Section: Africa&ME
Ukraine reports heavy tank battle with pro-Russians
200 insurgents used tanks to storm Novolaspa – a village half-way between the separatists’ capital Donetsk and the Kyiv-held port of Mariupol …read more Source: World...
Crimean Tatars persecution is ‘Kremlin’s sentence’
Ukrainian PM Yatsenyuk stresses that Russian occupation authorities blatantly ignore the fundamental rights of the Crimean Tatar people …read more Source: World...
Ukraine PM: Crimean Tatars persecution is ‘Kremlin’s sentence’
PM Yatsenyuk stresses that Russian occupation authorities blatantly ignore the fundamental rights of the Crimean Tatar people …read more Source: World...
SA father killed in siege at Mali hotel
Malian security forces patrolling in Goundam back in June Photo: AFP A DAY after a South African was among at least 12 victims of an attack by extremists in a Mali town, gunmen killed 10 other civilians in an attack on a village yesterday. The attacks are the latest in what appears to be a campaign against Malian soldiers and United Nations...
Putin portrait gets the bullet
SHELLING IT OUT: Ukrainian artist Daria Marchenko with her artwork ‘The Face of War’ depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin. Picture: EPA A YOUNG Ukrainian artist has captured global media attention by creating a striking portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin out of 5 000 bullet shells. Daria Marchenko’s The Face of War – a...
Ukraine hands Israel another defeat in EuroBasket prep match
…read more Source: The Jerusalem...
Four OSCE vehicles set afire in Donetsk attack
KIEV: OSCE observers based in the separatist stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine said on Sunday that four of their vehicles were destroyed in an apparent arson attack at their hotel. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe described the attack as aimed at halting its monitoring activities in the separatist region, but...
Ukraine bans films featuring blacklisted Russian actors
MOSCOW: Ukraine says it has banned the screening of films featuring Russian actors included on a blacklist. It said this weekend the 14 Russian actors, singers and other cultural figures on the blacklist pose a threat to national security. Among those on the list is French-born actor Gerard Depardieu, who became a vocal supporter of Russia after...
Turning Ukraine’s economic basket into breadbasket
Ukraine’s total crop production reached a post-Soviet record of 63 million tonnes in 2014 and is on course to nearly match that mark this year. …read more Source: World...
Four OSCE cars torched in eastern Ukraine
The attack follows 300 protestors outside the OSCE’s hotel in Donetsk who criticized the “silence and blindness” of the OSCE mission. …read more Source: World...
