Section: United Arab Emirates
Lyon reach Champions League last 16, Bayern top group
Lyon clinched the final Champions League last-16 place as Nabil Fekir’s second-half strike grabbed a 1-1 draw against Shakhtar Donetsk in a snowy Kiev on Wednesday, while Bayern Munich pipped Ajax to top spot in Group E.Bruno Genesio’s Lyon needed to avoid defeat against Shakhtar to progress from Group F with Manchester City, and a...
ECB ends historic stimulus push in bet growth to endure
The European Central Bank took the watershed decision to halt its €2.6tn ($3tn) bond-buying programme, capping massive monetary support even though the eurozone economy looks vulnerable again.Policymakers led by president Mario Draghi confirmed that they’ll stop net purchases this month, ending almost four years of quantitative easing....
Koscielny set for first Arsenal start since May
Arsenal defender Laurent Koscielny will make his first appearance since May when the injury-plagued French international starts today’s Europa League tie against Qarabag. Koscielny ruptured his Achilles in Arsenal’s Europa League defeat against Atletico Madrid last season. The 33-year-old missed France’s World Cup-winning...
EU parliament to award Ukrainian film director rights prize
The European Parliament is set to award its prestigious Sakharov prize for human rights on Wednesday to jailed Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, at a time of heightened tensions between Russia and the West. Sentsov, a fierce critic of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, was sentenced in 2015 to two decades in...
Inter Milan, PSG and Liverpool sweating on last-16 spots
The bid to reach the knockout stages of the Champions League reaches its climax this week with Inter Milan, Paris St Germain and Liverpool among seven clubs sweating on taking the remaining four places for the last 16. Today’s a number of blockbuster encounters will take place as Liverpool hope for one of those magical European nights at...
Qatar Airways to launch flights to Valletta, Malta
Qatar Airways announced that it will launch direct services to Valletta, Malta, starting 4 June 2019, marking the airline’s first gateway to Malta and the latest addition to its rapidly-expanding European network. The Valletta route will be served with an A320 aircraft, with daily services in summer and four-times-weekly flights in winter....
Pardoning Manafort would be ‘terrible mistake’
US President Donald Trump would make a “terrible mistake” if he pardoned his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort after charges brought as a result of the federal probe into Russian election interference, Republican Senator Marco Rubio said yesterday.“I just think it would be the wrong thing to do and I think it would be a huge political...
Iran seeks regional front against US
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said US sanctions were “economic terrorism”, as he sought to foster a united front from visiting regional officials yesterday.Addressing parliament speakers from Afghanistan, China, Pakistan, Russia and Turkey, Rouhani said they had all suffered economic pressure from the US.“We are facing an all-out assault...
China ramps up solar exports after reforms hit home market
The world’s largest solar panel maker is selling a great deal more overseas to keep its domestic industry afloat.China’s exports in the third quarter soared 66% from a year ago after the government’s decision to cut support for the local solar power industry dented domestic demand. Shipments to Australia more than doubled and...
Putin and Trump can hold talks before June next year: Kremlin
BUENOS AIRES: The Kremlin hopes that US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin can meet and hold talks before a G20 summit in Japan in June next year, a Kremlin aide said on Saturday. Trump cancelled a planned meeting with Putin at the G20 summit in Argentina this weekend citing unease over Russia’s Nov. 25 seizure of...
