Section: United Arab Emirates
Hungarian avoids jail for fighting with Ukraine rebels
BUDAPEST: A Hungarian man was handed a two-year suspended jail term Tuesday for fighting with Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine in the first ruling of its kind in Hungary. Krisztian L., 43, was convicted by a judge in Szekszard for “prohibited recruitment into an armed group participating in armed clashes”. Explaining...
Aviva storms into risky frontier debt as US and China trade jitters ease
A few weeks ago, Aviva’s emerging-market debt funds were cutting back on risk amid rumblings of a global tariff war. Today? They’re wading into some of the world’s most speculative investments: frontier market bonds.The change of heart comes amid signs of easing trade tensions between the US and China, as the two countries...
Russia expels 59 diplomats
Russia expelled 59 diplomats from 23 countries yesterday and said that it reserved the right to take action against four other nations in a worsening stand-off with the West over the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in Britain. Russia said it was responding to what it called the baseless demands for scores of its own diplomats...
Russia buries first Siberian mall blaze victims
Russia yesterday held a national day of mourning and buried the first victims of a fire that ravaged a busy shopping centre killing 64 people, most of them children.Flags were lowered and entertainment events cancelled three days after Sunday’s devastating fire in the western Siberian city of Kemerovo, one of the deadliest recorded in...
NATO expels seven Russian diplomats, limits size of mission
NATO has expelled seven diplomats from Russia’s mission to the alliance and blocked the appointment of three others over the nerve agent attack in Britain this month, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday. Stoltenberg said he had also cut the maximum size of the Russian mission to 20 people from 30, in the latest move by...
US expels 60 Russians as allies back Britain in spy row
The United States and Britain’s allies around the world have expelled scores of suspected Russian spies in an unprecedented response to a nerve agent attack. At least 116 alleged agents working under diplomatic cover were ordered out by 22 governments, dwarfing similar measures in even the most notorious Cold War spying disputes, and...
Checkmate or knockout: Chess boxing lands a punch
With his dental guard still in his mouth and a slightly queasy feeling in his gut, a shirtless Thomas Cazeneuve was exuberant after checkmating his opponent during a chess boxing bout in Berlin, the world capital of the unusual sport.Just as deft in the movement of his rooks as with his fists, Cazeneuve claimed victory against his Ukrainian...
Cilic, Del Potro in 4th round, Dimitrov out
Croatian second seed Marin Cilic survived a tough examination by Canadian Vasek Pospisil to reach the fourth round of the Miami Open with a 7-5 7-6(4) victory after nearly two hours on Sunday.But the tournament, with world number one Roger Federer already ousted, lost another highly-ranked player when Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, the third seed,...
Suspected mastermind of $1bn bank hacks arrested in Spain
* Gang altered account balances, controlled cash dispensers * Suspect named as ‘Denis K.’ * Other gang members came from Russia and Ukraine Spanish police have arrested the suspected leader of a gang of cyber criminals who stole up €1bn ($1.2bn) from banks by altering account balances and instructing automatic teller machines to issue...
US metal-tariffs showdown at WTO to shake world trade order
Move over Russia, Ukraine and Saudi Arabia. The US looks set to join the group of countries embroiled in disputes at the World Trade Organization involving curbs imposed on national-security grounds.China said it would complain to the WTO about US President Donald Trump’s import tariffs on steel and aluminium after failing to win an...
