Section: United Arab Emirates
The long read: Svetlana Alexievich is the keeper of haunted memories
Weddings in the Belarusian capital of Minsk are not complete without a visit to the Island of Tears. To safeguard their unions, newlyweds must cross a humpback bridge from the affluent suburb of Traetskaye to a small island in a bend in the Svisloch river. The soil there is foreign, brought home by mothers who travelled to Afghanistan to find...
‘Russian food ban would cost Ukraine $600m next year’
KIEV: Ukraine said on Wednesday it expects to lose some $600 million next year as a result of a food trade ban which Russia has threatened to introduce from January 1st. Speaking at a government meeting, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said he expected a free trade agreement between his country and the European Union to enter force...
Kiev warns of return to war if fighting escalates
KIEV: Ukraine could return artillery to its eastern frontline if fighting with pro-Russian separatists escalates further, Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said on Monday after a weekend of the deadliest attacks in two months. “If the situation escalates further our military commanders will be forced to return artillery and mortars to...
UPDATE 1-G20-Obama, Putin agree on need for political transition, ceasefire in Syria -U.S. official
(Adds Kremlin statement, Ukraine, background) By Matt Spetalnick and Lidia Kelly BELEK, Turkey, Nov 15 (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on the need for a Syria-led political transition, including… …read more Source:...
Five soldiers killed in Ukraine
KIEV: Five Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in the past 24 hours during fighting in the east of Ukraine, the Ukrainian military said on Saturday, its highest death toll since a fragile ceasefire with pro-Russian separatists began two months ago. The guns have been mostly silent since early September, but there has been an increase in ceasefire...
Ukrainian civilian copter crashes in Slovakia, 6 dead
BRATISLAVA: A Ukrainian civilian helicopter has crashed in eastern Slovakia, killing six people, a Slovak interior ministry spokesman said on Friday. The Mi-2 turbine-powered transport helicopter crashed near Slovakia’s border with Ukraine, which is also the EU’s eastern border, ministry spokesman Ivan Netik told Reuters. An...
Ukrainian solider killed, 5 wounded in separatist raids
MINSK: Ukraine says a soldier has been killed and five others wounded in separatist attacks in eastern Ukraine and that a rise in violence is threatening the region’s delicate truce. Col. Andriy Lysenko, presidential spokesman for the military operation against the separatists, said on Wednesday that the casualties came amid 21 separatist...
Egypt’s GASC receives offers in wheat tender- traders
Lowest offer in Egyptian state buyer GASC’s wheat purchase tender which closed on Tuesday was USD197.50 per tonne free on board (FOB) for Ukrainian wheat, traders said. …read more Source:...
Top ally of Poroshenko foe under house arrest
KIEV: The right-hand man of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s top political rival was placed under house arrest for two months on Friday pending a probe into his links to organised crime. The case of 45-year-old Gennadiy Korban — a partner of Poroshenko’s foe, Ukraine’s third-richest man Igor Kolomoyskiy — has created a...
Bodies of Egypt crash victims arrive in Russia
SAINT PETERSBURG // A plane carrying the remains of 144 people killed when a Russian airliner crashed in Egypt landed in Saint Petersburg early on Monday, hours after investigators probing the doomed flight said it had broken up in the air.The emergency Russian plane, the first to bring back the bodies of those who died when the A-321 plummeted...
