Section: United Arab Emirates
Russia expansionism could pose ‘existential threat’: NATO general
Russia could try to seize territory from NATO states off the back of fighting in Ukraine, the military alliance’s deputy commander in Europe says …read more Source: Al...
Pro-Russian rebels ready for prisoner swap under Ukraine’s battered truce
US, UK talk of more sanctions on Russia …read more Source: Gulf...
Pro-Russia rebel build-up near port city alarms Ukraine military
Fears rebels may seek to open new front …read more Source: Gulf...
PERRYSCOPE – One minute to midnight
By Perry Diaz Every year since 1947 in the month of January, members of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists meet to perform an annual ritual of setting the time on the “Doomsday Clock.” It is a mechanism designed to warn the world of how close we are to doomsday; the closer the clock moved to midnight, the...
Ukraine conflict to dominate talks as Kerry lands in London
…read more Source: Al...
Ukraine truce be fully respected, says Merkel
KIEV: Germany and France demanded on Friday that a crumbling Ukraine truce be “fully respected” even as pro-Russian rebels celebrated a battlefield victory in a strategic town and exchanged artillery fire elsewhere with government troops. “The ceasefire has been violated several times,” French President Francois Hollande said in a joint Paris...
Sombre Ukrainians mark anniversary of protest killings
100 protesters died during the months of protests …read more Source: Gulf...
Fighting persists in east Ukraine despite ceasefire
Fighting persisted in east Ukraine on Friday despite new European efforts to ensure a ceasefire takes hold. …read more Source: Gulf...
Fighting on despite bid to revive truce
ARTEMIVSK: Fighting raged in eastern Ukraine on Thursday despite European efforts to resurrect a still-born ceasefire, a day after pro-Russian separatists who spurned the truce forced thousands of government troops out of a strategic town. Western nations have refused to give up on a peace deal negotiated last week even though rebels disavowed it...
Fighting rages in east Ukraine despite bid to revive truce
Shelling continued near Debaltseve, and local officials in government-held territory said rebels had also fired mortar bombs at another town further south. …read more Source: Gulf...
