Section: United Arab Emirates
Ukrainian media delegation visits Ajman
Ajman – A delegation of Ukrainian journalists visited Ajman with the aim of promoting the northern emirate in the Ukrainian media as a distinguished UAE tourism destination, an Ajman Tourism Development Department (ATDD) official said. …read more Source:...
France’s Hollande meets Putin on Ukraine crisis
The French leader said he, Putin, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and German Chancellor Angela Merkel should “start the process of reducing tension”. …read more Source: Khaleej...
Hollande meets Putin on Ukraine crisis
MOSCOW: French President Francois Hollande met Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the Ukraine crisis during a brief stopover at a Moscow airport on Saturday. Putin looked nervous as he greeted Hollande, who was on his way back to France after a trip to Kazakhstan and is the most senior Western leader to visit Russia since it annexed...
Greece outraged by British Museum sculpture loan
Contested sculptures has left Britainamid growing tension between Russia and the West over Ukraine …read more Source: Gulf...
Russia warns France on warship commitment
BASEL: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday warned France its reputation was on the line over the delivery of a controversial warship to Russia, which has been delayed due to the conflict in Ukraine. His comments came as Paris warned the two Mistral-class helicopter carriers it built for Russia may never be delivered, with a lasting...
Foes hope to dismember Russia: Putin
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin accused Russia’s enemies on Thursday of seeking to carve it up and destroy its economy to punish it for becoming strong, but said his country would rise to any challenge. In a fiercely patriotic state of the union speech, the Kremlin leader trumpeted his annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula,...
Ukraine says pro-Russia rebels violating truce
KIEV: Ukraine’s military on Wednesday accused pro-Russian fighters of violating a truce at an airport in rebel-held Donetsk that had been the focus of fighting for months. “Unfortunately, the ceasefire is not being respected,” Ukrainian National Security and Defence Council spokesman Andriy Lysenko said. “Attacks on the airport and...
UPDATE 2-Egypt’s GASC buys 175,000 T of wheat from Romania, Ukraine
(Adds strategic reserves to last until April) By Maha El Dahan ABU DHABI, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Egypt’s state grain buyer, the General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC), said on Wednesday it had bought 175,000 tonnes of wheat from Romania and… …read more Source:...
Ukraine parliament approves new government
Ministers in the new Cabinet include several figures who received Ukrainian citizenship by presidential decree. …read more Source: Khaleej...
Nato ministers chart course on Ukraine
BRUSSELS: Nato foreign ministers met in Brussels on Tuesday aiming to plot a new course after a “year of aggression” from Ukraine to the Middle East and the end of the alliance’s combat mission in Afghanistan. New chief Jens Stoltenberg said as he arrived that US Secretary of State John Kerry and other ministers from the 28-nation group...
