Section: United Arab Emirates
France probes teacher’s role in avalanche tragedy
PARIS: French prosecutors said on Thursday they were investigating why a teacher led a group of students onto a closed piste in the French Alps where an avalanche killed two of them along with a Ukrainian tourist. The teacher, who was seriously injured in Wednesday’s accident, is in hospital in nearby Grenoble. A 16-year-old girl died on...
Obama discusses Syria, Ukraine with Russia’s Putin
Obama told Putin that a key next step in resolving the Ukrainian crisis was for all sides to agree on the modalities of local elections …read more Source: Al...
Western sanctions severely harming Russia: Putin
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin acknowledged on Monday in an interview with German daily Bild that Western economic sanctions over the Ukraine crisis are affecting Russia. “Concerning our possibilities on the international financial markets, the sanctions are severely harming Russia,” he said in a long interview, calling the EU sanctions “a...
Dutch PM says will push for ‘yes’ in Ukraine vote
AMSTERDAM: Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said he would argue for a “yes” vote in an upcoming referendum on a treaty on closer ties between the European Union and Ukraine, which threatens to overshadow his presidency of the 28-member bloc. Rutte’s remarks came a day after European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker warned that a...
Two Ukrainian officers killed in war-torn east
KIEV: Two Ukrainian soldiers and two rebels have been killed in eastern Ukraine, marking the first deaths this year in the war-torn region, Kiev and breakway officials said on Sunday in separate tolls. “Over the last day, two Ukrainian soldiers have been killed”, military spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk told reporters, despite a wobbly truce...
Malaysia Airlines lifts bag ban on Europe flights after backlash on social media
KUALA LUMPUR // Malaysia Airlines on Wednesday lifted a much-criticised ban on checking in baggage on flights to Paris and Amsterdam, just one day after limiting bags to lighten the plane and save fuel.The airline had banned check-in baggage for Tuesday and Wednesday flights to the two European cities due to “unseasonably strong headwinds” on a...
Putin names U.S. among threats in new Russian security strategy
Relations between Russia and the West reached a low after Russian forces annexed the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014 …read more Source: Al...
Leaders urge full implementation of Minsk peace deal in 2016
BERLIN: The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine agreed in a phone call on Wednesday that the Minsk peace deal for Ukraine must be fully implemented next year and said their foreign ministers would meet in one month to assess progress, the German government said in a statement. The statement from deputy government spokeswoman Christiane...
Pre-historic migration from Middle East brought farming to Ireland
WASHINGTON // Ireland underwent a massive prehistoric wave of immigration from the Middle East and eastern Europe, which could explain how modern farming arrived in the region, researchers said in a study released on Monday.The major finding, traceable via in genome sequencing, may end a long-running debate among scientists, some of whom thought...
3 killed in breach of Ukraine holiday truce
KIEV: At least three people have been killed as Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists clashed in the first violation of a holiday truce, military officials from both sides said Sunday. The victims — a Ukrainian soldier and two civilians — are the first since the warring sides agreed on Tuesday to halt fire through the New Year...
