Section: United Arab Emirates
Moldova court suspends president, triggers polls
Moldova plunged deeper into crisis yesterday as a new, acting president dissolved parliament and called elections after months of wrangling between pro-Russia and pro-European lawmakers failed to form a workable government.The tiny country nestled between Ukraine and Romania has been in political chaos since a general election in February failed...
Putin, Xi hit back at US economic dominance
China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin hit back at US global economic dominance yesterday as they took the stage together at Russia’s showcase business forum. With China embroiled in a trade war with Washington and Russia under Western sanctions, Xi and Putin lashed out at “inequalities” in the global economic system and...
Putin stands by China, criticises US, in trade, Huawei disputes
* Russia’s Putin and China’s Xi speak at economic forum * Putin complains about Western protectionism * Xi says hopes solutions to differences can be found Aggressive US tactics such as a campaign against Chinese telecoms firm Huawei will lead to trade wars – and possibly real wars – Russian President Vladimir Putin said...
China, Russia presidents vow new era of ties
Chinese President Xi Jinping began a three-day visit to “best friend” Vladimir Putin yesterday with a touch of panda diplomacy and a raft of new Russian-Chinese business contracts.The leaders praised their countries’ ties during talks at the Kremlin, as Russia and China seek to shore up co-operation amid shared tensions with the...
Gulf crisis fertilises Qatar veg industry
Surrounded by what was once arid Qatari desert, Nezar al-Atawneh picked up a giant spaghetti pumpkin and brandished it trying to guess its weight. “This one must be at least eight kilos,” or nine pounds, he exclaimed proudly.Atawneh, operations manager at the Qatarat Agricultural Development Company (Qadco), played the guessing game in the middle...
Ukraine’s new president seeks pro-Western course, peace with Russia
New Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he was ready to negotiate with Russia to end the war in eastern Ukraine while sticking to Ukraine’s goal of one day joining the …read more Source: Al...
Body pulled from sunken tourist boat in Budapest
Divers yesterday brought up a body from the wreck of a tourist boat which sank last week in Budapest, and another body was pulled from the river 100km downstream, the first apparent victims recovered since the night of the crash. Twenty-eight people are presumed to have died when The Mermaid, a pleasure boat carrying 33 South Korean tourists and...
Danube cruise captain detained for one month
A Hungarian court has ordered the captain of a cruise liner that crashed into a pleasure boat on the Danube to be held pending a criminal investigation into a disaster believed to have killed 28 people, nearly all of them South Korean tourists. The Viking Sigyn cruise liner struck a smaller boat, the Mermaid, in heavy rain on Wednesday. The...
Osaka and Serena crash out of French Open, Djoko wins
World number one Naomi Osaka’s winning streak at the majors ended in a third round defeat at the French Open yesterday, while the men’s top-ranked Novak Djokovic extended his run to 24 in search of a second career non-calendar year Grand Slam. Japan’s Osaka went out 6-4, 6-2 against 42nd-ranked Czech Katerina Siniakova as the...
Russian president’s $400bn gambit faces reality check
In early May, one year into his last consecutive term as president, Vladimir Putin summoned four dozen officials from across Russia to the Grand Kremlin Palace for a televised progress report on the central pledge of his re-election campaign. With a budget of almost $400bn over six years, Putin was eager to find out how the country’s most...
