Section: Africa&ME
Crimea declares state of emergency following power outage
The Crimean Peninsula, which seceded from Ukraine and rejoined Russia in March last year, has declared a state of emergency after its major electricity power lines from Ukraine were “blown up,” causing a power outage there. …read more Source: Iran...
Crimea declares state of emergency following power outage
The Black Sea Crimean Peninsula declares a state of emergency following power outage. …read more Source:...
State of emergency declared in Crimea after electricity pylons “blown up”
A state of emergency has been declared in Crimea after pylons carrying electricity from Ukraine were blown up cutting off power to almost two million people, media and the Russian government said on Sunday. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Western leaders extend sanctions on Moscow over Ukraine crisis
Western leaders extend sanctions against Moscow by six more months over the crisis in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
No closure for Ukraine’s heavenly hundred
Two years since Euromaidan began, families of the victims still wait for answers. …read more Source: AL...
Angela Merkel marks 10 years in office
BERLIN: People who have witnessed Angela Merkel in private over the past weeks describe a changed woman. Known for tackling the major crises of her chancellorship, from Greece to Ukraine, with the detached sobriety of a scientist, the German leader is showing more emotion of late. She cracks dark jokes about her own fate. For the first time,...
Baltic leaders against anti-ISIS coalition with Russia
The three Baltic states Friday said they would not join any Western coalition fighting ISIS if it included their Soviet-era master Russia because of its role in the Ukraine conflict master Russia because of its role in the Ukraine conflict. …read more Source: The Daily...
Baltic leaders against anti-ISIL coalition with Russia
Tensions between the NATO members and neighboring Russia have surged since Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine …read more Source: World...
ISIL Militant Admits to Buying Arms in Ukraine, Sending to Syria via Turkey
TEHRAN (FNA)- Kuwaiti security forces have uncovered an international cell that supplied the ISIL terrorist group with Ukrainian-made weapons, funds and new recruits, US media disclosed on Friday. …read more Source: Fars News...
Playing with fire in Donbass
Most tanks have apparently been withdrawn from the buffer zone in eastern Ukraine but not the heavy artillery, complains the OSCE. The truce is still on shaky ground. DW’s Frank Hofmann reports from Kyiv. Eastern Ukraine is far from Kyiv: there, barely anyone has witnessed the disputes that observers of the Organization for Security and...
