Section: United Arab Emirates
The shape of charges to come?
When the news broke last week about the specific documents sought by Robert Mueller, the special counsel heading the federal investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 election and whether Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with the Kremlin, a chill fell over Trump’s already jittery White House. The documents to be turned over...
Konta thrashed in first round
The China Open claimed its first high-profile victims yesterday with Britain’s Johanna Konta and Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia falling to surprise defeats in the first round. The sixth seed Konta, who reached last year’s final, appeared woefully short of confidence in getting thrashed by Romania’s unseeded Monica Niculescu 6-1,...
Russia’s 10-year gold itch sends hoard to highest of Putin’s era
Vladimir Putin is doing his part to keep the upswing in gold alive.Since the Russian president went on a geopolitical offensive in Ukraine in 2014, the haven asset had its first annual gain in four years in 2016 and is on track for another in 2017. A beneficiary of economic and political perils from North Korea to Brexit, it’s among the...
Polish cut in retirement age comes into force, bucking European trend
Poland lowers its retirement age on Sunday, a costly election promise by the ruling conservatives which goes against a European trend of gradually increasing the pension age as people live longer and stay more healthy. Lowering the age to 60 for women and 65 for men is popular in particular among supporters of the governing right-wing Law and...
Arms depot blasts hitting Ukraine
KIEV: The destruction of two ammunition depots this year have dealt the biggest blow to Ukraine’s combat capability since the start of its separatist conflict, security and military officials said on Thursday. Massive explosions at a military depot in the Vynnytsya region, 270 km (170 miles) west of Kiev, forced the authorities to evacuate...
Ukraine’s ex-PM to sue Russia in European rights court
Kiev: Former Ukrainian prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Monday he would sue Russia in the European Court of Human Rights over allegations that he fought Kremlin forces in Chechnya. His spokeswoman Olga Lappo wrote on Facebook that Yatsenyuk intended to prove “the entire absurdity of Russia’s justice system”. Yatsenyuk headed the Kiev...
Ukraine rejects Russia’s ‘hybrid’ peackeeping offer
UNITED NATIONS: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenkoa dismissed a Russian proposal to deploy U.N. peacekeepers in eastern Ukraine as an effort to legalize its proxies and freeze the conflict. Relations between Kiev and Moscow have never been worse since Russia annexed Crimea more than three years ago and Russian-backed separatist fighters...
Powerful wind storm kills eight in Romania
Bucharest: A storm packing powerful winds ripped off roofs and toppled trees in Romania on Sunday night, killing eight people and injuring dozens more, authorities and witnesses said on Monday. With gusts that reached nearly 100 kilometres an hour, the storm pounded the area around the western city of Timisoara before heading north toward...
Poroshenko urges EU not to reject Ukraine’s aspirations
KIEV: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Friday urged the European Union (EU) not to close the door on Ukraine’s hopes of joining, insisting it would be a “mistake” in the face of Russian aggression. “It is dangerous to leave the European countries, which strive to become part of the united Europe, in strategic uncertainty,” Poroshenko...
Row in Moldova over US military drills in Ukraine
CHISINAU: Moldova’s president accused the government on Friday of defying him by sending troops to join US-led military drills in Ukraine and vowed to punish those responsible, in the latest crisis to hit the ex-Soviet country. President Igor Dodon said 57 soldiers had left Thursday to join the Rapid Trident exercises spearheaded by US Army...
