the past 24 hours, a military spokesman in Kiev said on Saturday. The latest casualties came after talks to resolve the nearly two-year conflict floundered in Paris last week, with Moscow and Kiev saying they could not agree on polls in the...
Ukranian pilot on hunger strike starts drinking water
KIEV: Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko, on trial in Russia over the killing of two journalists, has started drinking water but will continue her week-long hunger strike until the verdict, her lawyer said on Thursday. “Nadezhda halted only a ‘dry’ hunger strike,” lawyer Mark Feigin told AFP. “She will be fasting until the verdict is...
Russian military seeks five combat dolphins
MOSCOW: Russia’s defence ministry is looking to buy five dolphins, the government revealed on Wednesday, as the country strives to revive its Soviet-era use of sea mammals for military tasks. The military has opened the bidding on a 1.75 million ruble ($24,000) contract to deliver dolphins to the military in the Crimean port city of...
Calls grow for Russia to release Ukrainian pilot
Five EU states seek sanctions against Russian officials over Savchenko …read more Source: Gulf...
Ukrainians picket Russian embassy over jailed pilot
KIEV: Hundreds of angry Ukrainians picketed Moscow’s embassy in Kiev on Tuesday as global calls grew for the release of a hunger-striking military helicopter pilot on trial in Russia. Nadia Savchenko is on trial for alleged involvement in the death of two Russian state television journalists in a mortar attack that occurred two months after...
Ukraine urges US to press Russia over jailed pilot
KIEV: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called on Washington and Brussels on Monday to step up pressure on Moscow to secure the release of a hunger-striking Ukrainian pilot from a Russian jail. Three Nobel Prize laureates were also among thousands of people who signed a petition urging European leaders “to take emergency measures” to seek the...
Hundreds of Ukrainians attack Russia embassy
KIEV: Angry protesters threw stones and eggs at the Russian embassy in Kiev on Sunday, breaking several of its windows after smashing cars and burning a Russian flag, as Ukrainians’ anger boiled over at Moscow’s refusal to free a hunger-striking pilot. Hundreds of demonstrators rallied outside Moscow’s diplomatic mission to...
Hamdan bin Rashid receives Ukrainian Consul-General
DUBAI, 6th March, 2016 (WAM) — H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and UAE Minister of Finance, today received Oleksandr Balanutsa, Ukrainian Consul-General in Dubai, who paid a courtesy visit to H.H. at the beginning of his tenure in the country. …read more Source:...
Russia seeks 23 years in jail for Ukraine pilot
MOSCOW: Russia’s state prosecutor on Wednesday demanded a 23-year prison sentence for Ukrainian pilot and lawmaker Nadiya Savchenko who is accused of killing two Russian journalists in war-torn Ukraine. One of Savchenko’s lawyers, Mark Feigin, said the prosecution had also requested she pay a fine of 100,000 rubles ($1,350/1,250...
