Section: United Arab Emirates
Prosecutors: Possible Buk missile parts found at MH17 site
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch prosecutors said Tuesday they have found what they believe could be parts of a Buk missile system at the site in eastern Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was brought down last year. The announcement represents the first time prosecutors have confirmed possible physical evidence of a missile bringing down...
Fragments from MH17 site may be from Russian-made missile
Some of the debris recovered from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine may be fragments of a Russian-made missile system …read more Source: Al...
MH17 investigators find ‘possible’ BUK missile fragments
Flight MH17 was shot down on July 17 last year, killing all 298 people on board during heavy fighting between Kiev’s armed forces and pro-Russian separatists. …read more Source: Gulf...
MH17: ‘Possible’ BUK missile fragments
Investigators probing the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine said Tuesday they had More… …read more Source: Emirates...
Ukraine reports heaviest shelling by rebels
KIEV: Ukraine accused pro-Russian rebels on Monday of carrying out the heaviest artillery attacks on government positions in six months and warned of signs the conflict was escalating despite a ceasefire deal. The military said 400 rebel fighters supported by tanks had attacked government forces around the village of Starohnativka, 50 kilometres...
Four OSCE vehicles set afire in Donetsk attack
KIEV: OSCE observers based in the separatist stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine said on Sunday that four of their vehicles were destroyed in an apparent arson attack at their hotel. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe described the attack as aimed at halting its monitoring activities in the separatist region, but...
Ukraine bans films featuring blacklisted Russian actors
MOSCOW: Ukraine says it has banned the screening of films featuring Russian actors included on a blacklist. It said this weekend the 14 Russian actors, singers and other cultural figures on the blacklist pose a threat to national security. Among those on the list is French-born actor Gerard Depardieu, who became a vocal supporter of Russia after...
Ukraine buries unidentified soldiers
ZAPORIZHZHYA: Ukraine buried on Friday 57 soldiers still unidentified up to a year after being killed in the eastern separatist conflict, highlighting the difficulties the country faces moving on from one of its deadliest military defeats. Mournful chants drifted over the graves of the nameless soldiers, most of whom fell in the battle of...
Outrage as Russia burns piles of illegally imported Western food
MOSCOW // Government plans for the mass destruction of banned Western food imports in Russia have provoked outrage in a country where poverty rates are soaring and memories remain of famine during Soviet times.Even some Kremlin allies are expressing shock at the idea of “food crematoria” while one orthodox priest has denounced the campaign, which...
Book review: Soviet Leaders and Intelligence by Raymond L Garthoff
The Soviet Union was very poor at many things – planning an economy, caring for the well-being of its citizens, butting out of the business of other sovereign states – but one aspect of statecraft it mastered was the art of spying. The American bomb soon became the Soviet bomb, in large part due to the work of nuclear physicist, and spy, Klaus...
