Section: United Arab Emirates
Nato chief stops short of backing Ukraine membership
Kiev: The head of Nato said on Tuesday that “Ukraine can rely on” the Western military alliance but stopped short of infuriating Russia by backing the ex-Soviet republic’s membership in the Cold War-era bloc. Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also repeated his charge from Monday that Russia was supplying pro-Moscow...
Stoltenberg visits Ukraine amid lull in conflict
KIEV: NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Monday touched down in Ukraine on his first visit to the country hit by a separatist conflict that has caused the worst standoff between Moscow and the West since the Cold War. Stoltenberg headed first to a military base in the western city of Lviv where the US army has been training Ukraine’s forces....
Crimea Tatars block peninsula to protest Russian annexation
Protesters from the Muslim Tatar community used concrete blocks to partially seal off the three roads linking mainland Ukraine to Crimea …read more Source: Al...
Assad must step down, but not necessarily now, says Kerry
LONDON // US secretary of state John Kerry said on Saturday that Syrian President Bashar Al Assad must step down, but not necessarily immediately upon reaching a settlement to end the country’s civil war.Speaking after talks in London with British foreign secretary Philip Hammond, Kerry said he was prepared to negotiate to achieve a...
Putin, Berlusconi probed for wine tasting in Crimea
KIEV: Ukraine has launched a criminal probe into wine-tasting by Russian President Vladimir Putin and ex-Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi after they allegedly quaffed a $100,000 bottle of centuries-old wine in Crimea, prosecutors said on Saturday. The Kremlin strongman and the disgraced billionaire reportedly cracked open a bottle of 1775...
UPDATE 2-Egypt’s GASC receives offers in wheat purchase tender -trade
(Adds best offers cost and freight) ABU DHABI/HAMBURG, Sept 18 (Reuters) – The lowest offer in Egyptian state buyer GASC’s wheat purchase tender that closed on Friday was $174.95 a tonne free on board (FOB) for Ukrainian wheat, traders said. The… …read more Source:...
Ukraine campaigns to strip Russia of UN veto power
KIEV: Ukraine redoubled its efforts on Wednesday to see Russia stripped of its veto power on the UN Security Council when the global body’s General Assembly meets in the coming weeks. Numerous nations are upset with Russia for being one of the five permanent council members that together with China has blocked a series of UN efforts to...
Ukrainian pilot’s murder trial to start on Sept.22
MOSCOW: A Russian court on Tuesday said a Ukrainian female helicopter pilot will go on trial next week over the murder of two Russian journalists, and ruled that she must stay behind bars meanwhile. Nadiya Savchenko, who is feted for her heroism in Ukraine, faces up to 25 years in prison for her alleged role in pre-meditated, hate-motivated...
EU extends Ukraine sanctions by six months
BRUSSELS: EU member states formally approved on Monday a six-month extension of sanctions against Ukrainian and Russian figures accused of backing pro-Moscow rebels fighting to break away from Kiev. “The assessment of the situation did not justify a change in the regime of sanctions nor in the list of persons and entities under restrictive...
Putin makes US boxer a Russian citizen
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has granted Russian citizenship to Roy Jones Junior, a prominent US professional boxer who had asked for it last month when he met Putin in the disputed region of Crimea, the Kremlin said on Saturday. The move is the latest example of the Kremlin publicising cases of prominent Westerners who praise Russia...
