Section: Africa&ME
Russia jails Estonian ‘spy’
An Estonian police officer who says Russia abducted him in a cross-border raid was sentenced to 15 years hard labour for espionage. ||| Moscow/Tallinn – An Estonian police officer who says Russia abducted him in a cross-border raid was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday, stoking tensions between Moscow and the former Soviet...
Putin says ‘glad’ to give US boxing star Russian passport
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said he would be glad to grant a request for Russian citizenship from US boxer Roy Jones Jr as the multiple world champion visited Russian-annexed Crimea. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Russia’s Putin warns of ‘sabotage’ plots against Crimea
Russia’s President Putin tells Crimean officials to take heed of the foreign threat of sabotage. …read more Source:...
NATO warns pro-Russia rebels against more Ukraine land grabs
NATO warns pro-Russian separatists against grabbing more land in eastern Ukraine and stressed Moscow has a ‘special responsibility’ to help restore peace as fighting escalates …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine economy minister due in Iran for trade talks
Ukraine’s minister of economy and trade says he will soon pay an official visit to Iran to discuss the existing grounds for economic and trade cooperation between the two countries. The announcement by the Ukrainian minister comes at a time that high-ranking officials from other European countries have already visited Iran following the...
Queen shows no sign of stepping aside
Those close to Queen Elizabeth say the 89-year-old has no intention of succumbing to the European fashion for abdication. ||| London – After 63 years on the throne, Queen Elizabeth next month becomes Britain’s longest-ruling monarch but there is little prospect of her stepping aside, as other ageing European crowned heads have done,...
Germany to host trilateral meeting on eastern Ukraine
The German chancellor will meet the French president and the Ukrainian president in Berlin on Monday to discuss eastern Ukraine crisis …read more Source: World...
Moscow urges Europe to get Ukraine to comply with truce
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is pushing for European powers to get Ukraine to comply with a truce in eastern Ukraine …read more Source: The Daily...
Leaders of France, Germany, Ukraine to meet Monday on escalating violence
Leaders of France, Germany and Ukraine will meet in Berlin on Monday in a diplomatic move to halt a new wave of escalating violence in eastern Ukraine …read more Source: The New...
Putin buffs up image while exploring shipwreck off Crimea
Russian President Vladimir Putin burnished his action man image on Tuesday by diving down in a mini-submarine to explore a shipwreck off the coast of the Crimea peninsula that Moscow seized from Ukraine last year.Putin – wearing a beige pantsuit – plunged down to a depth of 83 metres seated alongside the pilot in the glass-bubble cabin of the...
