Section: United Arab Emirates
US prosecutor who has investigated Trump lawyer refuses to resign
A top US federal prosecutor whose office has been investigating President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani, on Friday refused to step down after the administration abruptly said it was replacing him. The dramatic standoff marks the latest in series of unusual actions by Attorney General William Barr that critics say are...
EU extends Russian sanctions over Ukraine: Merkel
The European Union has agreed to extend punishing sanctions against Russia over the conflict in Ukraine by six months, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday.The sanctions, which target whole sectors of the Russian economy including its valuable oil businesses, were due to expire this month but “would be extended by six months,” said Merkel...
Six months later, Iran to hand over black boxes of downed Ukrainian airliner
Iran will send the black boxes from a downed Ukrainian airliner to Ukraine, Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development, Mohammad Eslami, said on Wednesday, according to the Tasnim news agency.The Ukraine International Airlines flight was shot down on Jan. 8 by an Iranian ground-to-air missile, killing 176 people in what Tehran termed a...
US administration sues former Trump adviser Bolton to block book publication
The United States on Tuesday sued former national security adviser John Bolton, seeking to block him from publishing a book about his time in the White House that it said contained classified information and would compromise national security.The civil lawsuit came one day after US President Donald Trump said Bolton would be breaking the law if...
Belongings of victims of downed Ukrainian airliner were ‘looted’, say relatives
The victims of the Ukrainian civilian airliner downed by Iranian missiles in January had their belongings ransacked at the crash site, family members of the victims revealed at a virtual press conference on Tuesday.Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shot down the Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 on January 8, killing...
Coronavirus: Ukraine President’s wife hospitalized due to COVID-19
The wife of Ukraine’s President, Olena Zelenska, was hospitalized after contracting coronavirus and her condition was stable, the presidential office said onTuesday.Zelenska said last week she had tested positive for coronavirus, while her husband Volodymyr Zelenskiy and their two children had tested negative. …read more Source:: Al...
Iran says virus delays reading of Ukraine airline black boxes
Iran said on Monday that the coronavirus pandemic has slowed its plans to send abroad the black boxes of a Ukrainian plane its forces mistakenly shot down in January. “From the first days of this painful incident, we announced our readiness to cooperate in investigating the black boxes of the Ukrainian plane,” government spokesman Ali...
US ‘outraged’ as Russia convicts ex-marine of spying
The United States expressed outrage Monday over a Russian court’s conviction of American Paul Whelan on espionage charges, saying he was deprived of a fair trial.Whelan, a former Marine arrested in December 2018, was sentenced Monday to 16 years of hard labor after being found guilty of receiving classified information.“The United States is...
Iran judge accused of corruption, human rights violations arrested in Romania
Gholamreza Mansouri, an Iranian judge accused of corruption in Iran and of human rights violations by activists, has been arrested in Romania by the Interpol, Iran confirmed on Saturday. Mansouri cannot yet be extradited back to Iran due to coronavirus restrictions, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein...
Iran seeks French help to analyze Ukraine flight black boxes, says report
Iran has asked France to decrypt the black boxes from downed Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, sources close to the investigation said on Friday.The Iranian envoy to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in Montreal said the Islamic Republic had enlisted the help of France’s BEA air accident agency to download and...
