Section: Africa&ME
Euro 2016: England, Germany, Italy emerge in different groups after draw
The trio of England, Italy and Germany have emerged in different groups after the Euro 2016 draws on Saturday, December 12, 2015.Though England would meet Wales in a historic fixture in France, the neighbouring countries will meet at a tournament for the first time after 136years that both teams first met.Interestingly, the teams are being drawn...
Blast kills Ukraine rebel commander
KIEV: The pro-Russian leader of a rebel militia in eastern Ukraine was killed in a suspected car bombing on Saturday in the breakaway eastern region of Lugansk, local media said. Pavel Dremov, the 39-year-old head of an ethnic Cossack militia of several hundred fighters “was killed along with his driver” when his car exploded at a petrol station...
Ukraine rebel commander killed in car blast
The pro-Russian leader of a rebel militia in eastern Ukraine was killed in a suspected car bombing Saturday in the breakaway eastern region of Lugansk, local media said. …read more Source: The Daily...
Decommunization in Ukraine
The new pro-Western government has started purging streets and map of Ukraine from reminders of the Soviet past. …read more Source:...
US, Russia trade harsh barbs over Ukraine
The US and Russia trade barbs at a UN Security Council meeting, with the Russian envoy accusing Washington of “playing a destructive role” in Ukraine. The heated exchanges came ahead of a visit by US Secretary of State John Kerry to Moscow on Monday to discuss Syria and Ukraine. The Friday spat delayed the Security Council meeting for nearly an...
US, Russia trade harsh barbs over Ukraine
The US and Russia trade barbs at a UN Security Council meeting, with the Russian envoy accusing Washington of “playing a destructive role” in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Kerry to meet Putin to discuss Syria, Ukraine
Before his visit to Moscow, US Secretary of State will attend ‘French led ministerial meeting on Syria’ in Paris …read more Source: World...
Russia: UN’s Ukraine meeting shouldn’t discuss human rights
A U.N. Security Council meeting on Ukraine was delayed for nearly an hour and a half because Russia objected to discussing the human rights situation in the country’s separatist-controlled east and Crimea …read more Source: The Daily...
The House of Zion. New Left Review 96, November-December 2015.
New Left Review 96, November-December 2015 perry andersonEditorial Since the turn of the century, the Arab states have come to constitute a zone for Western military intervention without parallel in the post-Cold War world—us invasion of Iraq, nato bombardment of Libya, us proxies in Syria, Washington-backed gcc assault on Yemen. What of their...
Ukraine lawmaker manhandles PM Yatseniuk
KIEV: Fighting broke out among members of Ukraine’s ruling coalition on Friday after a member of President Petro Poroshenko’s bloc physically picked up Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk and pulled him from the podium. Yatseniuk was defending his embattled government’s record when lawmaker Oleh Barna walked over to him, presenting...
