Section: United Arab Emirates
Putin’s Roulette
Events this past week are changing the world in a way it never did since the end of World War II. It even made the Cold War look like a drill in preparation for what to come: a war to end all wars. Indeed, the next war – World War III – would end in the annihilation of life on Earth. Yet, there are those who believe that if they struck first at...
New Ukraine, Russia gas talks for April 14 in Berlin: EU
The EU said on Tuesday it will broker a fresh round of Russian-Ukrainian talks next week in Berlin … …read more Source: Gulf...
Fast-growing Asian aviation confronts safety challenges
HONG KONG — For Asia’s aviation industry, the growing pains have just begun. A year of disasters, the disappearance of Flight 370 and financial turbulence highlight the challenges confronting the world’s biggest air travel market, where governments, regulators and airlines are struggling to keep up after a decade of astonishing...
Poroshenko not opposed to plebiscite
KIEV: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Monday publicly lifted his objections to a referendum that could give more powers to the restive regions engulfed in more than a year of warfare, reversing his government’s previous position. Russia-backed separatists, however, dismissed Poroshenko’s gesture as meaningless. The conflict...
Six Ukraine soldiers killed as war marks year
KIEV: Six Ukrainian troops were killed by landmines in the restive separatist-held east on Sunday, breaking a lull of several days in a conflict that began a year ago this week. After weeks in which a shaky ceasefire deal appeared to be largely holding despite isolated clashes, the fatalities brought to nine the number of soldiers reported dead...
Three soldiers killed in restive east Ukraine
KIEV: Three Ukrainian soldiers died when a mine exploded in the separatist-held east where isolated clashes continue to undermine a ceasefire aimed at ending a year-long war. Army spokesman Andriy Lysenko said on Saturday that “as a result of the explosion of an enemy mine … three Ukrainian soldiers were killed, two injured” in the previous...
Turkey to watch oppression of Tatars in Crimea
VILNIUS: Turkey said on Friday it will send and “informal mission” to Crimea to monitor what it termed the “oppression” of Crimean Tatars, an ethnic group that opposed Russia’s 2014 seizure of the Black Sea peninsula. “We are sending an informal mission to observe the human rights violations in Crimea soon,” Turkey’s Foreign Minister...
Obama Doctrine: Legacy or fallacy?
In his speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to him in December 2009, President Barack Obama said: “I receive this honor with deep gratitude and great humility. It is an award that speaks to our highest aspirations — that for all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend...
US lawmaker urges weapons for Ukraine
KIEV: A top US lawmaker in Kiev on Tuesday urged President Barack Obama to provide arms to Ukraine, calling its conflict with pro-Russian separatists “the most significant threat to peace…since the end of WWII.” William “Mac” Thornberry, Chairman of the House Committee on Armed Services, met with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and...
Ukraine accuses rebels of firing Grad rockets
KIEV: Ukraine government forces on Saturday accused pro-Russian separatists of using Grad multiple rocket launchers overnight in the country’s war-torn east in violation of a truce deal signed last month. Military spokesman Andriy Lysenko told reporters that separatists fired the heavy weapons towards the village of Novotoshkivka from their...
