Section: United Arab Emirates
Ukraine, pro-Russian rebels agree new truce
Moscow denies helping separatists in eastern region …read more Source: Gulf...
From shoe banging to Ukraine, archives comb Khrushchev past
More than 700 documents and objects on display at exhibition …read more Source: Gulf...
MH17 remains arrive in Netherlands
Amsterdam: Six more coffins carrying body parts of victims from downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 arrived in the Netherlands from Ukraine on Friday, with nine victims of the July disaster still unidentified. A Dutch Air Force C-130 transport plane arrived at an airfield in the southern city of Eindhoven after leaving Kharkiv in eastern...
Donetsk shelling victim: my wish is to ‘go to Kiev and to kill them all’ – video
Shelling kills at least two near Ukraine’s Donetsk international airport with residents voicing despair. …read more Source: The...
International Red Cross Red Cross seeks record budget of US$1.6b as aid needs soar
GENEVA, 27th November 2014 (WAM) — The Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has asked donors for a record US$1.68 billion to cover its humanitarian activities next year, amid soaring needs for aid in conflict-hit countries like Syria, Iraq and Ukraine in 2015 to help millions of people whose lives have been torn...
Nato ‘very concerned’ by Russian military build-up in Crimea
KIEV: Nato’s top military commander warned on Wednesday that Russia’s “militarisation” of the annexed Crimea region could be used by Moscow to exert control across the whole Black Sea region. “We are very concerned with the militarisation of Crimea,” US General Philip Breedlove told a press conference in Kiev. “The capabilities that...
Nato commander flied in to Ukraine as fighting rumbles on
Russia is strongly opposed to the expansion of Western institutions …read more Source: Gulf...
France halts warship delivery to Russia
PARIS: France suspended the planned delivery of a warship to Russia on Tuesday, after months of growing speculation about what would be the biggest arms sale ever by a Nato country to the Kremlin. The French president’s office announced the suspension “until further notice” after growing pressure from allies to suspend the sale because of...
3 soldiers killed in east Ukraine
KIEV: Three Ukrainian soldiers were killed and 24 wounded in fighting between government forces and Kremlin-backed rebels in the war-torn east over the past day, the military said on Monday. Government positions at strategic flashpoints around the conflict zone came under attack 56 times, the military said. The mayor’s office in the...
Dutch complete MH17 wreckage recovery from site
Amsterdam: Dutch experts on Sunday completed the recovery of wreckage from the crash site of downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine and have sent it to a government-controlled city en route for the Netherlands “(Transport of) the recovered wreckage from flight MH17 is under way towards Kharkiv,” by train, the Dutch Safety Board...
