Section: United Arab Emirates
Ukraine reports polio outbreak, first cases in Europe since 2010: WHO
KIEV // Two polio cases have been confirmed in western Ukraine, the first to be recorded in Europe since 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.A 10-month-old baby and a four-year-old child were diagnosed with the polio virus in Ukraine’s southwestern Zakarpattya region, which borders four European Union member states,...
Ukraine coalition splits over statute amendment
KIEV: The Ukrainian parliament majority showed cracks on Tuesday after a right-wing party said it was exiting the coalition over a measure to give more powers to Ukrainian regions, including the rebel-held east. The announcement from the Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko, which came in fifth in last year’s election, came on the day that two...
Grenade explodes during Ukraine clashes; 1 officer killed
KIEV // As lawmakers took up a measure to give greater powers to separatists in eastern Ukraine, nationalist protesters clashed with police outside parliament on Monday, and the Interior Ministry said one officer was killed in a grenade blast and more than 100 were wounded.It was the worst violence in the capital since the government took power...
Protesters and police clash outside Ukraine parliament – in pictures
A grenade exploded outside Ukraine’s parliament during a nationalist protest against a vote to give greater powers to separatist regions in the east, killing one police officer. About 100 other officers were injured in the clashes, 10 of them seriously. …read more Source: The...
Putin pumps iron as his popularity dips
MOSCOW// The Kremlin has released pictures of Russian President Vladimir Putin working out at the gym with Prime Minister Dmitrty Medvedev, images apparently aimed at shoring up Putin’s rugged, masculine image as his popularity dips.Wearing a white T-shirt, track suit trousers and running shoes, Putin is shown on muscle-building apparatus...
Hollande, Merkel and Putin back ceasefire plan for Ukraine
PARIS: France, Germany and Russia back plans for a complete ceasefire in eastern Ukraine from Sept.1, the French presidency said after their respective leaders spoke by telephone on Saturday. Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists, in a gesture to shore up a tenuous ceasefire, agreed on Aug.26 to strive for an end to all truce violations from next...
Hollande, Merkel, Putin back ceasefire plan for eastern Ukraine
France, Germany and Russia back plans for a complete ceasefire in eastern Ukraine from Sept. 1 … …read more Source: Gulf...
Soldiers among eight killed in fresh Ukraine clashes
KIEV: Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels on Thursday reported the death of eight people in fresh clashes that erupted despite ongoing talks on a new truce agreement for the separatist east. Government spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said seven Ukrainian servicemen had been killed and 13 injured in fighting that centred mostly around the pro-Russian...
Russian court sentences Ukrainian film director to 20 years in jail
MOSCOW: A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov to 20 years in a high-security penal colony for “terrorist attacks” in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Moscow annexed from Ukraine in April 2014, RIA news agency said. The Crimea-born Sentsov pleaded not guilty and denounced the trial as politically driven,...
Ukraine says EU ready to toughen stance against Russia
Ukraine said Tuesday that the leaders of Germany and France had agreed to back “firm” steps against Russia … …read more Source: Gulf...
